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By Kristian Krog Kæmsgaard.
Translated by Thora Bruun

“We only eat yellows things,” declares Gry Nymand from Camp 'The Yellow House'. It is Gry’s first time at Roskilde Festival. 

Gry Nymand is sitting with a carton of orange juice in her hand. She is from Køge in Denmark and has, together with 11 other girls and boys, established Camp “The Yellow House”. The members of the Camp strive to be as yellow as possible.

They are staying on the eastside under a yellow pavilion, in which there is a lot of sunflowers, cans of maize, and lemons. And off course they are all smoking yellow Kings.

The yellow feeling

The 12 young people got the idea about being yellow after they squatted a yellow house in Copenhagen some months ago. They have established the camp to honour this yellow house.

“We started around half a year ago buying yellow things for the camp. So far we have invested quite a bit of money in the project,” says Gry Nymand.

Some of the members of the camp are sitting below the yellow pavilion in yellow folding chairs and eating yellow candy. They have yellow dresses and T-shirts on, and they walk around with yellow sunglasses and yellow hair clips.
“We want to spread ‘the yellow feeling’,” they all state.

Listen to yellow music

“The yellow feeling” should be understood as a feeling of sun and summer. It is the hope of the camp that this feeling will reach all the guests at Roskilde Festival.

“We want create peace and make people happy. Being yellow makes you happy,” says Gry Nymand.

In the daytime they eat maize, salt crackers, chips and drink loads of beers and orange juice. When they put on music, they listen to “Lemon Tree”. Yellow!