Last Sunday we went to London Mela an annual festival celebrating Asian culture with food, music and performances. It was a nice day to spend in a park with delicious food and happy people.
Lucie in London has some great pictures of some of the performers.
I think this was my 5th or 6th year at Roskilde Festival and this year was definitely one of the better ones. We had awesome weather, there was some great bands and some new discoveries and some well known artists that delivered more than expected.
My favourite concerts this year was probably Veto a fairly new Danish band (or new to me I should say).
The old rock n’roller Neil Young was amazing playing both his slow songs like Heart of Gold as well as the more energetic rock songs where the old man was jumping around on the stage. Rapper LOC on the picture above had a great show and loads of great songs.
Tina Dico and Teitur my two favourite singer/songwriters were both playing on Orange Stage, the biggest stage, which was not really a good choice in my opinion. However I enjoyed both concerts and they are both very skilled performers so they pulled it off in my opinion. Oh, and a reccomendation; Tina Dico has a cool Vlog/Tour Diary on YouTube – honest, funny and down to earth look into the life of an artist, start here.
Radiohead and Gnarls Barkley also had some enjoyable concerts.
I was at the festival for 9 days and lived in a tent which is always an interesting experience since the rest of the year I sleep with a roof over my head. Living outside you notice the clouds, winds, stars and birds a lot more. For the first time this year I stayed in the volunteers camping instead of amongst the commoners . It s a world of a difference. In the regular camping areas people live close, they put a lot of effort into their camps with flags, banners and even portable sound systems. However it also gets very dirty and a lot of places the party goes on all the night and I must admit that I ve gotten a bit older since I visited the festival the first time in 96. The coolest camp I came across this year was the cow camp.
Thanks to cousin Rikke for getting me the job, thanks to the rest of the people in our camp for good times we had and thanks to the people organizing for a great festival in general 
Roskilde Festival, the biggest party in Denmark, is officially starting today. I came on Friday and has been working as an IT supporter until now. There has been plenty of stuff to do, see and drink already. The skaterpark has been going, the small Pavilion stage had some cool bands and there was a football between the crews where Kim Milton Nielsen refereed.
A couple of the bands im looking forward to see are Teitur, Tina Dico, Radiohead, Band of Horses, Joze Gonzarles, The Chemical Brothers, Neil Young, Gnarls Barkley, Cat Power, My Bloody Valentine & Jay-Z.
De sidste par år har jeg tre gange været frivillig på DØEs Ølfestivaller i Valby og Århus.
I morgen starter årets festival i Valby, men jeg er ikke med 🙁 Det er speciale-tid, og jeg har ikke kunnet finde tid til at tage til Kbh, omend jeg gerne ville.
På ølfestivaler er der ud over de mange øl (PDF) en fantastisk god og opløftet stemning og de mange udstillere vil gerne fortælle om deres forskellige øl.
Festivalens succes er dog så stor, at der hvert år er mange mennesker der går forgæves – så hvis københavnerne skal have et råd med herfra, er det at tage ind til festivalen lørdag eller søndag kl. 11 for at være blandt de første der kommer ind. Så er der heller ikke så fyldt i hallen og udstillerne har mere tid til at snakke.
UPDATE: DR har lavet en temaside om øl. via Gravøl.dk.
Var til Way Up North fredag og jeg må sige jeg blev positiv overrasket over niveauet på de bands der spillede. De fedeste bands efter min mening var Miss Warla, The Alpine og Raastof – jeg håber det er nogen man kommer til at høre mere til.
Aprospos det potente logo så ser den rigtige kimbrertyr sådan ud.