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 Then I got tired after a long third day, so I withdrawn to the media place aiming for one of the delicious saulmon sandwiches.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!
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BEST SO FAR:
1. Junior Senior / Their new song that possibly could be going under the name of One Step Forward And Two Steps Back will be a smash hit! And that was just the peak of a splendidly energetic performance by my loved rhythm bandits.
2. Maldoror / Hypnotizing noise from Merzbow and the former front man of Faith No More.
3. Kano / Young and fresh! P's & Q's!
4. Armand Van Helden / Floorfilling DJ.
5. Snooooooooooooop / Supa' tight biatch!
Apart from that, Black Sabbath sounded like Oasis the 30 secs I lent them, and Autechre worked hard on their breakbeat side. Andrew Weatherall was one helluva nice guy, but his Two Lone Swordsmen's punky madchester sound wasn't as promising.
Hey there, long time since I did anything here. Presently I'm at the Roskilde Festival so It hought I'd let you know what's happening here.
Everything started off yesterday with a pretty thin lineup. Big Swedish acts such as Kent and Timbuktu performed alongside Le Tigre and Sonic Youth. The only thing I really cared about though was the man from NYC, Armand Van Helden. He was just Djing his tunes, but in such a stylistic and brutal way! The only letdown was that he In the middle of the 2-hour-long set pulled off some classic rock anthems like Smeels Like Teen Spirit, Highway To Hell and Seven Nation Army. He did show that these songs can be uphotted by a skilled DJ, but there was no need to pull that rocky crowdpleasing string. He already possessed total control over us.
Today I checked out Snoop Dogg's supertight liveband, and also had a quick chat with Junior Senior, whose performance is the one I'm looking forward to the most on this festival. Their second album will be out in Japan in late August, and in Denmark in early September. And more importantly: they'll be on the Arena-stage in just 3 hours! Before that: Two Lone Swordsmen!
Foodwise: Danish beer is at its best. The karage turned out to be something completely different from the karage offered in the bento-boots around the Waseda campus. Kakako is the name of the cold chocolate drink and so far I must say that the licorice ice-cream Kung Fu Black has been the culinary no1 so far.