The first Rocking Days of Roskilde

The first Night was a Thursday. The biggest highlight for most that day was Radiohead on the mainstage. But I fully in

tended to see everything else, and as much as I could. Trying to squeeze in The Dø, Lupe Fiasco (quite good), and than catching a couple songs at Radiohead went and saw a proper Rock act from Sweden.

Friday was one of my big days. I had every intention of catching Gnarls Barkley. So after catuching a couple quick acts here and there, I made a beeline for the queue for 

Gnarls Barkley and waited.

 It was splendid. Although, admittedly, the smaller bands and tents were much more exciting and less overwhelming. None of those pictures really turned out. (this is someone's who is taller than me. But I was closer)

Shortly after that I got stuck in one tent watching a bevy of bands (smaller ones. Only one that I had actually planned on seeing) THere are 7 tents in the music area. Moving around a whole bunch gets tiresome if you have to stand listening to the music from 12 to 3am. First: A Kid Hereafter (dk), followed by Seasick Steve (us) who was rockin out blues, "combined with a voice that could make even the galvanized festival fences rust."

After Seasick Steve was Holy F**k(can), who were a bit electronic, but quite exciting to watch as they mixed their music so closely. 

One of the guys using sound tapes that he runs through either slow or fast at times to create a whole nother level to the music. 

By then it was late. So i took in music here and there, sampling through movement as I made my way from tent to tent to finally simply leave and go to bed, and start again in the morning.

Stuffin selves at Roskilde

  I'm pretty sure that my stomach will get me through most of my travels. I had a vegetarian version of this (literally salad and Danish mayo...and a bit of ketchup)

They were bigger than our heads. It was mad!

 

We also took a day and went to go see the town of Roskilde during another one of our 4 pre-festival days. Roskilde used to be the capital of Denmark, and the cathedral is still used as a place of burial for the royal family. 

It was quite resplendent.  We also took a good hike down to the sea to see the old viking boats and to take in how they used to make the boats,

 simply sitting on the river to enjoy the view.

It was a lovely day and it was so much fun!!

Rockin' out at Roskilde pt. 1

Well. It took forever and a day. And so I am going to try and do my best to post about both of these past European Summers. God help us all! Well. For right now lets here about this music festival in Denmark. You guys just got a verbal taster. The exact weekend before I got to see Oslo, Norway but my dumb butt forgot to actually charge my camera. So that one will just be fuzzy memories! 

First. Before the music began. I went to the festival alone. Was asked about my strange tent which is round in shape and simply *POPS* open. Well, my question in return was

 if i could hang out with them. 

Ended up one of them had just come back from a year abroad studying at UCBerkeley! All of them from English students from University of Edinburgh. 

They said yes, and I totally lucked out. They were amazing.

Before the music began, there was skateboarding competitions.

 Pre-festival music, movies, dancing, drinking, socialising. It was all quite good fun. First day we watched the World Cup on a big screen, after walking across the WHOLE festival grounds just for a camping spot.

This is the before picture of the Roskilde Festival.

The after people buggered off was disturbing. And we lucked out greatly for the weather. An average of 20˚-25˚C each day. It was marvelous!!

Numbers: 67,000 festival goers