Reviews

It was the day where basically everything was about to happen. Interviews, gigs and photo sessions. How much you ever prepare for it you just need to understand it’s impossible; just deal with it as it happens. After a quick shower at 6 am it was time for breakfast; at 8 am it was time to start working. We had …

After a comfy night at the crew camp, where you even can hear birds sing in the morning, we set off for Aldi to buy us breakfast. You really can’t put it into words how great it is to have a huge supermarket (it’s called Aldi XXL, apparently unusually big for being an Aldi) which allows you to have a …

It was finally time for Deichbrand Festival and Messed!Up’s debut at the festival although Ms Sis has been there a few times in the photo pit some previous years, and after a pleasant train ride from Hamburg we reached Cuxhaven and had a shuttle bus taking us all the way to an open space in between massive corn fields (I …

Friday morning after a rowdy Shame gig and with some sort of beer hungover was not the ultimate start of the day, and you couldn’t really call it morning because we didn’t leave the tent before lunch, which also meant starting out with lunch at the food court close to the Gloria stage. The food at Roskilde is something that …

Wednesday arrived meaning it was finally time for the “real” festival to start and although it wasn’t a full festival day – the first day is more like a warm-up day – we had a tight schedule with Tears For Fears, Bob Dylan, Hatari and Carpenter Brut. In retrospect this was probably the best festival day music-wise. It was also …

If Friday and Saturday focused on party, the Sunday felt a little more like the day after. The first email I received in the morning let the ticket holders know that Friday and Saturday-tickets were upgraded to Sunday tickets. That is seldom a good sign, and even though it was a nice gesture, the meaning is reasonably that ticket sales …