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Jens Peter Kruse, via Facebook
We create everything from nothing, and once we’re done a week later, it becomes nothing again. This year we're building the city called Roskilde Festival for the 45th time. Of course, this particular city has lots of music, art and activities on offer. There's so much to enjoy and partake in, and these following pages will provide you with all the information about Roskilde Festival 2015!
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PHOTO: LUCAS ADLER
By spending the next days with us, you will make this year’s city – our city – another one to remember. Explore, enjoy! And welcome!
THIS IS OUR CITY
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WELCOME
THIS IS OUR
Imagine Roskilde Festival as a city. All the elements of a city are right here. There are the inhabitants – which is you and 129,999 fellow Roskilde-goers. Moreover, we have buildings and infrastructure including streets, water supply, sewers etc. The only thing that really sets this particular city apart from most other cities is the fact that Roskilde Festival is a temporary city. And it becomes the fourth largest in Denmark.
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CONTENTS
Mickey Kristensen via Facebook
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GUI D E intro news at roskilde festival 2015 #rf15 — our media channels it’s made by volunteers we give it all to charity roskilde festival højskole get your official merch
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city Roskilde Festival is the t is ten a ter, wa is r where bee you a castle, music is the air is bre athe and happiness sts ... the only feeling that exi
art & events explore the art zone welcome to the new graffiti zone graffiti sculpting in 3d rising 15 — youth with purpose street city dream city maker area
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music q&a with anders wahrén africa express when noise becomes transcendental a sing-along invitation resident djs on apollo/apollo countdown the ghettoblaster music presentations: street city stage music presentations: apollo countdown music presentations: rising music presentations: a-z
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food caring about our food the food court turning roskilde into an ice cream food trucks roskilde festival for foodies changing the way we eat navigating the food jungle a variety of drinks
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practical information safety in your camp safety at the stages let’s keep it clean practical information a-z map of roskilde city map of roskilde festival
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NEWS
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NEWS AT ROSKILDE FESTIVAL 2015
RISING UPSCALED AND ON THE MOVE
We’re moving Rising, our stage for upcoming acts. In 2015 you can find it at Camping West, just by CITYcentre West. We’re upgrading the stage as well. You will notice that it has a beautiful pyramid-like shape now. And that’s not all, we’re naming the whole area Rising and dedicating it as a place for music, theater, debates and much, much more. Read all about it on page 24.
NEW STAGE FOR APOLLO
PHOTO: TOBIAS NICOLAI
Our electronic stage Apollo also has a brand-new stage design. The 16 metres-tall cube-looking stage is put right in the middle of an area where everything is turned into a giant canvas filled with lights and projections at night. Chill out here during the day and expect a sensual explosion after nightfall.
STREET CITY EXPANDS
As always you can witness some of the world’s best skaters, bladers and bikers in Street City. You can also attend concerts at the Street City Stage. This year, Street City has merged with Game City, allowing you to can engage in a number of street games in a new and expanded area between camping areas B and C.
DEDICATED ZONE FOR GRAFFITI
Some of the very best graffiti painters in the world visit Roskilde Festival year after year. Now they’re getting a dedicated zone of their own where you can hang out between concerts. Look forward to a visual journey in colours and shapes – and a special 3D graffiti piece made of wood!
BIGGER WASTE EFFORT
Nobody likes garbage. Everyone wants it disposed of in a proper way. In 2015 we're focusing intensely on making that happen. We've set up 12 recycling stations with a waste sorting system in the camping area. Moreover, you will find even more trash cans all over. Let's make this a clean festival together!
TASTE THE SOUND IN ART ZONE
An international team of artists turn Art Zone, located just west of Orange Stage, into something very unique. You can test how sound tastes, experience gigantic steel wire sculptures and be a part of a social experiment.
OUR MEDIA CHANNELS
#RF15
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5 1 F R # OUR MEDIA CHANNELS
So much is going on at Roskilde Festival, and it’s good to stay informed. Our presence in various media gets more and more diverse every year, and throughout the festival capable hands are working on supplying you with all the information you need. For all immediate questions please visit roskildefestival.dk where information has been generated for you all year.
THE OFFICIAL ROSKILDE FESTIVAL APP
Explore the #RF15 line-up in the official Roskilde Festival app. Listen to the bands, get recommendations for new acts based on those you like and create your own schedule. These are just a few of the possibilities that the Roskilde app offers. Of course, you can also check out the festival map, find practical information, your favourite food offers and read about all the bands. Download the app from App Store and Google Play.
RFCAM – SHINE UP YOUR ROSKILDE PHOTOS
Now you can add some funny ‘Roskilde’ layers to your festival photos. Put a Pharrell hat on top of your boyfriend’s head, a Disclosure mask on your own face or a huge cocktail in everybody’s hands. It’s easy! Just snap a photo, add as many funny layers as you see fit and then share it on your favourite social media.
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SHARE YOUR FESTIVAL – WE DO TOO
Every day during the festival, we will do our very best to get back to everybody who bring up questions on Facebook or Twitter, give us some great input or tag us with the official Roskilde Festival 2015 hashtag – #RF15. On facebook.com/orangefeeling we keep you on top of what is going on during the day and what went down the day before. Our Instagram reporters will be out in the field every day, documenting live from all over the festival and sharing the Roskilde experience. We’re called @roskildefestival if you were wondering. Find us on Snapchat. Our user name is roskildefest. During the festival we will give you exclusive insights behind the scenes. Don’t miss out!
FREE FESTIVAL NEWSPAPER – EVERY DAY
PHOTO: MORTEN LAU NIELSEN
Use #RF15 and your photo might even end up on the big screens by the stages. Get RFcam in App Store. Currently only available for iPhone.
FREE WI-FI
We’re offering free Wi-Fi for all festival-goers. Please notice, you need to be close to our hotspots to go online. You go online by choosing FestivalNet from the list of Wi-Fi connections, opening your browser app and following the instructions.
Orange Press is Roskilde Festival’s own daily paper. Every day from Sunday to Saturday we serve the best stories about camps, arts, food and music – as well as fresh concert reviews. Let us know if you have a good story: E-mail us at op@roskilde-festival.dk. The paper will be available from around 10:00 at different places around the festival site where you get your breakfast. It is completely free. Please notice, the paper is only available in Danish. .
#RF15 OUR MEDIA CHANNELS
Hotspots are found at CITYcentres East and West, Get A Tent Central, Get A Tent East, Get A Place, Dream City, most agoras and many areas at the festival site. See the map on page 128.
IT’S MADE BY VOLUNTEERS!
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IT’S MADE BY
VOLUNTEERS! Eamon R. Ramstein, admission office
Every year, approximately 30,000 people work as volunteers for Roskilde Festival or one of more than 200 clubs, societies and organisations that work with trade and services during the festival. Ever wondered what it’s like being a volunteer? We’ve gathered these statements from the very people making the festival you’re currently in the middle of!
Signe Frost, Roskilde Leadership Lab
“my life started on my .” first day as a volunteer
WANNA BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER?
Be a Roskilde Festival volunteer. Go to our website for more info. Want the Roskilde Festival to last all year around? Join our dedicated crews volunteering year-round. You’re welcome to send us an application: volunteer@roskilde-festival.dk.
“Volunteering at RoskildeFestival is taking part in something bigger than yourself – and you get to have fun while doing it.”
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Tine Sørensen, area office
“Whatever you give, you get back at least tenfold.”
PHOTO: PIL CHRISTOFFERSEN
“My colleagues at Roskilde Festival are my extended summer family.”
“It’s an experience that allows you to grow as a per son in unexpected ways.”
IT’S MADE BY VOLUNTEERS!
Monica Ann, international press
LIFE SPAN
YEAR
WE LIVE LONGER AND BETTER The world has made great progress in recent decades. Life expectancy, income and education have increased across the globe, according to the UN Development Index*. People live longer in nine out of every ten countries, four in five people are now able to read and write, and the least developed nations have nearly tripled their income, compared to 1990.
We can end poverty Read more at www.worldsbestnews.dk *The Human Development Index measures each country’s development level on a scale from 0,0 to 1,0. To reach the highest score, a country’s population must on average live 85 years, earn a yearly salary of 75,000 dollars, and have 15 years of education.
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CHAR | TY Did you know that Roskilde Festival is 100 % nonprofit? Every year we donate all of our profits to charity.
FROM ROSKILDE TO YOUTH SHELTER RG60
One of many donations from last year’s profit benefited the youth shelter RG60 (Rådmandsgade 60) in Copenhagen. RG60 houses 24 young homeless people, giving them a warm bed to sleep in. RG60 was given DKK 500,000 (approx €70,000) to continue their work helping the youngsters off the streets.
Since 1972 Roskilde Festival has donated more than DKK 225 million (approx. €30.2 million) to to humanitarian and cultural work benefiting children and young people around the world.
Your participation in Roskilde Festival – volunteers and paying Roskilde participants alike – help generate donations to places like RG60.
PHOTO : PER LANGE
CHARITY
WE GIVE IT ALL TO
A FORCE FOR GOOD — FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES
Whip out your fertilizer spreader. We know you’ve got one. What goes in must come out. But what comes out of you after a couple of beers isn’t just water. In fact, it is a highly potent fertilizer. So this year, the farmers of Denmark are taking the piss out of Roskilde Festival – quite literally. And who knows, next year you might have a beer from crops fertilized by yourself. Let the good news flow #RFpiss
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ROSKILDE FESTIVAL
OPENING IN 2018
At this very moment the architects COBE/MVRDV are working around the clock to create the best possible space for the højskole of the future. Next spring the first sod will be taken at Musicon, Roskilde.
H ØJ SKOLE Roskilde Festival has taken the initiative to build a brand-new højskole, which will open in 2018. The aim is that the students leave the højskole with the motivation, desire and ability to create value for others than themselves through volunteering, social and cultural work. The academic profile consists of the sum of the disciplines it takes to create a cultural and social event such as Roskilde Festival.
...H JSKOLE?
A højskole or, in English, folk high school is a boarding school, mainly for young adults. Folk high schools enlighten people and train for democracy, and they probably signify the single most original contribution Denmark has made to international thinking about education.
NEW ARCHITECTURE
BUILT ON COMMUNITY
Roskilde Festival Højskole is being built on the foundation of the values that create the community Roskilde Festival each summer. The strongest community is made of differences, and the best communities evolve when people live their passion – together!
ROSKILDE FESTIVAL HØJSKOLE
TAKE PART NOW!
Use the hashtag to show us what the #roskildecommunity means to you. Your best pictures will be shared at Roskilde Festival Højskole’s Facebook page each day throughout the festival.
OFFICIAL MERCH
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GET YOUR OFFICIAL
M ERCH
THE OFFICIAL #RF15 T-SHIRT
ROSKILDE STREETWEAR
Protect your dome in radical Roskilde style with this fresh collection of snapbacks, patch caps and other styles of caps.
230,-
180,-
FIND THE MERCHANDISE STALLS
KEEP WARM
Even the fairest Danish summer nights may get chilly. Stay warm and stylish in this jet black lumberjack jacket with thermo lining.
620,-
The stalls can be found at CITYcentres East and West. At the festival site they can be found by the Pavilion stage and east of Orange足 Stage on 8th Street. The merchandise stalls at the festival site are open Wednesday 17-02, Thursday and Friday 10-02 and Saturday 10-22. You can also buy merchandise at rfshop.dk.
IS YOUR OLD PAUL McCARTNEY T-SHIRT THREADBARE?
You can often buy T-shirts and other merchandise by your favourite band at the stall near the stage where the band is playing, but only on the day the band is playing.
KROGERUP HØJSKOLE HOVEDFAG VERDEN BRÆNDER / FOTOGRAFI / JOURNALISTIK & MEDIER / FILM! FILM! FILM! / STORBYENS PULS / CROSSING BORDERS / OG MANGE SPÆNDENDE VALGFAG REJSER NEW YORK - WASHINGTON / ISRAEL - PALÆSTINA / BURMA - THAILAND / MEXICO / HOLLYWOOD / ROADTRIP I CALIFORNIEN / BERLIN / ISTANBUL / DENMARK - SWEDEN Elevstart d. 16. august og d. 10. januar. Klik ind på www.krogerup.dk og se mere.
Sangskrivning, Elektronisk musik, Foto, Vjing, Billedkunst, Formlab, glas, keramik, Smykkedesign VIL DU GERNE FORDYBE DIG I KUNST ELLER MUSIK. SÅ ER ENGELSHOLM HØJSKOLELIGE NOGET FOR DIG. MELD DIG TIL VORES EFTERÅRSHOLD LIGE NU PÅ WWW.ENGELSHOLM.DK
ART ZONE
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EXPLORE THE
ART zONE
It’s a well-known fact that the essence of Roskilde Festival is more than the music – it’s a community, a city and a state of mind; something unique for each participant. With Art Zone we’ve singled out a term, which is cent ral to our understanding of Roskilde Festival. We’ve let this specific term dictate a thematic foundation on which Art Zone is built. In 2015 we have chosen to focus on a very central experience for Roskilde Festival: The meeting. At Roskilde Festival we meet people, we meet understandings and attitudes towards various subjects. In Art Zone we present a wide range of international and Danish artists who have created works of art especially for Roskilde Festival.
FACTS ABOUT ART ZONE
—— Art Zone is located west of Orange Stage —— The size of Art Zone is about 6400 m2. That’s more than 3 times larger than Orange Stage!
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ART ZONE
ARTISTS HUGE HUMAN BODIES
Ready to meet a giant? The Italian artist Edoardo Tresoldi is famous for his large sculptures made of thick wire. In Art Zone he will create two large human bodies which appear violent, light and transparent at the same time. After nightfall the human bodies will be illuminated.
ROBBERT VAN DER HORST MARCOS ZOTES
All content in Art Zone is put into buildings made by Robbert van der Horst from Holland and Marcos Zotes from Iceland/Spain. The two artists first met at Roskilde Festival 2014. Since then they have teamed up and designed Art Zone in 2015. They have built several small and large pavilions across Art Zone. Light designer Jakob Kvist will make structures and sculptures appear in new ways once it gets dark.
THE HUMAN LIBR ARY
THE HUMAN LIBRARY
The Human Library is a place where you can borrow people representing groups in society that frequently face prejudice, stigmatization or discrimination because of their beliefs, lifestyle, disability, social status, sexuality, employment or ethnic origin. The Human Library has about 40 'books' that you can borrow for 30-45 minutes at a time.
TELL ME YOUR NAME
Public information about you and me are reaped and sold by companies. How much information do you dare share publicly? The Danish artist group Unmake performs the social experiment 'Tell Me Your Name' focusing on big data and the data that is publicly available about you online.
TASTE THE CHANGE OF SOUND
TASTE THE CHANGE OF SOUND
Try the sound installation ‘Taste the change of sound’. Here, a master chef and an artist serve dishes based on the five basic tastes in a colourful universe.
A CATALOGUE OF EVERYTHING GOING ON
Art Zone is but a tiny fragment of all the stuff that is going on besides the music at the festival. Don’t want to miss a thing? These pages give you a taster, and we’ve prepared a full catalogue of all events taking place at Roskilde Festival 2015. Just enter this URL in your browser: roskil.de/ rf15artsevents
WELCOME TO THE NEW
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West of the Arena stage you will find our new Graffiti Zone.
Here you can explore the unique outdoor exhibition, relax before and after concerts, meet your friends for a drink and take a break from the hectic festival life in beautiful artistic surroundings.
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The Graffiti Zone is a huge, urbanesque area filled with street art, graffiti, muralism and installations made by national and international artists.
Look out for the record-breaking graffiti sculpture project by Canadian artist Kwest (see more on page 22) and have a seat along the base of the new, massive murals we call the Roskilde Walls.
PHOTO: HELENA LUNDQUIST
GRAFFITI ZONE
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PHOTO: JONAS JESSEN HANSEN
GRAFFITI ZONE
GRAFFITI ON THE GRANDSTAND WALL
"Roskilde brings out the best in all of us."
It has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? The Danish graffiti artist Dais certainly thinks so. He is decorating the grandstand wall in front of Orange Stage. The piece works like an transformative GIF animation changing the words in a stop-motion manner. What you see on the fence are static states from one word to the next – but the piece can be brought to life digitally.
THE GRAFFITI WORKSHOP
The graffiti workshop is a free activity for everyone. Whether you are new to the artform or a skilled artist already, the workshop is open for everyone to make their own graffiti and street art. The workshop provides free spray paint, masks and walls. All you need is your creativity and good spirit! Tip: Bring your camp, paint your camp logo and take a group photo. where to find the graffiti workshop sunday 28 june to tuesday 30 june street city wednesday 1 july to saturday 4 july graffiti zone
DID YOU KNOW...?
—— The grandstand wall is 90.5 metres long and 2.4 metres tall —— The past three years we’ve had exciting artists decorating the wall: 2012 Steve Powers 2013 Ron English 2014 Husk mit navn 2015 dais
Remember our hashtag: #rfgraff. Graffiti at Roskilde Festival including the graffiti workshop is supported by Molotow Spraypaint
GRAFFITI SCULPTING IN 3D
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GRAFFITI SCULPTING IN
3D Graffiti painting often simulates 3D. But Torontobased artist Kwest takes graffiti out of the walls and turns it into an actual sculpture. He is a key pioneer in fusing two art forms, graffiti and sculpture. And at Roskilde Festival the Canadian wants to make it massive! “The installation that I’m producing for Roskilde is my largest to date. The focus for my work has always been to trump the last thing I produced. So naturally, it is always getting bigger and more detailed,” he says.
ACCENTUATING THE ROSKILDE EXPERIENCE
Kwest’s sculpture is planned to be five metres tall and 30 metres wide. It is constructed with an approach very similar to painting a traditional wall piece – with main letter forms, abstract extensions and the same level of detail. Kwest believes that his work will accentuate the overall experience of Roskilde Festival by bringing a tangible element to the Graffiti Zone west of Arena.
Kwest, graffiti artist
n "Graffiti has always bee tive rea c of an action e xpr ession , which is what this festival represents to me.”
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He wants the Roskilde audience to engage and interact with the piece, and he wants to change the way we look at dimension and space. “The main thing I want to give to the audience is a memory that will last a lifetime, or at least until they witness the next Kwest creation.”
WHO IS KWEST?
—— Kwest is from Toronto, Canada. —— He’s a self-taught carpenter, designer and builder. —— He’s been active since the early 90s painting well over 5000 individual works of art, using freight trains as his primary canvas. —— Kwest is a key pioneer in the fusion of graffiti and sculpture.
GRAFFITI SCULPTING IN 3D
“The size of the piece definitely works alongside the overall scale of the event, as it has to speak to the Roskilde patrons in a big way. The sculpture is an extension of an art movement, which is based on the idea of freedom to create and express. Graffiti to me has always been an action of creative expression, which is what this festival represents to me,” Kwest says.
YOUTH WITH PURPOSE
RISING
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RISING 15 —
YOUTH OSE
WITH PURP
Through music, activities and workshops we focus on the most important generation for the future: the young generation. At Roskilde Festival you can do something to change the world and make a difference for yourself and for others. Rising 2015 consists of the new Rising stage and two giant mirror-covered tepees (we call them ‘Dreamcatchers’) as well as a wealth of activities. This year's theme is ‘youth with purpose’, which we will explore, design and play with. On the following pages you can read more about what Rising has to offer.
WHAT GOES ON... ORGASM WORKSHOP
Everything you never knew about your body is told through words and paint in the Dreamcatcher. Jealousy, good relationships, the body’s secrets and the universe of orgasms are on the agenda. Increase your potential, both for giving and receiving.
WINDOW TO THE WORLD
In a world changing at enormous speed we rarely set aside time for reflecting on how we want our surroundings to develop and how we can actively partake in this. Experience a world premiere of a brand-new Roskilde Festival format with live Skype interviews, international keynote speakers and amazing stories that will change your understanding of life.
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CONVERSATION SALONS
In our conversation salons you can meet a selected group of people and through conversation become wiser on key themes. One day 40 bankers will be present. On the second day 40 IT professionals will talk about networking, security and identity, and on the third day 40 priests and imams will talk about family and gender. From Sunday to Tuesday between 11 and 12.
THE LITTLE BIG THINGS
Help us translate the UN’s new blueprint for sustainable development into real action and commitment. If goals should move from old men in suits to a realisable vision of the planet we want to inhabit in 2030, it requires ownership and action. It is our goal, our future – what would YOU do?
FACE YOUR FUTURE
What are the major challenges that concern young people and what will the future bring? Two mobile challenge vehicles drive around on site with the purpose of entering into dialogue with young people in order to generate ideas of how they can help each other to change and influence the world.
DESIGN YOUR LIFE
Tired of So-what-will-you-be-doing/working-onnext questions? Get “Talkative Ted” to shut up and become an architect of your own life using the design method ’Designing Your Life’. At Design Your Life we work with a mix of design thinking and methods taken from talent development in order to enable you to turbocharge your own life.
CLOSE BY
Close By are performances by Pernille Garde and Tin Soheili in cooperation with Copenhagen Music Theatre. The performance lasts 15 minutes and plays as many times as possible. You can leave your own story with Pernille by the Dreamcatcher. We guarantee an up-close and touching experience where brave festival-goers can look a stranger in the eye.
YOUTH WITH PURPOSE
COUCH SURFERS
Couch surfers are young people who don’t identify themselves as homeless. They need a place to stay for a while and end up living on their friends' sofas. These sofas are now at Roskilde Festival where you are invited to listen to their inhabitants’ radio stories from their temporary "homes". Find them all over the festival area from Sunday to Friday.
RISING
FACING EUROPE
Facing Europe is a photo exhibition by young asylum seekers. Through photos, text and personal dialogue you can hear from a person what it’s like to leave your home and navigate a new one. Meet them around the campsite from Sunday to Wednesday between 10 and 18.
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YOUTH WITH PURPOSE
director: tor nygård kolding 2015 This is a world premiere on a documentary about the accident at Roskilde Festival 2000. It will be screened on the very day that nine people died in front of Orange Stage, fifteen years ago.
EVERYDAY PROJECT
CITIZENFOUR
LATE NIGHT CINEMA
Every Rising day will end with a different documentary film, handpicked by the programmers at CPH:DOX, Northern Europe's biggest documentary film festival. CPH:DOX has chosen three films about people who influence and help change the world for the better through their words and actions. citizenfour director: laura poitras 2014 Journalist Glenn Greenwald and a director travel to Hong Kong to meet the then still completely unknown Edward Snowden, who holds information that will change the world. banksy does new york director: chris moukarbel 2014 Director Chris Moukarbel takes a look at the sensational and notoriously mysterious artist known around the world as Banksy and his electrifying “31 works of art in 31 days” project in New York City. Presented in cooperation with DR. the emperor’s new clothes director: michael winterbottom 2015 Starring comedian, actor and activist Russell Brand, The Emperor’s New Clothes explores the growing disparity between economic classes through Brand’s usual satirical and critical approach.
Learn how your own life and your smartphone can be the starting point for a documentary and a voice in the public debate with hands-on training in video stories. Each day offers a new video challenge. Create a video story at the festival with your smartphone. The best will be put on the Rising screen and the filmmakers rewarded with tickets to CPH:DOX 2015.
YOUNG GENERATION MEETUP
We feel the pulse of the young generation. Join the meetup and participate in the debates. Through workshops we find out what a meaningful life is. Besides a free sandwich and beer or soda you can discuss topics such as boredom, doubt and social media. The meetup takes place Tuesday between 13 and 16. We’ll meet up at the Rising stage and together we’ll head for the festival site.
FRIENDSHIPS
Try a chit-chatter, jump in the bead bath or draw what you’re thinking. Come and laugh, relax and have deep conversations. Learn more about yourself, your friends, and maybe some people you did not know before you came here. We blend conversation topics with inspiring activities and alternative challenges. All you have to do is bring your curiosity and an open mind. We’re at CITYcentre East from Sunday to Saturday between 11 and 19.
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RISING SATURDAY 27 JUNE
YOUTH WITH PURPOSE SUNDAY 28 JUNE
MONDAY 29 JUNE
TUESDAY 30 JUNE
Close By Close By Beautiful Trouble Pop-up Silent dinner Orgasm workshop Power
PLACE
13:00-14:00 14:45-15:15 16:15-17:00 17:45-18:30 19:15-20:00 20:45-21:30 20:15-23:00
Design your life Everyday Project Everyday Project Commitment for real TBA Forfatterskabet / literature
10:00-13:00 Window to the World 17:45-18:30 Nine Rocks 00:00-01:00 Late Night Cinema
Close By Close By Beautiful Trouble Pop-up Silent dinner Orgasm workshop Power
13:00-14:00 13:45-15:15 16:15-17:00 17:45-18:30 19:15-20:00 20:45-21:30
10:00-13:00 Window to the World 00:00-01:00 Late Night Cinema 13:00-14:00 14:45-15:15 16:15-17:00 17:45-18:30 19:15-20:00 20:45-21:30 20:15-23:00
Design your life Everyday Project Everyday Project Commitment for real TBA Forfatterskabet / literature
10:00-13:00 Window to the World 00:00-01:00 Late Night Cinema Close By Close By Beautiful Trouble Pop-up Silent dinner Orgasm workshop Power 13:00-14:00 13:45-15:15 16:15-17:00 17:45-18:30 19:15-20:00 20:45-21:30
20:00-00:00 Window to the World 13:00-14:00 14:45-15:15 16:15-17:00 17:45-18:30 19:15-20:00 20:45-21:30 20:15-23:00 Design your life Everyday Project Everyday Project Commitment for real TBA Forfatterskabet / literature
11:00-19:00 Friendships
13:00-14:00 13:45-15:15 16:15-17:00 17:45-18:30 19:15-20:00 20:45-21:30
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11:00-19:00 Friendships
BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE
11:00-19:00 Friendships
Find your inner activist. In this workshop we want to share international examples of creative activism and inspire you to find your inner creative activist – and to test it, of course!
11:00-19:00 Friendships
SILENT DINNER
Eat a silent dinner with a stranger and have a sensory experience beyond the ordinary. The food is prepared by our conceptual guest cook William Milsted. How will you react when a stranger asks you about bigger things in life and how will you convey your thoughts when all sound is insulated and shielded?
Y CIT RE T CENST EA
the rising area is of course also home to the stage of the same name. Read about its music line-up on page 54.
STREET CITY
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STRITEY ET C
Sports, art and music. They all meld together in Street City – a unique combination of performance, competitions and workshops. During the first four days of the festival, Street City offers an amazing variety of skaters, bladers, BMX riders, dancers, street artists, upcoming music acts, DJ sessions and street sports. Game City used to be an area of its own. This year it’s a part of Street City, which also means that the area has expanded. Throughout the festival Game, Hummel and Roskilde Festival will entertain you with football, basketball and volleyball. Everyone can participate in the games. You sign up in the Orange Karma area in Street City. Every goal scored in the tournaments will help support GAME's work with social change through youth-led street sports and culture.
THE MUSIC AT STREET CITY STAGE
From 20:00 upcoming artists take over the Street City Stage. This year Sukker Lyn, Kill J, Mendoza and Nadya will show you what they got! Every night the best DJs hit the Street City Stage with beats that make it impossible for you to not move your feet.
If you are into slow mornings, street artists’ Illusions Lab will wake you up with DIY photo experiments every morning from Sunday to Tuesday. Afternoons at Street City are loaded with skate, inline and BMX contests with some of the finest international riders. Adrian Malmberg (S), Vicky Gomez (ES) and Kriss Kyle (UK) will join forces with the best Danish BMX riders and give you amazing demos – both flatland and in Street City’s beautiful bowl. Alex Broskow (US), David Sizemore (US) and Montre Livingston (US) will show you some serious blading with street demos and rail battles. Every evening from Sunday to Tuesday the skilled and versatile dancers from Gully Grinders Dance Crew invite you to move your body at their dance workshops. They will introduce you to hip-hop, dancehall, breakdance, house and much more – so get on your dancing shoes!
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MONDAY 28 JUNE +00 Street art workshop
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+00 Inline – rail battle
+00 Skate street competition
+00 BMX street competition
+00 Skate bowl demo
+00 Skate –national battle
+00 Inline bowl competition
+00 Inline – street show
+15 Dance workshop
+00 Local skate competition
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+00 BMX bowl competition +15 Dance workshop
+15 Bowl Days – skate bowl competition
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+00 BMX flatland competition
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+00 NADYA
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+00 VINYL WARRIORS
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D REYAM CIT
Dream City is your opportunity to create and build your own spot at Roskilde Festival. Dream City is an audience-driven area located at area H. We have space for approx. 4000 Roskilde Festival participants who want to be a part of this user-driven camp area.
Dream City is the only place at Roskilde Festival where you are allowed to use power tools and lawn mowers, so there are virtually no limits to what you can create or build – as long as it’s safe. Dream City is about co-creation, collaboration, sustainability – and great ideas. This is the place for those Roskilde participants who want to build something extraordinary and create something that elevates the experience for themselves and their fellow festival-goers. All the dreamers in Dream City have been preparing for this year’s festival since 21 March when Dream City 2015 launched.
PHOTO: KENNETH LYSBJERG
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SELECTED CAMPS LOVEVILLAGE
Are you looking for love or just some casual intimacy then pass by LoveVillage. From Monday to Wednesday you can pass by for a round of LoveMassage between 11:00-12:00 and on Tuesday 30 June you can attend a massive speed-dating event between 22:00 and 00:00.
ACRO CAMP
During an exhausting festival week it is important to keep your body in balance. A group of acrobats and acro-yoga instructors have come together to bring their flexible movements and a 72 m2 circus tent to Roskilde Festival. Every day at 12:00 they will do a performance of how to do acro-yoga and afterwards they’ll gladly teach you.
DREAM CITY COLLECTIVE
We have gathered a small group of collectivists to take part in the brand-new collective in Dream City, a community who will bring the Danish hygge and fellowship to Dream City. Together with architects they have designed and built the construction which they will call home during the festival.
FEST-I-HVAL CAMP!
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THIS IS NOT THE MENSA CAMP
JOHANKAT'S GEO DOME
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CAMP BURT REYNOLDS
’We are your friends, and all of you are our friends’ is the wise saying in Camp Burt Reynolds who welcome everyone to their Burt Reynolds universe. From Sunday to Wednesday between 10:00 and 12:00 the Burts will hand out delicious coffee in exchange for a beer. So if you have a leftover beer and are in desperate need of caffeine, then this is the place to visit!
DREAM CITY’S DOGMAS
To be a part of Dream City 2016 you must: —— Acquire a ticket to Roskilde Festival 2016. —— Consider your project/camp a gift to Dream City that can be shared with the rest of the Dreamers and festivalgoers. —— Think sustainably and be socially responsible. —— Whatever you bring you must take with you again when you leave Dream City.
Hvad vil du? “Jeg vil gerne arbejde med mennesker – give noget videre. Lige nu skriver jeg projekt om hooliganisme, hvor vi undersøger, hvordan individer påvirkes af de fællesskaber, som findes i hooliganmiljøet. Jeg kunne faktisk godt tænke mig at blive gymnasielærer og være med til at styrke elevernes interesse for litteratur og psykologi.” Camilla, 21 år. Psykologi og Dansk på den Humanistiske Bacheloruddannelse.
Besøg os og find ud af om Roskilde Universitet er for dig. hvadvildu.ruc.dk
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Drop by Roskilde Festival’s very own maker area and step into a do-it-yourself world full of new technology, fun gadgets and tools to play with. The maker area is a futuristic world of building and hacking. Here you can interact with robots and technology as well as experience future visions for Roskilde Festival in the year 2045.
BUILD YOUR OWN FESTIVAL GEAR
Learn how to make usable festival gear for your camp. Take part in our DIY workshop and create your very own: —— —— —— ——
Camp blaster Diddley bow (a one-stringed electric guitar) Furniture T-shirt or tote bag print
PHOTO : IVONE LOPES
opening hours sunday 28 june to tuesday 30 june wednesday 1 july to saturday 4 july
11:00-17:00 11:00-15:00
A TASTE of MADE FESTIVAL
The maker area is created by MADE Festival, a DIY festival for technology, design and crafts, which lets you build and design your own products and experience cutting-edge technology such as 3D printers, drones and laser cutters. MADE is developed with support from the Roskilde Festival Foundation. Read more on made-festival.dk.
MAKER AREA
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You’ll find our maker area at CITYcentre East. It is open every day during the festival.
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... WITH ANDERS WAHRÉN, HEAD OF PROGRAMMING
What does the music profile of Roskilde Festival look like in 2015? We present music from all over the genre map and in all shapes and sizes. Our wish is to keep surprising our audience by finding the acts of tomorrow. Genre-wise, we currently focus a bit on urban and electronic music and we also keep inviting the big world into Roskilde Festival. We take the so-called ‘world music’ more seriously than most other festivals do. The festival week has been moved back one day. How has this affected the task of putting together the programme? Wednesday has become available as a new ‘music day’, which has helped close deals with some acts. We also have more ‘slots’ available in the schedule, which means more live music. I love the fact that Roskilde now ends on a Saturday with music playing on all stages until late. Now that’s a party peak!
Every year brings about those special ‘only at Roskilde’ concert experiences. What can you recommend this year? Africa Express (see more on page 36) is literally this year’s biggest show. Over 4 hours of jamming with 100 musicians from Africa and the West united on stage. Damon Albarn is spearheading the thing! We also have a black metal night on the Pavilion stage Saturday night. Danish hip-hop acts Suspekt and Pede B & DJNoize will perform some custom-made, large-scale shows as well. I can also recommend Kronos Quartet. They’re a string quartet – extremely skilled musicians and very rare festival performers, just like German industrial legends Einstürzende Neubauten whom we are also looking forward to welcoming back at Roskilde. They build their own instruments and cherish noise and much as silence! You also present lots of music during the first days of the festival. In 2015 you have no less than three stages with upcoming talent. What’s the idea behind it? Talent is indeed the keyword. We’ve chosen to include Street City Stage as part of our ‘upcoming stages’ – the others being Rising and Apollo Countdown. To us it’s important to focus on the growth layer. We’ve seen many acts move on to great careers after having played here. The Minds of 99 is the prime example this year, moving from Rising to Orange Stage. If you were to pick three acts that a curious music fan should check out, who should it be? I’d recommend King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and not only because they have a name that is great to say out loud, but mainly because they are a truly great live band. Psychedelic rock from Australia. For the adventurous listeners I’d recommend Pharmakon, a one-woman noise project, harsh and beautiful! My third choice is Kate Tempest – she’s British and delivers a mix of spoken word and grime-ish hip-hop and she brings a great live band with her.
"To us it’s important to er. focus on the growth lay We’ve seen many acts s move on to great career e. after having played her the minds of 99 is the r, prime example this yea to ing Ris moving from Orange Stage."
LISTEN TO THE OFFICIAL PLAYLIST
Looking for inspiration for your next concert venture? Give our official playlist a spin. Who knows, maybe you’ll find a new favourite: roskil.de/rf15spotify
Q+A ANDERS WAHRÉN
Anders Wahrén, Head of programming
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AFRICA EXPRESS (ROKIA TRAORÉ AND DAMON ALBARN) · PHOTO: SIMON PHIPPS
90 people on stage encompassing a who's who of African and Western artists. Now, what’s this all about? Imagine a huge jam session going on much longer than any Duracell rabbit could. For five hours straight Africa Express will play until the sun comes up at a final bash on Arena stage Saturday 4 July.
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Back in 2000 Damon Albarn teamed up with a group of Malian musicians and that planted the idea of Africa Express. His ambition was to inspire Western musicians to explore the depths of African music and to bring about some cultural interplay between the two. “It’s amazing to see someone, who has the world’s attention, aiming to present the hidden treasures of an ignored continent,” says Peter Hvalkof.
Nick Zinner, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“A profound and lifealtering experience — every time”
SOME PAST AFRICA EXPRESS COLLABORATORS
Batida, Damon Albarn, De La Soul, Elvis Costello, Fatoumata Diawara, Jupiter & Okwess International, Kasai Allstars, Konono No. 1, Massive Attack, Paul Mc Cartney, Paul Weller, Rokia Traoré, Songhoy Blues, Spoek Mathambo, Tony Allen (the list literally goes on and on!). See full list: roskil.de/africaexpress
JAMMING FAR INTO THE NIGHT
Back in 2008 Hvalkof went to London to experience Africa Express at first hand. They went on stage around 22. When Hvalkof left the venue at around 4 in the morning the collective was still going at it! “It was extraordinary! Flea and Johnny Marr playing together with Afel Bocoum and Rokia Traoré among many, many others. One big jam going on far into the night!” The collective will get together some days before the festival for a rehearsal jam. “Right now we don’t know who’s playing. But I can say that they are reaching out to some very interesting artists. Both acts already playing Roskilde Festival and acts being flown in. Whatever they are preparing for Roskilde Festival will be a fully unique gig. I couldn’t imagine a better way to close Roskilde 2015 in style!” says Peter Hvalkof.
AFRICA EXPRESS
But who’s behind Africa Express? According to member of Roskilde Festival’s booking committee Peter Hvalkof it’s a big collective line-up of global stars and it varies from show to show. The West meets Africa, so to speak. And it’s spearheaded by Damon Albarn.
TOMBS 路 PHOTO: JASON HELLMANN
WHEN NOISE BECOMES TRANSCENDENTAL
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—— Black metal started as a reaction to death metal being too polished —— Venom’s 1982 song “Black Metal” is one of the first to name-drop the genre
“It’s a massive wall of r sound that washes ove es om bec it and , you quite transcendental.”
We present a full evening dedicated to the bleak and aggressive black metal genre. Tombs, Deafheaven, Myrkur and Young and in the Way will paint Roskilde coal-black, Saturday from 21:00 until very late, on the Pavilion stage. Stefan Gejsing, member of the booking committee, informs us that metal fans at Roskilde have requested such thematic evenings: “Earlier we’ve presented a sludge metal night and a doom metal night. They have been mighty popular. Now it’s time for black metal. We see an increased interest in this sub-genre.” Peter Mesnickow, black metal enthusiast and label manager at Target/Mighty Music, agrees: “In recent years, there has really been a noticeable crossover wave with bands such as Deafheaven, Alcest and Sólstafir. The genre has found many new listeners. Now, you see hip-hop and indie fans adding black metal to their playlists. And you see a musician such as Ryan Adams enter the stage wearing an Emperor shirt – without being ironic about it!”
STEPPING INTO A HURRICANE
Experiencing black metal live is somewhat like stepping into a sonic hurricane. According to Stefan Gejsing it’s quite overwhelming: “It’s a massive wall of sound that washes over you, and it becomes quite transcendental.” Peter Mesnickow adds further to the experience: ”Black metal live is intense, hypnotising, atmospheric and at times theatrical. You can’t avoid being sucked into this parallel universe.” But what if you are a newcomer to black metal? What if you stumble over one of these concerts by chance? Gejsing suggests that you just have to give it time: “It can seem very violent and almost unwelcoming. But if you walk inside the tent and stay there, you may start appreciating the beauty of it and notice the traces of melody inside the storm.” black up your saturday night 21:00 tombs 22:30 deafheaven 00:00 myrkur 01:30 young and in the way Between the four concerts our gigantic Ghetto blaster will be blasting tunes right outside the Pavilion tent. Playing lots of metal, of course!
WHEN NOISE BECOMES TRANSCENDENTAL
Stefan Gejsing, music booker
THE COLLECTION Find the full collection at the official merchandise shops
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THE R OSK 1LD E SONGBO0K Come sing your heart out! We’re clearing the Gloria stage for this very purpose – for all your voices, deep, high, shrill, loud, quiet ones alike. It’s the second year we’re doing this. Last year we sang Pete Seeger songs as a celebration of community and the idea of the song as a tool to share opinions and knowledge and to make changes in the world around us. the roskilde songbook at gloria thursday 2 july friday 3 july saturday 4 july
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We asked all you Roskilde-goers for input before the festival, and the songbook has been put together, based on your suggestions. The repertoire is made up of songs from all decades – classic songs filled with emotions, which are very recognisable and easy to sing along to. So, come on over and sing along with all the rest of us. Everyone’s invited – even if you think you can’t sing. The Roskilde Songbook is hosted by Danish musician and composer Frederik Thaae.
A SING-ALONG INVITATION THE ROSKILDE SONGBOOK
A SING-ALONG INVITATION
This year we’re trying to define the Roskilde songbook, which can – hopefully – start a new, strong tradition at Roskilde Festival.
In search of the best sound This year, 100 DTU students will descend on Roskilde Festival with around 20 projects, aimed at improving festival conditions even further. Since 2010, we have tested the sound levels at the festival. We measure acoustics in the tents, for example, as well as the distribution of sound pressure in the audience area and backstage. We do so in order to give all festival goers the best possible sound experience.
We also have projects featuring 3D printing, waste sorting, and analysis of water and electricity consumption; as well as a local smart grid driven by solar panels, an electric car, and a generator running on used frying oil. All aimed at improving the overall festival experience – and all powered by DTU students. Find out more about the projects in DTU’s TechLab between Pavillion and Avalon.
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RESIDENT
LLO/ ON APO UNTDOWN APOLLO CO
Apollo has a strong line-up of acclaimed DJs to fill the gaps between shows from Sunday to Saturday:
ANDERS DIXEN
DK
has many names and outfits: AV AV AV, Unkwon, Dokkedal/ Dixen and Dixone. He’s one of Copenhagen’s busiest DJs. And he knows how to mix sets that can go soft and slow as well as hard and fast.
BUDA
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is a musician, producer and radio host, known for the project Lulu Rouge. His voice is also familiar to many listeners of his radio show on national radio simply called Buda. In other words, he is one of the most accomplished Danish DJs out there.
DJ MAM BRA
fuses traditional Brazilian music with the best of current international sounds and beats. He has performed for two million people (!) at C opacabana Beach , and he knows how to make you dance with a hot mix including samba, bossa and funk carioca!
JOAKIM SKOVBJERG DK
started playing when he was 16 years old. He is the younger brother of DJ E.D.D.E.H. from AV AV AV. His style is chill hiphop, and he has a knack for packing a floor.
J.J. WILD DK
is a producer and a member of Yo Fok & Ganjaforce Sound. Through a combination of the rawness of dancehall, carnival rhythms and dirty 808 bass music he has created his own style, Dutty Bass.
SARAH MILES DE
is a Berlin DJ and radio show host. She runs the Berlin Community Radio, has a residency at the Farbfernseher club, and she loves to play valve-amplifier-warmed house, bubbling acid and left-field electronica.
ON APOLLO/APOLLO COUNTDOWN
D J—s
knows how to drop high-energy club sets. He rocks parties with a variety of styles going from hip-hop, trap, dancehall and other electronic genres wrapped into a powerful mix, spiced up with his own edits/remixes and turntable action.
RESIDENT DJs
DJ GRADED
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THE GHETTOBLASTER
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GHETTOBLASTER THE DJs
We see lots of stereos in the camps at Roskilde Festival. But there's one Ghettoblaster that makes you look twice (or thrice) when you first encounter it. It's 12 metres long, 4 metres tall and can blast sound for a huge crowd. Moreover, it has a DJ platform on top. During Roskilde 2015 the ghettob laster tours (yep, it's mobile, too!) the festival area. And it packs an exciting DJ line-up.
Four DJs – DJ Emil Lange, Borneland, Ohboy and Tumult – promise a diverse party mix. They don’t believe in genres in this set, so expect everything from disco to hip-hop to hardstyle.
See the schedule on page 47 to find out where the Ghettoblaster is headed to next.
Copyflex is from the Yo Fok collective and one of the most popular Copenhagen DJs due to his ability to combine party music with creative experiments, homemade edits and mashups.
PHOTO : ZARKO IVETIC
DON LANGE
FRIENDS DK
COPYFLEX NO
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COHNNY JAZZ DK
Cohnny Jazz from the Yo Fok collective promises a set in classic mixtape vein with hip-hop, soul and reggae. He aims to make the soundtrack suit the weather, hopefully with lots of sunshine tunes! DJ SHANTEL
DJ SHANTEL DE
Shantel is a DJ and producer based in Frankfurt, Germany. He is known for his work with gypsy brass orchestras, DJ'ing and remixing traditional Balkan music with electronic beats. He’s played Roskilde Festival before and knows how to make people dance to his party music!
DJ DOKKEDAL DK
DJ Dokkedal plays a carefully selected set of tracks from genres such as breakbeat, hip-hop, dancehall, reggae and rare grooves. One of Denmark's finest turntablists!
ANALOG AFRICA SOUND SYSTEM DE
Sammi and Pedro are true music archaeologists. For many years this duo has searched through dusty warehouses in African countries, rescuing forgotten music from oblivion. Their music label re-releases old and forgotten African sounds.
RAMUZI II DK
Expect a beautiful variety of tunes from the 60s and 70s when Ramuzi II plays the psychedelic sounds of Iranian and Turkish 45s. Most of them he collected on his trips to the Islamic Republic of Iran. It will be a dynamic selection with ups and downs.
DJ MAM BR
DJ MAM fuses traditional Brazilian music with the best streams of current international sounds and beats. He will make you dance with a hot mix including samba, bossa and funk carioca!
THE GASLAMP KILLER · PHOTO: THEO JEMISON
THE GASLAMP KILLER (DJ set) US
He will also play our Avalon stage earlier this very Friday, but he’s up for a DJ set as well. As a DJ The Gaslamp Killer turns the clubland crate-digger culture into an altered-state travelogue. Lots of urban beats, jazz and Californian post-dubstep.
THE GHETTOBLASTER
KAPELVEJ 44
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www.carhartt-wip.com Photography by Joshua Gordon, artwork by Tim Head
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Agora M +30 DON LANGE & FRIENDS
Agora K +00 DON LANGE & FRIENDS
SUNDAY 28 JUNE
Agora M +30 DJ SHANTEL
Agora J +00 COPYFLEX
MONDAY 29 JUNE
THE GHETTOBLASTER TIME
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TUESDAY 30 JUNE
Agora K +00 COPYFLEX
WEDNESDAY 1 JULY
Agora J +00 RAMUZI II
Agora M Grandstand by +30 ANALOG AFRICA Orange Stage SOUNDSYSTEM +45 DJ MAM
Agora K +00 RAMUZI II
SATURDAY 4 JULY
Agora J +00 COHNNY JAZZ
Agora M +00 COHNNY JAZZ
FRIDAY 3 JULY
Agora K +00 KAPELVEJ 44
Grandstand by Orange Stage +00 DJ DOKKEDAL
THURSDAY 2 JULY
Just south of Arena stage +00 KAPELVEJ 44
By Pavilion +00 METAL I NTERMISSION
Curfew: 01:30
CITYcentre East CITYcentre East CITYcentre East CITYcentre East CITYcentre East CITYcentre East +00 DON LANGE & +00 DJ SHANTEL +00 ANALOG AFRICA +00 DJ MAM +00 KAPELVEJ 44 +00 DJ DOKKEDAL FRIENDS SOUNDSYSTEM
Tuborg and Roskilde Festival present the Ghettoblaster.
Curfew: 01:00
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Blastbeast, Anxious White Men and DJ Futhermocker will host this evening.
Curfew: 00:00
CITYcentre East +30 THE GASLAMP KILLER (DJ set)
METAL INTERMISSION
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Saturday night is black as coal on the Pavilion stage. From 20:00 it’s all about black metal. 4 acts are playing on stage. Between shows our Ghettoblaster will be blasting lots of metal tunes just outside as a way to tie it all together.
STREET CITY STAGE
MUSIC PRESENTATIONS
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MUSIC PRESENTATIONS STREET CITY STAGE Street City Stage is the place to be if you want the hottest urban sounds. From Saturday 27 June to Tuesday 30 June you can look forward to the following acts acts playing between 20:00 and 00:00:
SUNDAY BASH
Look forward to a true dream team of Danish party suppliers of bass music. A hip-hop rave with a solid line-up and lots of surprises from some of the most interesting and explosive new acts. sunday bash schedule 21:00 pharfar 21:20 nicholas kawamura feat. jonasforfanden 21:45 okay funky feat. camilo & grande 22:10 vild $mith 22:25 emil lange feat. emil stabil 22:45 kesi 23:15 pelle feat. surprises
VINYL WARRIORS DK
Four vinyl warriors will serve you four hours of captivating DJ sessions. Vinyl warriors all have in common that they are active DJs and eager record collectors at the same time, and they will surely treat you to some gems from their respective collections. Look forward to booming sets from DJ Ras Money, DJ Pac, Tue Track and Epic Vinyls from Brazil.
SUKKER LYN DK
You used to be able to see him in the background of videos by Danish hoodlums such as Kidd and Topgunn. But the Danish-Serbian rapper Sukker Lyn is an artist in his own right. He has recently put out his debut album Lazarus. His Danish-language trap rap is embracing more than just boozing and skirt-chasing.
MENDOZA DK
Mendoza revisits the 90s wave of eurodance and rave. The young club diva sings on top of steady 4/4 house beats, classic rave chords and melancholy-yet-dance-inviting sounds made for the dancefloor. Just give her catchy track “Love Druggie” a listen and you get a sense of what’s bound to hit you at Street City Stage.
NADYA
NADYA SE
Nadya works in the borderland between electronic music and hip-hop. Her Iranian roots show in her music, displaying interesting sound fusions. In 2014 Nadya released the bombastic "Refugee" single, and so far she has followed it up with a more pop-oriented sound on the single ”Superstar”.
KLUBB FEMTASTIC
The successful Swedish concept Klubb Femtastic brings urban flavour to Street City Stage. Solid female rappers, awesome female DJs and a straight up good vibe! Urban music all night in the genres of hiphop/rnb/trap/dancehall/afro/azonto/tropical bass.
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The music magazine Soundvenue teams up with the Hukaos crew. Together they offer some of the best the young Danish hip-hop and R&B scene has to offer right now. A full live band backs all acts.
Klubb Femtastic also presents two exciting artists:
LUCY LOVE DK
Lucy Love’s explosive grime rap can set most stages on fire. She is backed by producer Yo Akim’s synthetic soundtrack which is an affective pop backdrop to her confident rap.
Soundvenue also presents Kill J:
KILL J DK
soundvenue showdown schedule 20:00 21:00 21:25 21:45 22:10 22:35 23:00 23:20 23:40
kill j liss headshop larger than life waldo & marsha anya tais louis rustum thøger dixgaard
AYLA SHATZ · PHOTO: ELIN HAFSTRÖM
Ayla Shatz is a true DIY artist from Malmö. She writes and produces everything herself. On her self-titled debut album she presents an exciting urban package of songs taking inspiration from hip-hop, dub, reggae, Latin and even Bollywood.
Check the complete schedule and read more about str eet city on page 28.
PHOTO: JONAS JESSEN HANSEN
AYLA SHATZ SE
STREET CITY STAGE
She is the new uncrowned pop queen of Denmark. Kill J has a wonderful, almost unearthly voice. She can sing in a wonderful high register and go deeper as well. Her vocals twist around the heavy beat productions like a beautiful snake. She is currently putting the final touches on a brand-new EP.
MUSIC PRESENTATIONS
Look forward to Johanna Ritscher, Eka Scratch and DJ Neyney, all presented by Syrran – plus Maja Goffe, Karolina Pistolina and DJ Cleva, presented by Kaoz Crew.
APOLLO COUNTDOWN
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Their name means ouch ouch ouch, but there’s nothing to hurt you here – unless they make your feet sore from dancing too much. AV AV AV is a Danish electronic super group consisting of the three esteemed producers ELOQ, UNKWON and DJ E.D.D.E.H. The catchy track “All Good” has already caught the ears of Diplo.
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Get ready for some futuristic hip-hop from a talented Danish duo. Benjamin raps in a very laidback style as if he were chatting you up with his hazy, late-night voice. Albert’s productions are vivid yet melancholy and minimalistic with great inspiration from club music.
a moniker she uses when producing techno. She’s a self-described maker of ‘spacecraft techno’ and her music retains enough grit to avoid being sterile. Get in on this!
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He creates synthetic funk mixed with bits of the Swedish-Finnish-based genre skweee, which includes synth leads, R&B rhythms and a funk bass line. Eero Johannes is also a drummer, a fact that is evident in his live performances, which are full of electronic drum pads, percussive playing and improvisation.
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There are so many voices flying about at Roskilde Festival. But if you were to remember just one, it may be the one coming from Elias. The Swedish singer is just 19 years old and he is equipped with an impressive set of pipes. His baritone voice reaches so far down that it creates tremors in your very soul.
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Najaaraq Nicoline Vestbirk has had a few aliases in her time. Most recently she’s settled on Courtesy,
This band started out digging for a sound that could make people dance. And boy, it certainly can! George Best is pure, hedonistic electro pop, brought forward by lots of synths, danceable beats and gorgeous falsetto vocals.
51 Underground rap collective Molotov Movement is a united powerhouse of three entities: MellemF ingaMuzik, Gilli and Højer Øje. All three acts have dropped their debut EPs and they all do cameos on each other’s releases. They don’t hold back their dissident opinions and their close connection to the street.
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This duo has attracted quite a lot of buzz for their experimental, electronic R&B full of slowed-down drum patterns, skewed synths and silky vocals. Saint Cava is ar we ce dan r octobe included on Danish music magthe azine Soundvenue’s Breakin’ their influences on Sound 2015 list. eve: One of their LORD SIVA
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Lord Siva fuses rap, R&B and pop music in a blurry universe full of slowed-down beats, sensitively distorted vocals and lots of synths. The Danish artist sings with his heart on his sleeve. In fact, if you were to turn him inside-out you’d probably discover that he was blue.
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This Danish/Zambian artist is bound to go places. Kwamie Liv produces hazy R&B-inspired pop music, perfect for lounging in the green grass on hot summer days. Her music has made the world prick up its ears, earning her lots of attention outside the Danish borders.
It’s all about the groove! Once October Dance gets a beat going and a simple bass line along with it everything sort of evolves from there with warm synthesizers and “a shit load of percussion”, as they put it. Imagine a meeting of LCD Soundsystem, Talking Heads and Arthur Russell.
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She is Swedish hip-hop’s new power woman. Silvana Imam raps in her Swedish mother tongue and you’ll quickly find out how direct she is. She raps about her homosexual orientation, about being on top of her game and against all kinds of oppressors.
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After a year of bedroom production Smerz’s recent live performances and spreading of music have stirred up attention on the Danish electronic music scene. The Copenhagen-based Norwegian duo creates a melodic and captivating sound by letting feminine vocals meet heavy productions.
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The Bergen rap scene has been an innovative force in Norwegian hip-hop the past couple of years
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This Icelandic trio combines dreamy electronica with melancholic female vocal lines (sung in both English and the Icelandic mother tongue) and a sexy sax. No wonder they are picking up lots of hype on the Icelandic music scene. Fans of The xx and The Knife should not miss out on this.
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Do you suffer from a broken heart? Dance the pain away along with Young Karin. The duo produces dark and danceable pop music with aching vocals floating on top. Their EP n°1 won the band an award at the Icelandic Music Awards for ‘debut of the year’, and now the rest of the world is starting to pay attention.
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The guitars are tuned low and the tempo is kept slow. Welcome inside Black Book Lodge. It’s heavy, it’s groovy and it’s ready to rock your world. The Danish trio plays stoner rock. They love their riffs, and at the same time they dig a good melody.
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It’s no overstatement to say that you have never heard anything like Broen. Their experimental pop music is built on a cacophony of styles and sounds, but instead of crash-landing in chaos the band puts the musical chaos into system. We’ve been told they blow minds.
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Sometimes you are struck by a voice that grabs a hold of you. The Attic Sleepers’ Mathias Barfod has this kind of voice. Imagine a Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes) without all the reverb – that sort of ballparks it. Their emotional folk pop grows big with synths and extra guitar lines added for texture and grandeur.
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Danish psych rock is buzzing at the moment. De Underjordiske are one of the new front-runners. Their music has a very rocking edge, but they also like to keep things droning and hypnotically repetitive. Fans of The Black Angels should not miss out on this trip! BEYOND PINK
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Prepare for a punk bash with lots of attitude. Beyond Pink are Clara, Ida, Patricia, Tijana and Cajsa, and they play old-school punk rock that sounds as if it’s lifted from the golden age in the early 80s when the genre was toughened up and prefixed ‘hardcore’. Fast and aggressive!
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When this band started out their ambition was to play louder, faster and wilder. But The Entrepreneurs can do so much more than just make noise. They play a punkish kind of noise rock that is meant to be played at full volume. The music is full of melodic sensibilities in the vein of like-minded bands No Age and Japandroids.
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She’s been compared to icons such as Nico and Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star). Josefin Öhrn is not only photogenic, she also writes music with ties going back to the aforementioned women. The band digs a droning (and somewhat druggy) atmosphere with slow, steadily pulsating rhythms and thick organ sounds. Dive in!
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Armed with a guitar Fay Wildhagen pens wonderful folk-pop songs that sound as if they were taken right out of the Norwegian fjell. Along with her five band members she wraps the tunes into a big, triumphant sound that will make it difficult for you to lower your arms again.
GOOMS DK
Everything’s possible, seems like a suitable mantra for Danish band Gooms. This is a band full of ideas – and every single one of them is crammed into their highly inventive, unpredictable weirdo-discopsych rock songbook. Fans of Deerhoof, Animal Collective, Mr. Bungle or Ariel Pink, pay attention.
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They took their name from an aerobics warm-up exercise, but their music isn’t your typical gym soundtrack (would be great, though!). Hey Elbow conjures up a kind of flickering, distortion-spiked dream music.
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Three fourths of gooms have played at Roskilde Festival before in bands such as Figurines, Oh No Ono, and Twins Twins .
MOLLY DK
If anybody ever forgot what punked-up rock was all about, Molly is a proper reminder. The band channels all the quality stuff of alterna-rock from back when punk didn’t just mean playing fast. Hüsker Dü and D inos aur Jr are major sources of inspiration, we’re sure.
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Norwegian singer Farao seems to appreciate a little rain. At least in her songs. She writes wonderfully heartfelt folk-pop tunes about love and loss. Her songs are acoustically based, soft and subdued and they ooze this special Scandinavian sound that everybody is talking about.
They all hail from different projects working on everything from hip-hop to folk music – but when the five musicians in Lowly get together they deliver a dreamy kind of synthed-up noise pop. In front, the shimmery voices of the two female singers add to the swirling sounds that are so easy to get entangled in.
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The Malmö band recently put out its debut album Every Other and it bodes well for the Roskilde gig.
O’HARA DK
She has worked a lot in the world of theatre. And it shows. O’Hara writes luxurious pop music that sounds like soundtracks for dreams and fairytales. Her songs seem shrouded in some kind of magic mist – enriched by longing Danish lyrics.
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If you dig hard rocking riffs and psychedelic jams then you mustn’t miss The Vintage Caravan. This Icelandic trio are not just revivers of bluesy hard rock, they give it a modern makeover and add some ferocious energy. And while at it, they have created a bunch of great songs!
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The name doesn’t bring about the nicest of images. But then again, Piss Vortex isn’t here to pretty up the place. This Copenhagen-based four-piece plays gritty, discordance-fueled grindcore – fast, heavy and mean music with songs rarely crossing the one-minute mark. The most concentrated release of energy at Roskilde 2015!
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Wangel makes dark pop music with a modern R&B touch – full of synths, guitars and programmed beats. Front man Peter Wangel is a touching baritone of a soul singer in the low register, but he also moves effortlessly to a high-flying falsetto.
YOUNG DINOSAUR DK
SLAUGHTER BEACH DK
This five-piece tests the boundaries of what guitar-based pop music can do. You can hear nods back to psych-pop bands from the 60s, but at the same time the band comes off as very modern. We’re sure that they own music by both The Zombies and The Flaming Lips.
TÅRN DK
Locked in somewhere between in-your-face punk and dirty garage rock (some call this aesthetic grunge), Yung kicks all kinds of conformity right in the groin. The four-piece knows how to deliver a no-frills, no-nonsense rock show full of distorted guitars and raspy vocals.
Despite having released only a couple of songs so far, Slaughter Beach’s Soundcloud account has brought their music far out into the world. Slaughter Beach digs a nostalgic and dreamy indie pop sound, so fans of both Real Estate and Beach House should start paying attention.
Odense-based Tårn plays guitar pop with heartfelt Danish lyrics and layers of shoegazer-y distortion added for good measure. Tårn’s sound has a blue layer atop the sun-kissed, dreamy melodies. This meeting of cheery and moody will suck you in between the guitar lines.
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There’s spellbinding, Scandinavian sadness written all over Alice Boman’s sparse piano songs – built as they are around the fragile core of piano and voice with bits of distant percussion added for a quiet pulse. Alice Boman’s simplistic, touching melancholia aligns her with the likes of Denmark’s own Broken Twin who also plays Roskilde Festival in 2015. For her Roskilde gig, Alice Boman brings a full band including saxophone, drums, choir, and, of course, herself on electric piano.
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Do you want to close your Roskilde 2015 in style? Drop by Arena for a spectacular four hour show with Africa Express, bringing together dozens of artists from Africa and the West. The act was founded in 2006 during a trip to Mali linking the likes of Damon Albarn and Fatboy Slim with local stars such as Toumani Diabaté and Amadou & Mariam. At Roskilde 2015 we guarantee loads of skilled artists on stage – and several of them are quite famous, too. So don’t miss out on a jam-packed late-night party, which will not end until the sun starts rising.
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American band All Pigs Must Die is here with a perfectly planted boot to the face! All Pigs Must Die play metalled-up hardcore punk (some call it crust). But the band refuses to stick to just one genre. Healthy doses of grindcore, sludge and even black metal are generously added to their deadly sound, making the end result even grittier and more abrasive. The band members are drawn from the ranks of Converge, Hope Conspiracy and Bloodhorse.
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59 These Peruvians are an adventurous bunch. They started out fusing reggae and ska with Latin beats before their love for Peruvian cumbia (or chicha) overshadowed everything. Today, Bareto is the flagship of an emerging alternative music movement in Peru, which they themselves have dubbed latino alternativo. On stage they are a bounding and grooving piece armed with guitars, drums, percussion, keys and winds. They will make the summer weather of Roskilde Festival even hotter!
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This is an invitation to trance! Nidhal Yahyaoui put together the band Bargou 08 to revive the music of his ancestors – a combination of a certain type of trance music called stambeli and local music traditions from his home in Tunesia. Armed with a range of beautiful instruments Bargou 08 dive right into their musical heritage. The music is heavy on percussion and has a tribal-like groove to it.
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For over four decades, Barrington Levy has tempered the sound waves with his rocking reggae and dancehall. Even though he has now turned 50, he has managed to preserve some youthfulness in his music. Throughout his long career he has done numerous collaborations with everyone from Snoop Dogg to Beenie Man. The dancehall genre is everywhere these days. Look forward
Inspired by the multicultural hotbed of his home city of Lisbon, DJ Mpula bridges the gap between contemporary Angolan electronic kuduro and the rich musical heritage of the nation. The result is hot dance music full of high-speed rhythms fused with sweet melodic guitar samples from Angolan semba music of the 70s. Add some fast-chatting rappers from both Angola and Lisbon, and you get a sound that is both modern and danceable – and which references what came before.
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Some concerts at Roskilde Festival call for moshing, wild dancing etc. We mark these with a ‘high energy’ icon. If you see this icon next to an act on these pages, expect the audience activity in front of the stage to be quite wild, and we want you to be careful if you choose to be up front. —— We will allow moshing, dancing etc. at these concerts. —— Do notice, however, that we do not allow crowd surfing.
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60 lect skånsk. Lead singer Thomas Öberg is a mad dog on stage – wearing a Zorro mask he jumps and paces the stage while spitting out his eloquent mix of everyday language and poetry. Turn up for an anything-goes concert. It will be jävla bra!
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There’s a new guitar slinger in town! Benjamin Booker is about to give the likes of Jack White and The Black Keys a run for their blues-rock money. Booker has a haunting Robert Johnson element to him, and the blues as a whole is fundamental to his sound – but there’s an unfiltered, scuzzy garage trait to his approach as well. He is joined by a drummer and a bass player although Booker’s wonderfully bourbon-drenched vocals remain at the centre of everything.
BIKSTOK DK
Bikstok was the very first act in this millenium to combine dancehall and reggae with Danish lyrics – something which has since been mimicked by numerous acts. Now, after a long break, they are back with new tunes. Bikstok has a defiant energy that fuels them on stage. Their sharp balance of backbeats, twisted sense of humour and smoked-up imagination can bring everyone together; hip-hoppers, bank advisors and curious first-time listeners alike, in bouncy celebration.
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Bob Hund has often been hailed as a musical cross-breed of everything great. Their DNA includes elements of lo-fi, kraut rock, indie, Swedish traditional ballads, loads of humour and an insistence on toying with anything traditional. Everything is sung in the wonderful Swedish dia-
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Beauty and sadness go hand in hand beautifully when Broken Twin delivers the soundtrack. Behind the name we find Majke Voss Romme – a Danish songwriter who at the moment is quietly taking the world by storm. Her music is made up of careful touches of piano, strings and a sensitive, vibrating vocal. But Broken Twin’s intense songs of longing and break-up hit you harder than the loudest of concerts. Having toured diligently, Broken Twin’s debut album May finally saw the light of day in 2014.
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A krautrock drummer meets an electronic magician. Jaki Liebezeit is a style-defining sticksman who was an integral part of the legendary band Can. His drumming style is both metronomic and dead-tight and globally inspired from African, Arabic and Indian music. He joins forces with Burnt Friedman who has pioneered an organic kind of electronic music. Together the duo explores rhythms and pulse in what can only become an exciting live performance at Roskilde Festival.
61 Imagine a meeting between the experi-bluesy guitar style of Marc Ribot (when playing with Tom Waits) and German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten. That sort of describes the sound at play here. One member plays the guitar, another a range of keyboards. Then there’s a self-playing apparatus, which beats drums and metal plates, activates a type machine, picks a bass (a stringed one, too!) and god-knows-what-else. Cabo San Roque are as much sound artists as they are musicians. The world of sound they build is personal, unique and non-conformist. CHELSEA WOLFE · PHOTO: CHARLOTTE PATMORE
”Destruction makes the world burn brighter,” sings Chelsea Wolfe without a smile nor the tiniest bit of irony. Her special brand of gothic folk music is as dark as the night, and inside her nihilistic musings the biggest beauty is hidden. On stage Chelsea Wolfe is a mesmerising experience. Her siren-like singing style is contrasted by a sophisticated barrage of synths, guitars, drums and violin conjured up by her black-clad band, which shifts easily between rocking hard and bringing everything down to eerie soundscapes. CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO
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Join in as this Haitian ensemble call upon their Argentine producer Pedro Canale deconstructs ancestral spirits with polyrhythmic drumming and the traditional Latin American cumbia genre inside trance-inducing chants. This is voodoo music! computers, samplers and sequencers, adding eleChouk Bwa Libète is a traditional Haitian roots ments of downtempo, dub and post-dubstep. The group. The group is made up of four percussionoutput is a perfect fusion of the ists, two female dancers as well traditional and the modern set as front man and composer SamJoe Petagno, famed to an electronic beat. On stage baton on vocals and on the fer (an törhead ’s Mo for Chancha Via Circuito expands to iron bar). It’s a sort of bell that ant sco ma h’ oot t le ‘Snagg a full band, mixing the electronic nounces the different rhythms to sounds with live drums, guitars, call up the spirits. also did the artwork percussion and singing. Basicalfor bikstok’s debut ly, they just show us how these album as well as their smooth and swaying sounds are recent ep ‘Uranium’. made to be performed live.
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He is a grandee in IDM, but Clark has flown under the radar of the general public. His mission has been to subvert machines to make them more human – he builds from the inside and out. The end result is a dark and coarse type of IDM-meetstechno. Even though the music wraps you in the darkest of colours, it also invites to dance. Don’t miss Clark as he rumbles over his audience with earthquake-inducing bass and bleak future sounds of the future.
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62 time that the line-up behind masterful albums such as Blind and Deliverance are reunited since 2001. Look forward to an ass-kicking display of force when C.O.C. takes Roskilde Festival 2015.
DALHOUS UK
Listening to Dalhous is like visiting a musical gallery. On the walls hang beautiful abstract paintings made from electronic music. Dalhous are inspired by Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno and Boards of Canada. Their soundscapes are wide and reach for eternity. Sometimes they add a danceable pulse to the music – other times the sounds just hover weightlessly. Dalhous is ready to take on Roskilde with a small arsenal of analogue hardware.
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Things have only moved in one direction for Communions since they played the Rising stage at Roskilde Festival in 2014. That’s upwards. Since then, Communions have been on the lips of everyone loving the unique and multi-dimensional sounds coming out of the Mayhem scene in Copenhagen. The four lads have let lots of sunshine into their sound with references hinting at Real Estate, The Go-Betweens and even a bit of The LA’s. A new, self-titled EP has just been released.
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The sound of American metal mavens Corrosion of Conformity is somewhat like Black Sabbath being filtered through the heavy, bluesy Deep South. The mastermind behind this sound is riffmaker and front man Pepper Keenan. Finally, he is back with his old band. In fact, this is the first
Deafhaven are the front-runners of the new wave of black metal. Their successful formula is the addition of post-rock and shoegaze influences to their almost optimistic sounding black metal. Deafheaven can rage with blistering attacks on your eardrums. But the band also has a tight control of dynamics that allows them to sidestep the ear-numbing monotony of a full-on metal attack. This recipe has won over metalheads and a great number of non-metal fans alike with their crossover “hit” album Sunbather, which came out in 2013. A new album is in the works.
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Metacritic, a website which aggregates various review media to assign an average score to films, games and music, impressively declared Deafheaven’s Sunbather to be the most uninamously praised album across all genres of music in 2013.
Let us entertain you. Spotify is filled with ready-made playlists for every mood and moment. Just lean back and let us serve you some great tunes. www.spotify.com
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64 combination of Ninja’s guttural Afrikaans-inflected raps and Yo-Landi Vi$$er’s robot-babydoll singing – both of them backed by a gutter-punk club vibe of producer DJ Hi-Tek. Die Antwoord’s frenzied and bombastic concerts and larger-than-life stage personas are not to be missed.
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This Polish four-piece breathes some muchneeded life into post-millennium death metal. But tragedy struck in 2007 when a bus crash claimed the life of drummer Witold ‘Vitek’ Kiełtyka and incapacitated singer Adrian ‘Covan’ Kowanek. Yet the band remained standing, screaming defiance and sounding as furious and potent as ever. With so much painful baggage in their past they deliver as if every show was their last.
These two brothers have taken house, dance, bass and UK garage from the darkness of the clubs back into the sparkling light of the charts. The duo call themselves Disclosure. Today, Disclosure are hailed as the successors to The Chemical Brothers and Basement Jaxx. Their debut album Settle from 2013 was just the beginning; in 2015 we’ll get the next chapter as the brothers release their sophomore album. With their organic, instrumentoriented approach to electronic music, Disclosure is an invitation to a true party, which will be enjoyed by rock fans and clubbers alike.
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Dixon has topped trendsetting magazine Resident Advisor’s Top DJs list for two years straight. And that’s no wonder. The Berlin-based DJ has developed a house sound that is carried by vocal chunks – with lots of feeling and variety added to the mix. Yet, he produces a true trance-inducing atmosphere in his long tracks, which really are gaining popularity in the scene. You’ll get a red-hot piece of the Berlin club scene who will transform the grass in front of the Apollo stage into an illuminated dance floor.
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Weirdos or provocateurs? However you try to decribe them, South African band Die Antwoord is like no other act on the planet – and more or less everyone has an opinion about them. They have earned this acclaim through their kitschy
A star Brazilian DJ is ready to conquer Roskilde Festival. A long-time advocate of ‘global sounds’ in pop music, DJ MAM fuses traditional Brazilian music with the best of current international sounds and beats. DJ MAM has performed for two million people (!) at a New Year’s bash at the Copacabana Beach in Rio, and he knows how to make you dance with his hot mix of samba, bossa and funk carioca. DJ MAM brings his ‘sound ship’ from which he will light up Brazil’s rich musical and cultural diversity.
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He’s the ace in the production suite behind the stars. DJ Mustard has produced loads of charthitting singles for artists like Tyga, 2 Chainz and YG. His sonic calling card can always be heard in the beginning of the tracks: “Mustard on the beat, hoe!” Not that it’s necessary. He practically owns the copyright to the distinct West Coast sound you hear everywhere in every minimalistic, up-tempo club banger. Now, DJ Mustard is ready to step into the spotlight using his own name.
Doomtree has put Minneapolis on the hip-hop map. The group consists of five mic wielders and two producers – a hip-hop collective with their own record label. They have put out three albums so far, including the brand-new All Hands. On stage the team bounces around, blazing through high-speed verses on a background of menacing, stuttering beats. The myriad of vocal styles, statements and messages form a cohesive whole under the Doomtree banner.
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On the stage you will find a guitarist/singer and A group of young musicians has embarked on a hard-hitting drummer – but Dolomite Minor set dreamer’s journey. Their focal point is Scandinarock hearts on fire with their bluesy, classic vian folk music. The Danish/Swedish act consists rock’n’roll. Inspired by Nirvana and Led Zeppelin of three beyond-skilled musicians who play viothe duo appeals to several genlin, cittern, piano and accordion. erations while exuding youthful die ant woord recently Their music is instrumental and attitude and lust for life. The riffs has enormous acoustic power. starred in ‘District of Dolomite Minor singe the eyeTechnically and musically they are ll Nei r cto dire 9’ brows and their songs turn the amazing – and they are an advenot rob p’s uninitiated into die-hard fans in turous bunch in their approach, B lomkam just a few minutes. reaching towards a borderland romp ‘Chappie’. between folk and classical music.
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The brothers Rory and Eoin Loveless are one of the most interesting rock acts in the UK right now. And when they began playing they were only armed with a guitar and a drumkit. Now they’re churning out their bluesy, garage-y and grungy rock with a little help from a bass player. What was gritty and rattling before is now meatier and harder! Drenge recently released their second album Undertow, which enhances every aspect of the debut tenfold. According to several critics a pivotal moment!
EGYPTRIXX CA
Canadian electronica act Egyptrixx flirts with techno, drone, noise and industrial, but it’s no easy job pinpointing his style. His music is too weird for the clubs, too danceable for the experimental scene and much too dark for pop. Egyptrixx seems to be on his very own wavelength! Egyptrixx blends deep techno pulses with metallic clatters and ambient flourishes. Fans of acts like Arca, Oneohtrix Point Never, Andy Stott and the like should not miss out on this.
sound has gone in a more sophisticated, lyrical and even humorous direction, and even the beauty of silence is being welcomed into the musical landscape. At Roskilde 2015 the band serves up a unique 35th anniversary concert – what some would call a greatest hits gig.
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Ready for take-off? Electric Eye welcomes you aboard a mind trip into space. The Bergen-based band delivers fuzz-infused psychedelic rock that blurs out your surroundings. The four-piece plays lengthy, droning, jammed-out songs. They stretch them out even further in concert on the basis of their love of the never-ending groove. Electric Eye is working on a new album, so when the band visits Roskilde Festival they may just treat us to some live premieres.
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Enslaved is one of metal’s shining examples of a transition from the extreme to the progressive. The Bergen-based band started out in the 90s in the second wave of Norwegian black metal. Gradually, they pushed the genre from its provenance towards progressive rock. In the universe of these metal visionists it’s perfectly natural to hear beautifully melodic guitars and complex song structures in conjunction with both clean singing and wretched screams.
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German industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten are one of the most mind-blowingly beautiful and intense live acts a curious music fan can hope to come across. Their uncompromising career started with employing ”instruments” such as power tools and fire. Since the 80s, Neubauten’s
With a decades-spanning career Einstürz ende Neubauten are among the absolute veterans at Roskilde Festival. But even though you’ve been living under a rock and are oblivious to the German outfit, you may still recognize their frontman Blixa Bargeld. He used to moonlight as the premier guitar slinger in Nick Cave’s legendary backing band The Bad Seeds — a job he held for twenty years (!) concurrently with duties in his own band.
67 Since 1998, Every Time I Die have fought and torn their way into the pantheon of metalcore – a genre that is supposed to sound like a collision between the best aspects of metal and hardcore. Today they are members of the same black VIP lounge as Converge. Their combination of precise riffs, screaming vocals, Southern swagger and sharp-edged schizo-punk is more devastating than a gasoline fire on crisp grassland.
Fall, The Cramps, The Gun Club and like-minded acts. On stage they certainly make rock’n’roll dangerous again!
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EZRA FURMAN
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Ezra Furman is a punk-fired classicist rock’n’roller. Sometimes he’s going power-pop, other times he channels chugging Velvets-style guitar but with added horns, and other times again he dives into some honky-tonk. Furman channels everything into three-minute rock gems and has a bloody good time playing them. He and his well-playing backing band The Boy-Friends aim to give you a good time. The fun they’re having on stage will definitely rub off on all audience members.
FAT WHITE FAMILY UK
“We want to make your skin crawl,” British band Fat White Family has been quoted saying. They certainly have the recipe right: their lyrics are uncomfortable and they have a provocative stance. The London band’s songbook is a rackety, deranged and immensely enjoyable set of post-punk-country-blues songs, which recalls The
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If anybody knows how to make the accordion sound cool it’s Ferro Gaita. The band hails from the island country of Cape Verde located in the central Atlantic Ocean. This seven-piece knocks out percussion-heavy, danceable funaná music. It’s akin to the popular Latin American cumbia genre but also its very own musical tradition. Traditionally, funaná was the medium of choice to express disgust at colonial rule – and until the country’s independence from Portugal in 1975, funaná as a form of music was officially banned.
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The year of 2015 had barely started before an unanimous music world touted Father John Misty’s second album I Love You, Honeybear as an early ‘album of the year’ contender. Behind the moniker Father John Misty we find the freewheeling troubadour Josh Tillman. His productions are lush and pompous, channeling acts like label mate John Grant, 1970s-style Elton John and Californian soft rock from that same era in general. But Father John Misty is louder and more uninhibited and his music is full of raw emotional honesty.
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The two folk sisters in First Aid They are just two people on stage. Per Silkjær from Kit have undergone quite a deer of But watch out, they are armed! fath the is sils fos velopment since they first played One with a bass, the other with a Roskilde Festival back in 2009 Mikkel Holm Silkjær — drum kit. With this sparse setup and later again in 2012. And their they charge ahead with an infrontman of yung. star has risen quicker than most. tense, take-no-prisoners attack Johanna and Klara Söderberg’s on your ears. Fossils connect dreamy country-tinged songs are heavy riffs and unpredictable tempo shifts into something to fall in love with – complete with utshort instrumental bursts of hard-hitting rock. And terly pitch-perfect harmonies only siblings can even though they’re just a bare-bones two-piece, produce. Their third full length album Stay Gold their sound is unbelievably massive and constantly went straight to number one in their home country in your face. You can try getting up close, but be and both Europe and the US call for them. warned – their sound might blow you back several metres.
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE UK
Florence Welch has two defining characteristics: her red hair and her powerhouse voice. Well, actually, add a third one to that list: her melodramatic songs. Florence Welch is a hopeless romantic obsessed with bad romance and she puts that into songs written for a widescreen format. The tunes are centered in pop but unafraid of adding doses of soul, rock, gospel and blues. With three albums out and popularity growing she is ready to take on our Orange Stage.
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A true folk awakening! Foghorn Stringband has become one of the longest-tenured underground string bands of the US. If you want to talk about authenticity and the timeless appeal of American folk music, Foghorn Stringband is your go-to band! Armed with fiddles, banjo, mandolin, upright bass and guitar, they conjure up images of old times with their joyous interpretations of folk, bluegrass, country and Cajun music. Toe-tappingly great!
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Foxygen is the type of band that refuses to be pigeonholed. Excess is a part of their charm and their albums take us through rock history. When writing and recording, Foxygen is just a duo but on stage they expand to a 9-person band. Their live shows are notoriously chaotic. Mercurial front man Sam France throws himself around the stage like every song is his last, and the band seems to be evolving from blues-infused psychedelia to full-blown glam punk rock.
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His music is like a big pot, cooking up some weird, purple-coloured soup full of heavy beats, psychedelic twists and turns, oriental atmospheres and whatnot. The Gaslamp Killer is an alternative hip-hop producer and DJ based in Los Angeles. At Roskilde 2015 he expands his stage presence to a 14-piece orchestra featuring costumed dancers, bass, guitar, keys, drummers, percussionists, sitar, strings and winds – and of course the big-bearded and wild-haired beatsmith himself can be found behind the turntables.
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This buzz-making hip-pop artist has released six mixtapes and 3 EPs before finally getting out his chart-topping major label release These Things Happen in 2014. G-Eazy has got the recipe just right – his rap is set to a slow southern rhythm
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Get ready for a ritualistic séance with Goat. They fuse together drum patterns and vocals reminiscent of African tribal music, hot funk guitars and a healthy dose of psychedelic rock. The band dresses up in beautiful costumes and masks and they remain pretty much a mystery. Watching Goat in concert is like being part of a shamanistic dance party. They stretch their songs into longer improvisations with myriads of solos and a groove that goes on and on and on.
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Future Brown is a pan-Atlantic electronic collective of true music fusionists. In their company it’s only natural to hear reggaeton meet grime, and cross-overs between bop and dancehall or kuduro. Earlier this year the collective put out their selftitled debut album (out on Warp), which shows us that sometimes the best music happens when experimentalists indulge their inner pop music fan. Their music already has already embraced film, art and fashion – so the future really seems bright for Future Brown’s dark club music.
This all-male (that’s right!) group heaps bucketfuls of distortion over a driving beat, sounding like chainsaws attacking pieces of metal, with singer Dara Kiely’s deadpanning Mark E. Smithstyle voice barely audible above it all. Until he screams, that is. It’s a thrilling and straight-out aggressive post-punk/no-wave-ish attack that will hit you hard! But underneath the noise there’s a kraut-like beat going on, often accompanied by a wonderful bass groove, so while coming at you they can make you move your feet as well.
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with trap percussion and woozy synth effects. In his music he comes off as both a hardball and a romantic at the same time. Add to that his slick look with a pompadour, leather jacket and shades, which has earned him the nickname ‘the James Dean of rap’ and you are in for an experience.
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70 Norway – and they are now aiming for the rest of Europe with their mad-yet-melodic punk rock. The band released the EP Opp de nye blanke earlier in 2015, and it displays the Norwegian punks at full throttle. In concert the band also maintains a frantic pace – led by the cello-toting front man Edvard Valberg whose raspy vocals are joined by gang shouts from the rest of the band.
HOT CHIP UK
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Expect heavy clouds to gather over you when listening to Gretchen Peters in concert. She is a country musician out of Nashville, who writes songs that can really make you shed a tear. Earlier this year she put out the melancholic Blackbirds album, conceptually dealing with themes such as loss and death. A glorious collocation of noir themes tempered by gorgeous, slow-burning country rock and roots music. Gretchen Peters was just recently inducted into the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.
Hot Chip have perfected their alternative approach to fusing pop and dance music. Singles like “Over And Over”, “Ready for the Floor” and “I Feel Better” are like youth-defining moments, and they all have that staying effect. The gulf between Hot Chip’s recordings and stage show is stunningly wide. Utilising bass, guitar, drums, percussion and synths, the electronic sound of their records is turned into something organic in concert. There’s a certain melancholy seeping through Hot Chip‘s tunes, yet the whole thing has the energy of an ecstatic kraut-house rave.
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The Danish trio Hudna plays Turkish folk music with inspirations from blues and Western roots music. The special sound of Hudna is made up of Orhan Özgur Turan’s mastery on the stringed instrument called the bağlama. He is joined by percussionist Yossi Karutchi and Søren Bigum on guitar and dobro. Hudna put out their self-titled debut album in 2014, which won them an award at the Danish Music Awards World.
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When they first played Roskilde in 2011, they were just getting started. Since then Honningbarna have won over their home country of
ILoveMakonnen is a new star in the making from the Atlantan hip-hop scene. You have probably heard the banger “Tuesday”, which has spread to the far corners of the web. ILoveMakonnen brings a new sound to the scene, mixing bedroom pop and R&B with fresh-from-the-source Atlanta trap. His vocals – somewhere in the borderland between singing and rapping – contain a special sensitivity. Even when the bass hits hard and the hi-hat is pacing, he manages to inject lots of soul into the music.
71 We know him as a forward-thinking producer, remixer and as one third of The xx. Flying under his own banner, Jamie xx has made his mark on the garage scene with his identifiable style, mixing 2-step beats with the crystal-clear sounds of steel drums. On stage Jamie xx demands your attention. He expertly puts together his sets with a wonderfully eclectic taste that you can’t help but dance around to. His debut album In Colour has just come out.
people, and frankly, it’s a treat! Together they make irresistible kaleidoscopic modern soul music. The band mixes wonderful falsetto harmonies, soulpop melodies and funky bass-slapping into a stew of futuristic funk and disco. It has an unmistakable British sound to it – but the appeal is indeed global.
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Kane West (no typo!) is a producer and DJ who excels in making General MIDI house music. This is far from your run-of-the-mill 4/4 beats. The London-based musician is much more adventurous than that. And he insists on having fun! Kane West bounds across house, electro and UK Funky with a blend of video game samples, disembodied pop vocals, synth gymnastics and commercialism commentary.
They met in an anger management class, and they will likely beat you up. But they’re sweet as well. Welsh band Joanna Gruesome combines cute, KASAI ALLSTARS CD twee-like melodic richness with an They have blown the Roskilde Fesin-your-face punk energy. The fiveRemember the tival audience out of their minds piece are darlings on the alive-andCongotronics vs before with their suggestive whirlbuzzing DIY underground scene, in t cer con ers ock R pool of percussion, xylophones, full of garage-punk bands with a rs sta distorted guitars and thumb pianos sweet tooth for melodies. They 2011? kasai all have built their career in cramped were integral to that. (the locals know them as mbiras) – and now Kasai Allstars are back. tour vans and tiny basement venThey have just released the utterly ues, and they put out their music excellent and acclaimed album Beware the Fetish, on small indie labels. so we have invited them back on stage. And this time the spectacular ensemble is gearing up for JUNGLE UK an intense out-of-body-and-mind session. Truly This mercurial soul collective has a fearsome live trance-inducing! reputation. On stage they insist on a full and organic experience. That requires no less than seven
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Jupiter Bokondji is the ‘rebel general’ of the Kinshasa music scene in Congo, a long-time stalwart noted for his hypnotic, high-energy playing style. Jupiter reactivates Congo’s forgotten rhythms and melodies with his band of handpicked local talents Okwess International. It’s a tight, edgy combination of Afro pop, traditional Congolese rhythms, funk and rock. The band is currently working on a brandnew album, so expect lots of new tunes when they visit Roskilde 2015 for a high-octane funk fest!
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candidate as album of year 2015. Kendrick Lamar played at Roskilde Festival 2013 in a jam-packed Arena tent and excitedly called the Roskilde audience “the livest crowd I’ve had in my career”. We can’t wait to welcome back this hip-hop star.
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Kate Tempest is a published playwright, novelist, poet – and she does music as well! Let’s call this multi-artist a storyteller, shall we? Tempest started out when she was 16, rapping on night buses and pestering MCs to let her on the mic at raves. Kate Tempest is a highly skilled rapper – she balances a deft flow and a dense storytelling. Her producer is Dan Carey who delivers neatly sculpted club sounds for her seen-it-all drawl dotted with street slang reminiscing The Streets in his heyday.
Baton Rouge rapper Kevin Gates is quite the cult phenomenon. The 29-year-old has put out a number of mixtapes since 2012, which have earned him his reputation and lots of critical acclaim. That’s due to his ability to blend crucial storytelling with raw emotion and a club-ready punch. Kevin Gates may be coming off as a hardboiled gangster rapper (which he indeed is!), but the true triumphs in his tracks are his prodigious songwriting talent and the ragged emotional truths that live within his songs.
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This Canadian producer and remixer has gained quite a following over the past couple of years. Kaytranada has bridged the gap between electronic and rap music. He has a special trademark sound that, if not defies genres, then at least incorporates lots of them. He churns out tracks ranging from reconfigured R&B classics and experimental trap beats to downtempo house. And whatever he tosses in that boiling pot of his, he makes it flow and complement each other to perfection.
KENDRICK LAMAR US
Dr. Dre proclaimed him “The New King of the West Coast”. It didn’t take long for Kendrick Lamar to make himself worthy of such a title. The rapper put out the album To Pimp a Butterfly earlier this year, and it’s collecting star-studded reviews, is hailed as a masterpiece and already looks to be a sure
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Kippi Kaninus is the pseudonym of the Icelandic sound and visual artist Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson. On stage he’s surrounded by six highly skilled musicians adding guitar, bass, drums, percussion, trombone and trumpet to the musical journeys. Together, they create an adventurous, mini-symphonic, textural series of instrumental excursions full of build-ups and crescendos. Forget all about a verse-chorus-verse structure – this is like being taken on a musical trip where you don’t quite know the destination. KHAIRA ARBY
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You probably won’t find a band at Roskilde 2015 with a bigger chorus than Kodaline’s “Honest” She has been called the queen of desert blues, and single. The Irish band masters anthemic melher magnificent voice and committed personality ancholia, expressed in guitar-and-piano bursts. have owned Khaira Arby a well-deserved status Every song contains the kind as one of Africa’s most ims What doe kronos of more-is-more yearning that portant female artists. Based ess powers bands such as Coldin her home town of Timbuktu, q uartet and afr ica e xpr play, Bastille and Snow Patrol. Khaira Arby includes Mali’s die in common? Fact: hav The four-piece’s songs inspire verse cultures in the hypnotic h recorded eac e hav y The big sing-alongs, so you’d betand free-floating West African y’s Rile ry Ter of ter start familiarising yourself blues tradition as we have a version with this impressive catalogue heard it before at Roskilde composition “In C”. of radio-ready pop rock hits. Festival from artists like Ali Farka Touré, Afel Bocoum and KRONOS QUARTET US T inariwen. For 40 years Kronos Quartet has refused to accept any prevailing traditions and standards in clasKING GIZZARD THE LIZARD WIZARD AU sical music. They have worked with composers Want to go on a head-spinning musical trip at such as Philip Glass and Steve Reich, and they Roskilde 2015? Look no further. This Melbournehave interpreted rock history with renditions of based band cultivates a dimension of paisleyclassics such as “Purple Haze” and “Marquee patterned psych-rock sound that swerves and Moon”. This time the legendary string quartet swirls. On stage, the band is a force of energy, is challenging the surroundings with a tribute keeping things both tight and groovy. The two to legendary avant-garde composer Terry Riley drummers keep a metronomic, kraut-beat goand his longstanding exploration of classical and ing, washed over by fuzzed-up jams, tons of wah electronic minimalism. and the occasional flute. The band’s songs often blend into each other like one long blurry dream you don’t want to end.
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She is referred to as ‘the first lady of electronic cumThat voice, man! Listen to it once and it sticks with bia’. Mariana Yegros, aka La Yegros, is a stunning you. It’s booming, throaty and yet sweet as honey. female presence. She fuses traditional chamamé And that’s not just us talking. Everybody seems to and cumbia with urban and electronic influences be raving about this pop star in the making. Kwabs from her Buenos Aires upbringwas first discovered on Youtube ing. She has already conquered where he sang covers of James Another, tastier layer South America with the hit sinBlake and Corinne Bailey Rae. band name? ir the to gle “Viene de Mi”. It shows her Now, he has dropped a couple of n tma fron god of b lam more traditional side – but her stellar EPs full of futuristic R&B er form a music easily incorporates rap hits, and his debut album is just Randy Blythe is and reggae alongside her other around the corner. He has capchef and also owns a ventures. La Yegros will have tured the radio waves as well with ed “Salad ”. nam cat your hips swaying in no time. the infectious hit single “Walk”.
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His civil name is Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll, but EDM lovers know him best under the stage name Kygo. He is spearheading the EDM sub-genre called tropical house, a tranquil summery sound full of chill synth melodies, sexy sax, playful flourishes and a steady beat. Just listen to his smooth remix of Ed Sheeran’s “I See Fire”, the sexy rework of The Weeknd’s “Often” or the synthed-up approach to Kyla La Grange’s “Cut Your Teeth”. The list goes on – and it all goes straight to your feet for an allnight dance party.
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With a number of brutal albums – and stellar singles like “Redneck” – Lamb of God made American metal respectable again after a slow detour for some years. Mark Morton’s crunchy riffs and Randy Blythe’s raw vocals have turned Lamb of God into front men of New Wave of American metal. This gruff Virginia dream team channels fury, grit, muscle and aggression with a dedication and intensity worthy of Phil Anselmo or Machine Head at their fiery best.
LARS H.U.G. – SPECIAL SHOW DK
Lars H.U.G. has put a signature imprint on Danish music history, first as a cutting-edge new wave front man in the band Kliché, and later as a solo
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This eight-piece hails from a small island east of Madagascar called Réunion. They are committed to nurturing the music style maloya, a vibrant symbol of creole culture whose strident vocal calls, harmonised-chanted responses and complex percussion rhythms originated with the slaves brought to work on the sugar plantations. Lindigo also brings new styles to the table. You can hear traces of Afrobeat, samba and funk music in their songs. Try not to dance to this music – it’s virtually impossible!
LUST FOR YOUTH DK/SE
Lust for Youth started as a one-man project for Hannes Nordvidde. The early expression of Lust for Youth was in the shape of greyscaled, lo-fi coldwave songs made with an old toy keyboard. With the 2014 album International Lust for Youth have not only expanded to a trio and hi-fi’ed up their sound, the band aims for a more clean-cut electropop sound in the vein of early Depeche Mode and New Order. Moody but very much danceable!
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She takes you through forests, across hillsides and over snowcapped mountains. Lydia Ainsworth’s music has that dreamy, cinematic quality to it. The Toronto-based musician works in the intersection of glimmering pop music, atmospheric electronica and classical strings. We’re sure that song elves like Björk and Kate Bush would nod in approval to the otherworldly sounds and vocal qualities.
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Horn-sizzling cumbia funksters are ready to start up a party! M.A.K.U. Soundsystem is a Colombianrooted band based in New York. They take the redhot rhythms and dance grooves from their home country and slam them up against jazzy flourishes, sizzling horns, distorted guitars and ska basslines. The band is made up of no less than eight musicians – and their sound can be massive. Get ready for an explosive performance with unshakable grooves.
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She first played here in 2006 on our talent stage. In 2013 she filled our Arena tent with a joyful crowd screaming along. In 2015 it’s time to crown Denmark’s queen of wordy pop music on the Orange Stage. Marie Key has won the hearts of many Danish listeners. And it’s no wonder, the curlyhead excels in penning deceivingly simple pop songs that keep charming the inner ear long after they have faded out. Join in on a big pop celebration!
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In a world full of rappers claiming to be one of a kind, Le1f is what you can call a real-deal original. Le1f is a Manhattan native who has studied ballet and modern dance before he became a rapper. He’s an out-and-proud gay MC. On stage, Le1f is a performer of such magnetism and charisma that it’s impossible not to be swept up in his heady, intoxicating beats. When he’s vocalising he’s very versatile – he raps, croons and snarls – and his stage presence includes an alien-like set of bendy showman moves.
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artist. He has written songs in both Danish and English, interpreted poems and expanded the canvas for Danish-language pop music. There is a lot to revisit when H.U.G. visits Roskilde Festival 2015 with a show you won’t see anywhere else. Expect a performance full of sound, visuals and scenography – a tour de force through time with the best material from H.U.G.’s entire career.
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... and in just a year! The Minds of 99 played the Rising stage in 2014. In 2015 they're playing the Orange Stage.
THE MINDS OF 99 DK
Please welcome this year’s opening act on Orange Stage. When The Minds of 99 played our Rising stage last year, one critic called them the future of Danish rock music. Well, the future is now. On their self-titled debut album the six-piece presented a monochrome cross of new wave and pop music – full of synthesizers, icy guitars and catchy vocal lines. A new album is around the corner, and The Minds of 99 have really grown as a live band, so it seems like an obvious choice to welcome them to our biggest stage.
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Brazilian band Metá Metá brings together influences as diverse as art rock, modern jazz and Afro-Brazilian rhythms to create a visceral, experimental and soulful type of music that reaches from a whisper to an all-out aural assault. The São Paulo-based band put out the critically acclaimed MetaL MetaL in 2014, and it’s a thrilling listen for open-minded ears. When playing live the trio (singer, saxophonist and guitarist) expands to a five-piece, inviting a drummer and a bass player along for the ride.
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Mew’s mastery of both progressive and popular sounds makes them regulars at Roskilde Festival. The catchy melodies and Jonas Bjerre’s innocent falsetto voice have turned the hard-hitting band into pop stars. Their ideas, fantasy and lust for experimentation warrant comparisons with the most adventurous bands in the history of rock.. The internationally acclaimed Danes greet 2015 with a new, visually powerful stage show and the brand-new album simply entitled +-. This will be their only festival gig in Denmark this summer.
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Mastodon is one of the most acclaimed metal bands in the new millennium. The Atlanta four-piece has spent the last 15 years refining their increasingly impressive alloy of prog, stoner and classic metal. Mastodon’s sound and scope certainly live up to the giant animal they have named themselves after. Lately, the band aims for a more straightforward approach, favouring big hooks, soaring harmonies and a huge sound. Their songwriting still blurs the lines between genres and styles, and between technical prowess and dirty grooves.
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Denmark isn’t a mountainous country per se. But we do have this band. And the sound they spew out reaches for altitudes as high as the highest of mountains. This is quite a dream team, made up of Michael Møller (Moi Caprice) and the twins Fridolin and Frederik Nordsø (The William Blakes). They got together with the mission of penning big-sounding electronic pop songs. Armed with numerous synthesizers, drums and wonderfully pathos-laden vocals, The Mountains aim for the grandiose approach in a live setting.
about the Scandinavian woods, and her music has a certain enchanting vibe that adds warmth to the bleak and aggressive tones of the songs. When Myrkur plays Roskilde 2015 it is a true live world premiere.
MUSE UK
Muse still aims to take over the whole universe. At least that’s how their ever-expanding, anthemic rock music sounds like. Led by charismatic front man Matthew Bellamy – whose vocals shift gears seamlessly between tenor growls and high-flying falsettos – Muse is one big machine on stage. They have built up an impressive catalogue of songs – most of them with a sound so big that Orange Stage and the open sky seem like the only fit setting for this band.
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She’s an absolute beast of a rapper and can craft pop hits in a way that seems effortless. And she’s constantly hitting commercial high points. Experiencing Nicki Minaj in concert is something not to miss! Surrounded by dancers and a great live band, Nicki Minaj bounces about, radiating fun and lots of attitude, whilst spitting out her devilish rap with immense flow. Fans of hip-hop and pop will stand united for something very special at Roskilde Festival 2015.
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Her civil name is Amalie Bruun. But when she wears her black cloak, her name is Myrkur – a one-woman army. Myrkur conjures up her own version of black metal. She incorporates soaring choral vocals into the overall landscape of melody and loss. She sings
Nils Frahm’s music is an open invitation to closing your eyes and imagining all the majestic landscapes passing by, conjured up by the Berlinbased artist’s piano music. Frahm’s music leans towards a delicate and minimalist style of music with roots in classical and electronica. He’s a neoclassicist by heart – but his music crosses over to audiences outside of the traditional concert halls. Frahm promises a more bass-heavy approach at his Roskilde gig – so you might be able to dance with your eyes closed.
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This is a fresh rethinking of American punk rock, rooted in the legacy of the late-70s hardcore movement. Off! was formed by long-serving punk Noel Gallagher has made the transition from lead legends including Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle guitarist stage-left to solo star front-and-centre in Jerks) and Steven McDonald (Redd Kross). Their a smooth move. He still knows how to raise up the acclaimed debut album The First Four EPs from kind of anthemic choruses that incite mass shout2010 was an instant classic. 16 songs bashed a-longs. Earlier this year he put out his second out in 18 minutes – fast, sharp and straight to album Chasing Yesterday. Judging from recent the core! They may be veterans shows, reviews and sales, the but they sure don’t sound like it elder Gallagher brother’s star is myr kur is part of a still shining brightly indeed. Look tal themed – these guys can outplay most me ck bla young punk bands. forward to both new material and evening Saturday on older Oasis songs (he wrote them, re mo OQUADRO BR after all). Come join in on this celPavilion. Read They are tipped as one of the ebration of both past and present. on page 38. hottest acts in Brazil right now. OQuadro is a seven-piece hipNOURA MINT SEYMALI MR hop crew who play all instruments themselves! When Noura Mint Seymali plays They formed the band as teenagers 15 years ago. her psychedelic desert blues, the world pricks up With no access to digital equipment (in samba’s its ears! Seymali plays an electrified ardine, a nineheartland MPCs weren’t easy to get your hands stringed harp, and she’s backed by guitar, bass on) OQuadro’s setup looks more like a rock band and drums. Her husband, Jeiche Ould Chighaly, fronted by three MCs. They have a wonderful oris especially notable with his hot-wired, purpleganic sound that will definitely give a band like hazed electric guitar work. The group has updated The Roots a run for their money! the Moorish folk music tradition to something very exciting. 2014’s Tzenni album is defined by the rawness and grit of its spiralling pentatonic melodies and Seymali’s mesmerising vocals.
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Abe Laboriel Jr., the man mountain behind the similarly outsized drum kit in Paul McCartney’s band, is widely regarded as one of the most prolific drummers in the world – a modern day Bernard Purdie, if you will. Having played on more than two hundred albums since the early 90s, chances are that you too might have an example or two of his skillful drumming on the record shelf.
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Ought is an exuberant young post-punk band with a distinctive and explosive sound. In front you can hear the eccentric ranting of singer Tim Beeler, hearkening back to the days of Talking Heads. Add to that a dissonant, high-strung guitar play and a somewhat funk-echoing rhythm section. The foursome put out their critically acclaimed debut album More Than Any Other Day in 2014. All band members show significant musical chops, and they excel in the dynamics of playing it calm and spazzing out. And it works wonders!
out from the new batch of doom bands. In their appreciation of the heavy genre they also adhere to heavy metal’s dogma of ornate melodicism. A true trump card is singer Brett Campbell’s highpitched, clean vocal style. He adds lots of soul to these doom-mongers’ classic approach.
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Orange Stage hasn’t been graced by a former Beatle yet. In 2015 we’re making that happen! All reports of his live performances call him a marvel on stage. Effortlessly he works his way through a very long set list and jumps to and fro between his famous Höfner bass and the piano. His band on stage is as tight a unit as they come. They have been playing together for 13 years, after all. Expect Macca’s Roskilde Festival show to be stocked with gems from the equivalent of three careers – The Beatles, Wings and his solo material. Many of the songs on the set list are even considered some of the best songs ever written.
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They are a perfect hip-hop match! Pede B is the eloquent and in-your-face MC with a past as a champion battle rapper (he won MC’s Fight Night three times!). Pede B performs together with DJNoize who enhances the potency of his rap with breakbeats, samples, cuts and scratches. On stage, Pede B and DjNoize are joined by a full band, which add a great organic feel to their sound. Moreover, the duo is working on a number of guest appearances on stage. So expect a very special show at Roskilde Festival 2015.
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This Arkansas-based four-piece plays doom metal, the classic slow-grooved, thunderous and downtuned genre that the legends in Black Sabbath invented. However, Pallbearer manages to stand
Mike Hadreas, the androgynous artist behind the Perfume Genius pseudonym, is on a ravishing and hellish journey through his music into the deepest parts of the soul. And we’re right there with him. The New York-based artist started out composing sparse piano ballads about serial killers and child abuse. In the course of three albums he has developed his sound and his on-stage persona. On his latest output, 2014’s critically acclaimed Too
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It’s time for a funky, all-embracing party. The mastermind behind The Polyversal Souls is German drummer, composer and arranger Max Weissenfeldt. He is a pioneer in merging traditional African and Asian music with urban soul and has set out to combine the polyrhythmic music of Ghana with contemporary Western musical styles in The Polyversal Souls. They're an orchestra comprised of no less than 13 musicians that unite two very disparate types of instrumentation – that of West Africa and Western Europe.
She stares you down until you can’t help but look away. Then she starts screaming. Sometimes she beats a metal plate. Experiencing New York City artist Margaret Chardiet, aka Pharmakon, in concert isn’t exactly a happy-go-lucky experience. Pharmakon makes eerie, droning and harsh noise music. She performs behind a table full of effects gear – keyboards, pedals, loopers and a microphone. From there she builds up her sound structures, challenging what music is as an art form. paul mccartney is
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4 times the age of 18 year old new comer soak. Both are Roskilde debutantes!
Pharrell Williams is one of the most important performers, songwriters and producers of modern pop music. He has previously visited Roskilde with the group N*E*R*D. He has also delivered hits for the big stars – and he sings on some of them (cue “Get Lucky” and “Blurred Lines”). With the album G I R L he’s back at the very front of the stage again, so inviting him back to Roskilde Festival was an obvious choice. Get ready for a parade of hits when Williams and his band enter Orange Stage and start up a party you don’t want to stop.
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Bright, his sonic palette also includes stylised, brittle electronics. Prepare to be moved by Perfume Genius’ intense delivery.
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“I’m straight New York, what a lot of y’all are pretending to be.” Ratking is an exciting new spawn of NYC’s big concrete jungle. The trio creates a hazy and creatively fecund form of hip-hop that’s growing out of their city’s musical legacy. Producer Sporting Life’s lush beats and dusty atmospherics back the two young MCs Wiki and Hak as they deliver intricate incantations about being high in church and staying warm in subway tunnels. The trio put out the critically acclaimed debut album So It Goes in 2014.
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El-P and Killer Mike operate together under the banner Run the Jewels. They are probably the most popular hip-hop duo around right now. Before they were an official act they performed together at
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Ryan Adams has been around alt. country, folk rock, garage-y nuggets and rewired heartland rock. He has the heartfelt angst of a singer-songwriter and the cocky brashness of a garage rocker. His live shows embrace his whole career and he gives us generous doses of songs including both acoustic pearls and life-affirming rockers. He called a 2014 single “Gimme Something Good” and with
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This Danish band has dug deep down into the US soil and found the beating heart of Americana music. At the very front you can hear the dark vocals of Mathias Elkjær. His intonations make him sound like a cross between Stuart Staples (Tindersticks) and Matt Berninger (The National). But it takes five musicians to make the warm, dark and dusty sounds of Santiago. Three guitars create a wide sound and occasionally the band adds doses of lap steel and trumpet to great effect.
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With a powerful, souled-up voice, Seinabo Sey has made the world prick up its ears. You have probably already heard the singles “Younger” and “Hard Time”. Both songs triumph mainly because of one thing: that incredible voice of her’s. In concert Seinabo Sey fronts a band of drums and synths. You’re almost stunned by her stage presence when her soul vocals grab a hold of you. The music will make you want to dance along as well.
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Sarabi is the Swahili word for mirage. This Kenyan band’s music is so hot that it can almost provoke such visions. Sarabi is made up of eight
Forget everything you know about traditional song structure. The five women in Selvhenter will deconstruct it completely. Armed with two drumkits, a trombone, a saxophone, a violin and a pile of pedals they come at you with a wall of sound (not quite the Phil Spector kind) that tears at your ears. Their approach to the music is full of screeching and droning horns, a guitar-sounding violin and polyrhythms. Selvhenter’s music thrives in the balance between control and improvised chaos.
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Drift away to the sounds of the sarangi – a bowed, short-necked string instrument. Its sounds will take you straight to the blue-painted city of Jodhpur in India. That’s where Sabir Khan hails from and he is the symbol of the sarangi in India. Sabir Khan excels in musical improvisations with sustaining melodic and rhythmic skills framed by the raga form. He is joined on stage by two percussionists playing the tabla and the dholak, both traditional hand drums that will add rhythmic patterns to Sabir Khans sarangi sounds.
musicians all hailing from the Eastlands slums of Nairobi. Their music is based on traditional Kenyan rhythms, benga and a blend of Western sounds. The songs are built up around acoustic guitars, but don’t let that fool you. The rhythms (by means of both drums and percussion) aim to make your hips sway.
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his sustained ability to deliver intimate-sounding arena rock we know that he will indeed treat us!
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She’s just 18 years old, but this Northern Irish singer-songwriter is already turning heads with her raspy, vulnerable voice and beautiful acoustic songs. SOAK writes lyrically well-crafted songs about the world seen with young eyes. Her debut album Before We Forgot How to Dream has just been released. SOAK has been performing in her hometown of Derry since she was 14 and will play Roskilde Festival with a full band.
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86 own respective banners, it makes it a duh-obvious choice to present them together at Roskilde Festival 2015. Brace yourself – Specktors and Nonsens are about to rave things up in a go-nuts party!
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Ready to rawk? Spidergawd mean business with their petrol-stinking take on blues-based hard rock. The Norwegian band hails from the proud viking capital of Trondheim and they are currently harvesting lots of hype in their home country. Of course, it helps to have two members from rock titans Motorpsycho in the band, but Spidergawd need no shoulders to stand on. The four-piece’s love of the classic sound really shines through, so fans of bands like MC5 and Grand Funk Railroad should come on closer.
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Songhoy Blues plays electrifying desert blues, a driving, repetitive and somewhat psychedelic sound that can whirl up desert sand around your ears. It’s full of circular rhythm patterns and rapidfire guitar solos and it will have you rocking in a trance-like state! The band recorded their debut album Music in Exile together with Nick Zinner from Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This is a band that refuses to let its music die down because of religious conflicts – and it sounds all the more exuberant for it!
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Rap and rave clash in a unique collaboration. Specktors is a well-known Danish jaunty electro rap duo who has made the entire Danish youth sing along to the chart-topping single “Lågsus”. They have teamed up with the producers in Nonsens. Added to the bill that both acts have previously packed big crowds at Roskilde gigs under their
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If you were to name but one woman from the indie scene who’s grown to take the world by storm in recent years it should be St. Vincent. She played Roskilde back in 2009, but it’s a fully developed artist who revisits us now. St. Vincent has always investigated the borderland of pop music. Her quirky musical mind fearlessly channels elements of rock, jazz and even classical music. When St. Vincent takes the stage with her robotic art-star persona she’s a pop star of her own design.
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In her home country of Norway she’s one of the biggest stars right now. Sundfør’s songbook started with a batch of classical, piano-based tunes. Since then, both M83, Kleerup and Röyksopp have invited Sundfør in to put her magic touch on a number of international single hits. Ten Love Songs, Sundfør’s fourth album, moves towards a gorgeous electro pop symbiosis as it mixes ready-for-the-dancefloor hits and gorgeous ballads.
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They have outraged the masses and supplied entertainment for even more. That is how business is handled when Danish hip-hop act Suspekt spit out their in-your-face rap filled to the brim with rough beats and dirty lyrics. The group’s
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He’s been in the game for many years, but Timbuktu is still pissed! He’s a political rapper unafraid of pointing his finger at the issues around him, and he often hits a nerve. With 8 studio albums under his belt, Timbuktu is one of Sweden’s most important musical voices today. His music is global-minded. He fits reggae, funk, gypsy music and much more into his productions. When playing live he brings along his steady eight-piece backing band Damn!
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He is one of the biggest rock musicians Scandinavia has spawned. The sound that Thåström has evolved towards is gothic and bluesy. The Swede strips down his sound to its essentials and his bluesy chord progressions run in repetitive circles with industrial percussive rattles added on top. Thåström has a top-notch backing band. All black-clad they infuse the songs with an extra rocking feeling on stage while Thåström sings his raspy lines like some kind of manically restless, yet fixed front man clasping the microphone.
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STEVE GUNN outspoken tone and intense style atKristian Matsson For fans of guitar-based music, the tract new fans every passing day, so lest tal the aka company of Steve Gunn may just be expect both the front and the back is th ear man on the very best you can find right now. row to be full at this show. With alThe Brooklynite plays circular folk really only 5'7 " or, bum number five out on the street, songs that unfold as effortlessly as about 170 cm tall . this trio climbs all the way to the top a breath. His melodies seem soaked as Denmark’s currently strongest in a timeless well of Americana, hip-hop group. making them feel both new and familiar at the same time. What makes the music THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH SE particularly exciting is how he infuses elements A voice and a guitar. These are the essentials in from many other genres – blues, psychedelia, West Kristian Matsson’s acoustic-based folk music. He African grooves, raga drones and even classic rock. calls himself The Tallest Man On Earth when he releases records and travels the dusty roads on tour. The Tallest Man on Earth has released four records. The latest one is called Dark Bird Is Home and it shows a more full-bodied sound. Befitting to this, Matsson revisits Roskilde Festival with a full band in his only Scandinavian festival gig this summer. US
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Tombs has made one of 2014’s most cherished metal offerings with Savage Gold. This album takes their talent for dense blast beats, croaked demon vocals and ripping guitars to new heights. A séance with Tombs also brings you slower movements, giving you a moment to unwind and enjoy the darkened view before the next onslaught. With their alchemistic control of mania, chaos and beauty, Tombs have made an important name for themselves on the US black metal scene.
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Former N.A.S.A. member and veteran producer DJ Zegon teams up with a new recruit, the young Laudz, under the Tropkillaz moniker. This Brazilian party duo whips up a hurricane of trap, bass, hip-hop and Latin beats. They have ignited dance floors with hits such as “Mambo” and “Assets” and recently they were included in trendsetting blog Run The Trap’s Top 10 trap duos. Apollo is likely to get its speakers tested with this party full of 808 beats and screeching future Latino flavour.
sunny power pop. If you’re looking for straight-up rock’n’roll with a fuzzed-out twist, you should seek these kids out. Or to sum things up by quoting a fan online: “SPECTACULAR album, genius live show”.
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This Copenhagen-based duo has climbed a steep curve of popularity in Denmark. Producer Jens Ole McCoy and vocalist Hans Philip have honed and nurtured a sound with inspiration from The Weeknd and Drake. Ukendt Kunstner’s mix of melodic, melancholic hip-hop and modern R&B is like a portrait of the youth of today. When playing Roskilde Festival 2015 the duo expands to a five-piece, adding live drums, guitar and keys to the lineup.
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Over the course of four albums Veronica Maggio has delivered lush and bubbly pop music sung in her Swedish mother tongue. She can deliver both ballads and intoxicating pop anthems and she has released hits like “Hela huset”, “Sergels torg”, “Jag kommer” and “Måndagsbarn”. They are all wrapped in that special modern retro and always stylish sound that only the yellow’n’blues know how to produce. She brings a full band with her, which really allows her pop songs to become electrified and occasionally rocking.
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The members of Twin Peaks weren’t even born when the TV series of the same name went off the air, but their sources of inspiration go even further back. The band put out the critically acclaimed album Wild Onion in 2014 – a glorious collection of blitzing garage rock, jangle pop and
The War On Drugs got their well-received breakthrough when they put out the krautrock-meetsAmericana album Slave Ambient in 2011. But main man Adam Granduciel kept developing and he found his true voice through a more straightforward approach on 2014’s magnum opus Lost in the Dream, which ended up on most end-of-year lists. Granduciel digs into the soil of classic American rock with callbacks to Dylan, Springsteen and Petty. With a careful indie approach he updates the sound to something very modern.
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Care for a bit of beauty made from bleak atmospheres and haunting, distant melodies? The Leip
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Award-winning trio Young Fathers hail from Edinburgh with a joint heritage of Scotland, Nigeria and Liberia. of Together they stir up a globalised ed the nam are DK WHOMADEWHO blend of hip-hop, electronica and ir the as e sam When they first broke through pop that at the same time recalls s, the sound barrier, their formula of acts such as TV on the Radio and respective dad pop-meets-disco-in-a-dark-room hence the moniker. Shabazz Palaces. Their music encharmed its way into the hearts compasses tribal rhythms, glitch of all kinds of music lovers. Whoand bombastic beats and the three MadeWho has been sharpening vocalists both sing and rap. Young Fathers are and reshaping their expression ever since. Since aggressive and spot-on catchy at the same time then WhoMadeWho has evolved in a new direcand they somehow manage to redefine hip-hop! tion. On their latest album Dreams from 2014 they have put the guitar more in front, while the danceRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE DK/SE able grooves and beats lurk around somewhere Øresund Space Collective charts astral regions in the background. However, in concert they still with its psychedelic space rock digging into atguarantee a party – now with more moods to it. mospheric build-ups, extended jams and spacey sound effects! The nebulous outfit is led by the US YOUNG AND IN THE WAY charismatic and wild-bearded synth-worker Scott They may have the most amusing band “Dr. Space” Heller. He is joined on stage by a large name on this year’s Roskilde poster, but once the band of jammers who insist on improvising their laughs die down you should prepare for an assault. way towards the next galaxy. Wherever the destiNot because this band is vengeful, but their music nation it’s always with direction and compositional is! Young And in the Way plays what is referred to purpose. Outer space awaits at Roskilde 2015! as blackened crust. It’s a cold, muscular and loud genre with ties to hardcore and black metal. Look
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We like We is a Danish improv collective consisting of four classically trained female musicians. You can hear the sound of a beautiful violin, sometimes accompanied by a singing voice. You can’t always tell if the voice is singing actual words – it acts as an instrument in itself. Along the way percussion and cello join in. We like We’s debut album is called A new Age of Sensibility. It’s a delicate collection of neo-classical experimental songs that celebrate improvisational All three members songwriting through jamming. young father s
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zig-based trio Warm Graves with the cuddly-creepy name lulls you away with their music. Imagine warm organ sounds in major combined with repetitive, simple drumming and distant choir vocals singing far into eternity. In concert the distant beauty of the studio productions is replaced by soft slaps in the face and the approach becomes more rocking and direct.
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FO0D FOOD and BEVERAGES WITH CARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT and FOOD SAFETY
If you feel that we care about the food at Roskilde Festival you are not mistaken. The way human beings produce, distribute and prepare food is probably the largest single contributor to climate change, both in the world in general and at a festival. That’s why we try to limit our impact on the environment. Roskilde Festival works with various contributors allowing us to vouch for the quality and environmental impact of their goods. Consequently, all dairy products at the festival are organic from the dairy Naturmælk, all the coffee sold is organic from Peter Larsen Coffee and the juice and wine available in every bar are also organic. Furthermore, we ask our food stalls to exclusively use organic pasta, rice, canned tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, carrots and lettuce in their meals. All food stalls are also required to have at least one vegetarian dish on their menus. The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration is in charge of regulatory controls of hygiene in all food stalls, who also have their own sanitation controls as well as a programme to assist in the development of a good hygiene culture. This all sounds very reasonable. And in truth, we think it is.
A LARGE SELECTION
The approximately 150 food stalls and bars at the festival serve food and beverages, which cater to any taste, appetite or wallet while being mindful of the environment. You can choose between anything from the classic festival burger to an environmentally sustainable meal made from local produce. To wash it down you can get anything from beer and sodas to homemade milkshakes. We know there’s quite a difference in the size of wallets our guests bring to the festival. That’s why the selection of food and beverages must include offers for the student living on study grants as well as the more well-off individuals with the coin for something extra.
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HOW DO WE CHOOSE OUR FOOD STALLS?
The festival has a group of volunteers who work all year selecting and maintaining relations to the food stalls. We have chosen the stalls for Roskilde Festival 2015 using six different criteria: —— Organics/Sustainability: In 2015 it is our goal that at least 45 % of our food is organic and to have at least 10 stalls that are more than 90 % organic. —— Price: Participants who get by on student support from the government must also be able to eat their fill. —— Quality: We would rather have freshly made food made from fresh produce than ready-to-serve, pre-cooked meals. —— Realism: We select stalls that we know will be able to handle the pressure of running a food stall at Roskilde Festival. —— Charity: We prefer stalls that use their profits for charitable purposes, i.e. sports or cultural associations. —— Originality: We select new stalls that distinguish themselves from the existing selection of stalls.
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But food at Roskilde is more than food stalls. There are plenty of culinary experiences to be had – food events and pop-up restaurants near the Gloria stage or the opportunity to cook your own wholly organic meal during the Foodjam event in CITYcentre East. Read more about this on the following pages.
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Various associations and organisations run many of the food stalls, which ensure that profits benefit charitable purposes. Others are run by professional caterers who also contribute some of their profits to the overall charity supported by Roskilde Festival.
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More than a ROCK
ROCKWOOL har i år bygget fælleshuset - House of ROCK. Stort set alt er lavet af stenuld, lige fra loft og vægge til borde og liggestole. Her kan I nyde medbragt mad og drikke, mens ørene får et velfortjent hvil. I finder det røde House of ROCK ved siden af Pavilion scenen.
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The Food Court is Roskilde Festival’s food laboratory which challenges the perception of festival food and works towards a continuous development of the choices of food available at the festival. This is where we test delicious new festival food concepts. Sustainability is an important focus with at least 75 % organic produce in the Food Court. The opening hours are the same as other food stalls and so are the prices. The Food Court is situated in the southern hall next to the Gloria stage.
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EXCITING NEWCOMERS
Together with the best of last year’s food stalls, you will also find the following new ones on the menu in 2015: —— Bulko: If you have ever visited Copenhagen Street Food Market you may already know Bulko. In any case, you can look forward to tasting their Korean specialities. —— BarBurrito: Mexican food at its best. If you crave tacos, ceviche and the like, BarBurrito is your new go-to place. —— Manzel: As the only Lebanese star on the Copenhagen dining sky, Manzel has provided foodies with Middle Eastern dishes, and now the time has come for Roskilde Festival. —— Licorice in the food: A couple of years ago, Johan von Bülow started a veritable licorice wave in Danish cooking. In Food Court you can taste his take on a cocktail with licorice, among many other delicacies. —— Paella’n’Pilau: ¡Viva España! We cannot guarantee that the staff will dance flamenco but we do promise you a delicious Spanish paella or a rice pilaf. —— Spoon Company: Spoon Company has given up on forks and knives. Instead you get comfort food in a bowl. —— The Organic Boho: Look forward to some Californian vibes and hippie moods. Here you can have a boho wrap, and if you have been up all night they offer a stimulating energy shot.
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CREAM How does Roskilde Festival taste? Hansens Flødeis asked themselves this very question. This became the starting signal of a journey full of stirring, mixing and tasting towards finding this year’s Roskilde Festival ice cream. Ultimately, the festival-goers would decide which ice cream flavour was the right one. Hundreds of people carefully tasted and voted for two different ice cream ‘finalists’.
One flavour was Disco, a pomegranate sorbet with stardust. This ice cream could change into a refreshing and icy drink by adding a pinch of alcohol. The other flavour, and ultimately the winning ice cream, Rock, is an edgy orange ice cream with raw chocolate pieces. Rock will be sold as the official Roskilde Festival 2015 ice cream.
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Hansens Flødeis is a family business, which has produced ice cream for 92 years. Through generations Hansens has improved its methods and places great emphasis on the importance of sustainability, locality and organic principles. According to Mikkel Sander, sustainability manager at Roskilde Festival, this is exactly why Hansens is a textbook Roskilde Festival partnership. “Hansens Flødeis shares many of the same values with Roskilde Festival and does not compromise when it comes to its organic principles. The milk is sourced locally and they know all their ingredients, which makes their supply chain extremely transparent. It truly substantiates the sustainability strategy of Roskilde Festival.”
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TR UCKS The food truck trend has rolled in at Roskilde Festival. 10 brand-new food trucks will be set up in the area around Street City in Camping West. We’ll also put up a few ones at CITYcentre East. Here you can taste your way through organic tacos, meatballs, ice cream and various breakfast offers from the mobile food stalls.
FOOD TRUCKS
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—— Our goal for the organic ingredients share is 45 % across all food stands, 75 % of staff and artist catering and 75 % among the stalls in the Food Court —— The primary beer in our bars must be organic by 2017 at the latest. We got a step closer with the 2014 introduction of Tuborg’s RÅ organic beer —— More than 50 % of the profit from food stands and bars will go to charitable purposes such as sports clubs or organisations for the disabled —— In 2015, Roskilde Festival received a gastronomical award for outstanding festival food
Once the festival site opens, from Wednesday 1 July at 17:00, you will find the food trucks by the Arena stage.
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ROSKILDE FESTIVAL FOR FOODIES
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Street dinner in the grass, historical cakes, Italian supper club, marshmallows on the doctor’s orders, and silent dinners. Sensory perception and community are in focus when Roskilde Festival presents an impressive range of dining experiences. Because eating at Roskilde Festival is about much more than just filling your belly! We offer up a food programme full of offbeat, inspiring, eye-opening and of course delicious food experiences for the hungry and curious festival-goers. Both before and during the final four days of music we will challenge your understanding of what festival food is. Get your hands on some organic vegetables when FoodJam opens its public kitchen in CITYcentre East for the fourth year in a row. Here you can cook a delicious organic meal for yourself for just DKK 50. Or you can help cook the big street dinner where everyone helps until you can all sit down and enjoy the great food. We’re playing with your senses at Roskilde 2015 too. You can take part in silent communal eating or visit the sound installation ‘Taste the change of sound’ in Art Zone where a master chef and an artist serve dishes based on the five basic tastes in a colourful universe.
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PRICING and TICKETS
Prices range from DKK 0-100 per event. See the complete schedule with prices on page 101. Ticket sales depend on the event. See the full programme of food events and stay updated about changes on facebook.com/MoreThanEating and find out where to get your tickets.
SOME OF OUR FO0D EVENTS
(See the schedule for the full programme.)
STREET DINNERS
We move long tables to the campsite and invite everyone to cook and eat together. We’re cooking four different and experimental dishes: a barbecue over open fire, butter whipped with chipotle chili, blood pancakes and smoked eggs.
ICE ICE BABY
PHOTO: MARTIN KAUFMANN
Join a nitrogen ice cream workshop. Here we serve up a tasty selection of fresh ingredients and guide you in the composition of ideal ice cream to your heart’s desire. With its minus 196 degrees Celcius the nitrogen will transform berries, fruits and other goodies into a creamy and cooling treat, perfect for cooling off in the heat.
ROSKILDE FESTIVAL FOR FOODIES
It’s also ok to play with your food in the Gloria area. We have several events that won’t cost you a penny. You can gorge yourself on historical cakes developed in cooperation with the National Museum of Denmark, be cooled off and seduced by a tasty and nitrogen-filled ice show, be a part of a true Italian supper club or book an appointment for the marshmallow cure.
ROSKILDE FESTIVAL FOR FOODIES
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With five servings based on the five basic tastes – salt, sour, bitter, sweet and umami – master chef Jacob Mielcke and artist Margrethe Odgaard take you on a journey of discovery of the relationship between taste and colour. The range of colours of the palette and the palatal vault where all taste impressions are collected form a meal with explosions of both flavour and colour.
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Fresh vegetable omelet? Steamed mussels? Or fish and chips with homemade remoulade? In the FoodJam kitchen you decide the menu and start cooking once you have selected your produce from the bountiful buffet of fresh organic vegetables, fruit and fresh fish. FoodJam’s culinary counselors are on hand to help. foodjam prices and tickets Tickets are DKK 50 and include free access to the buffet of ingredients and one hour in the kitchen. They are bought at the entrance where you can book in advance or go straight for the kitchen. We recommend booking in advance if you plan a visit between 12:00 and 19:00 – especially in the warm-up days. FoodJam has the Golden Organic stamp (90-100% Organic). Read more at madkulturen.dk.
FOOD AWARDS ...FOR PREVENTING FOOD WASTE
Last year we joined forces with the Stop Wasting Food movement Denmark. We turned food waste into charity and ultimately we produced 27.5 tons of food which was given to the homeless. This particular project has just won a Green Operations Award at European Festival Awards.
... AND FOR PROVIDING GREAT FOOD
The Danish Academy for Gastronomy has awarded Roskilde Festival for the great food available at the festival. Roskilde Festival was given the award for making it possible to supply a lot of people with good food under circumstances that do not usually encourage good meals.
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28-30 June 19:15-20:00 Silent dinner Test your senses
09:00-22:00 dkk 50 FoodJam (by Madkulturen) Communal cooking/dining
30 June 17:00-19:00 dkk 50 Street dinner Communal cooking/dining
WARM-UP DAYS
09:00-22:00 dkk 50 FoodJam (by Madkulturen) Communal cooking/dining
WEDNESDAY 1 JULY
09:00-22:00 dkk 50 FoodJam (by Madkulturen) Communal cooking/dining
THURSDAY 2 JULY
09:00-22:00 dkk 50 FoodJam (by Madkulturen) Communal cooking/dining
FRIDAY 3 JULY
09:00-22:00 dkk 50 FoodJam (by Madkulturen) Communal cooking/dining
SATURDAY 4 JULY
14:00-15:30 & 16:30-18:00 Gastronomical playground Food in new shapes and textures
13:00-15:00 Taste the Change of Sound Test the five basic tastes with sound dkk 20
14:00-15:30 & 16:00-17:30 The marshmallow cure Doctor’s orders for hangovers
18:00-20:00 Taste the Change of Sound Test the five basic tastes with sound
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13:00-14:00 & dkk 80 15:30-16:30 Historical sugar rush Cake from way back when
13:00-15:00 Taste the Change of Sound Test the five basic tastes with sound 14:00-15:30 & 16:30-18:00 Ice Ice Baby Nitrogen icecream workshop 14:00-15:00 Palate-Palette Taste and colours challenge you
18:30-19:30 dkk 80 Time machine Five dishes from five Roskilde decades
19:00-21:00 Taste the Change of Sound Test the five basic tastes with sound
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CHANGING THE WAY WE
E AT Environmental and social sustainability is important for Roskilde Festival. This also applies to food and beverages.
OUR INITIATIVES REDUCING FOOD WASTAGE
Working with the non-profit organisation Stop Wasting Food we collect hygienically safe and usable produce and distribute it among shelters for the homeless and refugee centers where there are hungry mouths to feed. Some food is cooked by volunteer chefs and frozen so it can be distributed later. In 2014 we collected and distributed 27 tons of otherwise wasted food.
ARTIST CATERING THE NEW NORDIC WAY
Backstage we give the artists and their crew a taste of New Nordic cooking. We have a large group of volunteer chefs who cook a 70% organic menu using mostly local and seasonal produce.
A MOSTLY ORGANIC FOOD COURT
All the food stalls in Roskilde Food Court are re quired to use at least 75% organic produce in their cooking. You will find a handful of stalls that are +90% organic as well as delicious vegetarian alternatives.
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So do the children in Africa. In the CITYcentres and on the festival site you can get water from Lovespring. And it’s not bottled and transported from a foreign country, it’s from right beneath our feet. Each time you get your water here you support Lovespring’s work with water projects in developing countries.
FROM HAPPY COWS TO HAPPY CAMPERS
All dairy products (milk, butter yoghurt etc.) at Roskilde Festival is from the Danish organic company Naturmælk. They work with 31 family-run farms in southern Jutland to produce high quality and environmentally friendly organic products. Many of them even work with biodynamic farming, which has even higher demands for sustainability.
A WINE OFFER YOU CAN’T REFUSE
The one-liter red and white wines are organic and brought in from Italy rather than from overseas. They are imported specially for the festival and come in FSC labeled packaging, which not only is better for the environment but also gives the wine a longer shelf life. PHOTO : MARTI N KAUFM
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D 0 FO JUNGLE
PHOTO: MARTIN KAUFMANN
Do you have allergies, are on a special diet, feel like something special or simply can’t remember where you found that superbly delicious meal last year? Don’t worry, we will help you navigate through Roskilde Festival’s more than 150 food stalls and bars.
Roskilde Food Court near the Gloria stage is an ideal place to start if you have special needs. Here you will find stalls specialised in fish, vegetarian, non-gluten etc. See page 93. At CITYcentre East, FoodJam allows you to compose your own 100 % organic meal for just DKK 50 (see page 100), and Dream City provides an outdoor DIY kitchen.
FOOD IN YOUR APP
It can be difficult to remember just where you saw that chicken tortilla or the Asian noodle salad you desperately need. No need to worry, it’s all in our official Roskilde Festival app. Here you can easily search for food everywhere on the festival grounds. You can filter the results after type of food, and if you’re craving something NOW, the app can help you find whatever’s closest by. Our app is available for iPhone and Android. Text RF APP to 1204 to download the app. If you don’t have a Danish mobile service provider, text to +45 42409019 instead.
USE #RFFOOD and HELP OTHERS
If you instagram your favourite hangover burger or tip your vegetarian friends on Facebook about the best veggie meal at the festival, remember to use the hashtag #RFfood so others can find and use your tips as well.
ALLERGIES AND SPECIAL DIETS
NAVIGATING THE
ALLERGIES and SPECIAL DIETS
Every stall must sign the contents of their dishes and be able to account for the ingredients. If you have allergies or are just interested in what you eat, you can always ask for the person in charge and have her/him list the ingredients.
DRINKS
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A VARIETY OF
D RINKS At the camping area beer, soft drinks, juice, and wine etc. are sold in cans, bottles and cartons. On the main festival site drinks are usually sold in refundable plastic cups. The offer is subject to change, printing errors and the possibility of items being out of stock.
BEER SALES
At the campsite drinks are sold at CITYcentre East and West and by Apollo. Additionally, there are two lorry sales points by Street City and Agora P, where only entire crates of beer are sold and only card payment is accepted. Cold Tuborg beer is sold at favourable prices when you buy a crate of 24. drink prices tuborg beer 33 cl, crate of 24 dkk 195 tuborg beer / rå 30 cl cup dkk 26 tuborg beer / tuborg rå / tuborg classic 50 cl cup dkk 40 tuborg gold beer 50 cl can dkk 42 soft drink 50 cl bottle dkk 25 somersby cider 33 cl can dkk 35 kildevæld water 50 cl bottle dkk 15 red bull 25 cl can dkk 25 organic red and white wine 1 l. box dkk 75 bottle of spirits w/ soft drink, ice and cups from dkk 220 All prices include deposit where applicable.
At the festival site drinks are sold at Tuborg stalls, at the festival’s own bars and in selected food stalls. Furthermore, beer is sold in the front stage pits at Orange and Arena.
DRINKS ON THE FESTIVAL SITE
You are allowed to bring one drink of your own choosing onto the main festival site in a container of up to 0.5 litres. The container must not be made of glass. Empty drink containers of any shape and form can be brought onto the main festival site as long as they are not made of glass.
drink sales opening hours citycentre east/west, and apollo saturday 27 june 18:00-04:00 sunday 28 june to 09:00-04:00 tuesday 30 june wednesday 1 july 09:00-04:00 thursday 2 july 09:00-04:00 friday 3 july 09:00-04:00 saturday 4 july 09:00-04:00
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IN YOUR CAMP
SAFETY
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SAFETY IN YOUR
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The combination of nylon tents and open fire is extremely dangerous, which is why it is important that you do not light any fire in your camp – neither during the festival nor when you’re leaving. The ban on open fire also includes torches, candles, hurricane lanterns, cooking devices and barbecues – including disposable barbecues. At every agora you’ll find a fire ring, a cooking island and a communal barbecue you can use if you want to grill sausages, make soup or simply heat a meal. Please remember that it is absolutely life threatening to light a gas burner in your tent, likewise it is not allowed to burn your tent, containers or other objects when you leave the festival.
IF YOU NEED HELP
If you need help during the festival you can address the campsite service attendants in orange vests. Furthermore at all agoras service attendants are ready to help you, and keep an eye on the camping area.
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
If you’re in need of medical assistance at Roskilde Festival, please use the festival’s own first aid stations. In case of life-threatening emergencies, call 112 or use the 112 app, which can track your position and make it easier for the ambulance service to find you. However, the easiest way to get medical assistance is by contacting one of the campsite attendants, so please do so.
FIRST AID
First aid stations are located at CITYcentre East and West. There is also a first aid station open around the clock on the festival area just west of Orange Stage. At the first aid stations (CITYcentre East and West and west of Orange Stage) you’ll be able to store insulin and other medicine that requires cooling. First aid stations are clearly marked by a first aid sign.
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do not light bon fires in ing your camp, neither dur the festival nor when you are on your way home.
IN YOUR CAMP
PSYCHOLOGICAL FIRST AID
Psychological first aid is also found at your nearest first aid station. The investigative teams, the festival’s social workers, can be found both at the festival and camping areas. All the social workers have a relevant pedagogical, social or health professional background. They are easily spotted in white vests with the words “social worker” on the back.
WATCH OUT FOR THIEVES!
There are thieves at Roskilde Festival, especially in the camping area, so we encourage you to take extra good care of your valuables and use the free cloakrooms at the agoras. Lock your tent with a padlock so your neighbours can keep an eye on it.
IN CASE OF THEFT
You can report any stolen property at politi. dk.This also includes stolen wristbands. If you have an iPhone, remember to download the Find My iPhone app. It will help the police track down your phone if stolen. For Android users, we recommend Prey, which offers a similar service. Download at preyproject.org.
PHOTO: BJØRN HELBO
first aid stations opening hours city centre east/west around the clock from saturday 27 june 18:00 to sunday 5 july 14:00 west of orange stage around the clock from wednesday 1 july 17:00 to sunday 5 july 8:00 on-call doctor daily from 9:00 - 22:00
SAFETY
There is also an on-call doctor service at the first aid station at CITYcentre East.
SAFETY AT THE
STAGES Being at a concert should never be boring, but it shouldn’t be dangerous either. Therefore, there are a number of safety requirements and precautions at all the stages at Roskilde Festival that we ask you to follow. For the sake of you and your friends.
TAKE CARE OF THOSE AROUND YOU
The safety at Roskilde Festival is continually evaluated to remove and reduce risks. We closely follow and participate in national and international developments in the safety field, but we still need your help to ensure that you and everybody around you gets the best and most safe concert experience possible.
please help us with the following —— Pay attention to – and follow – the safety information presented on the big screens at the stages and the guidelines from the crowd safety staff in the orange vests. —— Pay attention to friends and people around you. —— If you need help, or see others who do, please address the crowd safety staff. —— Make sure to sleep, eat, and drink so that your body is supplied with rest and energy. If you feel unwell, or see someone else who seems to need help, address the festival staff.
PROTECT YOUR EARS
You won’t get much out of Roskilde Festival if you can’t hear anything. If you experience a ringing or a buzzing in your ears you have to be careful – it’s a serious danger signal. Therefore – buy a set of earplugs. They can be found in all kiosks, drink stalls and merchandise stalls and cost DKK 10.
move back and to the side if you feel unsafe during a concert.
PHOTO: MARTIN DAN OLSEN
AT THE STAGES
SAFETY
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—— We will allow moshing, dancing etc. at these concerts. —— Do notice, however, that we do not allow crowd surfing.
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The green and red lights at the entrance tell you if there is free space available or if it’s full. You can’t stay in the pit between concerts since they have to be cleared and cleaned. entrance to the pits The pit system entrances are located at both sides of Orange Stage and in the east side of Arena. At Orange Stage, there are two entrances to the four sections in front. If you want to go to sections B or D, you have to use the entrance east of the stage. The entrance to sections A and C is west of the stage. remember! Staying in the pit systems during concerts can be a very intense and physical experience. We ask that you only stay in there if you feel completely safe at all times.
DO NOT
—— Crowd surf. Crowd surfing is very dangerous. Nobody likes your shoes in their face, and you might fall down or be trampled at worst. Crowd surfing is strictly forbidden at all stages and can cause immediate expulsion from the festival. —— Form human chains. You put others at risk by creating unrest in the crowd. —— Run or push to get in front. You create waves in the crowd and increase the risk of someone falling or getting crushed. —— Sit on the shoulders of somebody. You risk getting hurt, and it ruins the concert experience for others.
AT THE STAGES
Some concerts at Roskilde Festival call for moshing, wild dancing etc. We mark these with a ‘high energy’ icon. If you see this icon next to an act in the music presentations, expect the audience activity in front of the stage to be quite wild, and we want you to be careful if you choose to be up front.
SAFETY
PIT SYSTEMS
The pit systems in front of Orange stage and Arena are safety constructions that make the concert experience safe for those of you who would like to be right in front of the stage. Show up early at the concerts since there is limited amount of space in the pit systems and many who would like to get in there.
LET’S KEEP IT CLEAN
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LET’S KEEP IT
CLEAN Even though an army of volunteers assist with cleaning up after the festival the renovation expenses regularly mounts to millions of kroner every year.
DID YOU KNOW THAT...?
—— In 2014 we removed about 1,500 tons of garbage from the festival area —— We’re putting up more than 3,200 garbage cans all over the festival area —— More than 3.5 million bot tles and cans pass through our refund system every year —— If you throw your empty bottles/can/ cups in our turquoise-coloured containers you are donating the refund directly to charity. We also accept cans without deposit labels as well as wine and liquor bottles.
REACT – GET RID OF YOUR TRASH
We’re making it easier to keep Roskilde Festival clean and sustainable. ReAct is the name of our fight against garbage. You will find 12 recycling stations all over the campsite (see map on page 128), and there are garbage cans at every single camping square. The garbage cans at the campsite are emptied several times daily by volunteers. The volunteers also hand out empty trash bags and accept your full ones, making it easier for you to clean up your camp. At the recycling stations you can sort your waste (general waste, metal, glass, batteries and cardboard). The stations are open 24 hours a day and staffed between 09:00 and 16:00 – Look for ReAct’s trash logo.
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During the past five years, Clean Out Loud has been working to change the culture around garbage at Roskilde Festival through the community, festive garbage parades and creative events.
PHOTO: BENJAMIN LEGARTH
CLEAN AREAS
Want to live cleaner and greener? The clean areas are for those who prefer grass to broken glass, and would rather dispose of garbage than sit in it. The clean areas in B and K are “regular” areas where you can party as loudly as you want – but here everyone helps keep the area clean and comfortable. Area J is both clean and silent (no loud music after 22:00, please).
CLEAN OUT LOUD
When you visit Area E this year, you will experience that it is not just our most festive area, but also one of the cleanest. This area is the home of Clean Out Loud.
LET’S KEEP IT CLEAN
DONATE YOUR CAMPING GEAR
Let others benefit from your old camping gear when you leave the festival. You can donate your tent, sleeping mats, unopened canned food etc. to our CampAid volunteers. They are located at all recycling stations throughout the festival week and will make sure that your used gear will benefit those in need.
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
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ACCESS and WRISTBANDS
Your wristband gives you access to the festival areas so take good care of it. If your wristband is damaged or broken contact one of the ticket offices at entrance East, West or the festival train station, where the situation will be assessed. If your wristband is stolen you must immediately report the theft to the police and then bring a copy of the police report to the nearest ticket office where the situation will be assessed. Stolen wristbands are usually not replaced by Roskilde Festival. Instead, you should contact your home or travel insurance provider for information about replacement of stolen wristbands.
On the following pages we have gathered useAnyone caught without a valid wristband in the ful information to help you get the most out of festival area will be liable to pay a fee of DKK Roskilde Festival. Here you can find information 3,500. When the fee is paid you will on everything from first aid and timebe offered a ticket to the festival withtables to bottle refunds and parking. Read more Some topics have their own dedicated about camping out any additional charge if they are not sold out. pages elsewhere in the booklet. Remember: You can always get answers at the information office.
PHOTO: TOBIAS NICOLAI
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safety on page 108 .
AGE
When you turn 15 you are old enough to explore Roskilde Festival on your own, but please remember that Roskilde Festival is a big city where everybody is partying all the time, so it is a good idea for you and your friends to stick together.
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ATMs
BEVERAGES
See page 106.
BICYCLES
You are allowed to ride a bike around the camping area, but the festival site is off limits for bicycles. You can park your bicycle at entrance East and West as well as just north of the festival site.
CAMPING
You can camp on the entire camping area (East and West) and in other specific areas such as Get A Tent, Get A Place, caravan camping, MC camping and sleep-in buses (see map on page 128). The different camping areas are divided into lettered and numbered spaces. All camping areas are open from Saturday 27 June at 16:00 until Sunday 5 July at 14:00. The service attendants can help and guide you in the placement of tents and how to dispose of waste. tents and caravans There are no requirements regarding spacing of tents on the campsite, but the fire authorities require that there be at least 3 metres between caravans. Caravans will be guided into place by a service attendant. All fire access routes must be
cooking islands There are cooking islands at the agoras where you can use camping stoves, disposable grills, the communal grill or the communal campfire spot. Service attendants will guide you in the use of the cooking islands. furniture Living room furniture and other similar flammable objects cannot be brought into the camping area for fire safety reasons. This does not apply to regular lightweight camping equipment, built-in objects in caravans or other equipment normally used when camping in tents. —— Regular lightweight camping furniture —— Folding and auto tables —— Small beach and folding chairs —— Sleeping mats and foam mattresses —— Pavilions —— Living room furniture, such as armchairs, sofas, coffee or dinner tables —— Building materials of any kind —— Generators and domestic appliances.
However, there is an area with unique opportunities for bringing and building stuff, etc. Read more about Dream City on page 30.
A—C
You find ATMs at CITYcentre East and West and by the Pavilion stage. Furthermore, you can withdraw money at many stalls with Dankort. See more under Currency on page 119.
fire In areas with many people camping close together open fire is dangerous, and therefore no open fire is allowed on the camping areas. This includes campfires, torches, candles, camping stoves and barbeques. All cooking must be done at the cooking islands by the agoras. Here you’ll also find a grill for barbequeing.
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AGORA
The agoras are the squares and meeting places of the different neighbourhoods in the camping area. Some of the agoras have different identities with decorations, activities and events. The main activities at the agoras take place from Sunday 28 June to Tuesday 30 June.
kept completely clear from items and equipment such as tents, guy lines and rubbish. The fire authorities must be able to move around unhindered.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Please note that it is illegal in Denmark to serve alcohol to anyone under the age of 18.
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Please note that the ‘clean’ areas are not ‘silent’ areas.
CITYcentre EAST and WEST
We have CITYcentres at camping East and camping West. The CITYcentres are the shopping streets and market squares of the festival city and house a variety of services and exciting activities that make the CITYcentres worth a visit. Here you’ll find ATMs, merchandise stalls, first aid station, beer sales, refund stalls and food stalls. Chosen stalls in the CITYcentres are open around the clock from Saturday the cloakr ooms at each 27 June at 16:00 until Sunday 5 and free are ra ago July at 04:00 — and a few other stalls until 14:00 on the final day. you can have almost
anything stored .You can also charge your mobile phone for free.
clean areas You can also camp in dedicated ‘clean’ areas. The clean areas are situated in areas B and K and also in the areas Get A Tent and Get A Place. In these areas there will be increased focus on waste disposal, and all participants are encouraged to help each other make the area a nicer and cleaner place to be. PHOTO : KHANH GIA
CLOAKROOMS
A free cloakroom service is available at every agora in the camping area. Ordinary items such as coats, bags, tents and valuables can be checked in and stored here. The cloakrooms will not store cash and take no responsibility for any money stored in the checked-in items. A cloakroom for small items is situated in the information office by Gate 10 on the road ‘Along the Railroad’. cooler bricks At the cloakrooms at CITYcentre East and West cooler bricks can be exchanged free of charge.
COOLER BOXES
In areas C, J and P we offer a cooler box. It’s literally space in a huge refrigerator. Access to a cooler box costs 350 DKK + a deposit of 50 DKK for the entire festival week. You can reserve a cooler box via coolboxeu.com. Available cooler boxes can be bought in the respective areas as well.
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psychological first aid
DISABLED GUESTS
Psychological first aid is also found at the nearest first aid station. The investigative teams, the festival’s social workers, can be found both at the festival site and the campsite. All social workers have a relevant pedagogical, social or health professional background. They are easily spotted in white vests with the words “social worker” on the back.
FIRST AID
Gate numbers indicate entrances to the camping area and festival site. See all gate numbers on the map at the back of this booklet.
During the festival wheelchair users have the possibility to watch concerts from platforms placed near the stages and they have priority access here. Parking and toilet facilities for the disabled can also be found by the stages.
First aid stations are located at CITYcentres East and West. There is also a first aid station open around the clock at the festival site just west of Orange Stage. At the first aid stations you’ll be able to store insulin and other medicine that requires cooling. First aid stations are clearly marked by a first aid sign. There is also an on-call doctor service at the first aid station at CITYcentre East. first aid stations opening hours city centre east/west around the clock from saturday 27 june 16:00 to sunday 5 july 14:00 west of orange stage around the clock from wednesday 1 july 17:00 to sunday 5 july 05:00 on-call doctor, citycentre east daily 9:00 - 22:00
GATE NUMBERS
INFORMATION OFFICE
At the information office you can get answers to all practical questions concerning the festival, e.g. train and bus timetables, the location of stalls, etc. If you wish to report a missing person, please contact the police. See more on page 121. The information office is located by Gate 10 on the road “Along The Railroad” between the entrance to the Pavilion stage and the railroad bridge and will be open around the clock from Saturday 27 June at 18:00 until Sunday 5 July at 12:00.
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All stalls accept other currencies than Danish kroner (EUR, NOK, SEK, GBP, USD) and many stalls accept credit/debit cards. You can get cash back during a purchase if the stall has sufficient cash available (only applies to Dankort transactions). The maximum amount for such a withdrawal is DKK 500 and you can only withdraw banknotes. Change is only given in Danish kroner.
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FISHING LAKE
In Camping East in Agora J you can go fishing in the artificial fishing lake. You are welcome to bring your own gear or you can rent it by the lake.
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MEMORIAL
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LOOKING OUT
Just as by the different stages there are several places around the camping areas where you can enquire about practical issues and questions. You can get your bearings by looking out for an elevated terrace with a letter corresponding to the agora it is in.
LAUNDROMAT
At the laundromat by Agora C you can have your dirty festival garments washed and dried.
LOST PROPERTY
Lost property should be handed in immediately to the audience information office by Gate 10 on the road “Along The Railroad”. Lost property can be claimed until Sunday 5 July at 12:00.
Out of respect for the nine young men who lost their lives on 30 June 2000 at Roskilde Festival and their relatives, the festival established a memorial in 2001 at the western border of the audience area of Orange Stage. The spot was established in order for us to commemorate and remember ‘…how fragile we are…’. Lars Skov Nielsen has created the sculpture at the site.
MERCHANDISE See page 16.
MOBILE PHONES and CHARGING mobile phone charging
At the cloakrooms at the agoras you can have your mobile phones, digital cameras and other electronic devices charged if you bring along a charger. In cooperation with telecomit is str ictly munication company 3 we have made forb idden to this a free service for everyone as we car r know the importance of a charged sleep in you due to fire safety phone at a festival. Mobile phones etc. left for charging and not claimed by regulations . Sunday 5 July at 12:00 will be handed over to Midt- and Vestsjælland’s police.
After Roskilde Festival unclaimed lost property can be claimed at the festival secretariat, Havsteensvej 11, 4000 Roskilde on Monday 6 July and Tuesday 7 July from 10:00 to 18:00. On Wednesday 8 July remaining lost property will be handed over to the lost property office of Midt- og Vestsjælland’s Police in Roskilde, Skovbogade 3, 4000 Roskilde, phone: +45 46 35 14 48.
charging in your pocket If you don't want to leave your phone behind while it's charging, you should try out Volt. They provide you with a portable charger that charges your phone right in your pocket. In 2015 there will be Volt stations all over the campsite and the festival area. car batteries Car batteries can be charged at CITYcentres East and West as well as in Agora C and G. A charge costs 150 DKK. Chargers are not required.
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PARKING —— You are not allowed to sleep in your car —— You may not use open fire, gas stoves or other sources of heat in the parking areas There is no surveillance in the parking areas so your own insurance policy must cover damage or theft. Roskilde Festival recommends that everyone uses public transportation or rides their bicycle. It’s better for the environment and means that we can use the areas for camping instead. All parking areas are open around the clock until Sunday 5 July at 18:00. See map of the parking areas at the back of this booklet. paid parking The parking areas are moved further away in order to favour the camping area. The few who need to park up close to the festival can purchase a park’n’pay ticket for areas close to entrances East and West. However, there is limited capacity. bicycle parking Bicycle parking can be found by Entrance East. Bicycle parking is free of charge.
PHARMACY
Until Wednesday 1 July a pharmacy is located at CITYcentre East by the first aid station. When the
pharmacy opening hours at the first aid station in citycentre east sunday 28 june to wednesday 1 july 10:00-20:00 by the first aid station west of orange stage wednesday 1 july 17:00-00:00 thursday 2 july to saturday 4 july 10:00-00:00
PHOTOGRAPHY and VIDEO
It is allowed to take pictures with still cameras and mobile phones (no flash) in front of the stages. The audience is not allowed to record sound or moving pictures. Filming and recording is allowed at the campsite.
POLICE
The police will be present at the festival, but if you have any enquires please go to the police station at Skovbogade 3, 4000 Roskilde in person or call +45 114. In case of emergency the police recommends that you only use the 112 app, which can track your location and make it easier for an ambulance service to find you. PHOTO : TOBIA S NICOL
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festival site opens you can find the pharmacy by the first aid station west of Orange Stage. Here you can purchase the most common over-the-counter medication, sunscreen, earplugs and condoms as well as hand in prescriptions.
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SWIMMING LAKE
Dive into our very own swimming lake by Agora K. There is free access to the lake for all festival participants, as long as you’re not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. There will be life guards present. Remember that Mother Nature, unlike your own mother, doesn’t like soap and shampoo, so please only use these in the showers and not in the lake.
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We have a deposit/refund recycling programme including all containers sold from our stalls. Please notice, the stalls at the festival site only accept up to 50 containers at a time. If you have more we ask you to hand in your containers to the stalls at the campsite.
We also accept glass t bottles and cans withou rethe at ks mar t osi dep in fund stalls. If you hand s can 5 or tles bot ss 2 gla you get DKK 1.
refund rates container with roskilde festival deposit mark dkk 1 container with deposit a mark dkk 1 container with deposit b mark dkk 1.50 container with deposit c mark dkk 3 cans without deposit mark (5 pcs) dkk 1 official shot container dkk 1 empty beer or soda crate (danish) dkk 5 beer handle dkk 1 official juice container dkk 1 pitcher dkk 5 pitcher lid dkk 1
refund stall opening hours citycentre east and west saturday 27 june to saturday 4 july around the clock
at the festival site wednesday 1 july 17:00-02:00 thursday 2 july to saturday 4 july until 04:00
ROAD NAMES
All major roads and paths at the campsite are marked with names making it easier to find locations on the map.
SHOWERS
Cold showers are free of charge and can be found by Agora C and L. Hot showers are found by Agora C, G, L, P, Get A Tent Central, Get A Tent/Place East and at Caravan/MC camping. Hot showers are DKK 25. opening hours for hot showers sunday 28 june to saturday 4 july
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STAGES
Roskilde Festival’s stages are: Orange Stage, Arena, Avalon, Apollo/Apollo Countdown, Pavilion, Gloria, Rising and Street City Stage. Apollo Countdown, Rising and Street City Stage will stage acts during the warm-up from Saturday 27 June to Tuesday 30 June. See the map on page 128 for the location of the stages.
SUPERMARKET
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You can buy your groceries at the supermarket, which is built in collaboration with Kvickly at CITYcentre East. The supermarket does not accept cash but accepts all credit cards and is open daily from 07:00 – 04:00.
TICKETS
If the festival is not sold out tickets are available at the entrances. Junior tickets (10-14 years) are available even if the festival is sold out. A limited number of single day tickets will also be on sale at the entrances if they have not sold out before the festival starts.
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You can also go to visitroskilde.dk or download the Roskilde Live app, which is a guide to cultural experiences in the town of Roskilde. The app is only available in Danish.
TRANSPORT
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bus
from roskilde station first departure last departure saturday 27 june 08:00 01:00 from entrance east/west first departure last departure saturday 27 june 08:30 01:30 From Sunday 28 June at 7:00 the buses will run between Roskilde Station and the festival site around the clock until Sunday 5 July at 15:00. Single fare: DKK 20.
departure from entrance east wednesday 1 july to saturday 4 july 24:00-00:3001:00-01:30-02:00-02:30-03:00-03:30-04:00 Single fare: 80 DKK. bus to mall, city centre and swimming bath From Sunday 28 June until Saturday 4 July a shuttle bus will run between entrance East, the shopping mall RO’s torv, the city centre of Roskilde and the swimming bath Roskilde Badet. from entrance east first departure last departure sun 28 june to sat 4 july 10:00 16:00
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first departure last departure sun 28 june to sat 4 july 10:30
night bus A night bus will run non-stop from entrance East to Copenhagen City Hall Square every night from Wednesday 1 July to Saturday 4 July according to the following timetable:
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Single fare: 20 DKK.
We encourage you to use pub lic transportation to e get to and from Roskild Festival. Plan ahead on journeyplanner.dk
taxi Taxi stands can be found near the bus stands by entrance East and West. We encourage everybody to not use pirate taxis. DANTAXI Roskilde: +45 46 75 75 75.
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Shuttle buses operate between Roskilde Station, Østergade and entrance East/West. The buses will run from Saturday 27 June according to the timetable below.
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TOURIST INFORMATION
Roskilde Tourist Information can help you with practical information about the town of Roskilde. The address is Stændertorvet 1 in the centre of Roskilde (phone +45 46 31 65 65).
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train A train service will run in both directions between Roskilde Station, platform 7, and Entrance Platform (camping West) according to the timetable below. Travel time is approx. 3 minutes. from roskilde station first departure last departure saturday 27 june 08:07 13:37 16:07 22:37 sunday 28 june 09:07 22:37 monday 29 june 09:07 22:37 tuesday 30 june 09:07 22:37 wednesday 1 july 09:07 22:37 thursday 2 july 09:07 22:37 friday 3 july 09:07 22:37 saturday 4 july 09:07 22:37 from entrance platform first departure last departure saturday 27 june 08:17 13:47 16:17 22:47 sunday 28 june 09:17 22:47 monday 29 june 09:17 22:47 tuesday 30 june 09:17 22:47 wednesday 1 july 09:17 02:18 thursday 2 july 09:17 04:09 friday 3 july 09:17 04:09 saturday 4 july 09:17 06:09 sunday 5 july 07:17 16:17
Single fare to Roskilde Station: DKK 20. DSB and MOVIA fares apply if you are travelling further than Roskilde Station. A single ticket, covering the whole trip from Entrance Platform to Copenhagen Central Station, can be bought for DKK 80 and DKK 90 will cover the journey to Copenhagen Airport. Trains to MalmÜ depart around the clock from Copenhagen Central Station. early arrival by train Please note, you can take the train from Roskilde Station to entrance Platform from 08:07 until 13:37 on Saturday 27 June. ticket sales DSB will have an independent ticket sales booth at Entrance Platform. Here you are able to buy train tickets and ticket coupons, pick up pre-ordered tickets, reserve seats as well as get information about train departure times, prices, DSB Wildcard etc. ticket sales opening hours You can buy tickets for destinations throughout Denmark as long as trains depart from Entrance Platform. Tickets for foreign destinations will be available from Saturday 4 July to 16:00 Sunday 5 July. At other times tickets for foreign destinations can be bought at Roskilde Station, via DSB’s app or by contacting DSB by phone +45 7013 1415.
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VESTS
Volunteers wear 7 different colour vests. This is what the colours mean this year:
See page 112.
WATER
Free water can be obtained from taps located by most toilets on the camping site as well as at the festival site. During concerts free water is distributed in front of the stages.
Remember to stay Âhydr ated. You can get free, fresh and cold water at the water taps by most toilets on the camping site and in front of the stages .
WIFI
Roskilde Festival provides free WiFi-hotspots in selected festival-areas. In 2015 you can find WiFi-hotspots in the following areas: CITYcentre East/West, Get A Tent Central, Get A Tent East, Get A Place, Dream City, most agoras and many areas at the festival site.
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Orange: Parking, service, gates and crowd safety Yellow: Stage safety managers and safety officers at campsite White: Social worker Beige: Security Red: Lifeguards Green: Doctors and nurses Saturated green (think Kermit the frog): Camp site waste management
WASTE and ENVIRONMENT
PHOTO: STIIG HOUGESEN
From Saturday 27 June guides at Roskilde Station will help you board the correct busses or trains to the festival site.
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