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Roskilde Festival is a festival held
south of Roskilde in Denmark and is
one of the seven biggest annual
music festivals in Europe (the other
six being the Sziget Festival, the
Glastonbury Festival, the Paléo
Festival, Rock Werchter, Oxegen and
Exit Festival). It was created in
1971 by two high school students,
Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer
Møller, and promoter Carl Fischer.
In 1972, the festival was taken over
by the Roskilde Foundation, which
has since run the festival as a
non-profit organization for
development and support of music,
culture and humanism.
Lineup:
Björk
Bon Iver
The Cure
Mew
The Roots
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street
Band
Jack White
Amadou & Mariam
Apparatjik
Behemoth
Rubén Blades
The Cult
Dr. John and The Lower 911 feat. Jon
Cleary
Gossip
Sivert Høyem
Paul Kalkbrenner
Alison Krauss & Union Station feat.
Jerry Douglas
M83
Mac Miller
Machine Head
Magtens Korridorer
Malk de Koijn
Janelle Monáe
Nasum
Lee Ranaldo
Refused
Santigold
The Shins
Spleen United
Lars Winnerbäck
Wiz Khalifa
It is
Denmark's first real music-oriented
festival, originally for hippies but
today it covers more of the
mainstream youth from Scandinavia
and the rest of Europe. Roskilde
Festival 2007 had more than 180
performing bands and gathered around
80,000 people paying for the
concerts, with more than 21,000
volunteers, 5,000 media people and
3,000 artists, which means almost
110,000 people participated in the
festival.
For
many years it was a tradition that
the campsite opened the last Sunday
of June, but in 2010 the festival
opened Saturday instead. The
festival management argued that this
would prevent earlier years problems
with the fence going down before
time. The early opening of the
campsite, gives the festival guests
plenty of time to settle down and
"warm up". The festival officially
starts the following Thursday at the
Animal Showgrounds (in recent years
simply known as the "Festival Site")
and lasts for 4 days. Until the
mid-1990s the festival attracted
mostly Scandinavians, but in recent
years it has become more and more
international (with an especially
large influx of Germans, Australians
and British). A Scandinavian
alternative remained in the Midtfyns
Festival, until that closed in 2004
following declining ticket sales.
The
bands presented at Roskilde Festival
are traditionally a balanced mix of
large well known artists in the
absolute live elite, cutting-edge
artists from all contemporary
genres, popular crowd-pleasing acts
plus local Scandinavian headliners
and up-and-coming names. The special
Roskilde feeling is in particular
ensured by stages located inside
large tents, catering to an
enthusiastic music-loving audience.
As opposed to most other European
festivals all bands play "real"
concerts lasting for at least an
hour.
The
stages were until 2003 named after
their colour, but as the names had
not matched the actual colour of the
tents for a period, it was decided
to rename all stages except the
Orange Stage, the central and main
stage. The Orange Stage is open in
front of a huge field, whereas the
other tents cover the whole
audience, the largest of which is
the Arena stage (formerly known as
Green Stage), the largest tent in
Europe with an official capacity of
17,000 people. The 2007 edition saw
two new tents, replacing Ballroom
(1997–2006) which presented mainly
World music, and Metropol
(2003–2006) which presented mainly
Electronica. In 2010 two stages,
Astoria (from 2007) and Lounge, did
not return, due to a slight shift in
focus towards fewer, but bigger
bands.
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