The Roskilde Festival Camp Codex 2013 by Roskilde Festival

P M A C EX D O C

THE

2013 VERSION

A collaborative camping guide for the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most creative campers

contents VISION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE CAMP CODEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 GETTING IN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 THE CAMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 DREAM CITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

JOIN IN! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

NATURE IS YOUR FRIEND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 THE SOUND OF ROSKILDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 ELECTRICITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 FOOD AND DRINK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

photo: Cafolia

VISION Roskilde Festival wants to do its part in cultivating the blooming creativity that is sprouting on the campsite among the festival’s many amazing camps This is no easy task, as many factors determine what is possible and where the limitations are. In addition to fire and noise considerations that, as a festival, we need to show, the camps that pop up for a week on the fields of the festival are a manifold and colourful bunch with many different needs; needs that sometimes overlap but at other times are in direct opposition. The festival is enriched with a gifted and creative crowd of participants who genuinely wish to help create a great festival – not just for themselves but for everyone else too. For them it’s not just about having the biggest party, but also about creating the wildest, most powerful and amazing experience for themselves and other festival goers. They want to shed the shackles of normality that are on them the remaining weeks of the year. This is an audience that is more than just an audience – they are participants, and as a festival we are well proud and enriched to have them. The Roskilde Festival Camp Codex is a collaborative camping guide, which seeks to encourage both festival and festival participants to work together with the opportunities and challenges Roskilde Festival affords. Previous years’ camps have been wonderfully innovative and creative – lying as they do somewhere on the border between the mad and the brilliant. AT THE SAME TIME, though, there also needs to be room for the more subdued neighbouring camps. There also needs to be focus on the fundamental idea of ‘green thinking’ which underpins the whole festival, as well as on a number of very specific and practical game rules that a major international event with 130,000 participants is subject to. To a large extent the codex is based in YOUR needs, ideas and thoughts, and isn’t carved in stone. Rather, it is a process in which together with you we will continuously evaluate, correct and perfect the codex, from year to year. We emphasise dialogue because it’s necessary for us to keep in step in determining what is actually important to the indefinable “Orange Feeling” that especially Roskilde Festival’s camps guarantee. Roskilde Festival’s participants are true experts in camping and creating that special Orange Feeling at the festival. Camp Codex Version 2013 has been developed on the basis of highly qualified input from the festival’s incredibly dedicated participants. It’s important that the Roskilde Festival Camp Codex evolves and is continuously improved, so that every year it can live up to the expectations and rise to the challenges that camp life at the festival presents. If you already have any input and ideas for the Codex, or if you think that although camping at Roskilde Festival is already cool, we could make it even cooler “if only ...”, please send an e-mail to camp@ roskilde-festival.com and keep an eye on our website after the festival, as this year we again want to invite YOU to help evaluate the initiatives taken, thereby contributing to defining the festival’s future.

THE CAMP CODEX On the following pages we have tried to gather together EVERYTHING you need to know to make your Roskilde Festival experience a really great one. We put particular focus on camping and everything that surrounds and supports the main event of enjoying the live music experience. We construct the frame - you create the painting, the magic behind the Orange Feeling, which ultimately of course comes from you. Please regard this guide as a series of opportunities. We are not interested in establishing rules and regulations that do not arise from your needs and which do not help you to have an even cooler festival. Without your respect and understanding, a rule or standard is not worth the paper it’s written on. The philosophy behind The Camp Codex:

• Share what you have without expecting anything in return

Trust that others want the best for you • Lean forward and participate • Keep your eyes open and • your mind free • Play and invite others to join – not just

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the ones you know

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Surprise yourself

• Meet the challenges in your way with a hug and a smile

Some of the items in the guide are concluded with a point called “Orange Feeling”. These are ideas for little extra pieces of pure festival love you can offer but which no-one is expecting from you. In addition, you will also find small boxes describing contributions to the Camp Codex 2013 from fellow festivalgoers.

photo: Mads Høgstedt Danquah

GETTING IN Roskilde Festival’s campsite is huge, and there has to be room for everyone. Of course, there will be some camping spots that will be particularly popular; however, it’s equally obvious that these areas will not be big enough for everybody to be able to camp in them. But look carefully at the festival map. We change things around every year and this year there will again be new initiatives around the camping areas. So try something new and you may be pleasantly surprised. There is room enough for everyone. Map 2013 Entrance Booking You can book the entrance you want to come in by in advance, and this allows us to better organize the capacity of each entrance, so that everyone can get in quickly. The campsite opens on Saturday 29 June at 18:00. From this point you can come in, set your tent up and get your wristband. Don’t worry - there will also be room for your tent, even if you’re not the absolute first one in. And remember: no matter which entrance you use, you can set up camp in any area. Read more on www.roskilde-festival.dk/practical Can I reserve a space for my tent at the campsite? As a general rule, it is not possible to reserve a space. We have to be fair to everyone. There are, however, a few exceptions. Official ‘Green Camps’ will be able to reserve a space from where they can spread their good ‘green energy’. Similarly, in Dream City, it will also be possible to

reserve a space for you and your camp. However, if you want to camp here, you are required to make some kind of contribution to life in Dream City. To reserve a place in Dream City, your camp has to contribute something special that in your own unique way makes staying in Dream City an even cooler experience. Perhaps you want to set up a hair salon, so your neighbours can come in and get the hottest festival hairstyle, or maybe you want to inspire others to achieve a more sustainable festival through theatre and music. You’re only limited by what you and your camp’s imagination can come up with. If you and your camp want to become a part of Dream City, you need to upload your idea onto www. dc.roskildefestival.dk/participate In both cases, reservations are subject to practical considerations. Read more about these initiatives in the Codex and on www.roskilde-festival.dk Camping options Roskilde Festival’s campsite is enormous. That’s why we have also created havens and diversity so that you can find exactly what matches your camp. We have a whole series of different types of camping: Normal, Silent & Clean, Get A Tent Uptown, Get A Tent Downtown, Get A Place, MC-Camp, Sleep-in-busses and Caravan. Read more about the camping areas at www. roskildefestival.dk/camping/camping_areas/

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Help your neighbour pitch their tent – maybe move yours a metre so there’s room for theirs, even if they didn’t show up until four days into the festival and you queued up in your sleeping bag hours and hours to get the best place. This is guaranteed to land you an extra hug and possibly even a new set of friends. Invite two neighbouring camps for a beer after hammering in the tent pegs.

photo: Emma Jespersen

THE CAMP The campsite is divided into small areas where the festival goers live, rest, meet and party. In the centre of each area is a square – an agora. Here you can cook, find information in the service towers, get help and hang out. As well as having free luggage storage and various booths with food and drink, kiosks, etc., many of the agoras have themes: Art City, Poor City, Game City, Street City, Cinema City, Clean Out Loud, Swim City and Silent & Clean. Find more information at www.roskilde-festival.dk How big can my camp be? Of course there are no limits to how many people can live in your camp. But since the camping area isn’t infinitely large, and a lot of people would like to live as close to the stages as possible, think of your neighbour when you set up your camp’s “communal area.” As one of only very few festivals, Roskilde Festival has always allowed pavilions and other coverings ALTHOUGH space is tight, because we feel that it makes sense for the camps to have a good communal meeting place. However, this will only work if you show consideration to each other’s space requirements, also considering how densely packed the area is. Although there is no fixed limitations on how big a communal area can be, feel free to use the following rule of thumb:

• Max 3 x 3 metres (the size of a normal white pavilion) communal area per 20 inhabitants in the camp

However, the service guards can always limit a communal area if they deem it necessary. We need to find space for everyone.

You are welcome to bring a pavilion These are forbidden at all other festivals - we know that. But we would like to keep the flag flying. So you are welcome to bring a marquee tent for your common area basically one per camp (but see the above rule of thumb, if there are a lot of you). The problem with marquee tents is that they generate a huge amount of waste when they are left on the camping areas. Help by disposing of broken marquee tents in the garbage trucks, which will be driving around the camping areas each day. Read more about disposing of waste in the section Nature is your friend. Building a camp rocks! The creativity that many festival goers invest in constructing their camp is enormous and part of what makes the festival experience extra diverse and colourful. Due to space and fire considerations, however, the festival is subject to certain obstructions that we MUST adhere to: Bring this: • Normal lightweight camping furniture • Folding tables • Small beach and folding chairs • Camping mats • White pavilions • Foam mattresses • Banners, flags, decoration, potted plants, weird sound systems etc. Anything you can think of - as long as it is in the category “small, lightweight materials” and you take it home again with you or hand it in to the renovation crew

Don’t bring this: • Living room furniture, such as easy chairs, sofas, coffee tables and dining tables • Large construction materials • Generators and domestic appliances Although the passage above can sound like a damper on creativity, there are many possibilities for imaginative installations. Colours, flags and small installations can brighten up an otherwise drab pavilion, just as light installations can attract people at night, etc. Be creative within the framework, and think outside the box. Tents are allowed for living in but for security reasons they can’t be more than 2.5 metres tall. This may sound like very little but because of the great focus on safety it is necessary. The service guard is your friend The orange service guards are there to take care of you – all of you. Not to supervise you or control you or be a pain. Although sometimes this means that they have to take on “annoying” jobs like extinguishing mood candles, quietening down a party or moving some tents, they are there for YOU. Become friendly with your service tower and go to them if you need help, guidance or just a nice chat.

Sponsors/commercial collaborators and camps Roskilde Festival is very reluctant about “all that sponsorship stuff”, and we prefer to keep the advertising stuff to a minimum. We do it only under very strict forms in which a company can only enter if it offers better opportunities and service for the festival goers – and if they enter, it’s expensive, helping to ensure that the ticket price is kept low. Many companies are sorry about that as they would like to flash their logo to you via flags, balloons and other stuff – so they think, “we can just sneak our way in through a couple of camps. That doesn’t cost anything, and we can do what we want.” Our response to that is a “no thanks.” If you can score something for your camp from a good friend, mum’s company or somewhere else, that’s just fine – but don’t do samples, advertising, flags, banners etc. If your local booze company or your cousin’s neighbour’s dad’s worldwide conglomerate wants to participate, refer them to us so that everyone benefits.

A short note from your fellow campers:

The Golden Teepee Rule

“Borrowing” things is not okay – even if it’s for a laugh. People are genuinely upset to have their palms and rubber dinghies stolen.

Exception: We love tepees, so if you wish to bring yours to the festival, you can, as long as it is primarily used for sleeping in and has a max height of 4 metres.

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• Leave the area like you found it. Bring home the things you took to the site, throw them out or hand them in for recycling – e.g. pavilions and car batteries.

• Give a hug to a passing orange service guard.

DREAM CITY Dream City gives the world’s most creative campers an even better opportunity to realize their dreams at the festival. Dream City is a city located in Roskilde Festival’s camping area where festival participants can build and create their dream happening - for the benefit and enjoyment of all festival participants. During the festival, parts of the camping area H (East) will be transformed into a magnificent city with buildings, art and events planned and created by festival participants. You can also move into area H just as an ordinary normal camper and participate in the many exciting happenings and workshops in Dream City. Dream City is the first step towards giving festival participants even more opportunities to create the festival exactly as they have dreamed it should be: a place where new ideas are generated and brought to life in the vast community of Roskilde Festival Since the beginning of March, festival participants have been able to upload their ideas for projects they will carry out in Dream City during the festival on the Dream City website (link: dc.roskilde-festival.dk). Here they can collaborate with other festival participants to develop their ideas prior to final approval, before these ideas are brought to life in Dream City.

The Dream City dogmas Community, creativity and good ideas constitute some of the key words relating to Dream City. Roskilde Festival is making the site available, but it is festival participants who will put together Dream City based on their own creativity, ideas and communal spirit. There are basically no rules for what can be done in Dream City – the only limit is festival participants’ own imagination and creativity. We will, however, be there to make sure that no one gets hurt and that everyone has as good a time as possible. Therefore, Dream City has a set of dogmas that you must respect: • You need to hold a ticket to Roskilde Festival 2013 • Your project/camp must bring a gift to Dream City – something that can be shared with the rest of the Dream City crowd • Your project has to be sustainable and socially responsible • What you bring, you also take with you If you have any other questions about how to become a part of Dream City, you can read more on www.roskildefestival.dk/arts/cities/dream_city or send an email to dreamcity@roskilde-festival.dk

Orange Feeling

• Dare to dream. Share your dreams with your fellow festival participants and together you can create a fantastic experience for yourself and for the rest of Roskilde Festival.

• Push the boat out and help make the Roskilde Festival 2012 experience a unique one, and add a whole new design: jón ingi hallgrímsson

dimension to the Orange Feeling.

JOIN IN! Embrace the festival with open arms and join in! Roskilde Festival is a huge playground where you can make camping a fantastic experience - with both old and new friends. It is the world’s best opportunity to make the most brilliant, whacky and innovative camp possible. One of the coolest things about camp life at the festival is when you invite other festival participants into your camp - and there is ample opportunity to do this at the festival, both in a modest, low-key way and on a more ambitious scale. Here are just a few of the initiatives that your camp can be a part of if you want to contribute by sharing what you’re good at with masses of other festival participants: CAMP OF THE YEAR Each year thousands of camps fill the camping areas with parties, creative activities, fun games, crazy traditions, weird themes, bizarre costumes and love. All the camps are cool but only one can boast the honorary title of “Camp of the Year”. This year the game will change, as we aim to give the power back to you festies, when daily Winners will be chosen by a new theme each day: Monday Early Bird Camp – the camp that hit the festival running and makes the festival a nice place for everybody to be from day one. Tuesday Sustainability Camp – the greenest camp on Roskilde Festival. Being green is not just about solar energy, but innovative ways of keeping it green and making others joining the fun is also a factor. Wednesday Community Camp – the camp that does the most for the camping community by making events and being the best neighbours. Thursday Party Camp – the camp that throws the best and most unforgettable parties. Friday Theme Camp – the camp with the best, most elaborate and innovative theme. Each day of the festival the panel of competent camp ex-

perts will visit the camps signed up for the competition and nominate three camps, that will meet on the field of honour to determine who is the best Party Camp, Early Bird Camp, Sustainability Camp, Theme Camp and Community Camp. On Saturday all camps that has been nominated as a Daily Winner will meet up and throw their vote as to which of the Daily Winners they think is Roskilde Festival Camp of The Year ‘13. The winning camp will not only have pride in the honourable title of ‘Camp of the Year’. They receive six tickets to Roskilde Festival 2014 and a unique Camp of the Year T-shirts and. On top of this a specially designed trophy made from orange canvas from the very first Orange Stage and with the previous winners engraved on it: Where is the Love (2006), Den Svedig Kalkun (2007), Topgun Camp (2008), Camp Find Holger (2009), Camp Crazy Legs (2010 and 2011) and Camp Burt Reynolds (2012). Enter the competition here: http://roskilde-festival.dk/ news/singlenews/sign-up-for-camp-of-the-year-now/

On the other hand, homemade flyers, Facebook groups, banners and colourful lighting installations still function perfectly well. Green Camps You and your camp can improve the waste collection at the festival and spread the word about sustainability and green consciousness. All you need to do is to have a concept for your camp that puts focus on the waste issues in a way that inspires others to help keep the festival clean. We encourage artistic freedom, although certain dogma must be adhered to in order to qualify as Green Camps:

• Keep your camp clean and leave your campsite assqueaky clean as you found it

• Create activities during the festival that reflects your green thinking

• Make the fact that your camp is a Green Camp visible and obvious

• Have fun – it is Roskilde Festival after all

Dream City Have you always dreamt about creating a place on Roskilde Festival for hardcore metal fans, or about a camp that celebrates bike-love with a bike-rental service and free bike delivery, or maybe having a place where you can make new, sustainable solutions for your camp life? The citizens in Dream City have, and they are about to make it all come true right now! Dream City is an area located in H created by the participants of Roskilde Festival. There are virtually no limits to what you can create or build in Dream City - as long as it’s safe, it’s the imagination of the participants that sets the limit. Clean Out Loud Clean Out Loud brings together more than 3000 people in a communal group focusing on a sustainable and clean festival culture by keeping the area clean, throwing green events and coming up with fantastically creative ways to party. Clean Out Loud is a partnership between Roskilde Festival, Roskilde Festival College and Vallekilde College, the purpose of which is to pave the way for a more sustainable festival. All Clean Out Loud camps must be kept nice and clean during the festival and the camping area must be left as clean as it was found.

Camp Event Calendar - YOUR activities in the official app Roskilde Festival is packed with rich and exciting experiences. Just as important as the music programme and the many other activities Roskilde Festival arranges are the spontaneous and creative events that the festival participants themselves organize. This can take the form of anything from parties and an underground circus to the Olympics, parades, and so on.

Green Camps can be found in the Clean Areas in area B, E, K, J and M, and as a green camper you are able to reserve a space in one of these areas. We hope that as many people as possible will pick up on the good green energy feeling that the Green Camps will spread. As a Green Camp, your green initiatives will be covered by the festival’s media - so it is important to show how cool it is to be green.

You will:

The Roskilde Festival app allows you to create your own events and find other festival participants’ events. By marking an event as a ‘favourite’ event, it will automatically be moved into your personal “My Roskilde” calendar: a second element of the app, which keeps track of all your many activities during the festival, whether it’s a concert or a huge festival-goer-created flash mob on the campsite. Even when the app is offline, it will still be possible to create new events and see newly created events. That way you are always up to speed on the coolest festivalgoer events. Also it provides you with all sorts of practical information, maps and schedules. Find the the official festival app at Google Play or App Store or by sending an SMS where you write RF APP to 1204 (DK) or +45 4240 9019 (INT.)

You can read more about Green Camps on www.facebook. com/greenfootsteps

• Participate in the actual creation of the festival by com-

• Be involved in starting a new and sustainable mode of being at festivals

ing up with fun activities

• Be responsible and have fun at the same time • Meet new “Clean Out Loud” buddies • Take part in a lot of great activities organised by other festival participants all over Dream City

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• Tuck a crate of beer under your arm and visit at least one new camp a day. Be generous. Listen to them, get to know them and make some new friends.

photo: Mads Høgstedt Danquah

NATURE IS YOUR FRIEND We are sorry to spend oceans of time and money – which we have to move from cool events and music – on cleaning up and collecting and getting rid of all the rubbish afterwards. Unfortunately, rubbish is still a sad final image of a Roskilde Festival. In some of the camping areas for instance, only about half the tents are brought home again, and this creates piles of trash. And so we really hope that your camp will lend a hand. It’s done in two shakes of a lamb’s tail if each camp does their little bit. Help the festival and clean up your own camp before leaving the area, and use either the available containers for residual waste or donate your camping gear to the organisations that are collecting. Disposing of your rubbish quickly and easily We believe it should be easy to get rid of your rubbish. That is why this year there will be even more garbage trucks, which will drive around the camping area each and every day so you can quickly and easily get rid of your garbage. You can also, at any time, dispose of your garbage by the towers, where containers have been installed. In addition, you can get red garbage bags for use in camp at the towers. Less metal Metal and batteries left behind after you go home can contribute to destroying our beautiful campsite. So do the

environment a favour and dispose of your used batteries, your broken radio or torch and your metal waste (tin cans, etc.) by giving them to the very nice collectors who will be going around the camping area collecting this kind of waste. You are also more than welcome to return used batteries in the cloakrooms or by the towers. Car batteries can be returned at G, L, E or P. Mobile trash cans In the struggle to eliminate garbage from the campsite, this year there will be 11 orange garbage trucks that will drive around the camping areas. Each area will have its own truck, which will drive around their designated area everyday from 8 AM to 6 PM, with garbage workers and those in charge of the towers working together to find out where they are most needed. The garbage trucks are your mobile trash cans, making it easy for you to get rid of rubbish and broken tents, marquees, camping chairs, etc., which will be sorted by the containers. Clean areas Area B, E, J, K and M are particularly clean areas. We have been putting up extra bins and containers, so it’s easier for you to get rid of your waste.

NOTE Rubbish is actually what constitutes the greatest fire hazard on the campsite. The tents just melt if they catch fire.

THE SOUND OF ROSKILDE Music and sound are a large part of the festival experience. Both the kind that emanates from the stages and the kind that uplifts the parties from colourful sound systems. To put it plainly: Expect the campsite to be full of parties, madness and SOUND pretty much 24-7. Probably especially when you want to sleep and especially from the neighbour camp that is already being a pain. At the same time you can be sure that there are loads of people around you in the dead of night who wish to sleep when you want to have a party.

• If you like to sleep well, remember to bring earplugs

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or to set up your camp in Area J (Silent & Clean), which is a special camping area that is aimed at being both cleaner and quieter at night – so without noisy parties and loud music. If you like to party, then try to avoid doing so in the same spot every night over the entire week. Create some breathing spaces.

Homebuilt sound systems are amazing Each year sees more and more unique sound systems at the festival. With wheels, without wheels, colourful, transparent, gigantic, furry, coffin shaped, drink brewing or in other ways unique sound systems. It’s creative, and it’s AWESOME! At the same time it attracts people to the party and creates a place to be. However, in recent years we have seen a trend for the sound systems in the camping areas to play louder and louder, while the parties in the camping area increase in number. That last bit is super cool, but it can end up in a spiral of noise which ultimately can annoy both festival goers and the festival’s neighbours – and as we now are blessed with great understanding from our neighbours, we would like to show extra consideration to them. After all,

Orange Feeling

• If your neighbour camp is capsized in rubbish and chaos, help them get it back on its feet again. They might offer a dance and a beer.

• If you smoke, use a pocket ashtray. It takes forever to pick up all those millions of butts that each year are stubbed out on the green fields of the festival – because they ALL have to be picked up, and by hand, one by one.

• Donate your sleeping bag or camping gear to a homeless person at one of the festival’s Camp Aid collection points. These are open Sunday 7/7 and Monday 8/7 at all towers and by the East and West Exits.

• Build the craziest theme around the sound system • Turn it into a machine that can produce drinks, that you • • • •

can play games on, that can fly or is filled with festival survival gear Pimp it up with lights (lights attracts people) Make the best playlist Construct the festival’s most energy friendly system Etc.

Facts for nerds Measured over 5 minutes, the sound level of the music must not exceed 84 dB (depending on local conditions and the nearest houses) between midnight and 08:00 in the period Saturday 29 June to Wednesday 3 July. From Thursday 4 July to Sunday 7 July, it must not exceed 84 dB (depending on local conditions and the nearest houses) between 04:00 and 08:00. At all other times, the music level may not exceed 94 dB (depending on local conditions and the nearest houses). Can I drag my band into the camping area and play a few tracks? Of course you can, as long as it’s on the camping area’s terms and they have a ticket. Skip the stage and the sound equipment – bring it acoustically with a focus on having a good time. Many people gathered in one spot on the campsite just results in knocked-over tents, people whom trip over tent pegs and much too few drinks. So instead, think in small pop-up performances which give five Norwegians, an Australian and four Swedes a musical experience they’ll never forget.

Saturday 29/6 Wednesday 3/7 00.00 - 08.00 84 dB 04.00 - 08.00 All other times

they have to listen to us for many years to come. Instead of waving an admonishing finger at you, we’d much rather suggest that you TOO think of other things than “up to 11” when building your system. Break free and tweak the other features. For instance:

94 dB

Thursday 4/7 Sunday 7/7

84 dB 94 dB

ELECTRICITY & THE INTERNET photo: Steffen Jørgensen

There is very little electric power in a field, but after all we are on a journey together to the festival’s promised land seeking both fun and challenges. Therefore, one goal of every camp is to create a cool site without the use of electricity. And yet... GETTING ONLINE You can check your email or what band there will be playing when online at the camping area. You just have to go to one of the WiFi-hotspots located at: CITYcentre East/ West, Dream City, all agoras, The Oval, Sonic Zone, Trade Zone, and Urban Zone. (see map) If you haven’t brought your smart phone or tablet you can visit the internet cafe located in the Pavilion area at Gate 10. It’s free and the café is open all days during the festival from 12:00 to 22:00. More mobile telephone masts and better network We also collaborate with all the major telephone companies about optimising and expanding the mobile phone coverage in the area. This means more phone masts and a faster and more stable network.

Where? Car batteries and the like may be recharged (or renovated) in CITY center East and West, Agora G and Agora L. Chargers are not required. Mobile phones and other small items may be recharged in all cloakrooms (price DKK 10) - remember to bring your own charger. You can also get a special VOLT battery at the VOLT booths or charge for free at the “3” stand located in the Apollo area

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• Surprise your neighbours by playing a song you know they’ll like, instead of driving them insane in your record

• If you have a clever little gadget that can generate electricity from the sun, rain, pee or beer – then offer to share a

attempt to play the same track 1001 times before the end of the festival.

Yell at the top of your voice when you hear the “skoooooaaal!!!” shout rippling across the campsite (a thing everyone should hope to experience).

Batteries Of course it’s ok to bring car batteries or other battery equipment to get you through the day if your creativity really doesn’t run to solar cells or muscle power. But beware! Car batteries are filled with acid and must be handled with care. You can recharge your car batteries with us. It costs DKK 150 and also requires that you pay a deposit of DKK 250 on the first charge. When the festival ends, you can choose either to take the battery home with you or return it with the accompanying receipt and get the DKK 250 deposit back. Car batteries just left on the field can pollute groundwater, flora, etc.

little of it with your neighbour.

• Beer wrapped in a wet newspaper and then placed in the baking Roskilde sun has always been one of the most effective ways to cool beer – but it can always be refined even further…

FOOD AND DRINK There is nothing greater than inviting your neighbour camp over for brunch, a meal that can easily last all day and night. The festival has a tremendous selection of food but it’s still great to act the master chef and invite 12 different nationalities to a Christmas dinner, or just the meanest festival pot of spaghetti. It’s just that among the tents there isn’t much room for the field kitchen and the blender – and a camping stove in the tent is a no-go as it cremates both the tent, the sleeping bag and the hairs on your arm. Therefore we have made “cooking areas” at each agora. Here is a communal barbecue and ample space for your sublime chef’s camping stove set-up. And it’s the world’s best opportunity to share a meal with the neighbour camp you still don’t know. You can bring all the food you want, and we have a supermarket there so you can buy your own ingredients. So remember to locate the cooking areas and be careful with any form of fire. We have been allowed to pack the tents like sardines but that’s why any form of open fire is referred to the cooking areas – both candles, camping stoves and flamethrowers.

RULE NUMBER 1 ANY use of open fire outside of the marked areas are ABSOLUTELY PROHIBITED and EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. A patch of tents can burn to the ground in no time.

Drinks? You are welcome to drink your own beverages in the camping areas. But we would also like to encourage a spirit of share and share alike. So, as drinks tend to come in packaging, we have introduced an ingenious deposit system. You can either go to a deposit booth yourself or help bring democracy to the Third World by donating your refund to Care’s collectors – you’ll know them by their turquoise waistcoats, and they’ll be waiting for at gate 6 (Arena), 10 (Pavilion) and 19 (Odeon). Care’s profits will among other things go to financing micro loans to women in Third World countries, and here, even a single bottle will make a difference. Unfortunately, poverty and inequality can be found everywhere, and all around us there are people with very little or no income as they try to scrimp and scrape their way through life. For them the deposit system at Roskilde Festival is a godsend - which means that deposit collectors from, for example, North Africa or the poorest parts of Europe or Asia can easily collect deposits equivalent to a month’s wages during the festival. They need it and your deposit will help put bread on their table. So please help them. Make sure your camp gives them a warm welcome, and overlook anything you might find slightly annoying; instead, have a good, friendly chat with your local deposit collector. There are enough battlegrounds and hatred in the world already - let us avoid them at Roskilde Festival.

HELP DEVELOP

CAMP CODEX version 2014 Send your ideas and comments to camp@roskilde-festival.dk

Orange Feeling

• Help a Roma and other poor people with a smile - and the deposit from the party the night before.