So Roskilde has started of on a brilliantly sunny day. I'm not gone there yet, and to be honest, I could have been tempted to stay home this year. But what the hell - a few days of chilling out with the boys, away from the family - in our female free "do whatever the fuck you wanna do - it's your yearly no-responsibility weekend"-camp. And it even looks like it's going to be nice weather too. Not that it's crucial - but it helps.
So when it all comes down to it, I'm probably not going to be able to miss out on Roskilde this time either. Roskilde's got me by the balls. But you know what? I think we've got Roskilde by the balls too. What a tender sight.
We'll just have to see who's gonna loosen their grip first.
mandag den 29. juni 2009
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fredag den 13. juni 2008
Good news for the Roskilde Festival 2008
Well as you might have had a look at the Not Appearing list for 2008 already several names from previous list are actually appearing on Roskilde Festival 2008.
So look out for the following names at the festival this year:
A Kid Hereafter (Not Appearing 2007)
CocoRosie (Not Appearing 2007)
Dan Deacon (Not Appearing 2007)
Grinderman (Not Appearing 2007)
The Gossip (Not Appearing 2007)
Tokyo Police Club (Not Appearing 2007)
Cat Power (Not Appearing 2006)
Mogwai (Not Appearing 2006)
Motorpsycho (Not Appearing 2006)
We're happy that they are listening ;)
So look out for the following names at the festival this year:
A Kid Hereafter (Not Appearing 2007)
CocoRosie (Not Appearing 2007)
Dan Deacon (Not Appearing 2007)
Grinderman (Not Appearing 2007)
The Gossip (Not Appearing 2007)
Tokyo Police Club (Not Appearing 2007)
Cat Power (Not Appearing 2006)
Mogwai (Not Appearing 2006)
Motorpsycho (Not Appearing 2006)
We're happy that they are listening ;)
torsdag den 12. juli 2007
Roskilde 2007?
Thank you Roskilde Festival, I left you behind 3 days ago and I can't get you out of my head. I had a great time, wallowing around in your smelly mud, wizzing back and forth between your Pavillion and Odeon stages like a muddy-back-and-forth-wizzing-thing. The smaller stages were a non stop smörgåsbord of inspiring new artists like Camera Obscura, The Thermals, Bondo Do Role, Tunng, CSS, and the wonderfull Grizzly Bear who's harmonies left me gob-smacked last Saturday night. I even saw Roky Erickson, my favourite mad 60's legend singing about zombies and a two headed dog. Thats the sort of thing that makes me keep coming back to you Roskilde Festival:
- a aging hero, you'd given up hope of ever seeing live, appears at Roskilde as rocking and vital as ever!
- a new band you've never heard before, catches your attention, drags you in and knocks you out completely!
But there is ONE thing thats been bugging me...
Whats going on at the 2 main stages, Orange and Arena? This year all the new exciting stuff was on the smaller stages, and with a just few exceptions, the headliners didn't seem worth the effort... just a load of old hat.
In days gone by there where 2 choices for a Danish rock fan:
a) Go to Roskilde Festival - where you could hear all the new cutting edge stuff, from a wide variety of genres but with the emphasis on contemporary rock, creative stuff, music to wake you up and make you think.
or
b) Go to Ringe Festival - where you could go and see a lot of the stuff that had been at Roskilde a few years previously, lost it's edge and ended up on prime time radio. Hit sounds to slow you down and make you drink.
Ringe Festival died miserably in 2004; their beery cocktail of old favorites and commercial pop had somehow lost it's taste and audience somwhere between the Tuborg Green Concerts and Ibiza holidays. But now for some strange reason Roskilde seems to have decided to pick up the torch and become a little bit more Ringe. To illustrate what I mean by that, I suggest that you check out a couple of old Roskilde posters using the timeline on the official Roskilde website. Every poster is like time capsule, you can just skim the headliners, and get a rough idea of what was happening musically that year, it's fun, it's memory lane. Then take at good look at the Roskilde poster for 2007, the one thats supposed to give us a rough idea of the current music scene...
Well right at the top of the list we've got Björk, The Beastie (good old) Boys and The (not quite so) Red Hot (anymore) Chilli Peppers; all 3 of them could all have headlined, back in the early 90's, and probably did. I know many people would argue that Björk is as relevant today as she ever was, but even so, if you put her next to the other names she just becomes a part of a stale old-guard, who cost a bomb and won't go away. Who else is there: there's the Queens of the Stoneage, a feisty rock outfit from 1998 who last played Roskilde in 2003, and there's the Roskilde debute of rock legends The Who of 60s/70s fame and in need of no introduction. But of course it's great that young music fans can get a chance to see a bit of still-going-strong rock history like the Who, or hardworking bands like the Queens who keep on trying to reinvent rock'n'roll, but put all these headliners together and a pattern of rather dull speculative thinking begins to emerge, no chances are being taken, it's all about "bums on seats", or in this case "boots in field". Anyway, if you ignore these old evergreen types, the top names we're left with to represent the rock music scene anno 2007 is an aging Dutch Ibiza star DJ Tiësto who doesn't really count, and Roskilde Festivals MOST CONTEMPORARY NAME... REPRESENTING THE YEAR 2007...drrrrrrrrdrum roll.......it's MUSE! (I won't bother you with what I think of Muse). Add standard MTV dross like those hasbeens The Basement Jaxx and wimpy wouldbe 80's revivalists The Killers and it makes you wonder who's running the show.
There are obviously some pretty keen talents involved in booking the rest of the festival, so who gets to book the main stage. Do the festival accountants spend a week listening to FM radio and then book anything that makes them whistle. Or is it a boardroom full of ageing hippys with cigars who's knowledge of contemporary music stems from asking the wife what shes been listening to in the car lately before going to the meeting.
"But who would you put on instead" I hear you ask, well look through this years NOT APPEARING list (or last year's), there are several big names who would fit the bill... probably.
I'll look into it...
I'll get back to it...
Watch this space... but right now, I'm off to bed, I'm not as young as I used to be!
- a aging hero, you'd given up hope of ever seeing live, appears at Roskilde as rocking and vital as ever!
- a new band you've never heard before, catches your attention, drags you in and knocks you out completely!
But there is ONE thing thats been bugging me...
Whats going on at the 2 main stages, Orange and Arena? This year all the new exciting stuff was on the smaller stages, and with a just few exceptions, the headliners didn't seem worth the effort... just a load of old hat.
In days gone by there where 2 choices for a Danish rock fan:
a) Go to Roskilde Festival - where you could hear all the new cutting edge stuff, from a wide variety of genres but with the emphasis on contemporary rock, creative stuff, music to wake you up and make you think.
or
b) Go to Ringe Festival - where you could go and see a lot of the stuff that had been at Roskilde a few years previously, lost it's edge and ended up on prime time radio. Hit sounds to slow you down and make you drink.
Ringe Festival died miserably in 2004; their beery cocktail of old favorites and commercial pop had somehow lost it's taste and audience somwhere between the Tuborg Green Concerts and Ibiza holidays. But now for some strange reason Roskilde seems to have decided to pick up the torch and become a little bit more Ringe. To illustrate what I mean by that, I suggest that you check out a couple of old Roskilde posters using the timeline on the official Roskilde website. Every poster is like time capsule, you can just skim the headliners, and get a rough idea of what was happening musically that year, it's fun, it's memory lane. Then take at good look at the Roskilde poster for 2007, the one thats supposed to give us a rough idea of the current music scene...
Well right at the top of the list we've got Björk, The Beastie (good old) Boys and The (not quite so) Red Hot (anymore) Chilli Peppers; all 3 of them could all have headlined, back in the early 90's, and probably did. I know many people would argue that Björk is as relevant today as she ever was, but even so, if you put her next to the other names she just becomes a part of a stale old-guard, who cost a bomb and won't go away. Who else is there: there's the Queens of the Stoneage, a feisty rock outfit from 1998 who last played Roskilde in 2003, and there's the Roskilde debute of rock legends The Who of 60s/70s fame and in need of no introduction. But of course it's great that young music fans can get a chance to see a bit of still-going-strong rock history like the Who, or hardworking bands like the Queens who keep on trying to reinvent rock'n'roll, but put all these headliners together and a pattern of rather dull speculative thinking begins to emerge, no chances are being taken, it's all about "bums on seats", or in this case "boots in field". Anyway, if you ignore these old evergreen types, the top names we're left with to represent the rock music scene anno 2007 is an aging Dutch Ibiza star DJ Tiësto who doesn't really count, and Roskilde Festivals MOST CONTEMPORARY NAME... REPRESENTING THE YEAR 2007...drrrrrrrrdrum roll.......it's MUSE! (I won't bother you with what I think of Muse). Add standard MTV dross like those hasbeens The Basement Jaxx and wimpy wouldbe 80's revivalists The Killers and it makes you wonder who's running the show.
There are obviously some pretty keen talents involved in booking the rest of the festival, so who gets to book the main stage. Do the festival accountants spend a week listening to FM radio and then book anything that makes them whistle. Or is it a boardroom full of ageing hippys with cigars who's knowledge of contemporary music stems from asking the wife what shes been listening to in the car lately before going to the meeting.
"But who would you put on instead" I hear you ask, well look through this years NOT APPEARING list (or last year's), there are several big names who would fit the bill... probably.
I'll look into it...
I'll get back to it...
Watch this space... but right now, I'm off to bed, I'm not as young as I used to be!
lørdag den 30. juni 2007
NOT a manifesto
It's not all about telling you what you should be listening to, but rather a friendly recommendation on what NOT to wate your time listening to. But in this process the wish on your behalf for the best music might be so great that it appears to be a request.
So why should anyone be listening to the NOT Appearing names? Well maybe because they are bands on the verge of something. Either they've been around for years, but have continued to develop and challenge the listeners, themselves and the music conventions in general or they are newcomers with a great sense of breaking the mainstream. Not doing what everybody expects all the time is what keeps music alive. Playing along is a drag.
So go out there and explore the list with an open mind. Search where you have not gone before or just keep up the good work of getting acquainted with new performers on a daily basis. Bare in mind that it's not that the NOT Appearing music is all experimental. Actually most of it is not. But it's honest. It's alive. It's bold.
Listen out for the nerve. It's that nerve you'll NOT find in the bulk of overproduced sales oriented know-what-you're-gonna-get mainstream. It flows all right. It even flows quite heavily, annihilating many things on it's way. Things of beauty, creativity and originality. It wipes out a lot of funny or touching stuff, that you'd been a lot wiser to have listened to. But that's mainstream for ya. No mercy. It's so big, there's no room for others. And if we did't do anything we'd all end up listening to the same 25 artists.
When you visit a festival, stay clear of the worst mainstream junk. Catch up on your unknown band knowledge and get unexpected but great experiences.
Of all that's NOT Appearing this year, there's a whole bunch of superp musical experiences. We'd have to wait and see if they're gonna appear in 2008. Or at another festival somewhere. Until then have a look around the Wonderful Wide Web, where they all appear.
So why should anyone be listening to the NOT Appearing names? Well maybe because they are bands on the verge of something. Either they've been around for years, but have continued to develop and challenge the listeners, themselves and the music conventions in general or they are newcomers with a great sense of breaking the mainstream. Not doing what everybody expects all the time is what keeps music alive. Playing along is a drag.
So go out there and explore the list with an open mind. Search where you have not gone before or just keep up the good work of getting acquainted with new performers on a daily basis. Bare in mind that it's not that the NOT Appearing music is all experimental. Actually most of it is not. But it's honest. It's alive. It's bold.
Listen out for the nerve. It's that nerve you'll NOT find in the bulk of overproduced sales oriented know-what-you're-gonna-get mainstream. It flows all right. It even flows quite heavily, annihilating many things on it's way. Things of beauty, creativity and originality. It wipes out a lot of funny or touching stuff, that you'd been a lot wiser to have listened to. But that's mainstream for ya. No mercy. It's so big, there's no room for others. And if we did't do anything we'd all end up listening to the same 25 artists.
When you visit a festival, stay clear of the worst mainstream junk. Catch up on your unknown band knowledge and get unexpected but great experiences.
Of all that's NOT Appearing this year, there's a whole bunch of superp musical experiences. We'd have to wait and see if they're gonna appear in 2008. Or at another festival somewhere. Until then have a look around the Wonderful Wide Web, where they all appear.
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