Miranda and Joshua make their first trip to the Roskilde Festival. Instagram - / travelinyoung00 Facebook - / travelinyoung Website - Merch - travelin-young...
I'd say you two have really understood the essential spirit of Roskilde. There IS an Orange feeling and there IS a Roskilde blues. My 16th time coming all the way from Finland this year and I wouldn't trade it for anything else. The festival doesn't just get all the big names and something in between. No, the sheer quality of the small artists playing there is just something else. It truly is a great celebration of music. A culture instition rather than a regular festival. Go for the ethiopian oasis chanting ensemble or the argentinian female-anorcho-punk band, because that just might be the most amazing thing you see all day. And the volunteers really are the heart of the festival. Hoping you still have the urge to come, because by this video I'd say you fit so well in. All the best from Helsinki and see on the grass in 6 days.
Roskilde is without a doubt the most well-organized festival I've been to. I start my vacation every year as a volunteer at the festival and today I bring my whole family, all volunteers too. It's a great experience! The first time I went was in 1982 and it's still the same orange feeling I have every year, as way back when. 😃
It is not just the Festival's own profit that goes to NGOs. Local (sports) clubs organise most of the volunteer work and these clubs gets paid per volunteer. For many clubs the Roskilde Festival is their main income.
Love that you got to experience a small glimpse of Roskilde Festival! I myself have lived in Roskilde my whole life and have been been to the festival for the past 20years, and honestly for the first 10+ years I barely saw a single concert, the camp days Saturday-Thuesday is the main reason I'm there :D there are always events going on around the campsite, and you can be sure to see a lot of Ølbowling going on everywhere.
Have never been to Roskilde Festival - but back in the day there was a festival on fyn called Midtfyns Festival. Where I was a volunteer and I had the concert experience with R.E.M. just magical in warm sommer rain This year I went to Heartland Festival @ Egeskov. Went there for Robbie Williams, but had a monumental blast with the Annika Aakjær, Sergio Mendez and Jack Johnson. Heartland Festival is my new go to festival
I am so happy to see that you had a great day and that you got to understand Orange Feeling. It has been so much fun hearing about your impressions. It was great to meet you.
When I was younger I went to "Roskilde". This summer I enjoyed "Den lille fede" (Nibe Festival). You gotta go experience Nibe, a festival in a forest. It is "only" 20.000 guests .... but so fantastic!!!
Rain and alcohol - the two necessities at Roskilde... 🤪 Think of it like the Danish version of Woodstock, and Grateful Dead went on in 1971, and they are still not finished with their gig.
Now you need to try Smukfest in Skanderborg, and see what that's like, I'd like to hear how or if you would like the theme "Music and Beech Trees" it's next week, so maybe it's impossible to get a tickets now. But next year maybe, and it also does charity, and has volunteers build it up. And taking it down. After so the area is spotless, and if you did not know of the festival, there isn't a trace of the festival after.
I really think you should try Smukfest as well. I have been volunteering there for more than 20 years. It is a great community. We will start our festival this Friday. Then we are off for 10 days in a tent.
Roskilde festival is just a good and versatile festival with something for every taste. Here in my area we also have a local festival which only holds 13,000 spectators and 2,000 volunteer helpers. The profit is distributed to the associations that come with the helpers. It could be the Football Club. The local Karate club which in this way earns a little for the club fund. Volunteer helpers are very common in Denmark. our local festival even has a children's area where soloists perform for children, meanwhile mum and dad can go up on the big stage and watch a concert. meanwhile, their children can be safely and safely supervised in the children's area. Of course, they must be old enough to be self-reliant. The festival is completely sold out year after year.
My debut was in 1980. Carlos Santana was fan-fåking-tastic. Joan Armatrading was a disappointment, we couldn't hear her 😢 It rained from Thursday to Monday, well... when it wasn't raining it was pissing down 🙄 I was 16 when I went, but when I came back home, I'd matured to at least 18 👵 and I had become a woman of the WORLD 😇 I had survived Roskilde and was ready to leave the nest 🤣 Edit OMG - I just looked up the ticket prices then - we paid DKK 110 for the tickets... for all 4 days 🤣
I think we Danes are good at planning and organizing big events like that. Similar big outside events you should visit are the scout camps (spejdere or FDF) but that's only every 4th or 5th year I think.
Roskilde [ros-keel*-le] = Roar's Kilde / Well ( OE cwylla ! ) According to legend this Roar is the Danish King Hrotgar of Beowulf fame ( Old English epos set in the 6th century ), who had his royal seat in the nearby Lejre (village) / Ledre [ lethre] / OE Hletre ( lejr = camp ).
I went in 2007 when I was around 30. That was the wettest Roskilde ever, to my knowledge, and I ended up going home before the music really started. Sleeping in a cold wet tent, with constant rain, mud everywhere, and gross toilets, was outside of my comfort level. Maybe if I was there with a camper, or had other sleeping arrangements nearby, I might do it, but doing it "like the young people", clearly isn't for me :p
I was there in 97 when it was the wettest year so far then... and I was there in 07 which holds the current record... 97 was bad as it came as a surprise as it was only my third year and the previous ones there had been drought... when 07 came around we were ready... we dug drains, spread wood chips throughout the camp, pavilion tent covered in tarpaulins and everything was tied down with cords and pegs... and at that time I had stopped taking a tent with me (slept in the camp's pavilion tent)... I even had dry clothes with me back home afterwards ...
@@GarmrsBarking We got there on tuesday, if I remember correctly. On wednesday we "smuggled" in several bags of wood chips, because they wouldn't allow them in at first. And we erected a pavilion in our shared space. A rather flimsy one. I think it was wednesday, when it started raining around 3 pm, and at 3 am, it had been constantly going. When we got up in the morning, the pavilion had simply folded, because of all the water. I think it was past noon on thursday I decided that I wasn't having fun, and left with my basics. I left my tent, to the joy of another guy in the camp, because his tent would fold from the rain as well. So he could take over mine instead.
I got a chuckle out of too old... maybe the drinking camping. Don't ever try stopping on your Danish Josh :) and integrated, complain about the weather no matter what it is, to hot, too cold to wet, to dry and everything in between :)
I really don't go to festivals or concerts, because of my health. But I live 200m from a park, Lunden, in Horsens, where there are 5-7 concerts each year. Dizzy Mizz Lizzy was playing there, at the last concert or maybe the one before the last, and I was dying wanting to go there!
I was just at SmukFest for the first time ever yesterday, and it was an awesome experience and so unique being in the middle of a forest. The stages, facilities, structures, restaurants, music, talent and logistical smoothness of it all was astounding to me. I highly recommend it to children of all ages, as they say.
Went back in 1994 and 1997. I saw Bjork on white stage in 94. Sadly the rest of the music is a bit of a blur, but that is my own fault. I do remember Etta Cameron at some point though. I stayed at the camp a lot. There was so much mud, especially in 97. It was so hard to get any where. in 94 the sun came out and baked the mud, so it was this strange wobbly ground. Both were great experiences. sitting in my little tent cooking Indian food on a camping primus. (Not sure what it is in English.), cause my boyfriend and I didn't have money to buy food at the shops, so I cooked instead. People would come over cause of the smell and ask if we had extra. We did. :)
It is not really called the blue feeling. But Roskilde blues. It describe the feeling of kinda emptiness, and possible for some, detox… after spend a week with so much going on.
You really have to try Smukfest next year. Not as big as Roskilde, but with so many funny, crazy ideas. Just check out the sleeping areas or the different theme-bars. 🤩
The Orange stage(Canopy) isn't the biggest stage, or tent. The tent itself has been changed a few times, but they keep the colour and shape. And once every -nth year, they tear it up, and sell it parts, like wallets, or keyhanger, and stuff. I believe that Esben Danielsen(former speaker for RF) was one of the people the people who started the Orange Feeling, around 2009-ish. The blue feeling has been going on for many years(amongst people), but this is the first year the app has changed colour. The festival is very international, this year I met people from California, Slovakia, Australia, and a friend from Estonia was also there. I also heard germans, and swedes/norwegians, but it would be weird if they weren't there. The station, or trinbræt(because its so small and there's neither tiles, concrete or asphalt, or any buildings)was made back in 97, which also was my first year at the festival, as a guest. Over at Vor Frue(south of N area) is Håndværker Byen, which is where all the trade skills are, carpenters, electricians, IT crowd(no not those), plumbers, and a rental place for everyday things that the offices need to borrow/rent, during the festival. Its usually open 2 weeks before the festival starts, and very busy
@@TravelinYoung I know, I just personally still wouldn't wear anything than says "Russia" on it these days. Bars even started calling that drink a White Ukrainian 😄 To be clear, this was just a friendly teasing nod, I'm sure you're familiar with danish humor by now 👍
I wish you would have filmed more at the festival instead of talking about it to each other. Talking to festival goers would have been great. By the way I have lived in DK since 1973 or 1973 and used to live in Roskilde So have volunteered at the festival and attended many times. Now I live in Copenhagen and have Parkinson's disease so no more festival for me. I'm now a dual U.S and DK citizen
going to the roskilde festival is a rite of passage.... I have been to Roskilde festival 16 times.... I stopped going because the festival became too much luxury for me... in my day the festival was one part concert going, one part party week and one part survival trip... it's not that anymore...
når folk som dem her kommer fra nord sjælland og arbejder frivilligt siger det alt 🤣 roskilde er død.. de siger også man sagtens kan tage på roskilde nu selvom man er gammel 🤭 sidste gang jeg var der for 10 års tid siden, gik jeg midt i den første koncert. det var simpelthen blevet for kliche agtigt og kunstigt det hele men sådan går det når roskilde begynder at arrange ting såsom babysitning 🤣
my dad was an volentier some of the first years of its existince. he would bring my older sisters. they would collect bottles and ahving a great time. have u been able to visit roskilde syreskue ( the animal show?) theres allso a great fleemarked there once or twice a year. i know that some if not all the left over food and stuff from the stalls are donated for foodbanks.
Best moments are Kings of leon playing Knocked up in 2009: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8DOuydGi6mM.html And then the full concert from Slipknot the same year: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9nEh4UoFPIU.html
So cool that you filmed ‘VOLUNTEER VILLAGE’ 🤩 I’m a volunteer at Roskilde Festival, and work as the overall operations manager for ‘VOLUNTEER VILLAGE’ and all the other volunteer bars/cafes 🤩 So if you want a fun volunteer job, you are welcome to contact me 👌🏻
Yes!! I worked for non profits my whole career in the US and spent 7 years at a global charity. Volunteering is near and dear to my heart. I am really hoping to be able to volunteer at Roskilde. It looks like a blast and that volunteer area is elite! - M
afaik the food stalls etc. on the site pays for the stall and what they sell is for themselves, but It's expensive to get a stall there. Maybe some are "Roskildefestival driven"? Someone might be able to expand on this.
I love the Orange feeling. 16 years i´ve been a volunteer and its been a joy every time :) And damm im glad no "woke" them, they, person has talked about the World Cup cap :) :) Love and best regards to you for keep doing your thing :) Side note: Dm me. I would really like to invite to Kalundborg ( the only Five Tower Church town in the world) and show you some indeepth history about the creation of the Kingdom of Denmark :)
If you were to try Denmark's nicest festival, it would be the Samsø Festival This year I am going to the Nashville Nights International Songwriters Festival in Odense,
we used to take food and beer from unlocked cars on roskilde when i was young. you wont believe how many that leave their car open for their team to use as a bar. found lots of wierd things like guns for example
jeg kan ik lade være med og grine, jeg har lige solgt et hus i deres kvarter. og de vil arbejde frivilligt så de kan komme gratis ind 🤣 køber et hus til over 5 millioner men vil gratis ind på festival. fair nok de gerne vil hjælpe, men ingen forbyder dem selv købe en billet og at støtte boderne (det ligner oven i købet de fylder deres glas hver gang de nævner ordet backstage) for mig er roskilde ånden død. men fribiletter til folk fra nordsjælland er måske ikke måden jeg ville promovere min festival på. medmindre den forgik i skagen og handlede om champagne
You need to go for the entire week to get the real Roskilde Festival experience. Actually the first days (opvarmningsdagene) without music are the best athmosphere ever!
They also use volunteers at the stages. You could end up being a stage hand for a world famous act. And some of them hang around a bit. Other volunteers even work before or after the festival itself, e.g. setting things up - they have the entire festival just free to roam around without needing to be on shifts. It sucks when your favorite band is playing and you have to just stand there selling schapps at a bar that looks like a wooden boat...
I used to volunteer at both Midfyns and Roskilde back in the 2000s, it is an amazing experience, have gone both as guest and volunteer and i must say, i enjoyed volunteering the most. It is a very different experience, very different social side. It is well worth trying if even just for one year :) Thanks for sharing.
