The inuit have 17 different words for snow? The arabs 10 words for sand? Well well, those in Roskilde have at least 50 words for mud. Sloppy mud, thick mud, stuck-in-the-mud-mud, water on top of mud, mud with hidden holes, muddy mud, concert mud, tent mud, clothes mud, leg mud, mud inside the sleeping bag, mud on the inside of the concert tent roof?!, mud that makes dancing impossible (you dance inside your gum boots - because they're stuck fast),mud under the fingernails, mud in the hair, mud inside of my knee high gum boots, mud that makes sucking sounds, mud that makes slurping sounds.
It's incredible! I haven't seen so much mud in my lifetime. And I'm quite proud to say that I am surviving the wettest Roskilde festival in history. Yes, EVER! Apparently before the main festival started, Roskilde had already recieved more rainfall than during the whole week in previous years. So it's a muddy paradise here.
But we survive. We've got a pretty darn good tent site - it's not down in the swamps, but on slightly raised ground thank god. Those poor folk with tents sitting over 10-15cm muddy water.
But as for the music. My highlights so far - a Swedish band called The Sounds - great dirty female vocal rock. Bjork was fantastic. Completely strange as usual - dressed in a rainbow dress, with the Icelandic wind quintet backing her up. She did a great performance of trance affected electro rock??!! A lot of fun dancing around in the mud to that. Arcade fire was good as well. The Killers dissapointed a bit - bad sound, and just not all that great. Tonight is the night to top them all though. Big bang followed by The Flaming Lips, then The Who, topped off with The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. A killer line up - all at the same stage. So I think it's just down to getting in early and nabbing a good spot.
Possibly the one band I'm looking forward to most - The Ark - The Swedish winners of Eurovision for a couple of years ago - are playing tomorrow, 2pm. It will be fantastic :) Glitzy glam pop-rock - tacky, tacky, tacky, but oh so fun!
Well that's my festival so far :). The weather is improving - no rain for the rest of the festival supposedly - we'll see :).
Regardless of the weather it's great to be at Roskilde!
2 comments:
Sounds like a Glastonbury type of experience!! That's the weather and conditions they generally have there. But you sound as happy as a pig in mud!! This is your big chance to get as filthy as possible and have a great excuse not to wash (no facilities!!?). Just make sure you wash before you visit grandma!!! The bands sound pretty good. Would like to see the Flaming Lips - and several of the others. All in all a great time for you.
Don't get too bogged down ;-)
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