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How do I summarize my 30th Roskilde Festival and position it next to my previous Roskilde experiences? Well, it has to be split into themes to end up with some sort of fair conclusion of the 2023 edition of the festival. Here’s an attempt that at no point claim to be the best evaluation of the festival but a few …

You would think that Friday and Saturday would be the festival days at the festival as most of the bigger names usually play during weekends to attract day-ticket visitors, but to be honest, I didn’t have much on my schedule at all. Some of the bigger acts I’ve already watched earlier this summer – Blur, Christine and the Queens, Caroline Polachek, …

I usually have one day off to join the party and as it happens, Thursday accidentally turned into a long party before the bands started. There wasn’t anything super interesting until Prisma anyway, thus I spent the day visiting friends’ camps and was offered everything from GTs to Cuba Libres and warm beer, and just after mid-day I slept it …

The first ‘real’ festival always starts with an old tradition: a walk to Roskilde city and pay a visit to the amazing Rib House. We don’t need to go into details, let’s just say we didn’t walk back but took the bus.  After a detour to Camp Vienna United and a beer, I set off to the festival area to …

All hopes of having the hottest festival in a decade are called off after the thunderstorm and you just have to accept to layer up a bit to stand the chilly winds that plague the campsite at the moment. But I’m used to it. If you have survived the mayhem years of 1997 and 2007 a little drizzle isn’t much …

Monday arrived and there were a few interesting metal bands to cover later in the evening, and as the line-up is dominated by hip hop or RnB I felt I just have to be there. However, the weather gods weren’t on our side this day and sent a thunderstorm our way. Security was running around to make sure the camps …