Reviews

The second festival day actually starts out in the night since there was no possibility whatsoever to sleep in an overheated apartment with no air condition. And that’s not the main problem. To have two dudes smelling cheap vodka and sounding like two dump haulers in full speed next to me didn’t help at all. Therefore it was better to …

At last back at Tanzbrunnen and the 14th edition of the Cologne based festival. Awakenings can be good or bad – or terrible. After Friday’s pre-party we discovered that our apartment didn’t have air condition and after a really hot day with temperatures reaching +35º C it was a fact that there wouldn’t be much sleep the first night – …

The last two days of the festival were already predicted to be the weakest festival days. Sure, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Massive Attack and Mogwai would probably make most music nerds go nuts but if you’ve seen those bands at least seven times before there’s not much new to discover. Again, it was the up-and-coming bands that impressed …

I think most people have a few bands that are impossible to be objective in relation to. You can understand intellectually why people might not like them and that everything they release is not revolutionary. But when people talk shit about them, or even sort of nicely criticize them, it does hurt a little, little bit. Often these artists were …

Although it’s clear that no one – no one! – will do a better show than Nine Inch Nails did the last night, the festival Thursday had the best line-up of all days and we were looking forward to Chelsea Wolfe, Interpol, (Thee) Oh Sees, Wilkinson and My Bloody Valentine. Interpol is reviewed separately though since DJ Pappaledig has been …

American Independence Day celebrations in Camp Vienna United, new shoes to the editor’s sore feet, massive drinks at Gringo Bar, football hooligan punk attitude with Slaves and a “punch in the face” show with brutal industrial rock classics by Nine Inch Nails. The fifth day at the Roskilde festival in summary. What is striking about the Roskilde Festival is the …