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Discover everything from German club muscle and deep British dubstep to Balkan brass and American Party mashup at the Roskilde night parties.

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The Oval is upgraded The Oval is Roskilde Festival’s exclusive area close to the Lounge area. This year the area’s lush feeling has been given an extra hike. There are new seats in the bars. The good old table and bench approach is still in effect, but they have been redesigned in new materials, which are attractive and functional.

The lighting has also been upgraded with new lamps, and there are now six choices of food compared with last years four. Offers include homemade burgers, thai food, nachos, tapas, lambrusco, sushi and expresso. The extra space for the bars is a result of the area’s goodbye to the Spoken Word tent.

The giant mobile phone returns from the dead

Stages Friday July 4 Roskilde Pavilion 13.00: Job For A Cowboy 15.00: Polarkreis 18 17.00: Rotten Sound 19.00: A Kid Hereafter 21.00: Seasick Steve 23.00: Holy Fuck 01.00: Yeasayer 03.00: Familjen

First the giant mobile phone on the Festival site went up in flames. But now the towering symbol of this year’s humanitarian focus has re-emerged.

A young Danish man who was arrested for drug-dealing on Wednesday was set free today. He had continuously told the police that he was not the owner of 200 ecstasy pills even though he was carrying them when he was arrested. After the preliminary questioning on Wednesday he was set free. As a friend of him turned himself in to the police and explained that the pills actually belonged to him. The real drug-dealer is kept in police custody for the next 2 weeks and will be taken to court.

Man still in coma from drug overdose

Fix your gaze at the Orange Stage and turn your head a little to the left, then you’ll see a sixteen feet tall mobile phone.

Tuesday evening the phone caught attention throughout the entire Festival site.

It went up in flames and the fire department had to respond quickly and extinguish the fire. Ever since a team of volunteers has toiled around the clock to rebuild the phone so that it would be ready for the opening of the Festival site yesterday.

The gigantic phone plays an important role on this year’s Roskilde Festival. It is the symbol of 2008’s humanitarian focus. In cooperation with Danish charity organisation DanChurchAid, Roskilde Festival has created the campaign Fair Phone Fair Future. The campaign is about the metal industry in DR ongo – a country, where many companies buy the materials used in the production of mobile phones.

Congo has a huge potential ”Minerals from DR Congo used in mobile phones have been used to finance civil war and horrible working conditions. But they can and must aid in the establishment of peace, reasonable working conditions and development. There is a huge potential in that country,” says Christian Friis Bach, international chief of DanChurchAid. Fair Phone Fair Future is not about people simply boycotting mobile phones. Mobile phone companies have previously pulled out of countries like DR Congo when the press has started to address the situation but this is not the solution, says Christian Friis Bach.

You can support the Fair Phone Fair Future campaign by handing over your refund to the collectors who raises money to improve conditions for children in DR Congo.

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Real ecstasy dealer turned himself in

Roskilde Astoria 12.30: Yoyo Oyoy Presents

Kirsten Ketsjer, Yoke

& Yohs And Yoyo

Oyoy Special

Occasion Orchestra 14.00: Anthony Joseph

& The Spasm Band 16.00: Sidi Goma 18.00: First Floor Power 20.00: Sunburned Hand Of

The Man 22.00: Osaka Invasion Feat.

Dj Scotch Egg, Ove-Naxx,

Maruosa And Bogulta 00.00: Fedde Le Grand

& Friends 01.45: Ricoloop 02.30: Orquestra Imperial 03.00: The Count & Sinden

Niels Krogh Søndergaard Translation: Rasmus Ovesen

The Swedish indie-poppers come to the rescue in the last moment. French act AaRON has unfortunately been hindered in performing due to illness. Swedish act First Floor Power takes over the spot on Astoria Friday at 18:00 with crooked indie-pop in the vein of Talking Heads and Bob Hund.

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A 20-years-old Norwegian festival guest was hospitalised Tuesday after taking a drug overdose. The man has allegedly mixed hash and heroine bought in Copenhagen, reveals the Danish newspaper, Berlingske Tidende. The Norwegian is still in a coma and his condition is critical, says Bent Stavad from Roskilde Police. The young man’s family has been notified and have come to Denmark.

First Floor Power replaces AaRON

Roskilde Cosmopol 12.30: Beardyman 15.00: Kenge Kenge 17.00: Jneiro Jarel’s Shape

Of Broad Minds 18.45: Burhan G 20.30: Santogold 22.00: Robyn 00.00: La Kinky Beat 01.15: Dj Wagner Pá 02.30: Orquestra Imperial Resident Dj: Master Fatman

Roskilde Odeon 12.00: Raunchy 14.00: Kate Nash 16.00: Mugison 18.00: Vieux Farka Touré 20.00: 18th Dye 22.00: CocoRosie 00.00: Battles 02.00: Motorpsycho 02.30: Orquestra Imperial 03.00: The Count & Sinden Orange Scene 17.00: Gnarls Barkley 19.30: Kings Of Leon 22.30: Grinderman 01.00: The Streets 14.00: Juan Formell Y

Los Van Van 16.00: Band Of Horses 21.00: Mogwai 23.30: Goldfrapp 02.00: Spleen United Roskilde Lounge 12.00: Klaus Lynggaard 13.00: Jomi Massage 15.00: August Engkilde 17.00: Krusseldorf 18.00: Dj Banel 20.00: Dunkelbunt 23.00: Alberta In Love 01.00: White Pony Dj Team Resident DJ: Baunbaun

Orange Opening Finally, the gates were opened. Thursday at 5 p.m. eager festival guests stormed into to the festival site, and most of them continued running until they reached the very front of the Orange Stage. Four days of music was about to begin of the warmest day of this year’s Roskilde.

Roskilde Arena 14:00: Juan Formelly Los

Van Van 16.00: Band of Horses 18.30: Veto 21.00: Mogwai 23.30: Goldfrapp 02.00: Spleen United

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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Roskilde’s hottest day Up to now Thursday has been the hottest day of this year’s festival with temperatures up to 27C. The hottest festival ever was in 1976. This year Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show were inspired by the public and proceeded to take their clothes off – ALL their clothes. The average temperature for the whole festival period in 1976 was 21,9C. According to Danish records, the coldest festival ever was an average temperature of 11,5C. That was in 1984. Brrr. Last year must have been the wettest!

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Cool advice in the sun The festival area is buzzing with activity in the sun, and it is very important that you protect yourself from the sunrays and that you drink plenty of liquids. ”If at first, the sunburn is a reality there is very little that the first-aiders can do. That is of course, unless there are actually blisters on the skin,” ascertains Lars Rasmussen from the Red Cross Samaritans.

“The most important thing is to drink plenty of liquids – and obviously the kind that doesn’t contain alcohol. It is also important that you protect yourself with sun lotion and that you eat sensibly,” stresses Lars Rasmussen. He adds that it is a very good idea to wear a shirt when you’re out in the sun.

The basis for a great party Up until now, no sunburned festival guests have visited the first-aiders at this year’s Roskilde Festival.

“But I really hope that people are smart and take care of themselves in the heat,” says Lars Rasmussen. He recommends that you put on footwear even though it is really hot.

“Sandals prevent accidents whenever festival guests step on sharp stones or shards of glass.”

According to Lars Rasmussen, if you are already sunburned, you should use after sun lotion and wear a shirt whenever you’re out in the sun.

Perhaps not everyone were in such a hurry under the blistering sun yesterday, but the annual run to the Orange altar was won by Martin Skovgaard wearing the inevitable orange suit. The Festival Site is now the center for all activities, music, events, magic and meetings.

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Stage check Name: Roskilde Astoria What: Roskilde Astoria is the place where the music creeps way under your skin. In the daytime you meet the intimate experiences close to the artists, and at night the tent is tranformed into a club scene with energetic parties. The closed tent fits about 3,000 people.

Who: Efterklang, Fanfara Tirana, Fuck Buttons, Dunkelbunt, Sunburned Hand of the Man and more.

Trivia: This year, smoking is prohibited at Roskilde Astoria (as in Roskilde Lounge) in response to the new Danish smoking law that took effect in August ’07. So blow out the smoke before you step into the intimate space!

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Where: You find Roskilde Astoria on the hill west of the Orange Stage.

Stage check Name: Roskilde Odeon What: Roskilde Odeon has no extravagant light or sound show. Odeon is like a solid rock club which gives you everything straight up, from tearing rock roars to intimate concerts.

Simple and authentic – the way it's supposed to be at a festival. Roskilde Odeon emerged in 2003. 170 volunteers work at Roskilde Odeon which can contain about 5,000 people.

Where: You’ll find Roskilde Odeon in the north-western area of the festival site, right behind Astoria.

Who: Clutch, CocoRosie, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Raunchy, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – and more.

Trivia: The focus is on sustainability on the entire area surrounding Roskilde Odeon. All trade is either fair trade or organic, and power-saving LED stage lighting is used on the stage.

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Scattered party orgy

Last year it was Arcade Fire. This year it was MGMT who managed to gather the most crowded tent on the first day of the festival. An extremely large crowd had appeared to see what it was all about –this deservedly hyped Brooklyn act MGMT. And those who expected a huge communal party also got it. However, this came in too small doses as the band seemed too introvert.

But still the lead singer Andrew VanWyngaarden with the nasal vocals was a unique study in coolness.

With hippie hair-band, dark sunglasses and a few doses of pot too many in

Virtuous Awakening Roskilde Pavillion Thursday 18.30

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Fans of Kings of Leon, who will play at Orange stage at 19:30, might as well put a mark in their calendar on September 21st.

Here the south state rockers will release a new album. ‘Only By the Night’ has been recorded in Nashville, and the band says to NME that the songs this time are more political.

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choir of young believers

the blood, he steered the band through fantastic crowd-plasers like ’Electric Feel’, ’Kids’ and not least the youthful hymn ’Time to Pretend’. If MGMT get around to writing more songs of this caliber, they can become a true psychedelic pop-monster.

Tonight less was enough – not at least thanks to the hyper lively audience.

Kings of Leon ready with new material

With no less than seven guest musicians on stage, the mastermind behind Choir of Young Believers, Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, showed up with a huge beard, white shirt and suspenders – as if he had appeared directly from the land of the Amish.

The band started out with one of their more wellknown songs, ’Riot’, and this was a reasonable way of getting acquainted with the talkative audience. With their mixture of orchestral rock and minimal repetition, Choir of Young Believers sounds like the kings of melancholy in Low interpreting ’Nights in White Satin’.

Wonderful moments, but

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Roskilde Odeon Thursday kl. 19.30

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lifting a track like ’We Talk on the Phone’.

Several new songs were introduced, and songs like ’Why Does It Always Have to Be This Way?’ does indeed promise well for the coming debut.

It was a self-assured concert, and alone the fact that the radio hit ’Sharpen Your Knife’ was left out points to a band with great integrity.

This was my third Choir of Young Believers concert within a month and absolute the most impressive.

Because is surely not modest music. This is music which deserves big stages where the high ambitions can be fulfilled.

Björn Lydén Soundvenue

you soon risk suffocating.

Two drummers, a violinplayer and cello contributed

to creating depth, and especially the broadening of the rhythm section helped

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

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Last year, the side project from Nick Cave thundered through the sound barrier with their self-titled debut album. And according to the caveman himself, you can look forward to another album from the band in the beginning of 2009. So who knows? Maybe a couple of new songs will be played when the group take over Orange Stage tonight at 22:30.

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Trustworthy cream menu no. 2 Lupe Fiasco Roskilde Cosmopol Thursday kl. 20.45

”Lupe, Lupe, Lupe!” The expectant audience shouted the new and fresh figure of hip hop onto the stage and let his name resound every time the break between the songs allowed for it.

Unfortunately, this was allowed a little too

often, however, Cosmopol was almost floating with an energetic crowd that licked up more and more cream and became wilder and wilder during the show.

No matter the amount of sex in the Muslim rapper lyrics, the boys aired waved their caps, and the girls got hot when Lupe let his eight man strong act hammer the stage canvas up high in the air like cream on hot pans mixed with hand-played hiphop.

The sexy atmosphere lit fire when a couple in the audience started going at it during the track Superstar.

That’s Roskilde Festival for you! But even though it was a great party, a bit of coffee was missing in the cream. ’Hiphop saved my life’and those ’I’m one of you, guys’ clichés from the stage gave the fresh air a rather mainstream aftertaste.

Kristoffer Hegnsvad Soundvenue

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The Perfect match radiohead Orange Stage Thursday 22.00

”This ain’t fuckin’ Backstreet Boys” Roskilde Arena Thurs 20.30

”This ain’t fucking Backstreet Boys, my friends,” front man Matthew Tuck said and encouraged the audience to start crowdsurfing.

With some hesitation, a few boys from the moshpit jumped onto each other’s backs, while others kept to the back, though we did understand the message. That this band wasn’t Backstreet Boys. That it was far more dangerous. That we had to ap-

All the while, guitarist Michael Padget put his left foot on the monitor and gazed across the audience, while he played another solo. Professionally, heavy, technically impressive. And exhilarating!

However, it never became dangerous, They wrapped the metal in a nice and too emotional vocal and tender lyrics which only bleed theatre blood. ”What’s happening to me / I’m dying from the inside.”

But it wasn’t fuckin’ Backstreet Boys, it was a good concert, but it wasn’t fuckin’ Metallica either.

Otto Lerche soundvenue

Heavy opening of Odeon Clutch Roskilde Odeon Thursday. 5.30pm

American Clutch were allowed to open Odeon this year, and they were certainly not allowed to do so in considering the “touchy types”. From the first second, Clutch delivered heavy stoner rock with all the trimmings – fully charged amplifiers, extremely hard drumming and raw vocals.

The bands experiment in stoner rock bore clear references to Kyuss, who, without doubt, have played an important inspirational role. In the Clutch version this was mixed with a little touch of extra funk and metal, which made the music their own. We experienced a technical, very well played set, obviously enhanced by the band’s recent extensive live activity.

Everything wasn’t all that exciting. Most of the heavy riffs were fine, but Neil Fallon’s vocals seemed forced, and many of Clutches

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Bullet for my valentine

pear wilder. However, though the concert was good and seemed as one of the positive surprises of the day – professional delivered, technically exciting – the band never really became dangerous.

Bullet for My Valentine opened with the title track from the latest album, Scream Aim Fire. With a precision like a German machine gun, the drummer blasted off lethal fills (or so they sounded) into the stage room.

The lead singer encouraged the audience the put their “fuckin’ fingers in the air” and use the fuckin’ moshpit. The audience followed order. They showed the devil horns, moshed and surfing the crowd. And did some heavy sweating!

Some headliners suit Roskilde Festival better than others.

Radiohead fits in perfectly this year. They have a new album with them in the luggage, they are innovative, they have massive amounts of artistic qualities, they cover a wide

stressed their status as of the most ground-breaking names in rock with a concert that had it all.

The audience on the crowded Festival Site witnessed a band that controlled both the compressed as well as the simple elements, and the soulful as well as the noisy elements. And this happened with a setlist which allowed room for the challenging, but also contained the impulsive – introspective electronic on ’The Gloaming’ – and outward-

selection of genres, and at the same time they have an equal amount of appeal in the public.

And finally they even turned environmentally conscious.

In other words, Radiohead has struck a chord with Roskilde’s progressive and political profile.

The originals from Oxford drew a double line under that fact with a concert which was close to being perfect. With last year’s eminent and extremely publicized album, In Rainbows, at the centre, they

oddball antics came across as a desperate attempt to seem different.

Emil Kragh-Schwartz soundvenue Translation Tim Lawson

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Mogwai howls in September

The Streets in top form

At 21:00 Mogwai powers up at Arena. And if you have preference for the Scots virile noise rock, you can look forward to a new studio album called, ‘The Hawk is Howling’, on September 21st. The album offers 10 songs and guest performance from acid rock legend Rocky Erickson who performed at last year’s Roskilde Festival.

Roskilde Festival has always been known for gambling by presenting new bands instead of only playing safe and well-known names.

Letting the sensitive Faroese Teitur play the opening concert at Roskilde Orange was another gamble challenging the thought that music has to be loud and noisy to appear on the biggest stage. But unfortunately the fragile singer/songwriter’s melodies did not work well on this scene as the sound was too low and the audience kept talking too much.

Through the song ‘The Singer’ Teitur tries to come to terms with the idea of being a singer expressed through the lines ‘I’d never meant to be a singer, but I’m slowly getting used to the idea’. When playing at Orange Stage, he did not seem to be quite used to the idea yet.

But, as he noted himself, he was also challenged by the fact that he was playing to a crowd of more people than

Roskilde Arena Thursday 18.00

Expectant waiting and whispering resounded in the stage tent before Duffy’s opening of Arena which first

Christian Boier Soundvenue

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If Gossip was made of ice, they would be made of chocolate covered ice cream. Hard on the outside and soft on the inside. The edgy guitardriven tunes formed the hard shell, while Beth Dittos soul vocal formed the softness on the inside. Lots of power and quite tasty.

It started out slowly, but as

by quiet string instruments, carefully played horns and a women’s choir.

Both Teitur and his band did well, but the intimacy needed to truly release his music was blown away by the wind of the Festival Site, and the party-demanding crowd was only satisfied when he played ’Catherine

the Waitress’ as one of the last songs.

Teitur did not really give us a noisy and loud party to kick-off the festival. Instead he peacefully cut the silk cord of Roskilde Festival ’08.

The part will probably start later on.

seemed as the one track the majority of the audience had come around to hear.

And after the dust from the dancing feet had settled, many left Arena after a

concert that merely seemed to meet expectations rather than adding anything really new to the songs.

Christian Boier Translation: Mette Dahl

in the shadow of Radiohead because the band did an incredible job and created a great party.

Jakob Rom Johansen Soundvenue

appeared as cheering and clapping, but was followed by almost complete silence when she took the stage with the track ’Syrup & Honey’ only accompanied by guitar.

Duffy appeared as an updated soul diva who both seemed to live up the all the clichés when she tripped around the stage with her blonde locks, red painted fingernails and stilettos, but also displayed a more modern and solid message to the female audience than many of her predecessors on the soul scene. ”My songs are about taking no shit,” she proclaimed, something that didn’t break the image, but rather gave her some needed personality.

As a centre of attraction on the stage, Duffy easily kept the audience focused when she danced around with equal amounts of innocence and flirting. However, it was the strength of her vocal that really impressed when she let it loose in the soulful retro ballads.

However, the platinumselling single ‘Mercy’

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duffy

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the entire population of the Faeroe Islands.

Instead of the muscle power normally demanded to conquer this stage, Teitur tried to put forward a feeling of melancholia.

Starting with his ’Guilt By Association’ he crooned his way through the setlist, mostly only accompanied

Unruly diva

the charges of human energy and mechanic programming formed a whole several times during the show, helped by six big screens and energy-saving LED-lights on stage.

Last time the band visited the festival Site, the rain was pouring down on the Orange Stage. That was in 1997. This year they conquered the Orange Stage. Radiohead and Roskilde was the perfect match.

the concert progressed, Beth Ditto and her band mates turned more power on step by step. And thanks for that.

What started out a little slow ended as a remarkable party with a jumping audience and a rather significant lead singer who strolled around in her underwear.

Along the way, Beth Ditto expressed her fear of playing the same time slot at Radiohead, but her and the band allowed the audience to sing the Radiohead hit Creep, and this eliminated all doubt.

And there was absolutely no reason for Gossip to stand

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Orange Stage Thursday at 6.30 pm

Gossip

When Mike Skinner’s band tonight visit the largest scene on the Festival, the main character will literally be fit for fight. At the time, Skinner is training to accomplish the New York Marathon in November. So if you run into an energetic jogger it might be the running Brit.

Quiet sound and a loud audience teitur

looking communal singing on ’Karma Police’.

It was all delivered with a sophisticated seriousness, free of all politically correct statements. Thom Yorke felt no need to verbally save the crowd in the name of a higher cause in a Chris Martin-like fashion.

The music spoke for itself, and 20 minutes even passed before we heard a single “hey” The new songs which have been played live for two years have now found their right elements in the live setting, and

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Orange Press ventured out among the campers to feel the pulse of this year’s trends in head fashion.

This year’s trend: festive colours!

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Head fashion

I have chosen my hat, because it is neat, and it makes me look like a scarecrow. I like that.

Frederik, 19, from Norway

Festival nights offer other pleasures than death-binging, flirting and singing by the camp fire. If you find your way through the darkness to the scenes, you will discover that the music program includes everything from German club muscle and deep British dubstep to Balkan brass and American Party mashup. Here we steer you towards some of the festivals best night parties.

Dubstep Let the deep-sounding bass from London shake diaphragm If you like your bass served in such a dark and deep manner that your diaphragm literally shakes, Roskilde Festival has a real treat in the goody bag for you Saturday night at Roskilde Cosmopol.

No one else than some of the biggest act in dubstep will be on stage in the shape of Shackleton, Benga, and Skream.

Especially the only 21-year-old – pallid Skream is a pioneer and a star on the scenet.

He is regarded as one of the dubstep originators, and he released his debut at the tender age of nineteen.

“The garage scene was slowly dying out, so we decided to do something else. It was really stripped, minimal and was only about the bass. It was back in 2000-2001, and we were really young – only about 15,” explains

Oliver Jones – his civilian name – about the early beginnings in the southern London quarter Croydon.

Beats like pistol shots in the dark After a few years - primarily with underground status – there is no doubt that dubstep has seriously established itself as a viable genre. The deep, mysterious bass and the fusion between dub and 2-step have bubbled in London since 1999.

The ambience is generated by beats that sound just like gun shots in the dark – rhythms sounding like aliens hacking our brains, and a bass as deep as mother earth’s force field. Shackleton usually incorporates Middle Eastern sounds into his music, while Skream – who will be performing with his friend Benga under the joint name Magnetic Man – is unusual in that he also has a real

Digitalism The German duos house/ rock hybrid is plutonium in its most unstable condition

Soundvenue Translation: Rasmus Ovesen

Ruthless and mad “Isi doesn’t care about technique. He is more organised, so when I put a cable into the chequered square he visualises and directs the creative output. On the live stage, things change. “Isi can be much more ruthless and mad than me.”

They met at the end of the 90’s as employees in a Hamburg record shop called Underground Solution. “While While we we were there, were there, we witnessed we witnessed many, many boring releases many, many every week. Out of 500 records, boring remaybe only leases every one was worth week. the vinyl it was jens moelle printed on,” Jens says about the decade’s garage and house craze.

“That’s why we began to make our own music” Among Digitalisms first tasteful electronic concoction was the kidnapping of Robert Smith’s voice which was forced by sampling and stringent beats to spell – not sing the title form the Cures ‘Fire in Cairo’.

It took us half an hour to make it,” says Jens about the loose hacker hit ‘Digitalism in Cairo” written on pirate software.

When playing live, Digitalism is plutonium in its most unstable form, and if you

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The Cure, Depeche Mode, The White Stripes, Klaxons and The Futureheads all have one thing in common. The balls in their music have had intimate contact with two Germans.

The Hamburg based duo Jens Moelle and Ismael ‘Isi’ Tuefekci are Digitalism, who, since 2004, have remixed themselves upwards in the DJ tables, making it embarrassingly difficult for even the most clogged rock youth to say no to a quick dance. The hype increased even more, almost to boiling point last year, when they released their debut album ‘Idealism’.

understanding of melody.

“It’s hooks.

Popular songs have good hooks.

Benga’s songs always have a good hook that’s really catchy. And I just think that makes people remember your music. I don’t have a musical education, but I like to make ‘real’ music and use chords correctly. You can inject so much emotion into your music in that way. I really like horror movie soundtracks. It’s all about using the music to build suspense and make you feel something really specific.”

Indierock or disco?

We are in borderland, where the different genres glide together and lovingly caress each others hands. “We compliment each other. I am a music and technical nerd,” Jens explains about his chaos theory.

Shackleton will be playing Saturday at 03:00. Magnetic Man feat. Benga and Skream will play Saturday at 01:30. All of them will play at Roskilde Cosmopol

Did you know?

Dubstep is alive and well in Denmark too.

Especially the members of the DJ-collective Ohoi! are proud representatives. They are the masterminds behind the nightclub Below which is notorious for having a huge sound system, unusually intense bass frequencies, as well as the record company Kraken Recordings which releases Danish dub-productions.

doubt this claim, you can test for yourself Sunday night at Roskilde Arena.

With a great risk of meltdown they play a springy house/rock hybrid, which is like tickling sensations in printing tracks. If Franz Ferdinand is a rock band who get people to dance, Digitalism is dance music which gets people to rock. This stuff is infectious.

“It must just be loud,” grins Jens. Maybe because of this their studio is in a bunker behind thumb-thick concrete without windows. The only effects to create the party atmosphere are ventilation and a 5 euro stroboscope light.

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Digitalism plays Sunday 00.00 at the Roskilde Arena

Did you know?

Digitalism’s hard pumped music is made to support the decks’ heavy universe. The single ‘Pogo’ has already been used on the soundtrack for games like “Need for Speed: ProStreet’ and ‘FIFA 08’.

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Mille, 22, from Denmark

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I chose my scarf, because it is an explosion of colours.

And since it is festival, summer and sun, the scarf represents it very well.

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You have to have a festival hat! Last year I had a cowboy hat, but this year I have went for a more classical look ala Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. The shuttlecock in the hat band shows my interest for badminton.

Pål, 23, from Norway

Girl Talk Meet the most popular and fun and festive hero thief since Robin Hood Imagine a dance floor where Jay-Z, Metallica, Roy Orbison, Britney Spears, Aphex Twin, Michael Jackson, Kanye West, Radiohead and Ace of Base all dancing and tumbling around, going completely ape shit and stripping one by one. This is just about how the brand new album ‘Feed the Animals’ by the infamous one-man-army Girl Talk, who have created a new style and career by creating music which is stolen from the whole of the pop catalogue.

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smith was crossed with KRS-One, whilst Salt-N-Pepa swapped saliva with James Brown. In the Girl Talk universe only the best seconds from a song are allowed in.

One chorus, one guitar scream, all to create the wild party that his live-shows have the reputation of delivering.

Musicians who play guitar do not pay royalties to the person who invented the chord.

The one and only member of the army is 26-year-old Greg Gillis, who made his breakthrough via the Internet when he released his album “Night Gregg Gillis Ripper”. This controversial and deeply illegal release was every sampler’s paradise.

One great mashup consisting of extracts from 150 other artist’s recordings. Aero-

Infinitive combinations “I started with experimental music, but I am more minded now to create the party atmosphere, and get people out onto the dance floor. The music is all my favourite songs which are cut up so I can combine

The Entrance of the Horns Leave your inhibitions at home and let yourself get blown away by an impressive Balkan inspired line-up.

Tired of moving your feet to predictable 4/4 beats and cool synthesizers? Roskilde Festival offers other more exotic acts to get you out of your camping chair – guaranteed!

On Saturday evening and night on the Astoria stage you can experience four different acts who in

each of their different ways know how to create a party based on strutting horns and elegant brass.

One name who has been successful in bridging the gap between the European club scene and Balkan music is German Shantel.

His DJ-set Bucovina Club is renowned and has laid waste to venues all over Europe, and his bubbling cocktail of Western club beats flavoured with the Balkan horn and exotic scales has won him BBC’s prestigious World Music Award in 2006. Shantel is bringing his eight man high Bucovina Club Orchestra, who will create the party and happy days feeling - guaranteed.

Shantel is not the only western European who has recognised the potential in this new fusion. The Austrian DJ, Dunkelblunt calls his own music ‘Balkan Dub’, and it is true that you can hear gypsy music and dub in his production, but his expression also draws from other more well-known specialities like Ska, hiphop and dancehall.

Even the dead dance Festival revellers won’t be cheated from more authentic and pure Balkan music. Tubas, saxophones, trumpets and clarinets are the main ingredients when the

them in an infinite number of combinations,” explains Greg Gillis, who has made sample-based music for many years.

Until now he has avoided legal action, even though he doesn’t bother to clear his samples. The problem is that there are too many, and the price for the rights would be impossible to pay. Even so Gregg Gillis doesn’t feel like a thief, or even a copier who just profits from other peoples work.

“One could suggest that all music descended from somewhere. Musicians who play guitar do not pay royalties to the person who invented the chord. In the same way, pop music is built up around narrow and known elements, and I think I just play an instrument,” say Gillis, who you can experience on Saturday evening on the Cosmopol scene.

Soundvenue Translation: Tim Lawson

Girl Talk will play on Saturday at 23.00 at Roskilde Cosmopol Albanian brass band Fanfara Tirana begin to open their sluices. But don’t get fooled here. The thirteen man high ensemble can even make the dead dance when they kick the party off with their original and soulful update of the South Albanian “Kaba”.

It moves the edge of the stage and then straight into your heart. Fanfara Tirana has been tipped as one of the best Balkan brass bands at the moment by experts, so don’t miss your chances of experiencing a lesson in how real brass should sound.

People also know how to blow the horn outside Balkan. From the other side of the world comes the fiery Spokfrevo Orquestra from Brazil. The orchestra have taken their name from their bandleader Spok and the Brazilian carnival music “Frevo”, which originates from the Pernambucos area of Brazil.

Spokfrevo Orquestra mix the best from “Frevo” with Swing and Jazz, kicking the beat up to around double tempo, so no normal, sane person

Did you know?

Greg Gillis admits openheartedly that he just nerds through, when he is not enjoying the rock star life under his Girl Talk alias.

He has had a 9-5 job, as a bio-medicinal technician. The new album “Feed the Animals” can be downloaded free via Girl Talk’s record label website, Illegal Art.

can keep their feet still. The music is virtuoso, exotic and riveting.

Michael Gaunt/Soundvenue Translation: Tim Lawson

Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar will play on Saturday at 0200 at Roskilde Astoria.

Spokfrevo Orquestra plays Saturday at 2200 at Roskilde Astoria and Dunkelblunt 23.30, 01.30 and 03.30 at Roskilde Astoria

Did you know?

Shantels DJ-set Bucovina Club has taken its name from an area of the same name which is close to the Ukraine and Rumania, where Shantel has roots. In 2007, Shantel was behind the soundtrack to the German/ Turkish cultureclash fable ‘Auf den anderen Seite’ which amongst other things was awarded for best manuscript at the annual film festival in Cannes.

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FRIDAY JULY 4, 2008

Odeon is 100% ecology or fair trade Roskilde Festival has worked hard over the last 3 years to improve the area around Odeon for the good of your visiting conscience. This year, for the first time, the area is 100% ecological or fair trade (except the beer bars). There are many new features in the area. This year you can feast on the new scrumptious dishes from Tjikken Tjili and sausages from the ecological sausage bar. At the same time as checking your thirst with milk smoothies

by Naturmilk and ecological drinks in the bar. You can even lower your body temperature with cold fair trade ice-cream from Ben & Jerrys.

Roskillz – bickering with booze-breath While the sun sets behind the six meter high speaker tower, hopeful rappers battle each other. The final takes place today at Cosmopol.

Yesterday, more masters of rhyming were credited with hand tags at the skate park at Camping West, and the experienced freestyle champion, Per Vers, heated up the audience and rallied the troops as emcee yesterday where many showed up to see the organized bickering on rhyme and the entertainment is also secure.

Bickering with booze-breath “I done, I’m fucking hammered”, the rapper called The Raven has lost the thread, but he wins the audience with his honesty and booze-breath. Not all of the rappers have a ready answer.

After days with abundant

PHOTO: KRISTOFFER JUEL POULSEN

Today, it’s the final day in the Roskillz rap battle.

In the last week, hopeful contesters have battled in freestyle rap by Agora skate.

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Those who were cool, were cool, and the ones who were wack, were just entertaining.

PER VERS

amounts of alcohol and sunshine, and a more modest amount of sleeping, it can be hard to stay focused when the propeller on the cap isn’t taking that many turns anymore.

A few trace outs is made from the topics given out, and one of the genres more stereotype records, which is mostly about your fucking

mamma is being put on.

But with big smiles and handshakes, the fights are being ended, and the entertainment of the audience stays in focus.

dessert’ entertains. He shows that Swedish underground rap isn’t nearly as afraid of percussion as the Danish.

Before the final, the rappers go back to their camps to lubricate their vocal chords and to work on the verbal slaps and beatings with their homies.

Licking wounds While the judges deliberates on who’s going to the final, the masked Swedish rapper ‘Follow him to the end of the

Make some noise “Those who were cool, were cool, and the ones who were wack, were just entertaining.” Per V says from

beers in 30 seconds

23-year old Nicki and Ruben at Camping West are the proud owners of the three meter high construction that with its two funnels and a sedate system of tubes and pipes make up a giant beer bong.

The festivals biggest beer bong contains 60 beers.

PHOTO: MARIE JOENSEN

When Orange Press arrives to the camp, the beer bong is about to get filled. It takes about 15 minutes to get all pipes and containers filled with the 60 beers that the beer bong can handle at the utmost.

“We fill it up several times a day and then we usually drink of it in two groups. So you don’t have to drink it all by yourself. It takes about 30 seconds to empty the bong, so I don’t think the body would feel that well, if you didn’t do it in turns”, says the proud co-owner Ruben.

Suck, suck, suck The beer bong is equipped with four taps, and after a random selection of a curious member of the audience, all taps are taken. With a turn on a valve, Nicki sets the many liters of beer free, and a split second later the beer is pouring out of the four hoses and into the mouth of the expectant festival guests.

the scene to an agreeing audience. The critical audience assessed every single performance, and can in the final determine the rappers destiny.

The excitement from the audience is being measured on a “noise-o-meter” from the scene. The rapper with the best rhymes and the best flow can reap the benefits of the huge applause from the audience, and then continue the competition.

Finale today Yesterdays winner was MC Rapdog who has qualified to the final in Roskillz after a tight battle with DJ/Rap Kim Smed. The final will be held today at Cosmopol 12:30 p.m. where the kettle once again will be fired up.

KARSTEN BAUN TRANSLATION: SØREN PETERSEN

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It takes about 30 seconds to empty the bong, so I don’t think the body would feel that well, if you didn’t do it in turns

Much of the beer is wasted due to the enormous speed out of the taps. But even more ends in the thirsty mouths. The whole session is being watched close and loudly by around 30 bystanders, who have gathered to see the huge beer bong in action.

Greeting from Tuborg The rumor about the gigantic beer bong spreads fast at the festival area. Earlier in the day, Danish beer company – and official Roskilde Festival sponsor – Tuborg shows up at the camp and donates ten crates of beer.

“Naturally that created a giant party, and our camp was suddenly really popular among our neighbors”, says Nicki while he recovers from yet another successful turn under the beer tap.

CHRISTIAN BØJE NIELSEN TRANSLATION: SØREN PETERSEN

Camp offers reward for flag A depressed camp has contacted Orange Press with some sad news.

Their beloved flag has been stolen (or maybe they dropped it somewhere themselves – they were not quite sure about this) and they are ready to go to extremes to get it back. So if anybody sees a red flag with the inscription “Roskilde 2007 – 2008 – undskyld” (“undskyld” means “sorry”), it can be exchanged for a reward of great symbolic value in the Military Camp at L 59.

Warm up for the Nude race Tomorrow, Roskilde Festival will stage the annual Nude race. This year it’s going to be different, so there is a warm-up session for the race. The warm-up session comprises a competition with rules that are a little different from normal.

An example of one of the rules is that you are not allowed to have too much clothes on, but you are not allowed to have no clothes on. Understand?

There are cool prizes for the event today, just like the real Nude Race. The race takes place between 12am and 1pm today.

Buy a radio host for 2 hours You now have the possibility to get help in drinking your beer, wine, sitting in your chair and much more that you don’t want to do yourself. The Festival Radio’s two morning hosts Lars and Michael will for the sake of a good cause rent themselves out for a period of two hours to the highest bidder.

The auction takes place today at 10am and money received will be donated to human to human.

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO METROXPRESS

FRIDAY 4. JULY 2008

, ready for Facebook-party

Serena and Venus in the final

On July th a giant party is held at Kongens Have (a park in the middle of Copenhagen). So far , people have signed up for the Facebook-party that Mark Holm announced this spring as ‘The (hopefully) biggest party in Denmark! We will be , including you!’ – since then a lot more people have shown interest. Mark Holm has asked for permission to use the park and gotten a positive response.

METROXPRESS

For the third time tennisplayers and sisters Serena and Venus Williams will meet in the Wimbledon final. Yesterday big sister Venus reached her seventh Wimbledon final by beating Elena Dementieva -, - (-) and later Serena Williams won -, - in her match against Zheng Jie that more than one time where stopped because of the rain. Venus has won the title four times and Serena twice. They’ll meet on Center Court tomorrow. METROXPRESS

‘Friends – The Movie’ is coming

METROXPRESS

Barbecue accidents are on the rise

Particularly men end up with injuries, when the barbecue is brought out HEAT DAMAGES. Only fools face the barbecue grill without fear. Or at least a review made

by The National Institute of Public Health for Metro shows that the number of barbecue accidents has increased considerably.

According to senior researcher Bjarne Laursen, around 320 people in Denmark last year were injured so severely that they were in need of treatment. The number was 200 in 2000. On top of the official numbers, the institute assumes that lots of accidents are never reported, because they are resolved without the involvement of the hospitals.

Bjarne Laursen thinks an obvious explanation lies in the Danes’ increased use of barbecue grills:

COLOURBOX

It looks like a reunion for the world’s favorite friends Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler and Ross.

MailOnline reports that the highly anticipated film production of TV series ‘Friends’ finally seems to be a reality. The actors behind the New York-group will according to insiders rise as their alter egos witin the next year and a half. It’s the success of ‘Sex and The City – The Movie’ that has inspired the cast – also Jennifer Aniston not to say the least who untill recently doubted that starring as Rachel Green again was the right thing for her.

PRODUCTION.

More people bring out the barbecue and that means more accidents.

»It’s both accidents where people use dangerous fluids on the hot grill causing bursting flames, cuts and barbecue grills that have been knocked over.«

Actual deaths are rare, but they do occur. For example the other day when two people died from carbon monoxide poisoning after having lighted a barbecue grill indoors.

The numbers show that it is particularly men who end up injured. Presumably, that simply reaffirms that the barbecue grill is a traditionally masculine domain. »But there are also a lot of incidents with children, because they burn themselves on the hot surfaces. About one out of every five people treated is a child,« says Bjarne Laursen.

Apart from the accidents that are directly related to the barbecue grill, the actual food traditionally causes food poisonings with particularly campylobacter and salmonella. Typically because the food is not properly cooked, or because it is harder to keep the hygienic standards when cooking outdoors.

SUSANNE SAYERS/METROXPRESS

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Epo tests have no effect No one knows whether the cyclists in next week’s Tour de France are doped with epo. According to several experts, the test methods employed by the international anti-doping agency, Wada, are practically useless. This is also the assessment of the Danish doping expert Rasmus Damsgaard, who has double checked a handful of the Wada doping tests. According to Wada all five tests were negative, but Damsgaard is absolutely positive that they held ample amounts of the banned drug epo. Swedish doping professor Bengt Saltin supports this perspective. And recently Carsten Lundby, a Danish researcher, has also called the test into question.

According to Damgaard, the problem is that Wada only classifies a test as positive, if there are remnants of a few specific types of epo – but the black market for doping offers hundreds of alternatives that will not cause Wada to react. METROXPRESS/JM

METHOD.

“This is senior camping” Some festival guests love proper conditions and peace at night. Welcome to caravan camp At first glance, the caravan area in the eastern part of the festival area looks like any camping site around the Danish summer landscape.

Looking more closely, however, you discover a van painted with graffiti and the sound of insisting techno rhythms, which distinguishes the guests here from the stereotypical campers wearing identical track suits and white footwear.

Here the camping suit is exchanged with bare stomachs and cans of beer.

Jakob Andersen camps for the forth time at Roskilde festival together with five other guys.

“We have grown old, so it’s great with a caravan when it rains. On top of that we have cold beers in the fridge and we can cook ourselves,” he explains and points with a proud nod towards the awning decorated with brown stripes that mark the entrance of their shared festival home.

Food brought along The comfort-loving gentlemen, who age-wise spread

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A couple of years ago we had electricity and could watch TV

from mid- to late twenties, are not completely unfamiliar with luxury. For instance, they brought food ready to be reheated during the week made by their respective girlfriends.

“This is senior camping,” Jakob Andersen laughs to the amusement of the other members of the group. One of the guys races into the awning and shows a great banner saying “Roskilde up North” as well as all seven names. Unfortunately, number seven had to stay at home because of a serious whiplash.

More luxury, please!

Even though life as a camper is pleasant, there is still something missing ”A couple of years ago we had electricity and could watch TV. This would be great again,” they say. For this festival they have

brought games and a Rubik’s Cube, which will have to make up for TV until the festival program begins.

Apart from the common shower- and toilet facilities the comfortable campers say that the neighbours are great to live next to. “No need to worry about burglary,” they concludes.

Michelle From Hoxer Translation: Ida Mari Dreijer

photo: Aida Veggerby fredsgaard

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