Saturday, July 7, 2007

Roskilde - Music and Naked People



Well Thankfully it's dried at a little, it's still a mud bath but a manageable one.

The show is going well and you can still listen to it here (if your computer likes it) we've managed in our fair trade competition to blag a guitar signed by Queens of the Stone Age, not bad considering we started with a tent peg last Sunday and had to trade it for something better everyday. So that's all rather splendid.

The big event for the radio station is coming up in in 1/2 an hour 'The Naked Race' is where 20 very liberal Scandinavian guys and girls (even split) race around the campsite in a bid to win a ticket to next years festival. The Press descend down on this like hungry animals, every year it secures the front page picture of all the Sunday papers and it gets a huge amount of tv coverage.

I might just have a quick look outside to see how it's going, I'll post some pictures later :)

As for music here's a quick rundown of the shows I've seen

Beastie Boys - Are sadly past it in a fairly major way, they looked like a group of geography teachers trying to 'get down' last night.

CSS - Are the very opposite, they are simply it right now, Love Foxx is the best front woman I've seen in years, how they have managed to get 20'000 people singing along to their songs in such a sort space of time i'll never know, it's a real achievement.

Arcade Fire - Are quite simply a religious experience and you must take any opportunity to see them live this year. I wish Win Butler would cheer up a bit though.

Klaxons - Really love the music and the set was great, but ego's of the band have grown out of all control and it's creeping into the set, I wanted to stay for the whole thing but the whole attitude they presented on stage grated too much for me to cope!

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