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ROCK’N’ROSKILDE The sun is here. You’re here – along with thousands of fellow music enthusiasts. And on Friday, Chris Cornell and Audioslave will be here. Welcome to what promises to be a great Roskilde Festival. INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS CORNELL/PAGE
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HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU … Roskilde Cinema is the third-biggest screen in Denmark – and it’s only temporary. Your bottom could be one of 680 to be warm during films such as ‘Amélie’ (pictured), ‘Mulholland Drive’ or ‘xXx’ or, if you fancy a musical experience without getting your feet stepped on, check out ‘Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock’. FESTIVAL GLOBE/CE
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percent of festival guests were not Danish two years ago. The biggest group next to the Danes didn’t have to travel far for the musical experience of the year: , Swedes ( percent of all festival guests) partied at Roskilde that year. FESTIVAL GLOBE/KK
Frisky festival Thousands of festival-goers take home sexually transmitted diseases from Roskilde GOT AN ITCH?
TAKE , GIRLS and
about as many boys. Add 500,000 litres of beer, a pinch of pot, and a large sprinkle of great music. Shake until all inhibitions are lost – and what have you got? A festival about to get frisky. And lots of sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s). Every year, thousands of happy music lovers get together at the Roskilde Festival – and end up getting sweaty in each other’s tents. Which is all very lovely – if
it weren’t for the unpleasant side effects. »We know that alcohol and drugs make lots of people have unprotected sex during the festival. Combine that with the fact that as many as 15 percent of all young men have chlamydia – and you don’t need an overactive imagination to know what’s going to happen,« says Jesper Bergvist, an adviser for the organisation Sex og Sam-
fund which specialises in informing young people about sex. Last year, he made an unscientific survey at the festival which concluded that one third of all sexual encounters took place without a condom.
Damage control Apart from chlamydia, genital warts and herpes are quite common in the age group that is dominant at Roskilde. The symptoms of these diseases don’t appear until later, and no one knows exactly how many people go home from Roskilde with an STD. In order to limit the number this year, Sex og Samfund have set up camp at Ros-
kilde and its employees are eager to listen, to give advice – and to sell cheap condoms. As is the county of Roskilde in the Rock’n’rubber tent, which is a veritable condom buffet offering rubbers of all shapes, colours and tastes. They all cost two kroner – and come with free advice and instruction. »People ask us a lot of questions, and it’s evident that everyone knows that they’re supposed to use condoms. So it’s definitely not because they’re ignorant, that they still end up having unprotected sex,« says tent supervisor Anni Christensen from the county office. Still not quite sure what to do with those rubbers? Read on to find out where on the festival site somebody is just waiting to give you advice about how to get frisky without putting your health at risk. MARTIN KJÆR JENSEN
Don’t be a rubber fool
CHLAMYDIA ... is the most
common STD in Denmark. More than , cases are diagnosed every year, but many carry the disease without knowing it. It is feared that as many as percent of all men between and are infected. What are the symptoms? • Peeing itches and stings. • Discharge from the urethra, the vagina and the rectum. • Diarrhoea and pain in the rectum. Symptoms are often very weak which is why many people don’t realise they have chlamydia. How did I catch it? Chlamydia is a bacteria which is transmitted during all forms of sexual contact. It invades the cells of the urethra, the cervix and the rectum and causes an infection. VENEREAL WARTS ... are cau-
sed by a viral infection, which manifests itself as warts in the genital area. The disease is particularly common in people in the beginning of their s. What are the symptoms? • Itching in the genital area and around the rectum. • Warts which appear individually or in small clusters. They can be both flat and knobby. • The warts will not appear until at least two weeks after you have been infected and they can be so tiny that they are invisible to the naked eye. How did I catch it? Veneral warts are transmitted when genital areas are in contact – and in rare cases when you share a towel with an infected person. GENITAL HERPES ... is a virus
which is closely related to herpes simplex, which causes cold sores. There is no cure, so once you’re infected you must always use a condom when having sex.
Still not sure about how and when to use those condoms? Fear not – help is all around the festival site. These are just a few of the places that will teach you how to get down and dirty in Roskilde without risking your health. G E T T Y I M AG E S
The Sex og Samfund tent at the Single Agora - Competition: Be the quickest to put on a condom (no, not on yourself, silly! On a fake one!). - Read about other people’s sexual experiences and share yours with your fellow festival goers. - Buy condoms – only two kroner each. - Talk anonymously with a counsellor from a sex advisory phone line. - Mark down your own sexual festival escapades on a map for everyone to see.
What are the symptoms? • Small weeping blisters on the genitals. • Itching and pain in genitals. • Fever. • Swollen lymph glands. • A general feeling of being ill.
The condom tent of the County of Roskilde, Rock’n’Rubber by the Roskilde Metropol (open -, every day) - Answer questions about sex correctly and win condoms. - Get a safe sex certificate. - Choose between different kinds of condoms – ribbed, studded, flavoured and coloured - and they only cost two kroner each. - Guess the number of condoms in a tube and win a year’s supply of rubbers. - Get the Rock’n’rubber logo painted onto your body. - Spin the wheel of fortune - and let your knowledge about sex make you rich.
The symptoms will normally appear about a week after you’ve been infected, but it can take longer. How did I catch it?
Don’t lose you head when you lose your heart.
Genital herpes is found on the genitals and around the rectum and is transmitted by contact. The virus can also be found in the mouth – the mode of transmission is the same.
Cops wear baggy pants, don’t they? THINK YOU KNOW what a policeman looks like? Think again. Because an undisclosed number of members of the Roskilde police department have gone undercover at the festival site and in the camping areas. The blue shirts have stayed in the cupboard, and baggy pants and untied trainers have become part of the uniform. »When I see 100.000 happy festival-goers, I see a bunch of people who have dressed themselves up for the occasion, and so have we. We’ll just try to blend in,« says Michael Christiansen of the Roskilde Police The main purpose of the mission is to stop the large number of thefts from tents. In 2003, especially, quite a few criminals with notso-good intentions travelled from all over Denmark to Roskilde at the end of June. That year a few paople returned to their tents after a concert to find they had had unwanted visitors. Also, there’s the issue of the, you know, funny tobacco. According to the inspector, the boys in blue have not pulled on their Slipknot T-shirts specifically to make life difficult for those who enjoy an illegal smoke, but on the other hand the officers won’t tolerate very obvious smoking. So next time you feel like hugging the world and offering some cool-looking dude a drag on your joint – think twice. MARTIN KJÆR JENSEN
See you next year – in August? WEATHER Does anybody remember the weather during Roskilde 2004? Well, the festival management does, and because of the rain it is considering moving the festival to August instead of late June. According to one of Denmark’s top meteorologists, moving the festival to August would if not guarantee good weather, then at least give it the best odds. Festival spokesman Esben Danielsen says the good thing about having the festival in June is that many big European festivals take place around this time, which makes it easier to book the great American bands because then they can do a ‘European festival tour’. However, he does not dismiss the idea of moving the festival, but says the management is discussing the issue. METROXPRESS/MKJ
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Roskilde has much more to offer than tents, music and drunken people. You’ve got food, beer and mobile bathrooms within reach, so there’s really no reason to move your battered body off the festival site. Right? Wrong! There are lots of good reasons why you should give the city of Rosilde a few hours of your time. The munchies, religious urges, the shopping itch and a love of adventure, to name but a few. Even though the the camping area has lots to offer food-wise, you definitely shouldn’t feel ashamed of listening to your inner Italian when he’s screaming for an espresso. Café Druedahl on the main street can deliver the goods; coffee with or without milk. However, the jazzy Café Satchmo in Rosenhavestræde 2 has a nicer atmosphere and better service – as well as a covered courtyard on both sides. One of them is all old-fashioned idyl: cobble stones and timber frames – a small oasis away from festival
Festival memories that last forever HI MUM! When your
friends and family ask what it was like at Roskilde, are you one of those who realises that your memories of the festival are a bit hazy? Fear not, for this year seven camera crews will attempt to put the festival atmosphere as well as some of the concerts. The result can be bought on DVD in November. Order your copy on www.roskilde-festival.dk, or try your local DVD shop. FESTIVAL GLOBE
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WHAT’S UP, ROSKILDE? GO EXPLORE!
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hor, the Scandinavian god of rain and thunder, has come down to party with the rest of us, so this year the sun will shine on Roskilde. At this point in time, it looks like we’ll get sun, sun and yet more sun – fantastic! We hope your tent is up and that your nose is just a little bit red from the sun. We have decided to yet again have the successful division of the camping areas with each its central ‘agora’. Here you can get advice, recharge your mobile phone, cook and go to the toilet. This year each agora has its own identity. This means there’ll be activities for you to participate in – or be entertained by.
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e hope that you’ll feel at home at your agora, where you live. But at ESBEN the same time don’t be afraid to go and DANIELSEN explore. Go visit the other camping sites, Spokesman, Roskilde Festival meet all the other campers, crash a party and check out the other agoras. Today visit the Pavilion Junior area, for instance, which has risen like the Phoenix from the ‘ashes’ of the old Camping Stage.
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lso, we hope you’ll support our bottle collectors – there are more than 500 of them. They collect your bottles to raise money for this year’s humanitarian focus: ACT AGAINST SLAVERY. Today, more than 27 million people live as slaves. Join us in clearly stating that this is not acceptable. This year the money from the bottles goes to people in Cambodia – to building a crisis centre for women and create education possibilities for young people. They need help to break the vicious circle of poverty. Have a great festival.
The next English edition of Festival Globe will be published on Saturday.
chaos. If the mere thought of beers at 40 kroner a pop makes your wallet gasp for air, Netto’s yellow discount heaven is your thing. And many other people’s. The line is often longer than the speech Uncle Bob wrote for your graduation. If you’re a walk-ratherthan-wait kind of guy, you might want to go down to Ro’s Torv instead – a shopping centre that you’ll find a ten minute walk down Algade and walking for about 10 minutes. To be honest, there’s not a dreadlock in sight, but you’ll find a cinema, a hairdresser, a hardware store, restaurants and lots of shops that’ll you get more or less to yourself. If you’re more spiritually inclined, the Roskilde Cathedral is certainly worth a visit. It’ll cost you 25 kroner to get in, but that’s really a bargain: High ceilings get a new meaning here, the heavens suddenly seem close, and one of the coolest women in Danish history, Queen Margrete I, is buried here. Guided tours at 11 and 14. In a more palpable league,
you’ll find the Viking Ship Museum by the harbour. Craftsmen work here every day building and maintaining copies of ships from the Viking Age in an acrid smell of tar. Good quality tar, says one of the ship builders. Behind him, the blue and refreshing inlet stretches into the sun, and if this awakens your adventurous side, you can take a trip on a bonafide copy of a Viking ship by paying 125 kroner (50 kroner for sailing and 75 for the ticket to enter the museum). The ships set out five times a day from 11 to 15.30. The museum comes highly recommended by the illustrious Guide Michelin which has given it three stars out of three. Go back to downtown Roskilde by walking through the lovely green park. Just remember that you are under no circumstances allowed to make a fire or set up camp. If you find it difficult to abide by these rules, it’s time to get home to the festival site. MARIA KENTORP MARTIN KJÆR JENSEN
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LOVE IS IN THE AIR In camping area C your status as single gives you access to other young, beautiful singles – and their phone numbers. »THIS IS NOT nice! It’s not!«
The little mad, butterflywearing Frenchman waves his arms about as he throws a printer, camera bags and leaflets off the table, leaving only a pink wedding bouquet and a wedding photo. »You two girls – you do not giggle together. You are two individuals seeking a partner. This is serious business. Think what you want to answer before you do so,« he commands. The two girls share a smile and obediently look at each their form on which they have 20 lines to describe themselves and what they dream of doing with a prospective partner. »Roskilde Festival should be romantic and beautiful, not just sex, rock’n’drugs,« says the Frenchman, who’s called Colonel. This week he’s dragged wedding stuff and a camera to Roskilde Festival where he attempts to spread some romantic fairy dust over the 100.000 festival-goers. »I am wanting to find out what a single looks like in 2005,« says Colonel. And in camping area C, there’s plenty of material for his investigation. »When I ask the young people what they want from a relationship, respect is at the top of the list,« says Colonel, who’s planning on letting his survey turn into statistics and numbers after the festival. Until now, however, his project has resulted in photos and nervous exci-
SINGLE’S SITE • If you’re single and up for a summer flirt, there are still available spaces at camping area C, which particularly targets people who’re not sharing their sleepingbag with that special somebody. • During the festival you can take a chance and have your photo as well as your mobile phone number displayed by the big tent. • Or go and check out the abundance of photos already up – you may get tempted to make that phonecall.
tement when the phone rings in camping area C. Already there are loads of photos of sun-soaked and smiling single men and women by the tent. And they’ve all put their phone number on the photo. »Actually I was just waiting for a friend who went for a pee, but then that guy took my photo and made me fill out this form. Sure, it’d be fun meeting someone. We’ll see,« says Irish Kevin Daughin, who still seems a bit dazed, but is checking out the pictures of the single women. IF YOU FIND someone you really like through the dating service set up by Colonel, you can come by later during the festival and have a really romantic wedding photo taken. And even though pink roses, romance and lace are not exactly your usual festival fare, the offer is a true success. Behind a screen 18-yearold Liv Nimand Duvå is putting on a wedding dress and a garland, while her ‘husband-to-be’, Martin Kogi Larsen, puts on a smoking and a comb through his hair. »This is just so romantic. I guess we’re just a little bit silly, because we’re so in love,« says a giggling Liv Nimand Duvå, while she poses with her man in front of Colonel’s camera. For even though you get neither a wedding certificate nor the wise words of a priest at a Roskilde wedding, the feeling of unity is as profound as at a real wedding, because the photos of the happy couple will be displayed for all to see. »Then our ex’es can see that we’re serious about this,« says Martin Kogi Larsen and puts a possessive hand on the shoulder of the ‘bride’. Will they still be married after the festival? »Well, we’re not going to have children or anything like that. We’ll see. Right now we’re just totally happy,« says Liv Nimand Duvå, whilst opening a can of beer. Colonel waves away curi-
EVEN THOUGH PINK roses, romance and lace are not exactly your usual festival fare, quite a few people have chosen to get ‘married’ at Roskilde. Liv and Martin dressed up for the joyful event.
ous onlookers from the couple’s miniscule tent. »Leave them to enjoy the romantic atmosphere in peace,« he says and adds: »Are you returning the
wedding dress and the bouquet, or what? Others need to borrow them, you know.« In the white tent the two girls have finished filling in
their ‘dating-form’. »Well – it can’t be that dangerous,« says one of them. »Naw – the worst thing that could happen would be
if you met a murderer without a sense of humour,« says the other one as they go to have their photos taken. NANA ASKOV PHOTO: FRANK B. SCHMIDT
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E xpect the best – your indispensible guide to four days of great music THURSDAY Don’t worry about the language barrier. Go and enjoy Danish hip hop band IKSCHELTASCHEL at 18 at Orange Stage. The band have invented their own language, and the tunes are infectious. At 17.30 Metropol invites you to board the good ship Electronica run by a bunch of party pirates known by the name of OHOI!. Expect grime and UK garage, and prepare for a serious assault on your senses courtesy of the live drum’n’bass band F.U.K.T., who blew away the Camping Stage last year. Later that evening the nearby Pavilion is the setting p
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for 23-year-old TOM VEK, who plays homemade lo-fi electro-punk. Or stroll to the other side of the festival site to Arena, where hugely influential SONIC YOUTH are ready to prove that they’re every bit as good as the younger art-rockers. When the sonic storm has subsided, the night is still young, and you can choose between a couple of the big guys: ARMAND VAN HELDEN at Metropol, MASTODON at Arena, or KENT, who play rock music as sweet and cool as a Swedish summer night.
FRIDAY Your musical morning buffet could consist of playful HESS IS MORE, who dish out electronica and a cinematic atmosphere at the Metropol. If you’re in the mood for something you’ve never tasted before, you should go and check out Icelandic MUGISON , who are a must-see at the Pavili-
on. And then it may be time for some music from the US with SNOOP DOGG at Orange Stage. In the evening Canadian THE DEARS, strongly inspired by Morrissey, play the Arena, while Bret Anderson and Bernard Butler, previously of Suede, play as THE TEARS at the Arena. Expect rock nostalgia. At Orange Stage you’ll find Ozzy without his Osbournes, but with his musical family BLACK SABBATH , while DEATH FROM ABOVE play at the Pavilion. Later that night Metropol has plenty to offer those who want to dance. CRAIG RICHARDS , resident DJ at trendsetting London-club The Fabric makes your feet move between the sets played by TWO LONE SWORDSMEN and AUTECHRE, while Richards’ colleague from The Fabric JOHN DIGWEED plays groundbreaking house. Whatever you do on Friday, however, make sure you don’t miss KANO who plays grime, the hippest sound to come out of London, at 2.15 at the Pavilion.
SUNDAY Snoop Dogg
Chill out on Sunday morning by the Pavilion listening to JOANNA NEWSOM, who plays the harp and has a voice out of this world, or lend your ears to Pakistani singer FAZI ALI FAIZ and his religious sufi music. Not in the same ballpark, not even in the same league, are Illinois band THE GAME, who play gangster rap at Arena and
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SATURDAY Indietronica comet KHONNOR plays at Metropol – he bowled over the audience at this year’s electronic Sónar Festival. Or treat yourself to American singer/songwriter DEVENDRA BANHART, who’s definitely worth a listen. In the evening the choice, as they say, is yours. But don’t expect it to be an easy one. ROOTS MANUVA is the best
British hip hop band at the moment, and they play Arena at 18. An hour later another brit goes on stage at Metropol, namely electronic hit machine MYLO, who mixes electro, house and rock music. Norwegian RÖYKSOPP play pop that you simply have to get up and dance to at Metropol, while Canadian THE HIDDEN CAMERAS play cheerful rock symphonies at Pavilion. GREEN DAY play Orange Stage, and Danish THE RAVEONETTES play modern nostalgia at Arena.
...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF THE DEAD
playing Orange. If you don’t like your musical genres to be that clear-cut, try THE GO! TEAM who combine organic beats, funky bass lines, cheerleader yells and a banjo at the Odeon. Mr. Beach Boy BRIAN WILSON encourages all in front of Orange Stage to Smile, while the pretty boy of indie rock, BRIGHT EYES, plays at the Odeon and post-punks INTERPOL play at Arena. See you out there. JESPER VESTERGAARD SOUNDVENUE
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KEEP IT SECRET, KEEP IT SAFE At each agora you’ll find a cloakroom. It’s free to keep your stuff here, and for 10 kroner you can recharge your mobile phone or your camera. At the festival information centre there’s a cloakroom, too, but you can only keep small things here. The cloakrooms are open 24-7. FESTIVAL GLOBE/LR
RED LIGHTS DISTRICT For security reasons you’ll find traffic lights by Orange Stage and Arena to ensure that not too many people cram into one area. If the light’s green, you can go right in and find yourself a good spot, and if it’s red, the area is full and you have to go elsewhere. So make sure you get to the long-awaited concerts early! FESTIVAL GLOBE/KK
Rrreal Grrrlpower George Bush is an idiot. Women are strong. Peace is the way forward. It’s great to dance. If you agree with one or more of the above statements, you should seriously consider spending an afternoon with Le Tigre on Thursday at the Odeon. And guys are welcome, too, even though they may find themselves to be in the minority.
»We mostly play for women and homosexuals. They are our core audience. But if others fancy coming by, that’s cool too,« says 25-yearold JD. She’s the newest member of Le Tigre, which has existed since 1998, when the band was created by one of the coolest women in ‘90s rock, Kathleen Hanna, who was a member of Bikini Kill for many years. And JD, who looks cool with sports glasses, a cap and a growing moustache, certainly doesn’t try to suck up to the boys. »I’m sure that many people, particularly men, have a problem with the way that Le Tigre are. But that’s their problem, not ours. We’re lucky, because our fans have de-
cided to like us the way we are,« says JD. »And luckily many men are cool enough to understand who we are and what we stand for,« she adds. All three members work with other artforms than music when they are not together in Le Tigre, and music is actually just a way to spread the band’s ideas on feminism and on sexual freedom and their opposition against George W. Bush and his ‘war on terror’. »The more people we get through to, the better. That’s why we make albums, that’s why we send them out on a big international label, and that’s why we’re here in Denmark. For that reason – and to have fun,« says JD, who
looks forward to meeting the audience out at the festival site. »It’ll be fun and very different. Festivals are perfect because people who wouldn’t otherwise go and see us get the chance to do so. And then they can take us or leave us. We are certainly not going to change,« says JD.
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Le Tigre needs men like a festival needs a downpour. The trio is ready to rock and roll with a feminist attitude and firm statements.
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JD (RIGHT) and the other tigresses don’t care what men think of them.
Almost mythical Chris Cornell embraces his Soundgarden past, but enjoys his Audioslave present
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AFTER THE DEPARTURE of singer Zach De La Rocha, Tim Commerford, Brad Wilk and Tom Morello went on to rage their machines with former Soundgarden frontman, Chris Cornell.
Now collectively known as Audioslave, the band comes to Roskilde with its second album, ‘Out of Exile’. Did you suffer from the so-called sophomore album syndrome while you were recording ‘Out of Exile’? I don’t know. It’s a sophomore album, but at the same time, not really. People know where we came from. I was really happy with the first record, but the process of writing and recording was quicker this time. I felt like the pressure was really on the first record. It was: How will it be received? Will people look at it differently because of who the band is? Do you differentiate your musical past from your present one? As a band, we couldn’t forget our past like that. There’s an outside world, too, that keeps reminding you of it. You try to push it away and
ignore it, but it’s in the back of your mind. For example, I wasn’t in Rage Against the Machine, but in my mind, their fan base was hardcore, military. They took much bigger chances than I did because of songs like ‘Like a Stone’. They were really sticking their necks out and kind of snubbing their nose at their own history. They were vocal about wanting to move on. Now I realise that as we perform and tour, a lot of the audience isn’t Soundgarden or Rage fans – it is new people. Or people who know about both bands and were casual fans, but this music sort of draws them together. We play Soundgarden and Rage songs live. Isn’t that weird for you? No, it’s great! I love it! And it’s great to see the reactions when we play these songs. They’re songs that people are really familiar with. They’re a huge part of many people’s teen years ... Yeah, it’s interesting. I realise that maybe, if you’re a 16- or 18-year-old boy or girl and you come and see Audioslave, there’s that idea that these guys came from these bands. It’s almost going to be like legendary or mythical. The audience connects to our past now. I do an acoustic
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version of ‘Black Hole Sun’ and ‘I Am the Highway’, and more people know the lyrics to ‘I Am’, which, to me, is encouraging. Do you inevitably find elements of Rage and Soundgarden in your music? Definitely. The marriage of the two extends. There’s no way to completely separate them. We’d all have to have lobotomies! I’ve always been someone that’s looking ahead to change in terms of being a songwriter, a singer, making a record. I hear a lot of different musical styles on this record, but it all sounds like the same band to me.
Looking back, how do you perceive Soundgarden? It’s interesting because at the time, some things bothered me. Soundgarden was the band that put Seattle on the map. We were the ones that drew outside interest. When the lid blew off, it was Pearl Jam and Nirvana. They had huge success, and Soundgarden was much more moderate. And yet, a few years after that, I remember thinking, ‘I’m in the middle of having this really comfortable success, but it’s all manageable and my lifes not crazy’. I remember when we toured with Guns N’ Roses. We were at that time almost arena sta-
I remember when we toured with Guns N’ Roses. I didn’t like that tour. CHRIS CORNELL
tus and Guns was stadium hugeness. I didn’t like that tour. I didn’t like that huge stage and just the disconnection you have with the audience. It wasn’t art. Guns wanted two keyboard players, a giant inflammable thing, these enormous aluminum stages and ramps. They had two of them so they can be setting one up in another town while playing elsewhere that night. I just didn’t want to have anything to do with that. So the things that haven’t happened, I’m really glad they didn’t happen. It would be foolish for me to have regrets for the fact that I’m a rock singer and I’m 40 years old and, in many ways, I’m at the apex of my career. Things are unfolding in exciting and new ways. And it’s so rare in the history of rock that someone is in the position that I’m in. It doesn’t happen that often. TALIA SOGHOMONIAN METRO PARIS ➔ Audioslave, Friday at , Orange
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THE SOUND OF LONDON A NASTY RAPPER Grime MC Kano is only years old, but he may be about to hit the big time. Kano is the grime MC incarnate. 20 years old, Jamaican roots and born and raised in East-London, where he now lives. He used to be a member of Nasty Crew and has been a respected name on the pirate radio scene since he was 16. Add to this cocktail an abundance of charisma and a 'cute face' (according to the British girls), and you have an explanation for the star status and commercial success that the young rapper is about to have, according to fans and reviewers. Kano is particularly lauded for his sharp and reflective lyrics delivered with a sure flow and a crisp voice. This is especially true of the singles ‘P’s and Q’s’ and ‘Boys Luv Girls’ – the latter was Pirate Anthem of the Year 2004. He explains that when he plays live, he makes a big effort to not just act as the hypeman for his DJ, and he always steps to the front and really engages in his audience. Kano's newest single, called ‘Typically Me’, is a personal story of his experiences with violent bouncers in the London clubs, and it contains a funky guitar riff, which is produced by himself. Yesterday his debut album ‘Home Sweet Home’, was released. It features amongst others Mike Skinner (aka The Streets). JAKOB HAAHR-PEDERSEN SOUNDVENUE
THE OPINIONS are as plentiful as the pigeons in Trafalgar Square. On British internet forums for electronic music, dedicated fans discuss who the biggest and most influential grime artists in London are right now. Many suggest Wiley, Godsgift, Breeze, Kano, Lethal B and Jon E Cash, while others believe that Flowdan, Scratchy, Ghetto or Flirta D are worthy of the title. One thing is certain: The number of artists are a testimony to a huge scene, which is developing at an amazing speed. One of the pieces on the site is written by Lil Scratch, a hardcore fan and underground grime MC. Just like the MTV-favourite Dizzee Rascal, he is from Bow in EastLondon, but his preferred grime artists are
less commercial artists such as Bashy, Rico, Trim and Fumin. »Grime is home music to me. It doesn’t sound like just another copy of something American. The beats are faster than those from the US and the lyrics are based on the experiences of the everyday lives of the British MC’s.« And to those of us who are not British, grime is definitely the sound of London. The local dialect stands out when the MC’s rap or toast their messages, and it is spiced up with Jamaican words and expressions. The language is young and hip and rife with slang and creative grammar and spelling. This language is mastered to perfection by DJ Stanza on behalf of the explosive producer
Clashes, guns, sabotaged concerts and pirate radio stations are all a part of the grime scene, which is coming your way from the London underground.
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Grime is home music to me. It doesn't sound like just another copy of something American. The beats are faster than those from the US and the lyrics are based on the experiences of the everyday lives of the British MC’s. LIL SCRATCH, grime MC
team Scandalous Unlimited, who have produced tracks for grime MC’s such as Bruza and B-Live. »The grime lyrics reflect London life and show what it is like being a child and a youngster in this city. The MC’s rap about what they see in their neighbourhoods. If they live in a tough neighbourhood and have seen some bad stuff there, that’s what they’ll write about.
Grime has its roots in street culture, and the lyrics tell you about stuff that’s really happened. Young people see music as a way of staying clear of trouble,« says DJ Stanza, trying to explain why there are so many MC’s around right now.
Grime=crime? The stories about the troublemakers of the grime scene are plentiful and very dramatic: Artists and fans attack and knife each other, sabotage concerts and get arrested and convicted of violence and possession of weapons. But according to Lil Scratch, most of the stories are very exaggerated: »Of course there’s been trouble at some raves and in some clubs, but really, the media try to make things seem worse than they are. They and the politicians would love to blame some of the problems in society on the grime scene, but crime’s got nothing to do with any kind of music.«
Both Lil Scratch and DJ Stanza prefer to talk about all the good things that the scene has caused. As an artist, DJ Stanza has his finger on the pulse. »Right now there’s a huge amount happening on the London grime scene. Albums and music videos are released all the time, both mainstream and underground stuff. Concerts and raves are held all the time, and you can hear live music on pirate stations, which are set up in basements and living rooms all over the city.« The pirate radios are particularly important for the very young and completely unknown underground artists. This is the only place where they can show and develop their talent. JAKOB HAAHR-PEDERSEN SOUNDVENUE
WHAT IS GRIME? • Grime is a UK garage sub-genre. The tempo is fast and the final product appears unpolished, aggressive, intense. The artists rap or toast in a heavy local dialect (usually London) over edgy drum beats and a deep bass, spiced up with sounds of everything from keyboards to computer games.
FORGET ABOUT GUNS! He is surprisingly small. Much smaller than the Neanderthal you imagine, when you hear the nerve and aggression in his hoarse voice. We put grime MC B-Live in the warm chair. ◗ What do you think of the Lomdon grime scene right now?
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GRIME MC Kano is going to be get his worldwide breakthrough very soon. On Friday he plays the Pavilion.
◗ ◗ It’s fucked. Too many young MC’s glamourise guns in their lyrics, and they don’t understand what the consequences are. If I keep rapping about guns, the youngsters who listen to it end up believing that guns are cool, and then go and get one. The whole gun culture around the scene is fucked up, because people actually get shot and killed on the streets of London. So it is understandable when the big DJ’s don’t support the grime scene, because they feel it has a bad and negative image.
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It’s fucked. Too many young MC’s glamourise guns in their lyrics, and they don’t understand what the consequences are. B-LIVE, grime-mc
◗ Do you think that will change?
◗ ◗ No. The rave audience are only interested in hearing the MC talk about guns and watching him fight with other MC’s on stage. People are impolite and unpleasant and completely without manners. When I was younger it was different. If your behaviour was bad, the older guys would put you in your place. We need people who’ll tell the youngsters that they must pull themselves together and use their music for something positive. ◗ Who are you addressing when in the intro for ‘Let
◗ ◗ Again, it’s about guns. There is a tendency in England, especially in London, to glamourise the gun situation. Everybody’s rapping about the fact that they’ve got a gun and that they’re going to shoot you, but 9 out of 10 of them have never seen, had or used a gun. I’ve held one, but they make me nervous. ◗ Most English MC’s are black. Has the fact that you’re white ever been a problem? ◗ ◗ No, never. It’s not about colour at all, but about social status. If you’re poor, you’re in with the poor crew, and then it doesn’t matter if you are Turkish, Greek, white, black, Chinese or Asian. Being from the same area is what binds you together. I myself have a poor background, and now I’m really glad about that. JAKOB HAAHR-PEDERSEN SOUNDVENUE
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Drifting away REVIEW MARIE FISKER Pavilion Junior, Sunday
★★★★★★
Camping Stage make-over Roskilde Festival’s Camping Stage has undergone a bit of a change: Welcome to Pavilion Junior – the festival within the festival – and a wealth of underground talent. It started as a beat-up flatbed truck. Then a simple stage was constructed out of wood. Today it’s a mini-festival with stalls, bars and a stage in a tent, which holds more than one thousand people. What was once known as
On fire REVIEW Pavilion Junior, Monday
★★★★★★
an audience,« says festival spokesman Esben Danielsen. The festival board hopes that the new, big space will pull in the crowds. As usual, the programme is full of names that are almost too unknown to be on the official poster, but that doesn’t matter, says Esben Danielsen. »People seem to be more open towards music that they don’t know, when it’s not competing against the bands in the main programme. Many are happy to walk a mile to hear an unknown band. They see it as a musical
siesta from life at the camp,« he says. Musicians and record company representatives agree with Esben Danielsen, and that means that Pavilion Junior has immediately become one of the most attractive venues for up-and-coming Scandinavian bands.
Happy campers The audience, too, have taken to the new look of Camping Stage: »It’s very social compared to before, because the new area is fenced off in a new way. And it’s great that
REVIEW GREEN PITCH Pavilion Junior, Monday
★★★★★★
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gig was quite promising. Norwegian hip hop trio Side Brok were humorous and entertaining. Danish J-Spliff was inspired by the tough New York rappers – it was a refreshing set. Swedish Speech Defect featured three rappers and two of Sweden’s best DJ’s, while Organiseret Riminalitet subjected the audience to some terrific rhyming arguments, and DJ Jet’s turntable set the audience on fire – the energy levels lifted the tent canvas. We’re looking forward to the larger Nordic by Nature event on Saturday.
the stage is covered, so you don’t get wet. Rain is only nice if you’re really, really goth,« says Poul Arnold from Norway. A young couple, who’re hugging each other, share his enthusiasm, but for other reasons: »The festival seems to have moved out to the camping area, and that’s so cool. It was all right, too, when it was just a stage, but this really reminds you that you’re at a festival,« says Mette Nielsen, and her boyfriend nods in agreement.
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the Camping Stage has in five years grown from being a parenthesis in the programme to being a sizeable part of the phenomenon that is Roskilde Festival. The biggest leap was taken this year, when the small stage in the camping area was turned into 10.000 square metres of festival fun and had its name changed to Pavilion Junior. »We do it to give the unknowns a stepping stone. Camping Stage is insanely popular, and it’s a terrific place for new bands to find
GREEN PITCH’S musical invitation to step inside the Pavilion Junior tent was not convincing enough to fill up the large space with people. Nevertheless, in a totally relaxed way – sitting down – the five talented musicians managed to deliver a very convincing rock and ‘americana’ set. And even though the audience could have been more fired up and enthusiastic, the delight grew in front of the stage as the set went on. Green Pitch played some very strong songs from their de-
REX GARFIELD’S tender vocals made the audience pay attention.
but album ‘Ace of Hearts’, as well as a couple of jokers. It was mainly the songs that the audience recognised, as well as Rex Garfield’s tender-
ly blessed voice together with Kristian Finne Kristensens deep vocal, that made the audience sit up and listen. Guitarplayer and song-
writer Ste Rasch played his way through four guitars and provided a lovely blue note with an abundance of musical energy. Michael Brandt’s drums were elegantly subdued, and Moogie Johnson’s lapsteel and organ completed the harmonious picture. The melancholy tone and the lazy groove were sharply broken at one crystal clear moment – the culmination of the concert – when the ‘slide’ went all the way up and carressed the high notes while Ste’s until now very subdued guitar was pulled up into total distortion. Green Pitch seemed like a band who could do anything they wanted despite the poor odds on the wide stage in broad daylight. JESPER VESTERGAARD SOUNDVENUE
MARIE FISKER is an unknown name on the Danish music scene, and this was probably why so few turned up for the concert. But there she was, Fisker, a little pale, dressed entirely in black and with her eyes closed, wrapping her listeners in a subdued, dark and intense mix of country, folk and lofi. Marie Fisker was quiet even sullen between songs, but throughout the concert her vocal and emotions were strong and enthusiastic. No drums, no bass, just Rune Kjeldsen and Marie Fisker on guitar and her vocal as the decisive trump: at once sombre, intense and absolutely present. Songs worth mentioning are ‘Little Light Lit’, ‘Close Me In’ and the final ‘Good Till Now’. Sure, Marie Fisker could be more self-assured and her contact with the audience wasn’t great when she wasn’t singing, but she more than made up for that with her music. FREDERI K WI ESE/SOUN DVENUE
Sensitivity at a snail’s pace REVIEW MIMAS Pavilion Junior, Sunday
★★★★
FROM THE window in Mimas’ practice room you can see the stars. That becomes obvious when you listen to the band, because that’s what they’re aiming for. The very serious seriousness and very sensitive sensitivity of their music are the stuff of movie epics. Unfortunately the band didn’t quite live up to their own ambitions during Sunday’s concert. Only slowly did the band shape up. Every one of the songs started very fragile and then exploded in long passages of guitar-noise. If you were listening out for tunes or variation during these passages, you listened in vain. Quiet, noisy, quiet. It was hard to hear what the lyrics were about, but the vocal messages seemed a bit pompously poetic, like something out of a schoolgirl’s diary. However, in the last 10 minutes the repetitions started to make sense. That was actually quite good, and for a while you forgot that this kind of music should never be played before sunset. N ICOLAI TORP/SOUN DVENUE
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Festival programme – film, radio, music TUESDAY, JUNE
Pavilion Junior . Jackman . Kå . Lack . Datarock . Unexploded . Ida Corr
Cinema . Shrek . Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind . Dear Wendy . Metallica – Some Kind of Monster . Pusher . Rage Against The Machine – Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium . The Machinist
WEDNESDAY, JUNE
Pavilion Junior . Metric Noise
. Brudarbandid . Johnossi . The Iskariots . Dial Zero
Cinema . Super Size Me . Coffee and Cigarettes . Infernal Affairs . Kongekabale – Danish political thriller . Sneak preview: Ambulance, Danish thriller . U Go Home, Live from Slane Castle, Ireland . Donnie Darko
THURSDAY, JUNE
MC B-Live, F.U.K.T. & D VJS . Evil Nine . Armand van Helden
Ballroom . DWI Mekar . Ska Cubano . Mory Kanté
Odeon . Athlete . Timbuktu & Damn! . Le Tigre
Orange . Ikscheltaschel . Velvet Revolver . Kent
Arena Pavilion Junior . Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung . Tom Vek . Tocotronic
Metropol . OHOI! Soundsystem feat. DJ F, Kristobal Cologne, DJ JSL, Tim Driver,
social thriller . Dear Wendy . The Machinist
. Flogging Molly . Sonic Youth . Mastodon
Cinema . Terkel i Knibe, Danish animated movie. . Hedwig and the Angry Inch . Lilja ever, Swedish
FRIDAY, JULY
Pavilion Junior . Mugison . The Be Good Tanyas . M . The Perceptionists . The Others . Death from Above . Plan B . The Mtchell Brothers . Kano . Mark One & Virus Syndicate
Metropol . Hess is More . Opto feat. Thomas Knak & Carsten Nicolai . Sylvie Marsk & Hal . Ata . Captain Comatose . Warren Suicide . Craig Richards
. Two Lone Swordsmen . Craig Richards . Autechre . John Digweed
Ballroom . Mahala Rai Banda . Warsaw Village Band . Radio Mundial . Tinariwen . Tiken Jah Fakoly . Femi Kuti & The Positive Force . The Spam Allstars
Odeon . The Ponys . Enslaved . Sunn O))) . Isis . The Dears . Other Sides of Sonic Youth . Beatsteaks . Maldoror
Orange Stage . Snoop Dogg . Audioslave . Black Sabbath
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Arena . The Haunted . Ali Farka Touré feat. Toumani Diabaté . Håkan Hellström . The Tears . Junior Senior . Mew
Cinema . Shrek . Big Fish . Super Size Me . Donnie Darko . House of Flying Daggers . Infernal Affairs
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During Warm up: open from Noon until Midnight • During Festival: open until 04.00 Dear Friends, Gringo bar is open at Pavilion Junior. We are so happy to see you again after such a long winter in the Caribbean! Do we need to tell you how hard we worked on blending (and testing!) the best drinks for you? Do you need to find out if we did a good job? - We believe so! And we have 15 drinks on our menu. Many of the drinks are with a reputation reaching far beyond the fences of Roskilde festival.
We have sweet drinks for sweet you! Hot ones for the Macho inside you! Warm ones for heating you up! Glamorous ones because you deserve it! Sour ones – well we only have a few!
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EASY PEASY You’ve just made a new best friend or found the love of your life at Roskilde. How do you explain to them how to get to your tent? And what do you do, when someone tells you to meet them at Gate at . and you haven’t got a clue where that is? You pull out your festival map of course! Don’t lose it – we won’t reprint it until next year.
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METAL WITH A TWIST A new kind of heavy metal conquers Roskilde this year. Don’t miss Mastodon, Isis and Sunn O))). IF YOU LOOK at the heavy end of this year’s festival programme, the most interesting names are not Black Sabbath, Mercenary or Audioslave. Right there – in the middle of what is really a rather meagre supply of metal – you’ll find three American bands, which are at the absolute forefront of extreme music. Three bands which – apart from having odd names – are well on their way to break down the walls of metal and pave an entirely new way.
Mastodon Mastodon’s concert at the festival will actually be the band’s third in Denmark in less than one year, and if you’re still not familiar with this Atlanta band it’s about time you opened your eyes and got going. With its penchant for the early Metallica, death metal, progressive 70s rock and psychedelic post-hardcore, Mastodon has managed to create an eclectic, sparkling and extremely effective mishmash of rock and metal from the last 30 years. On their latest album, ‘Leviathan’ from 2004, the band looked even further into the past for inspiration. All the way back to 1851 actually – the year ‘Moby Dick’, Herman
Melville’s classical tale of Captain Ahab and his frantic search for the big white whale, was written. And though the idea of fully grown men with tattoos singing about fish, mermaids and life at sea may sound a bit odd, it does make a lot of sense – both live and recorded. The music rocks and rolls and Mastodon succeeds in creating the illusion that you're right there – at sea, aboard Captain Ahab’s ship, The Pequod. »It’s much easier to hear it now, when we play the songs live,« says Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher. »When we play something like ‘Iron Tusk’ and see the audience move like some kind of wave, it feels like being on a ship. It’s almost a kind of pirate music or song of the sea.« So unless you suffer badly from seasickness, grab your harpoon, get a patch on your eye and get lost in the virtuous Mastodon storm which is heading towards the Arena. ➔ Mastodon, Thursday at ., Arena
Sunn O))) Apart from having the most bizarre name of all the bands at the festival, Sunn O))) will probably also provide festival guests with one of this week’s most extreme concert performances. The-
MEETING ISIS is an almost religious experience, and not only metal heads will enjoy their live performance.
re will no doubt be more than one who’ll shake his or her head in disbelief while mumbling ‘this is not music’ after having accidentally strayed into the cowl-clad Americans’ display of extreme ‘sound wave architecture’. Because when it all comes down that is what Sunn O))) does. The band’s purpose is to make a sound universe with so many deep frequencies that the bowels of the listener instinctively give up and make you run to the nearest bathroom. No drums, no energy – only
cosmically resonant drones, trance-inducing blocks carved in crammed sound. So make sure you visit the bathroom before the concert. Just to be on the safe side. ➔ Sunn O))), Friday at ., Odeon
Isis It only seems fitting that a band which has named itself after the Egyptian goddess of religious mystery provides such a powerful, almost religious feeling to anyone who hears it live. On three albums, the band has developed and refined a
unique mix of grandiose epic soundscapes, quaint post-rocky melodies and stomach turning and brutal monster riffs and turned it into a universe, which can go from being light as snowflakes to being the sublime cacophony of worlds being created. The music of Isis takes you on a psychedelic journey through long-forgotten worlds, and it creates a sensuous musical experience that takes over your entire body. It can be awfully heavy at times, but it’s still damned beautiful. And
M USICAL M ENSA CAN DI DATE Mike Patton comes to Roskilde with all of four different projects IF IT WERE possible to measure musical genius as straightforwardly as you measure intelligence, Mike Patton would easily be a musical Mensa candidate. On the other hand he would probably not be interested in sharing a civilised pot of tea whilst discussing choral harmonies with the rest of the initiates. The eccentric singer and musical magician has always gone his own way and in the most unlikely directions. So far his career has lasted for 15 years and resul-
ted in well over 20 albums, and in the meantime the 37-year-old workaholic has gone from alternative underground in Faith No More to his present status as avantgarde alchymist and underground prophet with his own label. This year Roskilde has scooped four of Mike Patton’s projects, and since the musical talents of the man are so varied, those four projects almost comprise a mini-festival. Headlining is Mike Patton’s all star avantgarde band Fantômas, in which you’ll find, amongst others,
Buzz Osborne from The Melvins. Fantômas made people sit up and take notice with their album ‘The Director’s Cut’ from 2001, on which old film music was reorchestrated, emerging at the other end almost unrecognisable. Another project has Mike Patton and Masami Akita (Merzbow) as the band Maldoror challenging the listeners with hardcore noise, whilst Patton offers blue cabaret cinema atmosphere with Norwegian John Erik Kaada, and gives a masterclass in vocal equilibrism with Rahzel, who’s known
as the world’s best human beatbox. So bring along your musical survival kit and let Captain Patton steer your festival ship – entertainment guaranteed. KRISTIAN SCHOU SOUNDVENUE
MIKE PATTON at Roskilde: •Friday at 2 (at night) at the Odeon (with Maldoror) •Saturday at 16 at the Arena (with Fantômas) •Saturday at 23 at the Odeon (with Rahzel) •Sunday at 20 at the Pavilion (with Kaada)
even though so far, mostly metal fans have discovered Isis, the band’s amazing live performance will ensure that people who enjoy Mogwai, Sigur Rós, Tortoise and Bloody Valentine could get hooked on religion as well. ➔ Isis, Friday at , Odeon KRISTIAN SCHOU/SOUNDVENUE
LISTEN AT HOME Mastodon: ‘Leviathan’ () Isis: ‘Panopticon’ () Sunn O))): ‘Flight of the Behemoth’ ()