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The Festival site opens today: Show the orange colour and support the fight against violations of human rights

Music

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Music moves all the time Creating the music programme is a balancing act, say chief booker, Rikke Øxner

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THE EXPLODING VILLAGE: YOU CREATE THE EXPLOSION

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A trashy parade Viva la Renovation turns garbage collection into a party.

ROSKILDE FOR ROOKIES

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Four questions to Roskilde festivals spokesman, Esben Danielsen.

Wear an orange cap, T-shirt and trousers and show your criticism of China’s careless dealings with human rights.

Roskilde Festival encourages the festival-goers to assume a political attitude when everyone pitch into the Festival Site today. But wait… isn’t Roskilde about rock music and not politics?

We asked the spokesman of the Festival.

Show the orange colour When the gates to the festival site opens today at 5 pm, all festival goers are encouraged to manifest a critique of China’s violations of human rights.

“Roskilde Festival is not just about music. The festival has the attitude that people should be treated with respect, and this is our firm opinion,” Bodil Nielsen, co-ordinator of Roskilde Festival’s entertainment activities, says.

Consequently, when the festival goers rush in and cross the virgin grass of the Festival Site as usual, everybody is encouraged to wear something orange. The orange colour is meant to symbolize the critique given of the Chinese violations of human rights. This opening event will be a part of artist Jens Galschiøt’s campaign “Colour Orange”. As a result of the restrictions on freedom of expression around the Olympic Games in China in 2008, Galschiøt has chosen to use the colour orange as a symbol instead of his traditional sculptures.

Bodil Nielsen makes it clear that the music is most important.

“Though the music has the highest priority, we also want our volunteers and the audience to reflect on the fact that every human being

in the world should be able to live under fair conditions.” Therefore the scene is set for the festival goers to show the orange colour in concerted action.

An entertaining reception Creatively dressed event makers will direct the audience to the gates before the opening of the site. After the opening more happenings await at the festival site.

“It’s a bit complicated.

We don’t want to reveal the whole thing, but on the other hand we want to give the audience a bit of information on what’s going to happen,” Bodil Nielsen explains. She encourages the audience to do two things: “We would like all festival guests to first of all wear something orange and next split up between the gates 7, 8, 9 and 10”.

According to Bodil Nielsen, you will be welcomed by love, solidarity, high spirits and a feeling of fellowship when her creative troops await you at the Festival Site tomorrow. The climax will be at 5 pm.

Quiet moments before the storm

Roskilde Pavilion 18.30: Choir of Young Believers 20.30: Pilgrimz 22.30: Säkert!

Roskilde Cosmopol 17.30: Dee Pee 18.45: Orishas 20.45: Lupe Fiasco 22.30: Lady Saw Resident DJ: Master Fatman Roskilde Astoria 18.00: Dengue Fever 20.00: The Dø 22.00: Valravn Roskilde Odeon 17.30: Clutch 19.30: MGMT 21.30: Gossip Orange Scene 18.30: Teitur 22.00: Radiohead Roskilde Arena 18.00: Duffy 20.30: Bullet For My Valentine 22.30: The Hellacopters Roskilde Lounge 17.00: DJ Badboe 20.00: Seahorse Transform 21.00: August

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What are you looking forward to the most – Radiohead or China’s reaction on Roskilde’s statement?

“I don’t think that China is going to notice it, so it has to be Radiohead.”

Julie Bang Henriksen Translation: Minna Julie Kolte

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Julie Bang Henriksen Translation: Lea Enslev

But Roskilde is a rock festival, and people come for the music. Why mix China, international politics and human rights into it?

“Because Roskilde is also about those things. Music is a reaction to society, and art reflects society. The happening is a side activity, but it is very important anyway. We simply live in a world where disrespect of human rights is not allowed.”

What are you going to wear yourself?

“Orange clothing. I have no orange trousers, so if anybody has a pair, I would love to hear from them.”

Stages

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Why should people wear orange clothes at the opening of the Festival Site?

“Because we want to create a fun and spectacular happening. The orange colour is something special for Roskilde Festival. And now that focus has been put on Tibet with the Orange Colour campaign, by making all athletes wear orange over there, we thought it was an obvious issue to support.

We are also focusing on fair conditions and respect for human rights.”

You can save energy by cutting off electricity – that’s simple. But as Roskilde Orange Stage requires bright lights at its maximum, an alternative is to use LED technology such as lightemitting diodes, which are extremely energy-saving compared to regular bulbs. Thus Roskilde Festival has now invested in energy-saving equipment for all its stages, and also Radiohead uses LED technology in their special low-energy stage show.

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What are you wearing, Esben?

Power control

10.00: The Simpsons Movie 12.30: Roskilde 15.00: There Will Be Blood 22.30: Eye for Eye 01:00: Planet Terror By the fishing lake near the camping site a fisherman enjoys a peaceful moment. But it is the silence before the storm. Today at 5 p.m. the gates to the Festival Site are opened. Now the music festival can finally begin.

Orange Press is written, photographed and edited by the festival media office Publisher Roskilde Festival, Havsteensvej 11, 4000 Roskilde Editor-in-chief Esben Danielsen Editors Thomas Lenler Olesen, Bine Iversen og Otto Lerche Layout www.fingerprint.dk E-mail orangepress@roskilde-festival.dk

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Did you know...

That up to 97 % of the plastic cups sold in the beers stalls at Roskilde Festival are returned to the refund stalls. Remember that you can also donate your bottles to the humanitarian refund collectors and support children in DR Congo.

PHOTO: KRISTOFFER JUEL POULSEN

Every time someone hits the tanks, they glow and change colour, Schack Lindemann says.

The exploding village The tower is 12 meters tall and built in metal.

You create the explosion Hissing and sputting. The tower sends off a flaming gas cloud towards the sky as if it was a warning of Doomsday. We’re at Explosion Village, and it is you who creates the explosion.

The tower is situated between three great white tents, 12 meters tall and built in metal. It looks like a mixture between the Eiffel Tower and something from Lucky Luke’s Wild West.

With loose hand 25 white water tanks are spread out in the green landscape surrounding tents and tower.

Explosive and interactive Schack Lindemann, member of the art group Halfmachine, has helped in constructing the Village.

“One thing that always happens during this festival is that people drum on containers and such things.

This is why we put the tanks here and every time someone hits them, they glow and change colour,” he says When the audience play, the sounds are retained by microphones in the tanks.

Computer algorithms analyse the sounds – and when the intensity and rhythm reach a certain point a light

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It looks like a mixture between the Eiffel Tower and something from Lucky Luke’s wild west

turns on in the tower and then: Explosion!

“The starting point is a metaphor for ‘the original village’. A metaphor for the old, old days when people met to tell stories and sing and sat around the fire in the village centre. Explosion Village is a Halfmachine version with the tower representing the fire,” says Schack.

The exploding village is a fantastic mixture of hiand low-tech that function together. Next to drumming and roaring fireballs, you can visit the three tents and enjoy one of the three dream machines which bring you into a meditative condition.

Dreaming machines In the three white tents in Explosion Village, there are

different interpretations of dream machines. The original dream machine is a cylinder with holes on the sides which is fi xed to a record player. Inside the cylinder is a light source.

When the cylinder moves, it creates a light frequency as the alpha-waves that exist in the human brain in relaxed condition.

The dream machine functions best when you close the eyes and let the light frequencies create pictures behind the closed eyelids. The initiators of the machines are the art groups Halfmachine and 8bitklubben.

You can find the Explosion Village inside the Festival Site after the gates have opened at 17.00.

LINDA HANSEN TRANSLATION: IDA MARI DREIJER

Roskilde Folk High School is opening soon! Visit the YourSpace area, and tell us what you think, will make the school exciting - among the best suggestions we will draw a winner of two tickets for Roskilde Festival 2009!

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Orange Press is Roskilde Festivals brand new paper. This International Edition is the first version in English. Tomorrow you can find reviews of todays concerts and read more stories from life at Roskilde. The paper is also published in Danish. You can always contact us by e-mail at orangepress@roskilde-festival.dk.

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RF08 ON YOUR MOBILE:

SMS “ROCKFEST” TO 1231 (or go to roskilde.lbi.dk if you’re not from DK) polls,

votes,

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Is your mobile phone fair?

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Your phone might be a cause of corruption, child labour and civil wars in Africa. But through text messages and bottle refund we can change the future. The method is called Fair Phone – Fair Future.

When you buy a banana or a bag of coffee in a supermarket, you can check where it is produced and even look for labels saying ‘organic’ or ‘fair trade’.

Why is it different outside the food section? This is what the humanitarian focus of this year’s Roskilde Festival is all about.

“Behind the plastic deck of your mobile phone, you can probably find a lithium-ion battery which might have been produced in China from the mineral cobalt.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has plenty of cobalt, and exports a lot of this to

Asia. The problem is that the inhabitants of Congo don’t get much money from this transaction, and that they use child labour for their mining industry,” says Louise Hansen, who is the coordinator of the Fair Phone - Fair Future campaign.

Fair phones This campaign critically scrutinizes your mobile phone and investigates new areas for fair trade. In May, DanWatch, a watchdog organisation that supervises companies, presented a report describing the circumstances under which cobalt is mined in DR Congo. The

report states that corruption and child labour is everyday business in the first part of the production chain leading to the major international phone companies.

The report from DanWatch forms the basis of the Fair Phone Fair Future campaign which aims to put pressure on the phone companies to change their policies, provide a better working environment and pay a fair price to the people of DR Congo.

This year, the profit from the bottle refund collection will be donated to clearing

landmines in DR Congo.

Apart from donating your bottles to one of the 700 bottle collectors wearing turquoise vests, you can also contribute by signing the partition ‘Text for Change’ which will be presented to the major phone companies.

NIELS KROGH SØNDERGAARD TRANSLATION: METTE DAHL

Roskilde Festival’s humanitarian focus This year humantohuman focuses on mobile phones in the campaign Fair Phone Fair Future.

You can contribute by donating your bottles to the collectors wearing turquoise vests. Last year’s collection amounted to 650.000 DKK worth of bottle deposit. This money was donated to agricultural communities led by women in Malawi. humantohuman is the name of the collaboration between Roskilde Festival and Danish charity organisation DanChurch Aid. You can also sign the SMS petition ‘Text for Change’ which will be presented to major international phone companies. Sign the petition by sending a text message with the word “fair” to (+45) 25646464.

Your cell phone contains minerals from DR Congo. Congolese mining practices are unfair and dangerous, and the extraction of minerals does not benefit the Congolese people.

Make cell phone companies take action – now!

Text ‘FAIR’ to (+45) 25646464* and support the demand for fair mining practices in DR Congo.

Well, we can’t compete with the music...

Opening hours: Sunday - Thursday: 10am - 11pm Friday - Saturday: 10am - 12pm Københavnsvej 118 4000 Roskilde

* To sign the petition, you will receive text messages and you must access the campaign wap site. Data communication between your device and the wap site is billed according to your contract with your carrier. This service is non-refundable. Standard international text messaging rates apply.

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For every garbage bag you hand in, you get an ice-cold Tuborg beer in exchange and a lot in the draw of a ticket to Roskilde Festival 2009. The garbage collection competition will start today at noon at Agora E. If you want to join, you need to fill the handed-out red garbage bags and turn them in at our spot at Agora E. Look towards the big Tuborg umbrella.

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Join Less Trash More Music

Roskilde for rookies If this is your first Roskilde Festival, the huge supply of experiences and the incredibly agile music programme can seem almost chaotic. Here is a short guide which will get you into all the nooks and crannies of the festival experience in the next four days.

BY SOUNDVENUE TRANSLATION: ANNE HERNGAARD AND LEA ENSLEV

Thursday Now you have had four festive days to settle in Denmark’s wildest camping area, dig down the beers, meet the neighbours, dig up the beers, get wasted and party from early morning to early morning. Hopefully you have also visited Pavilion Junior, Roskilde Skate, the icing rink, swimming lake and the many other opportunities that the warm-up days have offered. But in fact, it is not until this day that the real party begins.

And if you are a festival rookie you have something coming. Roskilde Festival has an almost aggressively versatile programme and it is a matter of getting into all nooks and crannies in order to get the full experience.

Opens at 5 When the gates to the Festival site are opened today at 5pm, the most eager people sprint to Orange Stage but really, you are not actually in a rush as there is usually plenty of space for the first concert on Roskilde Festival’s biggest stage.

So before the sensitive Faroese Teitur strikes the first chords on his acoustic guitar, you can either inaugurate Roskilde Odeon in company with the heavy and hard-rocking Americans in Clutch or initiate Roskilde Arena with the soulful English shooting star Duffy.

Now you should be on the go and ready to capture one of the hottest names

Friday this spring, the New Yorker duo MGMT on Odeon and bawl along to their irresistible hit ‘Time to Pretend’ or simply enjoy their hippie-like 70’s spirit.

Perhaps remember to grab a snack in the stands around the stages, so you won’t get exhausted too early. Afterwards Roskilde Cosmopol offers the American rapper Lupe Fiasco in laidback, soul inspired style. After having been rubbed the right way for a couple of hours, you can – in eclectic Roskilde spirit – be rubbed the ‘wrong’ way if you seek back to Odeon, where Beth Ditto heads the discopunk-outfit Gossip. Here people will probably sweat a couple of litres, strip some of their clothes and show off a couple of love handles. At any rate, the party is guaranteed.

Radiohead is the highlight The highlight of the opening night must without a doubt be Radiohead, who take OrangeSstage with an awe-inspiring discography and a fierce stage show. Thom Yorke and Co. may not deliver a party as such, but they will drag around your feelings and mess with your sense of perception. Expect something huge.

Today the music ends early in the evening, but if you lust for more, you can end the night with some dirty Swedish rock’n’roll with The Hellacopters on Arena or some dirty Jamaican dancehall with Lady Saw on Cosmopol.

Tomorrow you can – after the mandatory brunch consisting of either organic breakfast from a stand or two lukewarm beers – start the day at Roskilde Lounge with a literary hypnosis by Lars Bukdahl.

Just to get an easy start of the day and secure that the brain cells still function.

Afterwards you can cruise some stands or perhaps go by the Roskillz Final on Cosmopol where young, hopeful rappers are battling for future fame’n’fortune. In the afternoon you can choose between Odeon with the unpredictable Icelandic Mugison, who can deliver everything from electronic spasms and native bluesrock, and Arena with Band of Horses, who can start beating hearts and community singing from their fragile but grandiose collection of songs.

Later CeeLo’s enormous soul vocal will, backed up

by Danger Mouse beats, try to fill out the area in front of Orange when they go on stage as Gnarls Barkley with a sensible portion of hits in the baggage. Afterwards you can choose between two solid rock doses with electro-flavour on Arena by Veto and Southern-flavour on Orange by Kings of Leon.

New wave, hip hop and pop-hooks Then you can camp by Cosmopol for some alternative pop of high calibre.

First, American Santogold and her fascinating mixture of new wave, hip hop and pop-hooks and then Swedish Robyn who has reinvented herself and enjoys huge success in the US. If you feel too good for a happy pop concert, you can choose the hippie-quirky Casady sisters in CocoRosie on Odeon instead or raw rock with the dark Nick Cave and his friends in Grinderman at Orange.

Darkness has then descended and the wish to step up the party one gear is usually dominating the concert area.

You can get to a downright Ibiza party with Fedde Le Grand at the luscious Astoria stage, where platforms along the edges create a circus-like feeling and atmosphere. Or you can hook on to Battles on Odeon that guarantees a completely different experience with two sets of drums and an awkward ability to turn the meeting between math-rock, postrock and distorted voices into a party.

The Streets shuts down Orange stage and Mike Skinner usually has the audience in the palm of his hand. Last time he visited Roskilde

he got a packed Arena stage to sit down on his command. Before you wander on to the camping area in the final stage of the party night, you can appropriately dance by either some Swedish electro pop with Familjen or London’ish DJ coolness with The Count & Sinden on Pavilion and Astoria respectively.

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In spite of all the rain, mud, cold feed and some heavy bills to the organisers for re-establishing the festival site after Roskilde ’07, things didn’t turn out that bad. A profit of 4.7 milion DKK (approx. 650.000 euro) was donated to humanitarian purposes after the mud had dried.

Reformed British noise rockers My Bloody Valentine seems to be in great shape. At a concert in London two weeks ago, the sound level was so loud that UK newspaper The Guardian’s reviewer experienced her body shaking in tune with the music.

If you’re into noise, that’s promising!

PHOTO: JAKOB SØFELDE-HANSEN

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5 TIPS FOR GREAT CONCERT EXPERIENCES! 1

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If great sound is high on the list, find your way to the tent just in front of the sound crew’s ‘box’.

It doesn’t get much better than this.

Use the toilets before your favourite

concert. It is not cool to have to give up a good spot due to a filled bladder.

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Avoid hopelessly drunk audiences with opened boxes of wine in stretched arms. Red wine will

stain your clothes, and drunken singing may not be the only thing which will pop out of the audience’s mouths.

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Remember ear plugs – also when you’re drunk. It is just not

Saturday On Saturday, we recommend you to begin the day at a leisurely pace once again. Drink some juice, have a snack, hopefully squint your eyes against the sun and then stroll to the Arena stage around noon. Here an experience which will catch you off guard awaits you. One of those experiences which Roskilde Festival is really good at spicing up the programme with. Nothing short of Tivolis Symfoniorkester will get dressed in

their best suits to serve you some Sjostakovitj and Stravinskij to the spoiled festival guests, and they promise just as much power and tempo as at the party the night before.

More soul searching Next you can choose between two completely different duos each consisting of a man and a woman. For one the Swedish Wildbirds & Peacedrums at the Astoria stage, who will provide you with offbeat folk in vocals and percussion, or British duo The Ting Tings at Odeon, who excels in efficient indie pop fit for dancing. If you feel like doing some more soul searching, keep hanging around Odeon after the British duo and wait for José González and his acoustic guitar which usually is a guarantee for intense, beautiful moments with the audience in complete silence in respect for his music.

Next another intense performance can be expected from the offbeat Danish acid folk collective Efterklang at the Astoria Stage.

that cool with your ears buzzing for the rest of the summer.

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will find exceptional atmosphere and amount of space.

If you want to enjoy the big concerts on close hand, go to the secluded area early.

It is worth the wait, because here you

Sunday Legendary leatherdressed rockers Spare no more time indoors – now it’s time to go outside under the blue sky and join the community singing and sense the fellow-feeling which has always been a cornerstone at Denmark’s biggest festival. At the Orange Stage, our leading national hiphop ‘dog’ L.O.C. will, with huge markers highlight the fact that the genre is no longer a minor niche, and this will with certainty be done with a lot of show. Afterwards it is time for the nearly legendary leatherdressed rockers from Judas Priest who plan to place a stud-covered boot in your crotch.

Subsequently, the evening offers two of the festival’s grand pioneers. Unfortunately will the re-emerged shoegaze pioneers My Bloody Valentine at Arena overlap the always amazing Neil Young at Orange Stage, so you will have to do some running back and forth – but make sure not to miss any of these icons.

Once again it is time for partying. You may choose between a mash-up from the archives of the history of pop at the one-man army Girl Talk at Odeon, allout collective party with The Chemical Brothers at Orange Stage or spices from Balkan at Astoria with Dunkelblunt and Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar.

As your last stop we recommend you to creep into the darkness at Cosmopol and let the heavy bass massage your body when the greatest English heroes of the dubstep genre, Magnetic Man feat.

Skream & Benga and Shackleton, are on stage.

On the last day of Roskilde Festival, it is all about releasing the rest of the energy from your body and the last money in your wallet. If the latter already happened a long time ago, you have to collect empty bottles and plastic cups before the first concert of the day. The chance of waking up late is probably pretty significant, but if you happen to find yourself at the concert area early in the afternoon, Danish Isam B, Tina Dickow and Tone are ready to supply you with gentle notes.

Heavy kick in the ass Once you have started, you are probably prepared for a heavy kick in the ass

by Slayer, who is ready at Orange Stage with worldclass thrash-metal.

Your neck muscles will definitely be put to the test, and some peace and balance may be necessary afterwards.

Here the following artists will come to your rescue. The velvet smooth voice

of the mysterious Cat Power playing at Odeon, Danish Lulu Rouge and their soft electronica at Astoria or the charismatic Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy with his guitar and fragile elegies which will be played at Odeon as well.

On the other hand if you feel like wrapping up the festival with something wired, a pit stop at Orange Stage is required, where the re-emerged Bob Hund serves you with overwhelmingly charming and energetic indie rock with offbeat lyrics from Sweden. And next the notorious Jay Reatard will be ready at Pavilion with his one-man punk show.

The heavy assignment Other than this beats and electronica will have the last say at this year’s Roskilde Festival. The American rap giant Jay-Z has been honoured with the heavy assignment of closing Orange Stage with his soul-filled hiphop, the complete band and stories about a “Hard Knock Life”.

In keeping with tradition it is Arena that gathers the wildest and most insisting party animals at the absolutely last party underneath the enormous canvas. And a line-up of grains of gold has truly been saved until the very end. English Hot Chip begins with their dancefriendly, ultra-dynamic, electronic geek-pop in the usual set-up: side by side next to their many keyboards. Afterwards German Digitalism takes over with a hybrid of heavy house/rock which will not allow you to stand still.

And finally the wacky American Dan Deacon will round off with almost chaotic toy-electro pop and a multimedia show, known for making people strip, scream and shake. A worthy ending on an impressive and extensive festival programme.

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Nudity at Roskilde

Jay-Z plays Oasis-cover

MGMT has proclaimed that it is weird to perform naked.

Therefore we are waiting in great expectation to see if the band will undress today at 7:30 p.m. at Odeon. Hopefully Duffy, who plays at 6 p.m. at Arena, will not drop by. Recently she requested no nudity at her concerts.

When it was published that Jay-Z was main act at the English Glastonbury-festival, Oasis leader Noel Gallagher said that he found the booking improper. The rapper answered this critical remark by opening his concert with a cover version of the Oasis mega-hit ’Wonderwall’.

“Music

all the time”

Choosing music for the Roskilde Festival is a balancing act between new and old, successful bands, and experiments, says chief music booker Rikke Øxner

These words come from 43-year old Rikke Øxner. She is Head of the music booking office at Roskilde Festival, and she is not talking about wedding dresses or traditions. What she is talking about is the creation and planning of the perfect music program for the festival – a job which Rikke has had her hands deeply buried in since 1995. Together with the rest of the festival’s music group she has chosen the almost 200 artists you can, from today, experience performing on the festival stages.

A little about the various elements The choice has, as always, been hard. There is a fight for every little slot on the program, and the finished festival poster is always an expression of the balancing act. On one hand the public’s wishes, demands and expectations should be granted, and on the other hand the festival must show the variety in music, always be broad in its approach, be inquisitive, challenging, seeking new borders.

“We must, of course, be able to supply the big names and legends who must be there to sell tickets. At the same time, we must seek new talent. We

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If you picture Roskilde as a sound mixing centre, the buttons and slides must never just remain stationary from year to year.

Rikke Øxner

must find and provide space for tendencies that are not experienced at other venues”, says Rikke.

Spotting the newest of the new Even though it sounds reasonably simple, the combination of the final festival programme is a massive piece of work. Throughout the year, a booking group of employees and volunteers are busy following music trends.

“Music moves all the time, so even though our goal is the same each year, it’s always a challenge to find the balance and to spot what’s new and exciting,” says the head of music.

Throughout the year, Rikke and her colleagues listen to tons of music and attend many concerts, meetings and conferences. Present times, musical tendencies, types and directions must be spotted, and with this backcloth the booking group

must decide who is to be hired this year.

While the bookings for last year were concentrated around the new-rave generation with bands such as the Klaxons, this year more space has been dedicated to the urban scene with everything from African hip hop to German dancehall.

“If you picture Roskilde as a sound mixing centre, the buttons and slides must never just remain stationary from year to year. They must be adjusted continually, so we never stop being inquisitive,” explains Rikke.

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“Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.”

Public’s wishes The public’s wishes and emails also contribute to the final program.

“We would really like to have the public’s wishes to fill out the program,” says Rikke, who says that many of the names requested through the year end up on the final poster.

Particularly the big names, who have experienced much media attention, are high on the public’s wish list.

“In this way, the public contribute a feeling of whether it is time to get Judas Priest or Neil Young back on the program,” she says.

When the chance was there, the music group were not in any doubt about booking Radiohead for this year’s festival.

A multi level mixture Rikke Øxner thinks herself that the music-mission has been completed to the fullest this year.

“When I look at the poster, I really think that we have managed to mix at multi level,” she says.

“I think it’s a strength to have different music styles like Gnarls Barclay and Judas Priest as headliners on the same poster,” says Rikke.”And it’s fantastic, that both acts can be found in the space of a few days in a field.”

Kerstin Bruun Hansen Translation: Tim Lawson

Who is Rikke Øxner?

• Rikke Øxner has been chief booker since 2002,

when she took the position following former festival manager, Leif Skov.

• Rikke was at Roskilde the first time in 1984 where she fell hopelessly in love, and she has only missed a single festival since then.

• The first time she stood in front of Orange Stage

she still remembers as one of the biggest experiences.

• Rikke says she works quite a lot and therefore

rarely listens to any music at the festival. If there is time this year, she’ll likely to hear Solomon Burke or the Dillinger Escape Plan.

photo: Thorbjørn Hansen Rockphoto

Stage Check Name: Orange Scene What: Orange Stage is Roskilde Festival’s main stage and one of Europe’s biggest venues. The orange construction is the festival’s trademark and has been so since 1979. Back then it was called the Canopy Stage. This is the venue for the headliners and many classic Roskilde ‘moments’ has happened here. All in all, 700 volunteers work here, and the area on front of the stage houses about 60.000 guests.

Where: You can’t miss it, even not in the most drunken haze. Just follow the sound!

Who: Radiohead, Neil Young, Judas Priest, Jay-Z, Teitur and more.

Trivia: This year Orange Stage celebrates its 30th anniversary at Roskilde Festival.

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Gnarls Barkley in concert form

Missing Radiohead?

When Gnarls Barkley visited the London concert venue ’229’ last week, The Independent-reviewer Nick Hasted described the band as “the 21st century’s hideout in a world that Otis Redding knows.” So the American duet should be in super, soul-melancholic form before their concert on Friday 5 p.m. at Orange Stage.

If you were to miss Radiohead’s concert on Thursday 10 p.m. on Orange Stage, do not despair! The Englishmen have just released a digital live album with 10 songs from last year’s ’In Rainbows’, which can be downloaded from iTunes now, so one you enjoy the band ’live’ at home.

Roskilde Lounge – the stage for horizontal music When the hangovers crop up, you can find shelter and relaxation at Roskilde Lounge.

As a new feature this year, there will be public readings of literature.

Vivid literature and music from the living room and poets. Amongst others you can experience Peter Laugesen, T.S. Høeg and Klaus Lynggaard who will be reading aloud while Jens Blendstrup and Lars Bukdahl will perform Literary Hypnosis. DJ’s and live bands will handle the music. Experience a true Northern soul atmosphere with Soulclub DJ Team, Dub Tractor & Opiates clicking electronica and soothing and laidback notes from Stella Polaris Sound System. At the same time you

At this year’s festival, Roskilde Lounge will be turned into a living room size XXL. 21 large chandeliers have been rented, huge couches have been built, the floor has been carpeted and LEDlight screens have been put up on the walls. And it is still possible to get beach sand between your toes.

As a living bookcase in your living room, you can take writers down from the shelves, because this year Roskilde Lounge gathers Denmark’s best authors

Music and the perfect listening position are two different things.

You dance best to The Chemical Brothers standing up, and it is more or less against the nature of music to listen to Judas Priest’s ‘Breaking the Law’ while sitting on a couch sipping coffee and eating a piece of cake.

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A feeling of sitting at home on a Sunday morning wearing nothing but your underwear.

Mikael Palner

At one of the stages it is worth your while to lie on your back. Since 2003, Roskilde Lounge has been an established part of Roskilde Festival, where it has worked as a much needed break

with soft rhythms and the opportunity to build sand castles in the thick layer of beach sand. Here you don’t have to shout to get the at-

stage after last year’s festival, it was, according to Niels Træden, obvious to implement this branch of literature and show under one roof. And in brand new settings, because this year Roskilde Lounge has turned into an oversized living room with huge furniture and chandeliers to create the right kind of cosy and laidback atmosphere.

tention of the person next to you.

And in spite of the fact that it is the smallest stage of the festival, it has grown bigger and bigger.

Oversized living room This year’s program includes some of Denmark’s best authors and poets. Every morning from Friday to Sunday, they will read aloud until the music starts.

“It’s a way of saying good morning to the audience,” says Niels Træden, who books artists for Roskilde Lounge. When Spoken Word closed as a self-contained

Last year’s collective rain dance.

It’s about making the audience feel at home, Mikael Palner believes. He has been a ‘resident DJ’ for the

past two years and is currently head of production at Roskilde Lounge.

According to Mikael, Roskilde Lounge should give you “a feeling of sitting at home on a Sunday morning wearing nothing but your underwear.”

Last year the festivities went out of control in Roskilde Lounge. During the unstable weather, a crowd of dancing people came in to seek shelter from the rain, and in a few cases there were so many people that it became necessary to reject guests waiting outside.

There is one incident in

can experience both Jomi Massage and Boom Clap Bachelors in unusual, intimate versions arranged particularly for this occasion. The musical red thread of the programme will be held together by resident DJ, Baunbaun.

Roskilde Lounge is situated in a covered hall between The Oval and Arena.

particular that Mikael Palner will not forget.

“I was playing for 50-100 people at a point when it did not rain. Then suddenly it came pouring down, and in a matter of seconds, the floor was completely packed with about 1.000 people in wet clothes. It was like being in a steam room. This year the living room decoration will make for a more relaxing atmosphere”, Mikael Palner says.

Jakob Bagterp Translation: Maria Lillegaard Hansen

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Stage Check Name: Roskilde Lounge Name: Roskilde Lounge What: Roskilde Lounge is the smallest stage at the festival. Chill-out DJs, sound systems and storytellers create the relaxed atmosphere along with the comfortable furniture, designed to sprawl on, or the floor which is covered by sand. Roskilde Lounge is an indoor alternative to the other stages, where your ears can have a break, your curious eyes can be satisfied and your thirst can be quenched.

Where: Roskilde Lounge can be found in the stall inside The Oval east from the Orange Stage.

Who: Opiate, Canon Blue, Jomi Massage, Boom Clap Bachelor and Kunkelbunt among others.

Trivia: Roskilde Lounge (which, just like Astoria, has become a non-smoking area) is decorated as a super-sized living room. Be prepared for chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, enormous sofas and a huge flat screen TV.

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Newbe, what's an Agora?

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At all stalls you can pay with DKK, NOK, SEK, EUR, GBP and USD, and many stalls accept payment via credit cards. Change is only given in Danish kroner. All rates of exchange follow the Bank of Denmark. At the supermarket at Service Center East you can only pay with a credit card.

Photo: Sanne Vinter

The money issue

Agoras are small squares located around the camping area. At each agora you find a free luggage storage, toilets and a cooking area. Each agora has its own name and identity, marked through decoration, activities and events. Now that the warmup period has ended, the activities at several agoras continue throughout the last four festival days at ”a reduced pace"

Chaos creates love The festival site is the real Second Life. A place for people to meet.

“We are to function as enzymes for the festival guests, initiating something for them. We will give them a possibility to develop.”

These words come from the architect behind Roskilde Festival, Jes Vagnby. He is responsible for the physical and aesthetical planning and sits in a piece of furniture which he has designed for this year’s festival.

“The purpose of this piece of furniture is to make people meet,” Jes Vagnby says.

“That meeting is the core part of the creation of the Festival Site.”

The piece of furniture he is sitting in consists of two parts separated by a wall that has a window without a window pane. On each side of the window you can sit on a bench and make contact with the person sitting on the other side.

“People can sit here, relax and eat. But the piece of furniture also supports meetings.

Inspired by New York The main idea behind the Festival Site is to create eight city quarters, each containing a concert venue. The inspiration has come to Jes Vagnby from the way New York City is composed. The Orange Stage is situated at ‘Orange Square,’ which functions as the Festival’s city hall square.

“The trees along the sides create the circumference of the square,” Jes Vagnby says

photo: Thomas Kjær

The Festival Site is huge and may seem chaotic.

But chaos is actually a part of the idea behind the creation of the site. The architect behind the design explains Roskilde Festival as a place for people to meet.

The city of Roskilde Festival • Chaos is an important element in the shaping of the Festival Site.

• Jes Vagnby, the architect behind the Festival Site, sees the Festival as a reality isolated from the rest of the world.

Nietzsche’s doctrine, that one must have chaos to give birth to a dancing star has been important in the creation of the site, he explains.

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It’s fine if the site seems chaotic, but the chaos has been carefully planned.

Jes Vagnby

and points to the west of the ‘Orange Square,’ where trees are standing side by side. “It is important that both the musicians and the audience get the feeling of having a setting.”

The fence around the Festival Site also helps to divide the area into different

where you can listen to rock and eat organic food.

“All cardboard waste is delivered here and recycled into little chairs and sofas,” Jes Vagnby says.

quarters, which again create atmosphere.

“The black fence is there to define the site, without seeming like it separates the site from the camping area.

Black is a neutral colour, whereas if, for instance, the fence were pink, it would seem obstructing and would take power away from the audience,” Jes Vagnby says.

He continues to Astoria stage, one of the festivals seven stage tents. Here the concept is to create a condensed and intimate feeling. Intimacy is also characteristic for the climate at the Odeon Square. This is the green area of the festival

Real Second Life At the Cosmopol stage people will meet in a dance that happens outside the tent in which the music is playing.

The aim here is to mix the areas outside and inside the blue music tent.

“We have something for every taste, so this is the urban area – the condensed city room,” he says. “Dancing is also a way to make people meet.

Here it will maybe not only be

a meeting with new faces, but possibly also with love.”

Jes Vagnby aims to create a unique setting for the festival guests and to gives them some memories to bring home. He sees Roskilde Festival as a city isolated from the rest of the world.

“This is not only second life. It is real second life,” Jes Vagnby says. “It is fine if the site seems chaotic, but the chaos has been carefully planned so that people will meet each other and create new connections.”

• The idea behind the Festival Site has become so popular that it is about to be exported to other cities because it focuses on the inhabitants rather than the buildings of the city.

• The planning of Roskilde Festival 2020 is already in motion.

• The festival site designers work with three themes: music, fellowship and intellect.

Kristian Krog Kæmsgaard Translation: Minna Julie Kolte

photo: Tobias Nørgaard Pedersen

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THURSDAY 3. JULY 2008

No Nomination For Teri

Talk Of An Oscar For Ledger

The desperate housewives Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman and Eva Longria Parker are all nominated for an Emmy Award this year. But the website Ekstrabladet.dk reports that Teri Hatcher isn’t. When ‘Desperate Housewives’ opened, Hatcher was the most known and popular actress – but those days are over. So the fight om Wisteria Lane can begin. Teri Hatcher has previously won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for being Susan Mayer in the show. METROXPRESS

Australian actor Heath Ledger died in january, but his last film, the new Batman-film ‘The Dark Night’ which opens in theaters on july th, impress the american critics. And especially Ledgers performance as the disturbingly deranged Joker is praised. Even though the premiere is a couple of weeks away, the talk of a possible Oscar nominee for Ledger is according to Abcnews.com already going around. METROXPRESS

She Reads Your Text-messages Watch who you text and where you put your mobile-phone – according to the website Ekstrabladet.dk your girlfriend might sneak a peak when you’re not looking. Oxford University has tested how many Brits use text-messages to flirt. And that is almost half – 44 percent. Among young people the number is three out of four Brits. But it also turns out that 45 percent of all women read their partner’s text-messages. According to sex expert Rikke Thuesen flirting through text-messages is a fast and casually way of flirting. But she suggests that you use your energy to flirt with your partner in stead. If the partner finds out it can mean the end of the relationship.

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Rabobank Refuses Bonus Rasmussen gets half a million pounds. Rabobank refuses to pay the bonus

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Despite a claim of £4.4 million, Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen was pleased with the Dutch verdict from the court in Utrecht.

The news agency Ritzau reports that the court awarded him a compensation of five million kroner from his former employer Rabobank.

Michael Rasmussen’s employer took him out of Tour de France last year, because he had lied about his whereabouts before the tour. But the Danish mountain king vehemently opposed the decision – according to him, Rabobank knew where he was all along. And the court seems to support that observation with a net total of half a million pounds.

Roughly 200 out of the 500,000 pounds cover the Tour bonus VERDICT.

that Michael Rasmussen earned during the Tour and the remaining amount covers salary.

According to the Dane’s lawyer, André Brantjes, it is particularly the bonus that is

a victory for Rasmussen, who feels that he has left court as a winner. And Rabobank is far from pleased with having to cough up the bonus – they do, however, find the salary to be a logical expense. »We don’t understand why we have to pay him a bonus,« says Rabobank Manager Henri van der Aat to Ritzau.

He is considering appealing the part of the verdict that concerns the bonus. Both parties have three months to decide whether they want to

appeal, and Rabobank has stated that they will decide within the next few days.

According to Ritzau, the team argues that the judge has conceded that Rabobank was right to fire Rasmussen, but they should have done it two weeks earlier. So the team does not believe that it may be held responsible for the scandal, although they do admit that they should have been more attentive. This year’s Tour de France starts on Saturday – without Michael Rasmussen. On Tuesday the Monaco Cycling Federation, the body that holds his license, suspended him for two years. A ruling that Michael Rasmussen has appealed.

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The verdict is a victory for Rasmussen.

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More People Quit Smoking INFLUENCE. Life has become difficult for smokers. Already scorned and rebuked because of their habit, the smoking ban has not made being a smoker any easier. As a result, more Danes have taken the consequence and quit the smokes. Possibly as a result. Even though all Danes over the age of 14 on average smoked 1,832 cigarettes in 2007 compared to 1,924 in 2006, senior researcher at the Department of Public Health, Knud Juel, is not sure that the smoking ban of August 2007 explains it all.

However, he is willing to concede that the ban may have reduced the smokers’ tobacco consumption. »Smoking has simply become more troublesome,« he says to the news agency Ritzau.

According to the website Berlingske.dk, the British smoking ban celebrated its one-year birthday on July 1st.

During that year 400,000 Brits have stopped smoking.

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The art troupe Viva la Renovation turned garbage collection into a party Festival guests were aroused with strong drum beats at the garbage parade at Agora G. In colourful costumes, make-up in all the colours of the rainbow and with an unmistakable joy and enthusiasm, the group of “vivaists” began to warm up the audience with singing and dancing.

The rhythms from the jamming group spread quickly into the legs of festival guests and tired feet and heavy heads start nodding in time with the rhythm.

But everything it is not fun and games.

It’s all about garbage Viva la Renovation wants to create a greener festival and urges people to clean up after themselves. With the slogan “Less trash, more music”, the group points out to the festival guests that the fewer resources spent on clean-up, the more Roskilde Festival can spend on music.

“We wish to plant green seeds in people’s conscience and make them take a com-

mon responsibility. That way we can have a cleaner festival,” says Christian Gade, spokesperson and founder of Viva la Renovation.

Come down and join us!

Earlier in the week, Viva la Renovation organised a workshop at the climate house at Agora G where festival guests had the opportunity to create their own instruments out of garbage.

The instruments were used in a large-scaled garbage parade yeaterday afternoon.

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Here the message “Less trash, CMY more music” was trumpeted at the Camping area K with the help of a chariot of multi-instruments assembled of various garbage components.

Viva la invites all festival guests to contribute to the parade or come by the climate house to talk to the troupe and take part in the fun and games.

Karsten Baun Translation: Maria Lillegaard Hansen

The eternally happy art group, Viva la Renovation, got people on their feet with singing, dancing and muli-coloured clothing at the first garbage parade at Agora G

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