Roskilde Festival: Audience

Audience at Roskilde '09

Roskilde Festival’s audience is a unique gathering. They come is all colours and shapes. They are big, small, ugly, beautiful, happy and dirty people. Women, girls, boys and men sharing a sense of companionship as well as the music, and each of them have their own story to tell.

Below you can read about some of the festival guests who made Roskilde Festival 2009 unique.

We will put articles online at a running basis during Roskilde Festival 2009.

Sweatier than last year

Temperatures of up to 28°C for several days have made Roskilde Festival ´09 the hottest festival for the past 33 years. Never before have the guests gulped down so much water.

A snout full of charcoal

The dust at Roskilde Festival causes a rather unique kind of bogey. Read here about the contents of real ‘Roskilde-charcoal’.

More than music: the food mission

4 days and more than 30 food stalls. Rebecca Ilsøeis is busy, if she is going to achieve her ambitious goal of visiting every food stall.

Let the others pay

I spot him at the Röyksopp gig. His arm raised with a wristband that looks a little odd. I follow him to the beer stall, out in the daylight and then ask him. With a piece of tape around his arm he is one of those who jump the fence to join the festival without paying.

Deaf – but not without senses

Friday evening, Mew concert at Arena. Magnus stands up front in the over-packed tent. The band is playing, but there is a weird kind of noisy silence.

The electronic heart

It is somewhat of a revolution. It is not huge and made of Molotov cocktails, but came sneaking up on the inside and surprised us in the dead of night.

Wild Festival Hearts

Roskilde Festival fosters many love affairs. Most of them last no longer than a festival buzz. However, this is not the case for the couple Ida and Roger, who celebrate their 5 year anniversary today.

Wedding Celebration in Shorts and Sunscreen

The dress was white, the corks of the champagne bottles were popped, and rice was thrown at a wedding in camping area L yesterday.

Officers in cowboy land

The police gives the happy festival guests a long leash.

Banner with a Perfect Boink Angle

You mean business if you order your plastic alien all the way from Michigan, and that is exactly what the boys from Alien & Cow do – as much for their own sake as for the sake of the many passers-by.

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