Tag: Roskilde Festival
Another three mega rap stars confirm Roskilde’s preference for hip-hop over rock
The line-up for Roskilde Festival 2023, which again spans the end of June and the beginning of June, is complete. As in recent years, the traditional rock element of the festival, although still present, will mostly be sidelined by the music of the Danish youth: hip-hop. Since Eminem headlined in 2018, it has been the […]
What to do in Denmark in the summer
Denmark is a beautiful Scandinavian country with a rich history, culture and fantastic landscapes. Summer is a good time to visit Denmark as the days are long, the weather is mild and there are lots of things to do and see. In this article, we will explore some of the best activities to do in […]
Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone and Deep Purple – March kicks off with a ‘Battle of the Venues’
Never mind the Battle of the Bands, or the Battle of the Bastards – the beginning of March 2023 will henceforth be known as the ‘Battle of the Venues’, as Denmark’s leading festival, theme park and concert promoter have done their very best to outdo each other in the race of the last 24 hours. […]
Like VM was directed by David Lynch
To paraphrase the last line of Stand by Me: “I’ve never had any World Cups later like the one I had when I was 12.” Well, maybe the one when I was 16. But no matter your age, it’s hard to beat the magic of the tournament. So it’s with a heavy heart to note […]
Local Round-Up: Irish brogues in fashion in Nørrebro store
Few would disagree that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were ‘Far and Away’ the least convincing Irish-speaking couple in Hollywood history, although neither could match the sheer fallibility of Tommy Lee Jones’ effort in the regrettable thriller ‘Blown Away’. To be sure, it was appalling. But how easy is it to arrive at the accent? […]
Culture Round-Up: If Vodka Could Literally Talk…
Usually it is the Swedes who cross the Øresund in search of booze! After all, there is a low quantity limit on the beers sold in their supermarkets, and you can only buy spirits from specialist shops, where you are obliged to stand in line… often for a whole day. Visit any bar or pub […]
You deserved more than 64: nice to know you, old chap
I first met Stephen Gadd in the summer of 2015, although it turned out that we had been to some of the same events – the opening of the ill-fated The Red Lion, for example – and many of the same bars, particularly Charlie’s, where he was a much-loved regular with his own vessel and […]
Culture Round-Up: Stacks up pretty well!
If you’ve recently passed Bertel Thorvaldsens Plads outside the Parliament, you may have noticed what looks like three stacks of wooden boxes. Well, they’re actually three wooden sculptures, collectively known as ‘Oak Stacks’, made from centuries-old timber by Irish-American artist Sean Scully to promote his upcoming exhibition at the nearby Thorvaldsens Museum. Old maritime timberThey […]
Bob Dylan is set to play at the Royal Arena in September – tickets go on sale tomorrow early
Beat it Paul McCartney! And you too, Gilberto Gil. Both men recently turned 80 within days of giving outstanding performances at the Glastonbury and Copenhagen Jazz Festival respectively. But they still have another year to match Bob Dylan’s achievements, who at the age of 81 have confirmed he will visit the Royal Arena in September […]
Suspected corona outbreak at Roskilde
It is not uncommon for people to feel sore throat after a lot of shouting and partying. But for up to 500 partygoers at the Roskilde Festival, which ended on 2 July, the sad reality is that they have probably been given a corona, the Danish Agency for Patient Safety, the Patient Safety Authority, informs. […]
Roskilde 2022: A party for the senses through art and culture
After several years with unprecedented times, fittingly enough, this year’s Roskilde Festival, the 50th anniversary of the calendar stand, was in itself also quite unprecedented. From the lukewarm (at best) line-up to the lack of volunteers, questions would always be asked – and even more so at a festival that is apparently frequented by people […]
Culture Round-Up: Music critic Thomas Treo says ‘Roskilde is dead’
Thomas Treo, the popular and polemical Danish music critic, has blown up Roskilde Festival review for tabloid Ekstra Bladet. “Before, people got smarter in Roskilde,” writes Treo, “Now you get stupider.” “Teenagers have bad taste”Treo blames the organizers for booking artists loved by teenagers when, according to him, “teenagers have bad taste in music”. In […]
Roskilde 2022: On the way home with a headache, feeling like the undead and longing for their bed!
It was great to be back, agreed the three Roskilde Festival parties we spoke to when they left the campsite this weekend. They all selected different highlights, both on stage and at the festival in general. Of those loved vibes they met during the rain, another dug the art. But if there was one thing […]
Roskilde 2022: A week’s waste and the work to stop it
It’s a fine line between irony and hypocrisy, and with climate skeptics and deniers always ready to throw themselves out, it’s a line often followed by environmentalists to balance their ideals with reality of their own CO2 footprint. Roskilde Festival, the iconic Danish music festival, follows that line at an organizational level. Although the organizers […]
Roskilde 2022: Samba Touré brings the desert blues to the Pavilion stage
Mali’s cultural and musical heritage has been hailed worldwide for its unique qualities – with musicians such as Ali Farka Touré, Rokia Traoré, Tinariwen and Amadou & Mariam raising the flag high for the musical heritage of the desert nation. Beyond the diversity of styles and musicality, the conflict-ridden nation is far from the ideal […]
Roskilde 2022: Kings of Convenience shows that quiet is the new high
Roskilde Festival is long and it is high. With almost non-stop performances, as well as festival goers bringing concert speakers into the campsites, you sleep a little and your ears will hurt. Today, the last day of Roskilde 2022, you could clearly see the exhaustion that the participants felt – especially the most persistent participants […]
Roskilde 2022: Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy woo Roskilde’s Avalon audience with a masterful performance
This year’s Roskilde Festival, the 50th edition of the annual wizard, means so many things – for so many different people in light of the current situation in the world. With more changes than the mind can possibly muster that affect Roskilde’s return after its three-year imposed break, this reviewer was particularly keen to get […]
Roskilde 2022: Polo G brings the rap rouser the audience wanted – but something is wrong
It’s ten minutes to eight, and Polo G is delayed. On this baking-Wednesday afternoon, Roskilde Festival’s area is only just opened to the masses. The audience floats over the edge of the Arena Scenes pavilion. The murmur inside sounds like a biblical swarm of horseflies. The restless crowd sets ties on the Seven Nation Army […]
Roskilde 2022: Modest Mouse gives people what they need… so to speak
Modest Mouse, the American indie rock band, has graced the stages for almost two decades, first achieving mainstream success with their 2004 smash hit ‘Float On’. Last night, during the extensive canopy at Roskilde Festival’s Avalon Stage, the iconic course was as important as ever. After back-to-back cancellations of the festival – and more than […]
Roskilde 2022: Drew Sycamore scares the audience
Roskilde Festival had been waiting for three years. And on Wednesday, the magic words were finally heard again. “What’s going on in Roskilde?” Drew Sycamore shouted. She had the honor of being the first act on Roskilde Festival’s iconic Orange Scene for three long years. And the first Danish woman in 37 years – the […]
Tomorrow is the day when Roskilde Festival can finally celebrate its 50th anniversary! But for its founders, Year One still feels like yesterday
The Roskilde Festival, originally known as the Sound Festival, should first have been a one-off concert in 1971 to promote and bring mainstream music to Roskilde province. Now, in 2022, the music festival is finally celebrating its 50th anniversary edition after the pandemic. Created by two high school students, Jesper Switzer and Mogens Sandfærd, with […]
Roskilde 2022: Scenes from Monday’s tent-breaking rain shower
An orange smear bleeds over the weather radar and draws an ominous smear over Zealand north of Roskilde. A storm is coming. Rumors of this downpour have been circulating for days. Neighboring camps share news about the storm from mouth to mouth and speculate unfoundedly about it as old farmers. It is not the first […]
2022 Roskilde: The PRISMA opening emphasizes how much we have missed this festival
Just shy of midnight on Sunday, during the long pink twilight, 500 or more festival goers are gathered in front of the Rising Stage. Hors d’oeuvre is the order of the yearThe strenuous energy of this crowd makes it easy to forget that Rising is only a starting course for the week-long party. Their expectation […]
Culture collection: Another good reason to ‘escape’ to West Jutland this summer
FLUGT, a new museum dedicated to the history of Danish-bound refugees in the small West Jutland town of Oksbøl, opens for the first time on Wednesday, and gives visitors the opportunity to see new buildings designed by Bjarke Ingels Group. On Friday, the inauguration of the building was attended by a large number of high-ranking […]
Events in early summer: Party up and embrace the heat!
Science and cocktails28th of June; Koncertsalen, DR Koncerthuset, Ørestads Boulevard 13, Cph S; 145-195kr, drkoncerthuset.dkJoin Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek for ‘What Physical Reality Has Taught Me’. Accompanied by the Danish jazz trio Hess / AC / Hess Spacelab, Wilczek will show how the scientific exploration of the physical world has come to touch on […]
A tantalizing look at the summer’s best festivals
For music fans, the pandemic has been particularly difficult to deal with. Even average shrubs have gained large crowds, such has been deprivation. It was no surprise to see tickets for Roskilde and Copenhell sold out in record time, and more festivals are likely to follow suit. From June to SeptemberFortunately, there are still plenty […]
Culture Round-Up: Recent changes to Asger Jorn’s painting terrify the museum, but would the artist approve of it himself?
In his series ‘Modifications’, which stretched over the late 1950s and early 60s, the Danish situationist artist Asger Jorn bought kitschy paintings from flea markets and added his own graffiti: abstract or grotesque drawings, some times even added beard or mustache, along with scribbled text. At the time, it was perceived as a critique of […]
The health authority needs to revise the recommendations to tackle teens’ alcohol consumption directly
Danish teenagers have long had a reputation for being the most drinkers in Europe. Transitional rituals such as being slaughtered on 1 May, on school trips to Prague and at Roskilde Festival are part of most normal Danish upbringing. And the law and big business make it easier than ever to get drunk. Over 16s […]
Third time lucky for Roskilde Festival # 50, as festivals are really starting to plan
It’s a bit like Helsinki and the Olympics. It all started in 1938, when Japan declared that it was unable to host the 1940 Games (nothing suspicious about its withdrawal…). Helsinki stepped in wildly, only to be left behind when World War II began. The Finnish capital waited patiently and watched by the Soviets (with […]
The Weeknd postpones tour – promises even bigger concerts
Pop star The Weeknd is postponing his upcoming tour. It writes the Canadian singer on the social media Instagram. Two of the tour’s concerts should have taken place at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen in September next year. The tour should have started on January 14 next year. But according to The Weeknd itself, it […]
Extra Roskilde tickets added so more young people can see Dua Lipa and co
The Roskilde Festival in 2022 confirmed yesterday that the British singer Dua Lipa is its first headliner. Lipa, whose first language is actually Albanian, has established itself as one of the biggest female pop stars on the planet over the past four years – a quality that was confirmed by two Grammys in 2019. Along […]
Roskilde Festival earmarks 5000 tickets for young people under 25
– We would like to try to take into account the youth cohorts who in 2020 and 2021 lost the opportunity to go to Roskilde Festival for the first time. – It is important that we continue to be a festival that is rounded by youth culture and youth rebellion. We must not put this […]
Culture Round-Up: Another round of Oscar nominations begins
Denmark’s record at the Oscars in the ‘International Feature Film’ category over the last decade is something of a beauty (see below). Posted with victories for ‘Revenge’ and ‘Drink’ in 2011 and 2021, the timeline includes four additional entries that came on the five-film list and two more that came on the final nine. We […]
Culture Round-Up: Denmark’s only English-language podcast is like Roskilde ’96
Danish research is something to be celebrated. However, not enough is known about it, claims Michael Magee, the Irish host of the Science and Beers (S&B) podcast, who is a biologist who works as a science communicator at Ungdomshuset Odense. Although lots of science podcasts have been produced in Denmark, only one has been made […]
Rock singer Iggy Pop is coming to Denmark
But now Iggy Pop, who is also called “the godfather of punk”, is coming to Denmark. The two concerts will be played at Værket in Randers and in Falkoner Salen in Copenhagen. The official ticket sale starts on June 18 at 10 am. Iggy Pop first released music in the 1960s. Since then, he has […]
OVERVIEW: These festivals have been canceled
Here is an overview of the festivals that have been canceled: * Jelling Music Festival: 20.-23. May. * Hot Rhythms: 27.-29. May. * Heartland Festival: 27.-29. May. * Herning Rocker: 28.-29. May. * Northside: 3-5. June. * Copenhell: 16.-19. June. * Tinderbox: 24.-26. June. * Wild Volcanoes: 29.-30. June. * Kløften Festival: 24.-26. June. * […]
Orange dreams up in smoke: Roskilde and other festivals admit defeat and cancel en masse
Roskilde Festival regulars will have to put their Orange Stage dreams on hold for another year. Roskilde and a number of other milestone names (see fact box below) have confirmed that they will not be holding festivals this summer – mainly due to the government’s announcement early this morning that heavy restrictions remain in place […]
The Roskilde Festival cancels this year as well
There will be no Roskilde Festival this summer, the festival management now announces. The announcement comes after a majority of the parties in the Danish Folketing agree on an agreement on how Denmark will be further opened. According to the agreement, a maximum of 2,000 participants would be allowed divided into sections of 200. Other […]
OVERVIEW: These festivals have been canceled
Here is an overview of the festivals that have been canceled on Tuesday: * Jelling Music Festival: 20-23. May. * Heartland Festival: 27.-29. May. * Northside: 3-5. June. * Copenhell: 16.-19. June. * Tinderbox: 24.-26. June. * Thy Rock: 25-26. June. * Roskilde Festival: June 26 – July 3 * Nibe Festival: June 30 – […]
Festivals on the strip cancel by reopening deal
There are manfalls among this year’s major festivals after tonight’s reopening deal. First, it was Northside in Aarhus that was canceled. Then followed Roskilde Festival, and now Tinderbox in Odense has also been canceled. It informs the festivals on their websites. This is done according to the night’s agreement, which stipulates that there may be […]
Roskilde Festival and Northside cancel
For the second year in a row, the music festival Northside, which should have been held from 3 to 5 June, is canceled. It informs the festival on its website. Roskilde Festival is also canceled, the festival states on its website. Thus, the festivals will be the first of the very large ones to be […]
The musical friend with the curls
The foundation was laid for a now over 50 year long career. Here, Allan Mortensen, who turns 75 on April 27, has frolic without prejudice in an unusual number of different genres. We can just as well immediately reveal that the well-fitting corkscrew hairstyle, which is now as before an important part of Allan Mortensen’s […]
Expert recommendations signal a death for Roskilde, while much depends on how quickly over 50s are vaccinated
A government-appointed expert group – the public would be forgiven for holding their breath as the last predicted hospitals could have over 900 patients by mid-April (currently there are 190) – has set a ceiling of 10,000 at rallies for events when all over 50 years of age have received at least one corona vaccination […]
Roskilde Festival: Hard to see any other way than cancellation
It was a sad CEO of Roskilde Festival, Signe Lopdrup, who on Friday received the health authorities’ recommendations for how festivals can be held this summer. With continued restrictions over the summer, she has “very difficult” to see Roskilde Festival become something. This is stated by Signe Lopdrup in a written comment. – Based on […]
Danish festivals in call: We need clarification now
It was not enough for the Danish festivals, when the health authorities on Friday came up with recommendations for how to hold festivals this summer. In a joint statement from the industry organization Dansk Live, several of Denmark’s largest festivals sign that without a political announcement soon, it will be unrealistic to carry out the […]
Recordbreaker! Copenhagen Light Festival the most visited event in Danish history!
There have been times on sunny days that have cut through the icy weather in the coronavirus pandemic, that it has felt like the whole of Copenhagen has been out for a walk. And this was the reality recently Copenhagen Light Festival, which has set a record for the most visited event in Danish history. […]
Roskilde Festival is desperate about the government’s uncertainty, but has not yet been canceled!
Britain’s biggest festival Glastonbury has been canceled. Also Coachella in California and Primavera Sound in Barcelona. But in Denmark, Roskilde Festival and a large number of others refuse to give in. Or at least they were until yesterday, when the Minister of Culture, Joy Mogensen, did not give them any optimism that they could go […]
The music festivals still believe in summer
The festival above them all – Roskilde Festival – has not given up yet. – We have a cautious optimism, as long as we do not hear anything else. Whether it is responsible to run the festival is solely up to the authorities to decide, says the director of the pre-sold out Roskilde Festival, Signe […]
Corona gets Radiohead frontman to cancel Roskilde Festival
When Roskilde Festival opens its doors this summer for the 50th edition, it will be without Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, who would otherwise have made his solo debut with the project Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes. This is stated by Roskilde Festival in a press release. The British musician was supposed to have performed with his electronic […]
Danes are choosing domestic options over foreign travel this summer
Denmark is scheduled to be fully vaccinated at the end of June, just in time for Roskilde Festival and the traditional July break, but most Danes do not wake up abroad, according to a new study. Only 22 percent travel abroad for their holiday and leave 59 percent to spend the holiday at home, according […]
The computer became his way into music
It has brought him to Denmark on several occasions. Among other things, Zimmerman has performed at Roskilde Festival, and last year he also put pressure on Smukfest. On Tuesday, January 5, Zimmerman turns 40 years old. He was born and raised close to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. Here he grew up as the […]
Culture Round-Up: Giuliani hand-mixes a ride in Tivoli for a huge Von Trier fan
Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova has been a rising star, albeit in virtual Hollywood, since her standout appearance in the second Borat film, in which Rudy Giuliani proposes her to a hotel room by massaging his testicles. Despite having her big break in the US, her biggest love is Danish cinema, she recently told Indiewire. In […]
FACTS: Roskilde Festival’s program takes shape
Here is a selection of the names that were added to the program on Wednesday and previously announced artists. * Added Wednesday: The Strokes. Faith No More. Haim. Anderson.Paak & The Free Nationals. Ball strength. Big Thief. Deftones. Whitney. Sure (opens Orange Scene) Jimmy Eat World. Idles. Megan Thee Stallion. * Announced earlier: Tyler, The […]
Never a boring day in Denmark
Activities outside of work and school are fundamental to Danish society: they are the cornerstones where the balance between work and private life for which it is famous is maintained, and it is a process that arises early. Three out of four Danish children regularly participate actively in sports, and approx. half of all adults […]
The hard-working rock legend
He was born in the Canadian city of Toronto. From an early age, Young had a flair for singing and playing. But to afford his passion, he had to keep busy. Neil Young has said that he both had to go with newspapers and sell eggs from the backyard chickens in order for the money […]
Roskilde Festival will be one third less due to corona
The company behind Roskilde Festival on Tuesday fired 17 employees as a result of the corona crisis. This is stated by Roskilde Festival in a press release. Already, the festival has not re-filled positions for a period, and overall, the organization has become a third smaller compared to the spring. – We are well helped […]
OVERVIEW: Ten impacts from closure March 11 to today
On Friday, it is six months since Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) launched a comprehensive shutdown of the country due to coronavirus. Here are ten downsides from the March 11 shutdown to today: * March 11: The shutdown After increasing infection, Mette Frederiksen announces that Denmark will partially close down. Also read: WHO calls for […]
Smukfest puts Gorillaz and Lionel Richie on the program
Next year’s Smukfest will be adorned with sugary soul tones and bazaar arms when the party runs off the stack in the beech forest in August. The festival announced on Wednesday that soul legend Lionel Richie, cartoon band Gorillaz and DJ Kygo are all on the poster for next year’s festival. This is stated by […]
