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By Signe Therkildsen

When Glasvegas visits Roskilde Festival this year, there will not be much time left for anything else than the concert at Arena Friday afternoon. The band has been on world tour for 1 ½ years and after the concert at Roskilde they are off to Finland the same day. But do you not get a bit crazy of being that much on the road?

”We're actually getting our sanity back – we HAVE been crazy. Now we're getting a hold of ourselves again,” says Rab Allan, guitarist in Glasvegas.

“But we love doing it. We wouldn't change it for anything in the world.”

Forth concert in Denmark

The Glasgow band has their debut at this year’s Roskilde Festival. But the concert is also the forth in Denmark in less than a year. The band decide themselves which countries they are visiting on their tour and Denmark is one of the countries they want to visit again.

”We have been really well received in the whole of Scandinavia. People have really taken it to the heart.”

Rab says that there is much difference on the audience in the difference countries that they have performed in. In Britain the audience only wants to party, go crazy and get drunk – so the concerts have to be short and intense. In the US and the rest of Europe, on the other hand, there is entirely different kind of respect at the concerts. Here people want to listen to the music, enjoy the concert and for as long time as possible.

Friends with Raveonettes

Glasvegas sound as if they are in incredible form in spite of their busy schedule and look very much forward to playing at Roskilde Festival. They know the festival from their good friends in the Danish band The Raveonettes.

”They also play this year... don't they?” Rab asks, which I regrettably must tell that they are not. There are, however, other friends of the band performing at this year’s Roskilde Festival such as White Lies, who are some “amazing guys,” and Oasis whom the band also hang out with. ”We're good friends, we have a drink once in a while and catch up.”

New album on the way

The audience can expect a somewhat longer concert than the concerts they have played before in Denmark.

”People at a festival want to party and have fun. The performance is exactly the same, 110%,” Rab says.