Roskilde Festival
Roskilde Festival is one of the largest music festivals in Europe and Northern Europe’s largest. Held in Roskilde just outside Copenhagen, the festivals attracts around 130,00 visitors, 32,000 volunteers and around 160 acts across seven stages hosting the ‘stars of tomorrow to the stars of today’. It spans over eight days in early July, making it one of the longest festivals of the season. Founded by two students in 1971, it was originally a hippie festival but it has never been afraid to change or expand and it’s eclectic line-up of rock, hip-hop, alternative, electronic, reggae and punk rock is testament to that. What makes Roskilde festival so unique and admirable is that all profits are donated, and this year sees festivalgoers themselves voting on the charity. It’s mission, in its own words, is to ‘support initiatives that benefit children and young people and to support humanitarian, non-profit and cultural work.’ The good old Danes, they just always outshine the rest of us.
Roskilde Festival Line-Up
A$AP FERG, AOIFE O DONOVAN, ARCTIC MONKEYS, ARTO LINDSAY & PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE DUO, ARTO LINDSAY BAND, BALKAN KHANS, BANKS, BARMER BOYS, BASTILLE, BLACK PUS, BLAST!, BLAUE BLUME, BLOKSBERG, BLOOD ON A FEATHER, BLOODY BEACH, BOMBUS, BOTTLED IN ENGLAND, BRYNJOLFUR, CANCER, CARCASS, CASHMERE CAT, CHANCE THE RAPPER, CHORUS GRANT, CHROMEO, CLASSIXX, COMMUNIONS, CONNAN MOCKASIN, CORRECTIONS HOUSE, CYRIL HAHN, CÜNEYT SEPETCI & ORCHESTRA DOLAPDERE, DAMON ALBARN, DARK BUDDHA RISING, DARKSIDE, DEERHUNTER, DEFTONES, DENAI MOORE, DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE!, DIE NERVEN, DILATED PEOPLES, DIPLO, DJ NIGGA FOX, DNKL, DRAKE, DRUG HONKEY, EARL SWEATSHIRT, ELECTRIC WIZARD, EMICIDA, EMILIE NICOLAS, EPROM, FENDIKA, FIRE! ORCHESTRA, FOREST SWORDS, FRANKSKILD, FUTURE ISLANDS, FUTURE OF THE LEFT, FÖRTRESS, GET YOUR GUN, GROUNDISLAVA, HAIM, HEIMATT, HELHORSE VS. PSYKE PROJECT, HEXIS, HOOKWORMS, HYMNS FROM NINEVEH, IBERIA, IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE, I BREAK HORSES, ICONA POP, INTERPOL, JAAKKO EINO KALEVI, JAMBINAI, JAMES HOLDEN, JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT, JENNY WILSON, JUANA MOLINA, JULIA HOLTER, JUPITER & OKWESS INTERNATIONAL, KANT, KARL WILLIAM, KASABIAN, KAVINSKY, KELELA, KILL J, KINDRED FEVER, KING AYISOBA & BAND, KLUMBEN & RASKE PENGE, KONSFORRADARE, LA CHIVA GANTIVA, LES AMBASSADEURS FEAT. SALIF KEITA, LES CLAYPOOLS DUO DE TWANG, LUNICE, LYKKE LI, MAJOR LAZER, MAMAR KASSEY, MANU CHAO, MARK ERNESTUS PRESENTS JERI-JERI, MAYA JANE COLES, MERCHANDISE, MODERAT, MOGWAI, MONT OLIVER, MOODOÏD, MORNFUL CONGREGATION, MY HEART THE BRAVE, MØ, NAILS, NARCOSATANICOS, NAUSE, OF 99, OMAR SOULEYMAN, OUTKAST, PANDREAS, PARTY SUPPLIES, PEROTÁ CHINGO, PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS, PSYCHED UP JANIS, PUSHA T, RL GRIME, ROB ZOMBIE, RUMBLE IN RHODOS, RYAN HEMSWORTH, RYLEYWALKER, S!VAS, SAMARIS, SAY LOU LOU, SHADOW SHADOW, SKAMBANKT, SKAMMENS VOGN, SLEIGH BELLS, SLICK SHOOTA, SLOWOLF FEAT. BENNY BANKS, SLÖA KNIVAR, SNAVS, SPIDS NØGENHAT, STEVIE WONDER, SYSTEMA SOLAR, TEMPEL, THE AWESOME WELLES, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, THE DIVERS, THE HORRORS, THE MEN, THE MINDS, THE NECKS, THE OCEAN, THE ROLLING STONES, TIDLIGE ARMBÅND, TOKIMONSTA, TOUMANI & SIDIKI DIABATÉ, TRENTEMØLLER, UNKNOWN, VATTNET VISKAR, VIC MENSA, WARPAINT, WE ARE THE WAY FOR THE COSMOS TO KNOW ITSELF, WORLDS FAIR
Roskilde Festival Info
Date: June 29 – July 6 2014
Location: Roskilde, Denmark
Homepage: roskilde-festival.dk
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