Right now Duran Duran shows off at the Orange stage some hundred metres from here. They've already headed through Hungry Like The Wolf, View To A Kill and Ordinary World. Then I got tired after a long third day, so I withdrawn to the media place aiming for one of the delicious saulmon sandwiches. It was sold out though so now I'm struggling with the little less tasty ham'n'cheese version. Today had easily the best lineup, but it never really lifted completely. Efterklang's hardworknig VJ did a good job, Roots Manuva's band was as tired as the crowd, Mylo was even more exhausted (and he told our reporter that with his schedule he must postpone sleeping until wednesday in two weeks), but played it well. The more electric guitars, the better!
Then the festival's planning organization must have taken one trip too many to Christiania. Royksopp was placed in the rather small dance tent. Ok if they weren't already the biggest nordic electronic act, ok if their new album wasn't preceeded by one of this year's 5 strongest singles so far, and ok if there was a major act at one of the bigger stages. But no, no, no. The officials probably think electronic music must be in the dance tent. What would they do with Daft Punk? Anyways, it all turned out to a memorable gig for the crowd in the tent, and most likely the most overwhelming response for any band at this year's festival.
At 10pm Per Sinding-Larsen (a Swedish pop journalist who is the host at Roskilde's biggest stage) switched from his regular black suit to a pink rabbit costume and made Green Day's audience do the YMCA-dance. Quite an achievement, Per! The never-aging Californian punkrockers took me back to Junior High and let me stay there for almost 2 hours. Brilliant punkrock with tons of pop sense! Oh! Now, Simon and his lads are doing Girls on Film for an encore, I'll run out to see the ending. Hopes are high for Rio!
This entry was for some reason just saved as a draft when it was written...
Posted by iensu at July 3, 2005 02:25 AM