Reviews

Saturday means arrival day and a few hours on a train to get to Roskilde. The editor is doing his 28th Roskilde Festival, every year since 1992, and have some experience of travelling but is not used to the comfy train rides from Hamburg. Every Roskilde trip by train from Sweden has been crowded; the Hamburg trip was something different …

The festival landscape in Sweden has been heavily re-drawn over the last decade. Classic festivals like Hultsfred, Arvika, Peace and Love, Emmaboda, and also Bråvalla, have closed down (and some have resurged in new shapes, with mixed results), and the main competitors are stadium/arena shows, or concerts at amusement parks like Gröna Lund in Stockholm or Liseberg in Gothenburg. Pay …

If you have ever had the pleasure of witnessing the live Villagers show in one of its many forms, then you will no doubt agree that frontman Conor O’Brien is that type of artist best enjoyed in real life, because Villagers is about Conor O’Brien’s and his captivating vocals. Far away are the days when O’Brien were criticized of being boring …

Waking up a bit confused, battered and bruised after a, let’s say, quite fun night ending up very late/early in the morning. A quick message to the photographer in the neighboring room and we went on a treasure hunt to find a pair of missing pants, and after some mocking about nightly hazards we were back on track and prepared …

The third day of Reeperbahn Festival would almost top day one, especially the afterparty making it a night to remember. There might also be a vid floating around on the Internet of some kind of tattoo promises but you shouldn’t take it too serious considering the time of the night for such a promise. And then I lost my pants. …

Going to bed at 06.15 and wake up four hours later may not be the optimal start of the second festival day and both I and the photographer were quite happy that one of our interviews was cancelled because the band was late and didn’t found time for it. Instead we could concentrate all our efforts to finish the series …