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| I had planned seeing a huge
amount of concerts this year, but of course
things never turn out the way you plan at
Roskilde. Somehow I actually managed to see
19 concerts. Not all of them the entire concert
of course. My first full-length concert was
Stone Sour. And Angel, you were right, they
ARE absolutely awesome! After that I dropped
Metallica for Dave Gahan. |
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| Friday was a busy day with
an engagement party and lots of concerts.
I managed to see Gåte, Asian Dub Foundation,
Beth Gibbons, Turbonegro, The Raveonettes,
The Streets and Iron Maiden. But only two
of them as complete concerts. |
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| The little I saw of Beth Gibbons
really surprised me, because I thought the
concert she held in Oslo was kinda weak and
this wasn't. |
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| I managed to catch my absolute
favorite song "Funny Time of Year".
It was absolutely magical! |
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| After the Beth Gibbons camp
I swung by Turbonegro before I went back to
camp to see if anyone would join me to see
The Streets. On my way from camp to the concert
I met Robert and Felix (Zoid) and they came
along. |
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| At the concert I met Angel
and she met some friends from Sweden. Roskilde
is a very small place sometimes. Funny how
you always run into people you know. I mean...there's
100.000 people walking around the place, and
you ALWAYS meet someone you know! In my hometown
there's 30.000 people and I NEVER meet anyone
I know if I go out. |
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| Another really funny thing
was that I didn't actually go to any concerts
at Orange at all! I was sitting next to the
Orange area drinking beer with these two lads
mostpart of Friday night when Iron Maiden
was playing, but we didn't really pay attention
to the concert. |
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| What mattered was that we were
sitting next to a Tuborg tent. So we were
just sitting there being silly and drinking
beer. This was after the engagement party,
so I already had quite a buzz from the champagne
and being silly seemed just what I needed. |
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| And that's when I spotted this
guy. I mean...LOOK at that pink thing he's
wearing. I just had to take a picture. Later
we went down to the caravan camp and partied
some more before ending it in FistCamp. Though
without Robert and Zoid, who had gone to bed. |
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| I had planned one early concert
on Saturday, but I was too tired. So the first
concert I went to was The Melvins. I knew
that they had played together with Fantomas
(another of Mike Pattons projects) so it was
with some anticipation I went to the concert
hoping for some connection with Tomahawk at
changeover. |
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| Nothing happened though. Instead
I spent an hour laying in the grass to the
right of the Green stage (Arena) waiting for
Tomahawk to begin. Magnus was waiting in line
to come up front. And while doing that he
also did the most funny thing ever: |
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| He's standing in the line and
we're sitting on the grass (Angel, Jois, Robban
and me). Jois starts shouting "moon'a
moon'a" to Magnus - and his does! Right
there in the line he pulls down his trousers
and shows his ass in our direction. I thought
I was gonna wet myself laughing. And I am
so sorry I didn't think he would do it. Cuz
then there would be a photo here of it now... |
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| Well...we both got in front
at the Tomahawk concert in the end - and sweeeet
Jesus...that was the best concert of the entire
festival. I was blown away! I also had another
great concert that night; A German synth band
called Console. Really great stuff! Benny
and me also saw a bit of Chicks On Speed,
Blur and Immortal. Not very impressing any
of it. |
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| Then came Sunday...This was
gonna be such a great day of concerts. I didn't
catch all the concerts I had planned, but
I got the most important one. I had three
concerts to see at Pavilion; The Kills, Radio
4 and TBHP. I only saw half of The Kills,
then the entire Radio 4 concert. The best
part of the concert was when the singer announced:"We're
the Radio 4, and I do believe we have The
Black Heart Procession with us on the stage." |
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| The band was standing in the
back of the scene enjoying Radio 4 and probably
checking out the scene and the crowd before
their own concert scheduled a couple of hours
later. I met up with Helena, Benny, Jois and
Robban for the BHP concert. The intro of the
first song was played on a saw! |
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| The others only stayed with
me for two songs before running over to the
Orange stage to see Queens of the Stoneage.
I will never regret my choice - staying to
see the entire BHP concert instead of joining
the others. |
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| Song after song it only got
better. They played songs from all four albums
as far as I can remember. Songs like: The
End of Love, Tropics of Love, A Cry for Love,
A Light So Dim, Your Church Is Red, It's a
Crime I Never Told You..., Blue Tears, A Sign
On the Road, Sympathy Crime and lots more. |
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| So along with Stone Sour, Console,
Melvins and Tomahawk - this was one of the
greatest moments of Roskilde 2003 for me. |
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| *sigh*...and then we go home. |
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