It’s been a month since Roskilde Festival 2015 ended, and I’m still recuperating from the sunburn, back to back music acts, organic food, dirty camping woes, and of course non-stop hedonism.
To backtrack, in case you didn’t get to read my write-up last year, let me educate you on Roskilde Music Festival. The festival is held 30 minutes outside of Copenhagen, Denmark at Roskilde and is one of the largest music festivals in Europe. It was created in 1971 by two high school students Mogens Sandfaer and Jesper Switzer Moller, and promoter Carl Fischer. One of the first acts on the Orange Stage was The Rolling Stones.
This year, Roskilde 2015, with over 120,000 people in attendance, was the most fun I have had at a music festival—and this is coming from someone who has attended Coachella and Governors Ball this year—both were equally amazing but much shorter than Roskilde. The week-long festival starts off slow with warm-up days of drinking and parties, local Scandinavian acts, then ramps up with bigger international acts in the last three days of the festival.
The reason I attended this year, and the highlight of the festival for me was Muse, who played on the Orange Stage. I have never seen a Muse performance I didn’t completely adore. This time their performance was bar none. The lighting and sound was perfection untamed. My entire body trembled as they played songs from every album. I looked around and noticed many people were singing along “They will not control us…” It felt like an army united for peace, love and harmony.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds also played a jaw dropping show. The visuals behind them at the Arena Stage were well done, along with the lighting which played into close ups of the band and sing along ballads–incredible.
The camping this year was extra dry and dirty, since it was extremely hot and not as much rain as the previous year, which kept it a little cooler—but muddy. The food vendors were clean and the food was fabulous—but I felt last year the food seemed a bit better somehow.
This year the Orange Stage was graced by acts including Muse, Nicki Minaj, Paul McCartney.
Paul McCartney played the Orange stage, singing his solo music as well as Beatles songs. My favorites included “Blackbird”, “We Can Work It Out”, “Hey Jude” and “Let it be”. It was incredible watching the legend perform to such a huge crowd.
Nicki Minaj never disappoints. This Tobago and Trinidad born artist is loved and hated by all—never missing an opportunity to be in the press. Her “Anaconda” single not only passed the 400M mark on YouTube but also won an MTV music award last night. Wearing a tiny black bra and a black thong with see-through black netting covering her arms and legs as she strutted her stuff for the crowd, the audience were jumping and singing along to some of my favorites “Moment for Life”, “Where them girls at”, and of course “Anaconda”.
Mastodon’s heavy metal riffs were something I was glad I didn’t miss. I love the combination of artists at Rosklide —this is what keeps me coming back year after year. The staff at Roskilde are so welcoming and kind to me, and I’m truly appreciative of our collaboration to ensure more attendance, friendly press who work their arse off at the event, and happy attendees and volunteers alike. Thanks again Roskilde, for a remarkable time!
Written by Roya Butler
Photo: Joeri Swerts
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