The tension this night was so thick you could use it to cut knives (..yes). It was the first night of Roskilde, and it was the first headline-set - and it was Gorillaz!

I arrived to the queue about 2 hours before the concert were set to begin, only to find out that it was moved 30 minutes and the queue didn't actually look that bad - so good for us! We came in at about 21:00 to our favorite spot (all the way at the back in the second pit), because this is a place where you'll have some room and don't get lost from your friends. But not this night.

I am PRETTY sure that EVERYBODY at the festival were here to see the primates in action - and the only good excuse if you were not is that you were at the Porcupine Tree concert (hated to miss that.. but I looked very much forward to tonights experience).

21:30 - lights out, iconic pre-concert "think"-video, a 6-piece string-band enters, the band enters, Damon enters - welcome to the plastic beach!

You could be tempted to say that we only got Gorillaz Light at Roskilde, since neither Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg, Shaun Ryder, De La Soul, Mark E. Smith or Mos Def were here tonight. But the thing about light-products is that what they lack in obvious taste and appearance, they'll make up for by doing you very good in the long run. And Damon Albarn were here to show us that we needed no extravagant half-time clowns to pull up his show to magical heights. He did that all by himself.

We were promised a cartoon-band - and didn't get one...

We were (in a way..) promised world-class guests en más - and did'nt get that many..

We were promised a breath-taking visual experience - which were'nt all you'd expect it to be.

We weren't promised a tight band with a devoted frontman in his golden years having the best time of his life - and we got that!

AND THANK YOU FOR THAT!

Concert highlights nr. 1 and 2 were both helped along the way by Kano and Bashy - who are are a couple of the craziest partystarters I have seen in a long time - White Flag were a tour-de-force in showboating with a Lebanese symphonic orchestra backing them all up to magnificent heights, and Clint Eastwood came from being a daft expectation of a weak show-closer to be a sing-a-long banger with Kano and Bashy each delivering tight verses over the beat. Lovely. Other guests included Booty Brown (who actually did a good job filling in for Mos Def in Stylo as well), Little Dragon, Bobby Womack, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (who are playing at 12:00 today!) and Rosie Wilson.

It was a magical night at Plastic Beach. And now it's back to Roskilde again.

5/6 stars.