Take the bus directly to Roskilde Festival with Festivalbussen
Festivalbussen offers direct bus service from selected cities in Norway, Sweden and Northern Germany, the busses go from the selected cities and directly to s designated area in Camping West at Roskilde Festival, where you are guaranteed a spot. More about Festivalbussen.

Rideshare
If you choose to arrive by car, we encourage you to share your ride. It is by far the most environment-friendly. So fill the car. If you are into making new friends, saving money and getting special parking options, check out Roskilde Rideshare.

Have others arrange the trip for you
For those attending the festival from outside of Denmark, or those who want to attend but don’t want to camp, Festicket has crafted a number of flexible ticket and hotel packages to suit all tastes and budgets.

In the festival period there will be shuttle busses and trains going to the festival site from Roskilde Station. Check out the travel site for more info.

In the first episode you get to meet the members of Coffin Camp, who are building their camp’s trademark; the coffin. They still haven’t figured out how to decorate their camp this year. Watch the first episode and vote for one of the three suggestions as to how Coffin Camp should decorate their camp at this year’s Roskilde Festival. Go to our Facebook to vote.

Facts about Coffin Camp

• There's about 10 members in Coffin Camp. Most of them from Norway, but a few Danes have joined the camp as well
• They've been at Roskilde Festival since 2006, and are always camping at the same spot in the C area. That is, when they are not touring the campsite with 'The Coffin', spreading party and joy to the around 400 people that usually follows in the coffin's trail
• The camp have been fans of the Norwegian band Datarock ever since they saw them at Roskilde Festival 2007. So much in fact, that they can always be seen wearing red Datarock jumpsuits when at the festival

It takes place in Dream City on Saturday 8 June – but the deadline for applying is THIS Friday 24 May.

There is room for 8 projects on the workshop and to get one of the spots you need to have a great idea and describe it with words and drawings/pictures on Dream City’s Facebook event page or send it to dreamcity@roskilde-festival.dk marked “SUNPOWER”.

More information about the workshop in Dream City.

Open the "Roskilde Music Journey" Facebook app and start your journey by selecting a band from the line-up that you are looking forward to experience. This will generate a handful of other bands from the line-up which in one way or another are related to the selected artist. These related bands have been handpicked by the music bookers and WiMP. You can then listen to these related bands and decide whether you like them or not, and in this way build your own personalized Roskilde Festival 2013 playlist. Every time a band is chosen, new related bands will pop up for you to explore.

Win tickets to Roskilde Festival 2013 and WiMP Premium
By the end of the musical journey you will not only have your very own festival-playlist, but also get a chance to win both Roskilde Festival tickets and WiMP Premium for a year. A new winner is drawn each week for the next four weeks.

Are you ready to explore the line-up?

Get A Tent Downtown and Get A Camp will therefore be placed in area A which is north of Street City (see map). Both bath and toilet facilities will remain the same as at the original area. The festival-goers who have already bought Get A Tent Downtown or Get A Camp have been notified.

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON (US) has an impressive catalogue that includes some of country music’s best known songs, and an influence on other musicians that places him among the titans of American music. Armed with nothing more than a guitar, harmonica and plenty of personal grit, the silver-haired multi-artist plays authentic country with a taste of bourbon, Nashville and stories about his own life’s ups and downs. Kris Kristofferson’s latest album, Feeling Mortal, is packed with songs of mortality and hard-earned wisdom, and according to many, the latest work of the former boxer and US Army Captain with the poetic pen is among the best of his career. Get ready to meet one of the greatest at Roskilde Festival.

Special parking for all Roskilde Rideshare cars
All cars participating in Roskilde Rideshare with Ants are eligible for a reserved, free and centrally placed parking spot, if at least 4 people are sharing the ride. Other than save money on the normal parking fee, it'll make the walk with all your stuff from the car to the camping grounds shorter and easier.

Sign up using Ants and we will keep you informed on how to get to the parking, and what to do when you are there.

Unique opportunity to cars from Germany, Sweden or Norway: Get a free Full Festival Ticket
Roskilde Festival has donated a total of 100 free Full Festival Tickets to citizens in Germany, Norway and Sweden, who uses Ants to share their ride with other guests heading to Roskilde Festival.

Both driver and passengers must have a profile on Ants. When the ride has more than three passengers, Ants will contact the driver in order for him to confirm that everyone in the car has a valid ticket. If everyone has a valid ticket, the driver can claim his free full festival ticket on the day of arrival to the festival. Important: sign-up for this unique opportunity ends 16 June, and are only for the first 100 cars from Germany, Sweden or Norway that sign up!

If you want to share a ride to Roskilde Festival, follow the “How to” guide.

Fix my Festival by Martin Buch: an app that lets you tip festival officials about a problem that needs fixing. You take a picture and/or describe the problem and tag it with the GPS-location.

Music for Money by Mads Møller: a fundraiser app that allows concert-goers to raise money for charity by collecting donations from pledges for going to concerts.

Roskilde mAPP by Rasmus Fly Filbert: an app that combines the social life of the festival with the tracking of data for the festival to use to improve the festival experience.

Now it’s time to get coding

The app contest has already started and dedicated festival-goers are coding away to make the best possible festival app. For more info on the app contest go to the Roskilde LABS website. Deadline for submitting your app is 1 June 2013.

CHASE & STATUS (UK) show us how electronic music can take the energy and high adrenalin levels from punk and metal, and turn it into parties that boil with equal amounts of intensity. In 2013, they’ll be taking on Orange Stage with new music and an even bigger show combining the best parts of drum’n’bass, dubstep, pop and rock in a magnificent collision.

KENTON SLASH DEMON (DK) is the night-clubbing side-project from Jonas Kenton and Silas Moldenhawer from When Saints Go Machine.”Kenton Slash Demon have already proven their worth, so in all fairness we could have booked them sooner than we have. But sometimes you just fall in love with what’s been standing in front of you for a long time,” says booker Claes Roepstorrf, responsible for the electronic acts at Roskilde Festival.

OM UNIT (UK) draws his inspiration from sounds such as dubstep, instrumental hiphop and jungle. Especially the latter, well-known sound of 90’s electronic music was what got producer and dj John Coles going when he was just a teenager and first threw his love on electronic music. Today, his mix of various styles is right up there with those that define the future of London bass music.

A new world

The new zone will not only be an area linking the camping sites to the festival site. With the Apollo Stage as the center piece, the area will be a small universe of electronic music, lights- and art installations that will react and interact with the music. The Apollo Zone will be surrounded by lightning poles that will function as a mirror of light towards the festival-goers and the stage, and you will get the feeling of having stepped into another world – both during the day and during the night.

Electronic Roskilde

Roskilde Festival’s line-up has always focused on new music trends and therefore we also have a stage dedicated to electronic music. From Sunday 30 June upcoming Scandinavian acts will take on the stage while more established acts will perform on the UFO-looking stage from Thursday 4 July till Sunday 7 July in the brand new Apollo Zone.

Here you can visit around 19 small market stalls, all serving two distinct dishes in order to create a happening and experimental dining area where you can experience all from traditional Danish family dishes to biodynamic food, paleo (stone age) diet, porridge and local cuisine based on ingredients from Lolland-Falster south of Copenhagen.

You will be able to taste a modern interpretation of signature dishes from the Faxe region – a crispy cabbage wrap, filled with beer braised beef, or steaming hot spring rolls and the Vietnamese national soup Phó from the food stall Crispy Hote. If you’re still undecided, then go for the paleo bolognese from PALÆO-Primal Gastronomy stall.

Roskilde Festival Food Court will be situated in Kvæghal B, in the Gloria area on the festival site.

If you can’t wait to taste all the delicacies in Roskilde Festival food, then visit our event, Orange Dinner, during Restaurant Day in Copenhagen May 18th.

Roskilde Food Court is supported by EU and Region Zealand through GRO.

Balkan-favorites Dubioza Kolektiv and ska-punkers Voodoo Glow Skulls have been given the honour of sending the last party-loving Roskilde Festival audiences back to reality in a right and proper mannor.

The final party of this year’s festival will be a tornado of political bite and forceful energy, from rebellious Eastern European sounds to hotheaded ska-punk.

”Dubioza Kolektiv are a perfect match to the many energetic Balkan-parties, which Roskilde Festival has come to be known for. Fans of bands such as Gogol Bordello should really save their last bit of energy for Sunday night at Arena,” says booker Peter Hvalkof.

From the Balkans to California in the heat of the night.

After Dubozia Kolektiv’s concert, we move from the ever swarming Eastern Europe to the ska-punk scene of Western California – all in one night.

”Voodoo Glows Skulls are more or less legendary. Their music is unpredictable, and the tempo is extremely high, all while there’s a strong Jamaican groove and a clear sense of melody,” says booker Stefan Gejsing.

It’s Friday night – and spring has arrived

Finally, one last request. It’s Friday night in a few hours, and spring has finally arrived: If you listen to some of this music, we’ll almost guarantee you that the very special Roskilde Festival feeling will wash over you before you know it.

“With thousands of people everywhere I created a space where I could isolate people from the crowds, give them a moment of solitude and let me get a glimpse of that beautiful feeling of youth, freedom, love and music” says Søren Solkær.

The results will be shown for the first time at his newly launched web site.

To celebrate the web site launch, Søren would like to offer you his latest book “CLOSER” as a free E-book. “CLOSER” shows portraits of some of the world’s greatest rock stars including: The White Stripes, Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, U2, Franz Ferdinand, P.J. Harvey. Led Zeppelin, M.G.M.T. , Metallica, Arcade Fire, The Raveonettes, Dave Grohl, Ian Brown, Adele, Oasis, Pete Doherty, Beck, Patti Smith, Trentemøller, Brandon Flowers, Madonna, Gnarls Barkley, David Lynch, The Who, Stereophonics, The Dead Weather, Depeche Mode, Scissor Sisters, Björk and many others. Get your free copy here.

This year Roskilde Festival once again sets out to honour those camps that make the waiting time so special by naming 'Camp of The Year'. This tradition goes back several years – but this year the game will change, as we aim to give the power back to you festies.

Themed Daily Winners
This years Daily Winners will be chosen by themes. Are your camp the greenest? Do you throw the best parties? Are you giving the most to the camping community? Does your camp have the best theme? Are you a camp of early birds that makes sure the party starts from day one? Then your camp have the chance of being named as a Daily Winner.

Each day of the camping period our panel of competent camp experts will visit every camp signed up for the competition. They will then nominate three camps, that will then meet on the field of honour to determine who is the best Party Camp, Early Bird Camp, Sustainability Camp, Theme Camp and Community Camp.

On Saturday all camps that has been nominated as a Daily Winner will meet up and throw their vote as to who of the Daily Winners they think is Roskilde Festival Camp of The Year '13.

Prizes and tickets
The winning camp will not only have pride in the honourable title of ‘Camp of the Year’. They receive a specially designed trophy made from orange canvas from the very first Orange Stage and with the previous winners engraved on it: Where is the Love (2006), Den Svedig Kalkun (2007), Topgun Camp (2008), Camp Find Holger (2009), Camp Crazy Legs (2010 and 2011) and Camp Burt Reynolds (2012). As a bonus, the cup also functions as a beer bong!

On top of this, the prize also includes unique Camp of the Year T-shirts as well as six tickets to Roskilde Festival 2014.

Sign up now: https://www.research.net/s/COTY13

Or join our Camp of the Year Facebook page

”The final concert on Orange Stage Sunday night has always been a very special experience, a special moment where we all come together for the music, and I think it’s difficult to imagine a more spectacular way of saying goodbye to this year’s festival and all your friends than in the company of Kraftwerk and their very unique show. One thing is the band’s importance to music history which can take the breath away from most everyone; another is the fact that it will most surely be a concert, we’ll still be talking about years from now. I’m certain that Sunday night with Kraftwerk will become a part of Roskilde Festival history,” says Roskilde Festival’s music director Rikke Øxner.

Even though it’s the first time Orange Stage will be turned into a giant 3D screen, she’s not at all worried about the technical challenges that go along with such a show.

”Our own technicians have been in dialogue with Kraftwerk’s technicians since day one, and I know that Kraftwerk wouldn’t be taking their 3D-show on the road to Roskilde if they weren’t completely confident when it comes to all the technicalities,” Rikke Øxner says.

”It’s crazy! Every time I think of it, my stomache turns. It is without a doubt the biggest challenge, I’m facing as a musician, and a fantastic opportunity to become a part of the Orange Stage legacy. Ever since I was 17, I’ve been diving into the festival’s line-up, and now I’m faced with the biggest experience of them all – and one I’m able to share with more than 70.000 people,” says Vinnie Who about his upcoming job of pushing the Roskilde Festival 2013 start button on the biggest stage of the festival.

Also, we work on drawing extra attention to these bands because we believe they are what tomorrow will sound like. And we hope you will agree.

Go to http://www.facebook.com/RoskildeRising and like our page to stay updated on the latest events regarding Rising. There, we 'll reveal this year's selected artists on monday, so stay tuned!

Last year, Danish grime queen Linkoban was one of the Rising stars. Here's a shout out from her.

Although LYKKE LI, PETER BJORN AND JOHN, MIIKE SNOW, American sidekick COCO and J. ÅHLUND certainly deliver on their own, together they have created a universe allowing new ideas, songs and whims to blossom. For Roskilde Festival they are creating a unique music event, packed with surprises and visual delights. The line-up will take the stage as one large band and treat us with both fresh compositions and well-known hits served in new ways.

Bjorn Yttling from PETER BJORN and John gives a sneak peek into the unique Ingrid show at Roskilde:

“We are sort of just a big group of friends from Stockholm, New York and Los Angeles who did a lot of things together and spent time together at the Ingrid Studios. We got the idea that we wanted to collaborate and do more things together so two years ago we loosely formed this music collective; Ingrid.

Last summer we played a show at Way Out West in Gothenburg called Ingrid Live, which was really cool but our show at Roskilde Festival will be a completely different thing. The show at Roskilde will be bigger and it will be outdoors, but to be honest nobody really knows what will happen. We will play songs separately, we will play songs together and we will bring some of our friends from both Stockholm and around the world to perform with us. Its going to be a big mash-up of all our music and we will play some new songs from the different bands and we will play songs that we have never played before and that we will never play again. For the show at Roskilde we will do things smaller and bigger and weirder all at the same time.”

This array of stellar names has only played two intimate club shows in the past, so they’re heading for a spectacular world premiere in the large format of Roskilde Festival’s Orange Stage this summer. This exciting new collective will only be playing two concerts worldwide in 2013. You will have to wait a bit longer to find out which special guests Ingrid are bringing to their Roskilde show – they are not quite ready to reveal all their secrets yet.

Ingrid performing at Way Out West 2012:

It comes in both men’s, women’s and even kid’s size. The T-shirts are made from 100% organic cotton.

A variation of headliners
KRAFTWERK, THE NATIONAL, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, RIHANNA, SIGUR RÓS, SLIPKNOT and VOLBEAT are at top of the poster. The headliners cover genres such as rock, pop and futuristic electro. However, these artists are just the icing on the cake. Whether you’re a fan of hip hop, metal, alternative rock or world music, you can put together a music feast of your liking – while stumbling upon surprises and musical challenges along your journey.

Rockers with an edge
We introduce a batch of rock artists with more edge to their music than seen or heard on Roskilde Festival for a long time. AIRBOURNE, TURBONEGRO, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES and BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB are among the new additions; and all have fresh records out, demonstrating great shape and chops. Along with UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS, KVELERTAK and THE SWORD, these artists secure a festival with plenty of riffs and licks. “This year’s lineup is actually the most rock-orientated in my time as a booker. I strongly sense a blooming of rock these years, and we feature some great exponents of this development on the line-up”, says booker Stefan Gejsing.

… always a surprise
Swedish pop collective INGRID are planning a special Roskilde show, including songs from LYKKE LI, PETER BJORN AND JOHN, MIIKE SNOW, COCO and J. ÅHLUND, who will take the stage with several surprising guests. This array of stellar names has only played two intimate club shows in the past, so they’re heading for a spectacular world premiere in the large format of Roskilde Festival’s Orange Stage this summer. This exciting new collective will only be playing two concerts worldwide in 2013.

Outrageous urban sounds
Future superstar MIGUEL is among the brand new additions to the line-up with his sexy R&B. We can also announce EL-P, KILLER MIKE and flamboyant rapper MYKKI BLANCO, joining KENDRICK LAMAR, DANNY BROWN, JOEY BADA$$, FLATBUSH ZOMBIES and ACTION BRONSON. Roskilde Festival 2013 is mandatory for anyone with even the smallest taste for hip hop. The Nordic countries also boost names such as CHORDS, KARPE DIEM and LINKOBAN.

Sparkling world colours
As always Cosmopol and the other stages will feature world colours unlike any other festival in Scandinavia or Europe: “It’s our world music acts who really push tradition forward. This year features acts from both South Korea, China and Egypt,” says booker of global acts Peter Hvalkof. DAWANGGANG, NUBANOUR, KRAR COLLECTIVE and several other names from foreign skies are now also part of the line-up.

Roskilde is ugly
Roskilde Festival’s alternative rock profile rips, shreds and tears like never before. PISSED JEANS, FIDLAR, ICEAGE, PARQUET COURTS and METZ add more punk edge to a program which also features Sonic Youth legend Thurston Moore’s brand new band CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING.

#futurebeats
We are witnessing a true internet generation taking to the stage. Their music is a total meltdown of genres, styles and eras. Take JAMES BLAKE for instance: He is back at Roskilde, ready to repeat his 2011 triumph. Trap-phenomenon ƱZ is on the poster as well, and another trap icon, BAAUER, was already part of the line-up. Another notorious internet regular is AZEALIA BANKS; her name is on the poster alongside ELOQ, FLUME and several other online idols.

Eager for more? Check out the bands and download the poster here.

It doesn’t end here, though. In June, the app will be updated and become festival-ready by adding these features:

• Schedule: Who’s-playing-when-and-where, with the option of setting alarms on gigs you simply must not miss
• Map: A map of the entire festival that shows you where you are, where other stuff is, and how to get to the cool events
• Camp Events: Your opportunity to advertise your own events and parties for others to find
• Arts & Creation: Overview of all the other activities the festival volunteers set up, that are not music
• My Roskilde: all your favourited music and events in one place
• Festival Apps: An overview of apps developed by festival-goers and other festival apps developed by us and our partners. Read more about Roskilde LABS >>
• Info: All the practical information you need, when you’re at the festival

How to get your hands on the app

• Find it in Google Play or on App Store
• Send an SMS where you write RF APP to 1204 (DK) or +45 4240 9019 (INT.)

The official Roskilde Festival smartphone app for iPhone and Android is developed in collaboration with software developers Trifork and designers Duckwise.

Help, I have a Windows Phone

Fear not. An official Roskilde Festival Windows Phone will hit your phone in the beginning of June. All thanks to the help of a volunteer SWAT team of developers from Bluefragments - and we promise you it's gonna be rock'in.

Furthermore Friday from 12:00 to 13:00 we have a Q&A session where you can ask our music booker Rikke Øxner all your questions about this year’s line-up. You can take part in the Q&A session by going to our website on Friday and posting your questions on Twitter using the #RF13 hashtag.

There will be free concerts in the following cities after the line-up release:

Hamburg: Bottled in England (DK) + Die Vögel (DE)

Malmö: Summer Heart (SE) DJ set + Friendly Beastly Coyote (DK) + Compadre (SE)

Oslo: Eik (NO) + Lemâitre (NO)

Check out the full Roskilde Road Trip program here.

Roskilde Festival is currently on tour as Roskilde Road Trip in Northern Europe, where you're invited to an entire week of free concerts, art installations, workshops, debates and parties.

Gothenburg 6 - 13 April @ Röda Sten

Oslo 13 - 20 April @ MESH

Bergen 13 - 20 April @ Østre

Malmö 13 - 20 April @ Inkonst

Hamburg 15 - 20 April @ MS Dockville Festival Site

In the quiet part of the spectrum we find SCHULTZ & FOREVER and KRISTINA RENÉE, who despite a number of differences both play Nordic, acoustic pop based in the singer/songwriter tradition. SO-SO ECHO also play delicious pop, which like the movie Drive is rich with the feel of Los Angeles, wrought with danger and brimming with international format. BROKE departs from the financial crisis and prove that punky electro is best during recessions. Joining the fray from the experimenting part of Copenhagen are TRAVELLING TRIBES, who use the entire palette of world music as departure point for their alternative rock.

Thursday next we give you the poster

Start looking forward to Thursday next where we unveil the poster for this year’s festival. Only half of the line-up has been disclosed so far and the day will be full of music in all imaginable tonalities, moods and genres; a colourful cornucopia brimming with diversity, popular favourites and lots of surprises - in classic Roskilde fashion.

SEE BAND LIST

Roskilde Road Trip

Some of today's bands will also play at Roskilde Road Trip where you can catch them for free.

SCHULTZ & FOREVER will play in Bergen 19 April and Oslo 20 April.
BROKE will play in Hamburg 19 April and Malmö 20 April.

Have a look at the full Roskilde Road Trip program here.

Right now we're in Gothenburg (6 - 13 April).

300 people showed up at the opening party on Saturday where the the young and talented DJ and producer Carli (SE) created a great atmosphere with his eclectic beats. Carli is also playing at Roskilde Festival this summer.

Swedish hip-hop duo Lorentz & Sakarias also rocked the stage, and the artist duo Build & Destroy hosted a workshop that combined music, dancing and interactivity.

We are coming to Malmö, Oslo, Bergen (13 - 20 April) and Hamburg (15 - 20 April).

Read more about Roskilde Road Trip here.

According to the audience, the winning design has that special orange feeling to it. It is simple, rock n roll and fun at the same time. The design is created by Laura Beate Konrad.

Of course, the winning T-shirt will be for sale in our web shop and you can buy it at the festival this summer as well.

Thanks to everyone who has submitted designs. Many of them were so good that they could easily work on T-shirts. Let this be an encouragement to go print your own T-shirts.

Both bands have been booked in connection with Tuborg and Roskilde Festival’s OnStage campaign, in which the festival’s music bookers have received the festival-goers recommendations for upcoming Scandinavian bands.

The festival-goers have recommended 2.467 different bands and almost 7.500 people have taken part in the campaign by giving their arguments as to why their favourite upcoming band should play Roskilde Festival 2013.

More upcoming bands are added to our line-up

URRBAN CONE (SE) and THE WOKEN TREES (DK) have both been booked by Roskilde Festival with the warmest of recommendations from the festival-goers. The two bands range from electronic pop from the Swedes to pitch black post punk from the Danes. COMPADRE (SE) is the second Swedish addition and they mix hip hop, bass pop and Middle Eastern tunes in their self proclaimed ‘Muslim-step’ or ‘Jihad House’. Finally we have two other Danish acts: ICE CREAM CATHEDRAL (DK) play great atmospheric dream pop, while NAVNELØS (DK) explore the genres and incorporate chamber music, alternative rock and much more into their music. An indefinable orchestra from the same origins of Under Byen.

Roskilde Road Trip

Some of today's bands will also play at Roskilde Road Trip.
THE WOKEN TREES (DK) will play in Gothenburg 13 April. COMPADRE (SE) will play in Bergen 20 April and Malmö 18 April. ICE CREAM CATHEDRAL (DK) will play in Hamburg 19 April.

Roskilde Road Trip is Roskilde Festival on the road in Northern Europe, where you can experience one week of free concerts, workshops, art installations and debates.

We're coming to:
Gothenburg (6 - 13 April)
Malmö, Oslo, Bergen (13 - 20 April)
Hamburg (15 - 20 April).

SEE BAND LIST

CALEXICO (US) have combined country with Mexican mariachi music on their previous border–crossing albums, but on their latest effort, 2012’s Algiers, the two gringos headed for the west bank of the Mississippi in sprawling New Orleans. The result of that trip is a colorful album that most certainly called for the band’s return to Roskilde Festival.

FRANK FAIRFIELD (US) more or less spent his life as a hobo, until he was finally discovered by the right people to see his potential and talent. These days, he’s touring with the Fleet Foxes, and making acclaimed records filled with heartbreak, whisky, inevitable poverty and the ever imminent stock market crash. Frank Fairfield tops his authentic americana with plenty of banjo and fierce fiddlin’.

JONATHAN WILSON (US) plays the kind of country rock where the psychedelic colors and shapes of late 60s California blend together. Yet at the same time, Wilson is so contemporary in his songwriting that fans of modern folk rock should be sure check him out as well. The talented musician and songwriter also enjoys a career as a session player for legends such as Jackson Brown and The Band’s Robbie Robertson.

SEE BAND LIST

We already sold out all of our Get A Tent Uptown tickets – and these days we sell lots of Get A Tent Downtown tickets.

Get A Tent Downtown is an exclusive campsite located in area M near entrance East (see the map) – that’s right next to the regular campsite.

This add-on ticket gives you a pitched tent ready for you when you arrive as well as free access to hot showers.

Get A Tent Downtown LARGE (440 x 220 cm sized pitched tent and two hot shower wristbands) is almost sold out. So we advise you to act fast if this type of accommodation is your thing. We don’t have many left.

To get access to the area you have to buy an add-on ticket through Billetlugen (please notice, you also need a regular Roskilde Festival ticket).

BUY ADD-ON TICKET TO GET A TENT DOWNTOWN

READ MORE ABOUT ADD-ON OFFERS

“We have some unfortunate news. We have to cancel our upcoming EU dates for May and June and upcoming EU festivals. We'd like apologize to all our European fans and supporters. We know this causes frustration and headaches for ticket buyers and promoters alike. We assure you this is ultimately for the creative health of the band. We will back in EU soon and promise to make this up to all of you. Please understand. Thank you again, all of you. Your time, attention and support mean the world to us. Love, Foxygen.”

SEE BAND LIST

Roskilde Road Trip

Some of today's bands will also play Roskilde Road Trip.

LOWER (DK) and VANLIGT FOLK (SE) will play in Gothenburg.
BINÄRPILOT (NO) will play in Bergen.
SUMMER HEART (SE) will play in both Gothenburg and Malmö.

There are a few things your app-idea must live up to:

• You need to be able to describe your app's primary functionality within a couple of paragraphs or less.
• Be original.
• Think big - it is an idea contest so don't hold yourself back.
• Include a visualization of the app-idea.

Deadline for submitting your app idea is 1 May 2013. Read more here.

The contest for the designers and programmers
Subsequently, we start the developer contest for those who want to step it up a notch and create apps for the joy of all festival-goers. You can work on an idea from the idea competition or start right from scratch. There are also Roskilde tickets up for grabs in this developer contest. The deadline for submitting the app is 1 June 2013.

More about Roskilde LABS
Roskilde LABS is a forum for people who are passionate about innovation and IT development. Roskilde LABS want to challenge professional, semi-pro and ‘amateur’ app developers to create amazing user experiences for the festival-goers – before, during and after the festival.

Go to Roskilde LABS.

Come join us on the road if you would like to get that special feeling of Roskilde Festival and being in the middle of something unique.

Join the fun and stay tuned for updates on Facebook:

www.facebook.com/RRTGoteborg

www.facebook.com/RRTmalmo

www.facebook.com/RRTOslo

www.facebook.com/RRTBergen

www.facebook.com/RRTHamburg

And enjoy a video from Roskilde Road Trip 2012 in Berlin:

The National (US) arrive at Roskilde Festival with a brand new album, Trouble Will Find Me, in their suitcase – this concert will be the first opportunity in Scandinavia to hear the new songs live.

Previous albums from The National, such as Alligator and Boxer, are already modern classics filled with a wide, romantic appeal to Scandinavian hearts and minds. The last time The National played at Roskilde Festival was in a packed Arena tent in 2010, a convincingly mature band bringing parts of their back catalogue and songs from the, at that time newly released album High Violet, to life in such a way that it practically rained stars from critics, audiences and Roskilde Festival alike.

Which camp can put up 100 posters in the most creative and innovative way?

It could be anything from posing as one huge human poster to doing a projection on a wall. The only limit is your imagination - and the law, of course!

How to enter

Write up a description of how you and your camp will put up the posters here no later than 8 April 2013. Be creative and innovative. At 12 April we choose the camps with the most fun or alternative ideas for the poster setup, and they will receive 100 posters from us and orange up the World.

How is the winner found?

The poster camps have 12 days to put up posters. We ask all camps to document their work using photos. The final winners are the 10 camps who have managed to find the most funny, creative and alternative ways to put up the Roskilde posters.

Tickets prizes

The 10 winning camps each receive three tickets to Roskilde Festival 2013.

Best of luck to you all!

Any questions? Feel free to ask kiri.herfort@roskilde-festival.dk

Pretty Green is an up-front, straight talking British clothing label founded and designed by Liam Gallagher. If you have not got around to buying these unique jeans yet, here is your opportunity – they are now for sale in our webshop.

Prize: 500 DKK.

Size: 28, 30, 32, 34, 36

CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING (US) is the new band from former Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore. Having parked his legendary and groundbreaking band in the garage, the ever youthful guitar pioneer has assembled a new team of players, perfectly designed to push gritty and sharply cut guitar rock even to completely new territory.

NAZORANAI (INT) take you on a trip to the furthest corners of the mind with their experimenting doom, filled with disturbed vocals and massive doses of darkness. The Japanese emperor of darkness Keiji Haino has teamed up with Oren Ambarchi and Stephen O'Malley from the hooded merchants of doom and Roskilde favorites, Sunn O))).

THE SWORD (US) is one of the most consistent and muscular heavy metal bands out there today. Whether your hard rock benchmarks are contemporary sludge- and stoner metal bands, or Black Sabbath, you’re more than well taken care of here. In the world of The Sword, who’s latest album deals with forbidden Christian scriptures, only one thing is sacred: they worship the guitar riff in all its power and glory.

UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS (UK) have managed to create somewhat of a small cult following around their bloodsoaked and psychedelic hard rock. The British, mildly deviant rock gods will be a revelation to all who enjoy the rock soaked in memorable melodies and guitars with nostalgic fuzz-effects. Mind Control, the third album from the band, is just around the corner.

The last couple of days have been horribly cold in Scandinavia – but hopefully today’s music announcements, ranging from West African desert blues to Colombian Latin rythms with a twist, will bring some well-needed sunshine to your day.

BOMBINO (NE) has become an ambassador for peace. His raw and poetic guitar playing is like witnessing a West African Jimi Hendrix shrouded in desert clothes. The guitarist with the rock star potential belongs to the desert nomads called the Tuaregs. Their hypnotic music has been a part of Roskilde Festival before when bands such as Tinariwen and Terakaft visited the festival.

HOBA HOBA SPIRIT (MA) has been a part of a minor Moroccan music revolution. Since the band turned on the amplifiers in the late 90s, they have combined rock and the tones of ancient Morocco in a way that has practically turned them into a national treasure. The fearless music collective combines traces of The Clash, Bob Marley and North African gnawa rhythms with their own melodic and accessible music.

KOTTARASHKY & THE RAIN DOGS (BG) invite us to the Bulgarian cosmopol Sofia. Kottarashky broke through with the laptop based Opa Hey! With the backing band The Rain Dogs he wanted to take a more organic approach. The dexterous orchestra serves a chilled brew of Eastern European folk music, dub, funk and soul.

MERIDIAN BROTHERS (CO) do avantgarde pop from another dimension. Their foundation is Latin and tropical rhythms from their homeland. In a bubbling witch’s brew of sunshine and madness, bandleader and jester Eblis Álvarez takes us into his vision of Latin America. The crooked sounds are made out of lounge-like organs, seasick rhythms and steel brass.

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Dream City is the place at Roskilde Festival where you can let your wildest ideas unfold. You can already reserve your own area if you have an unique idea for a camp or a project that will make life better for everyone in Dream City.

On Saturday 16 March, no less than 100 days before the festival kicks off, the first camps will be settling in at the festival grounds, as citizens of Dream City. Your camp could be one of them.

Workshop #3 is just around the corner
In the last two workshops ideas ranging from the very simple to the incredibly ambitious were exchanged, and a lot of projects and camps have already made their reservations for a spot in Dream City 2013. At Workshop #3 you too can pin your own camp or project to the Dream City map and learn how to get financial aid for your projects via the Dream City Grants.

Join the fun and send us an email at dreamcity@roskilde-festival.dk or sign up via the Dream City Facebook event. There is room for 50 participants at the workshop (first-come, first-served).

When: Thursday 14 March 2013 at 18.00 – 21.00

Where:
Støberiet
Blågårds Plads 3
2200 København N

Our Get A Tent Uptown offer has been popular. In fact, the demand has been so high that we’re close to having sold out this add-on offer. So if you're considering this camping option, you should act fast. Get A Tent Uptown is now sold out.

Get A Tent Uptown is an exclusive camping area located north of the Orange Stage (see map).

The add-on ticket gives access for two people to the area and includes: a pitched two-person tent, daily breakfast, hot showers, free mobile charging and Wi-Fi.

To get access to the area you have to buy an add-on ticket through Billetlugen (please notice, you also need a regular Roskilde Festival ticket).

The area opens on Wednesday 3 July 2013 at 12:00 and closes Monday 8 July at 14:00. Of course, you also have access to the festivities at the other camping areas before Wednesday 3 July – but you must arrange your own accommodation at the standard campsite.

BUY ADD-ON TICKET TO GET A TENT UPTOWN (sold out)

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However today’s British addition to the lineup are well on their way to becoming an institution amongst fans of techno, house and electronica.

SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO (UK) has combined dance-friendly club music, experimental techno and pop bangers since the beginning of the new millenium. The duo has become highly respected VIPs who merge the best of electronic music capitals such as London, Detroit and Chicago.

CARLI (SE) is an overwhelmingly talented DJ and producer. The eclectic Swede has built up a CV bulging with transatlantic impact and VIP collaborators. A shooting star who has already received the endorsement of Robyn and A-Trak, among others.

EIK (NO) specialises in 80s-tinted nostalgia and colour-saturated soundscapes full of disco and synth pop. The duo, which turns into a quartet on stage, creates dreamy electronica full of gentle synths and wonderful minor tones with impressive ease.

GNUCCI (SE) finally takes the stage on her own, having served under the flags of prior Roskilde acts such as Spoek Mathambo, Mash Up International and Schlachthofbronx. Now the time has come for us to get to know the gifted brunette entirely on her own terms.

LEMÂITRE (NO) aims at becoming the Norwegian equivalent to French acts such as Justice, Phoenix and Daft Punk. The international audience will surely continue dancing when Lemâitre this year releases another EP of organic electro beats, called Relativity 3.

The shooting stars will take off at Apollo Countdown
Carli, Eik, Gnucci and Lemâitre will play the Apollo Countdown stage, which is the home of elctronic beats during the first four days of the festival. Simian Mobile Disco will take on Apollo between 4 and 7 July.

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We challenged sound designers and festival lovers from all over the world to design a tune that captures the orange feeling in only 30 seconds, and thus we introduce the Official Roskilde Festival Ringtone.

More than 150 tunes were submitted and sound designers from all over the World participated in the contest through Audiodraft, which is a creative hub for sound designers. 10 finalists were chosen and you decided the winning ringtone.

Download the Official Roskilde Festival Ringtone and enjoy the Orange Feeling every time your phone rings.

Besides our regular and fantastic campsite, we offer special areas for those who want to bring their caravan or MC, those who want a pre-pitched tent or to pre-book an area for their camp.

If you are traveling from afar, we also offer you transport options that bring you right to the Roskilde entrance. In this way you can start the party already when leaving home.

To get access to these areas or transportation offers, you need to buy an add-on to your regular Roskilde-ticket. Add-on tickets are available from today.

Do you want to know more about the different add-on options? Read more here.

Already know what you want? Then go directly to our add-on web shop here.

In order to join, you have to recommend your favourite band through our Facebook app.

7 rules-of-thumb
The artists recommended...

1. must be from the Nordic countries
2. are unknown to the general festival audience
3. have never played at Roskilde Festival before
4. deserve a career boost, in your opinion
5. represent a genre variation similar to that found on Roskilde Festival's other stages
6. have the courage to play in front of 2000 people
7. kick ass, make blood freeze, hair stand on end, heads shake, dance shoes glow, etc.

NOT a popularity contest
We’d love to hear your recommendations and your reasons. it’s your chance to let Roskilde Festival’s booking committee know why this particular band is awesome. So it’s all about qualified opinions and NOT a popularity contest. The committee is in charge of the final choice of bands, so your reasoning is pretty important, and it’s your chance to have your say on this year’s programme.

Win tickets
We draw among all recommendations for 4 x 5 tickets to Roskilde Festival 2013. It doesn’t matter who you recommend – as long as you DO recommend, you’re in the competition.

We have changed the canopy in the Roskilde logo. We know that for some this doesn’t mean much, but for others this means a great deal. The canopy symbolises music, unity, lifeblood, diversity and everything else Roskilde stands for.

We would never completely ditch the canopy. We have nonetheless dared to make some adjustments. The new canopy is accompanied by a new font and the orange hue has become a bit warmer. Nerdy, we know – but think about all the people with canopy tattoos.

Have no despair if you have a very special relationship with the “old” canopy. It will always symbolise Roskilde Festival, just like all our previous logos.

We met with some people who have a canopy tattoo.

CRYSTAL CASTLES (CA) is a duo who inject the energy from punk into their trance-inspired electronica. Alice Glass is a shrill and fired-up front woman who sings on top of analogue synths, a pulsating beat and neverending stroboscopes.

MARIE KEY (DK) has established herself as one of the most original songwriters and lyricists in Denmark. With a more electronic sound, she has conquered both the radio waves and the critics with her latest album.

THE LUMINEERS (US) is the latest star in the sky playing stomp-and-clap folk rock, which is getting popular all over the world. Concerts with The Lumineers often result in big singalongs and call and response with the audience.

OF MONSTERS AND MEN (IS) have fallen right into the grace of an international audience with their grandly orchestrated folk pop. With a dark nature poetry they create an unmistakably Icelandic feel. Of course, the Icelanders already consider Of Monsters And Men a national treasure.

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KRAFTWERK (DE) return to Roskilde Festival with their special 3D show, which has carried away London’s Tate Modern as well. This concert is one of few chances in Scandinavia to see the Germans who serve up a futuristic bouquet of their biggest hits on our Orange Stage.

3D glasses for the audience
Roskilde Festival hands out glasses to the audience so that everyone gets the right visual space age sensation worthy of the future-minded computer sounds. We have loads of them so that everyone can experience the influential band the best way.

Genre-shaping cyborgs
The legends from Düsseldorf were the first modern band to use electronic instruments solely. On immortal masterpieces, Kraftwerk constructed a universe of electronics, cyborgs and laser-guided synths, their synthetic beauty and ice-cold futurism has paved the way for everyone from Depeche Mode to Skrillex.

So, it's a big event to have the Germans back in 2013 when the future has already begun but Kraftwerk's music still sounds strange and at once enthused and frightened about the progress.

The layout of the design is entirely up to you. You can draw by hand, use photos or create a graphic design. It will be great if you can use Roskilde Festival in your design. This might include using musical elements, the orange colour (Pantone 151 C) or whatever you associate with the essence of Roskilde Festival.

We prefer the following to be taken into account:

• Roskilde Festival's name or logo may not be part of the design (however, it might be added to the final product)
• The design may not include band names
• The design must be applicable to T-shirt textile
• If you choose to use text in your design, please use English

The only limit is your imagination so discover your creative side. Send in your design for this year's Audience T-shirt to us at competition@roskilde-festival.dk no later than 13 March 2013. We can receive all standard file formats. Please write ‘Audience T- shirt' in the subject field when you send us your design and include your name and address in the e-mail.

What can you win?
If you win, your design will be printed on T-shirts, and it will be part of the festival's merchandise collection. You will also receive two tickets to Roskilde Festival 2013, giving you and a friend the chance to experience your cool T-shirt design on other festival guests. Last, but not least, you will get five T-shirts for you and your friends.

How is the winner found?
When we have received all submissions, a jury will select 10 designs for the final round. We then put it to the festival-goers to choose the final winner.

Terms of the contest
If you and your design win, Roskilde Festival reserves the right to make changes to your design. Don’t worry, we won’t ruin it. Rights to the winning design will pass to Roskilde Festival. Any profits earned from the sale of merchandise will, like all other profit from the festival, go to non-profit work.

KENDRICK LAMAR (US) has made the leap into the list of grand hip hop acts. With good kid, m.A.A. d. city the rapper from Compton has made a bona fide masterpiece, one of the most critically-acclaimed albums of 2012. And the Nordic audience has already witnessed how he masters his craft in a live setting as well.

The American hip hopper is just one of several great acts today.

JAKE BUGG (UK) takes the best of 60s folk and 90s Brit rock and moulds his own melodic blues. The young musician has taken the stage as a young Bob Dylan and all the established stars are eager to sing his praise as well.

HATEBREED (US) have made mosh pits everywhere red-hot since 1994. They visit Roskilde Festival for the first time since 2004. The Americans breed their own monster: ’Celtic Frost hardcore’ front man Jamey Jasta dubs the genre, conveying a mix of thrash and hardcore.

ROKIA TRAORÉ (ML) plays Roskilde Festival for the third time. Today, the culturally widespread anchored diva is not just one of Mali's but Africa's central music ambassadeurs – her forthcoming album is called Beautiful Africa and is produced by PJ Harvey's sidekick John Parish.

NUMBERS feat. RUSTIE, JACKMASTER, ONEMAN, SPENCER, DEADBOY, REDINHO and SOPHIE (UK) present an electronic evening without genre restrictions. On this tour de force with Glasgow as the base, we get to hear techno, electro, hiphop, UK funky, dubstep and much more.

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BENDIK (NO) hover in the same air space as Mew and fellow Norwegians Lukestar, even though their expression is a bit more electronic than that of their colleagues. The trio is keen on mixing the grandiose with icy harmonies so that you almost feel the polar wind.

DRÅPE (NO) produce roaring, dreamy guitar noise with yearning angelic vocals hovering on top. Their first EP is full of noise pop taking off on pink clouds for the upper part of the atmosphere.

INDIANS (DK) is an international success with a record deal with the iconic 4AD label. Influential media such as NME and Pitchfork praise the debut album Somewhere Else. With a broad palette, the versatile musician creates weightless pop, combining acoustic folk with psychedelic electronica and atmospheric soundscapes.

PÄÄ KII (FI) delivers no-nonse punk as if taken from the late 70s. Devoid of detours of any kind. The Finns sing the rocking and rolling punk tunes in their strange mother tongue. Still, they have been nominated for a Nordic Music Prize for their energetic and fast-selling debut album.

ÁSGEIR TRAUSTI (IS) may be the hottest new Icelandic act right now, and he is nominated for a Nordic Music Prize. The music is based on naked, beautiful songs, written and played on his acoustic guitar and spiced up with electronic features. The band version of the concerts includes musicians who normally play in his older brother’s reggae band Hjálmar.

WINTERGATAN (SE) is like a journey into the world of a shimmering music box with a bunch of mainly electronic musicians as guides. And even though only two songs are shared with the public so far, Wintergatan displays a flair for poetic sound images not unlike those of Frenchman Yann Tiersen.

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Right now a ticket to Roskilde Festival costs DKK 1,790 (approx. 240 euro). We have frozen the 2012 price since the start of the ticket sale in December. But come March 1, we raise the price with DKK 100 (approx. 13 euro). So strike now if you want your ticket at this favourable price.

Pay your ticket in instalments – offer expires 1 March
If you prefer to pay a little at a time, don’t wait too long. The offer of paying your ticket in four instalments also expires 1 March. Each instalment is DKK 477.50 (approx. € 64 + fee). The first instalment is paid when ordering your ticket, and the rest is automatically drawn from your credit card on 1 March, 1 April and 1 May 2013.

What is included in the ticket?
You get 8 days full of experiences! You’ll have access to one of the world’s most unique music and art festivals with more than 200 acts on 8 stages and lots of art and performance experiences – some of them made by the festival-goers. You can set up your tent for free in our climate-friendly festival city where you have access to a swimming lake, a cinema and a skate park, among other things. All of Roskilde Festival’s profit is donated to humanitarian and cultural purposes, so you’re also supporting children and youngsters all over the world when you buy a ticket.

What are you waiting for?

A lot of ideas popped up during Workshop #1 about things that would be cool to have in Dream City at Roskilde Festival 2013. For instance, slogan-walls, a Wunderbaum walkthrough, hammocks, a car wash, a zoo, a bridge, costume parties, theme houses, artificial grass, tetherball, sauna, light installations using solar cells, a teddy bear factory, an overnight motel and much more.

If you would like to work with YOUR idea and participate in Dream City, show up for the Dream City 2013 Workshop #2 this Thursday 14 February 2013. The first camps and projects have already marked a spot on the map for themselves and you will be able to do the same at Workshop #2. So come and join us!

As a participant in Dream City you can enter the festival site as early as 100 days before Roskilde Festival opens to start building your camp and your project together with your friends. You can hear more about this at Workshop #2 where it also will be possible to work with your idea and get advice on project development and implementation.

If you want to participate please send an email to dreamcity@roskilde-festival.dk or sign up via our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/dreamcity.roskilde.festival.

There is room for 50 participants at the workshop, so sign up before it's too late.

When: Thursday 14 February 2013 from 18.00 to 21.00

Where:
Forsamlingshuset, Kulturstaldene
Onkel Dannys Plads 1-7
1711 Copenhagen

DEAD CAN DANCE (AU) play their very first concert ever on Danish soil - the only one in Scandinavia this summer. Through a fog of chanting vocals, reverb and thick synthesizers, Dead Can Dance calls forth the bewitched sweetness of Arabian nights and the odours of the Far East.

EFTERKLANG (DK) visits Roskilde for the fourth time with a show that will cement why the Danish lads are loved all over the world. The trio has signed with the legendary 4AD label. They have made audience members hold their breath back, playing fragile chamber pop with strong nuances and colours.

FOXYGEN (US) produces innocent, witty catchy tunes with impressive confidence and independence. The young blog darlings and critics' faves are obviously head-over-heels in love with the 60s bigwigs, but the duo has enough charisma, flamboyance and self-deprecation to make their songs solid material in the 21st century.

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA (NZ/US) also look towards the 60s but add their own laid-back and homemade vibe to the acid trip. Stoned guitar rock filled with flickering sunshine, easy-going nonchalance and heartfelt tunes.

SUUNS (CA) is an advanced, adventurous rock band who love to jam deep far inside a cloud of electronica, kraut rock and post-rock. A new album called Images Du Futur is out in March - from a band one could call Montreal's answer to Radiohead.

SAVAGES (UK) play raw post-punk with a gory bite. The black-clad punk sisters have only released one single and has chosen to use their critically acclaimed concerts as the primary form of expression until the debut album lands later in the year.

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TEGO CALDERÓN (PR) visits Roskilde Festival on his first Scandinavian tour ever. This is the first time in six years that the reggaeton king is in Europe. Reggaeton is a mix of Spanish-language rap, salsa, dancehall and other tropical beats – the genre has its origins in Puerto Rico's poorest neighbourhoods. Tego Calderón is partly responsible for making the music genre grow big both inside and outside the slum.

CHINESE MAN (FR) makes the party spin from their turntables with a mashup of funk, house, jazz, reggae and hip hop. The French DJ collective is a group of music lovers with a broad approach to turntablism and a penchant for obscure samples and crackling nostalgia. With visuals and vocalists on top of the versatile mix, this is a great opportunity to celebrate the Year of the Snake at Roskilde Festival.

MOKOOMBA (ZW) sounds like a concentrate of African traditions – filled with swaying hips, handclaps and festive brass. With the language and rhythms from their own tonga minority, Mokoomba throws funk, pop and Latin rhythms on top, and the band has a wonderful front man and lead singer in Mathias Muzaza. Uplifting dance music, almost certain to leave listeners happy and with a nice suntan.

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Three heavy names add extra weight to the Roskilde Festival's music program.

Today's package gives room for some legends that have helped create and develop a central genre. At the same time Roskilde Festival continues a tradition of great diversity in the metal programme by also accommodating the more extreme forms of metal.

KREATOR (DE) are German metal kings who have been making the stage boil for more than 30 years. Since the early 80s, these Germans have been spitting out albums that have enshrined their sound in the thrash genre DNA. Their last album is the Phantom Antichrist from 2012, showing a band in great form.

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN (US) made ​​its name with complex hard core, which is not only brutal, but also jazz virtuoso-like and filled with surprising genre detours. Their live shows are intense bursts of energy, where the complexities occasionally explode in a ferocity that has made the band's concerts legendary and infamous.

ANAAL NATHRAKH (UK) uses elements of black metal, melodic death metal and grind core to blur the boundaries of how uncompromising you can use the heavy music to evoke a dark cloud of terror and death. When Mick Kenney and David Hunt perform on stage, they usually bring in reinforcement, so together they can match the attack of the guitar and growls on the Brits’ albums.

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The Danish band Synd og Skam were nominated in no less than three categories - Hope of the year, Band of the year and live act of the year.

They won 'Hope of the year' and at the same time, they could announce that they are going to perform at this years Roskilde Festival.

SYND OG SKAM is a new Danish band who's been praised far and wide. With pure poetry in Danish and semi-improvised post-punk, the Danes stir a very touching mélange of genres. So far, the noble savages have only released one EP but they're already a darling with both the audience, the critics – and Roskilde Festival.

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BABY IN VAIN (DK) find their inspiration in dragging stoner rock and slack grunge from the 90s. Their guitar rock is rattling, reckless and tuneful. None of the girls in the promising trio has turned 20 yet.

MOTHER LEWINSKY (DK) use the violin as the centre in their advanced pop music. The three masterminds behind the grand live orchestra see Mother Lewinsky as a playground where they can explore the potential in using strings to create a delicious pop sound.

OVERTHROW (NO) makes the blood boil with an aggressive mix of metal, hardcore punk and genuine rock’n’roll. Attention has grown around Overthrow, especially after the debut album Adjust to Darkness saw the light of day. Their sonic punch-in-the-stomach has triggered comparisons to Kvelertak who's also from Stavanger and in the 2013 Roskilde lineup.

Festival as ladder towards climax
The announcement of bands for the Pavilion Junior stage takes place slightly earlier than usual. We consider the overall festival as an eight-day-long experience ladder. This leads to a festival that increases in intensity and peaks between Thursday and Sunday. As all eight days form a total experience, it's now natural to start unveiling what music you can catch during the earliest days of the festival.

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ANGEL HAZE (US) is one of the new strong women of hip hop. The energetic amazon caused a stir with her version of Eminem's "Cleaning Out My Closet" in which she raps about a sexual assault. "I run New York," is the chorus from her signature song. We bet she includes Roskilde when she drops by.

THE BOTS (US) master punk rock'n'roll, aiming for both the melodies and the carnal groove. As a matter of course, they find an unprecedented point on the colour scheme of retro rock. Brothers Mikaiah and Anaiah Lei have fine-tuned their skills on the electric guitar and the drums since childhood – and they released their first album when they were 15 and 12, respectively.

KING KRULE (UK) might end up as the melancholic voice of his generation. He serves up his depressive songs in a melodic blend of blues, jazz and reverb-wrapped pop. Previous projects from the East London troubadour also indicate a familiarity with dubstep and hip hop. It is hopefully only in the young Brit’s lyrics that his future looks sooty and black.

From Rihanna to small upcoming acts
Yesterday we announced superstar Rihanna. But our heart also beats for the upcoming and still waiting-to-be-big acts. Whatever your prefer – the big headliners or the completely fresh acts – Roskilde Festival has lots of goodies on offer.

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RIHANNA (BB) has become one of today’s biggest stars in R&B, pop and hiphop. The Caribbean superstar's debut at Roskilde Festival will be another spectacular party under the Nordic summer sky. Rihanna’s talent, charisma, dance moves and long line of hits dominate a show filled with glamour, sex appeal and inescapable choruses.

Convincing superstar
Rihanna has just released Unapologetic, her seventh album in just as many years. The first single from the album, ”Diamonds”, has been a no. 1 in 27 countries and is one of her very biggest hits so far. With 37 million sold albums, Rihanna is a major headliner from the poppy end of the genre scale.

Earlier in the still young festival season we have announced more rock-oriented bands for Roskilde Festival 2013, for instance Queens of the Stone Age, Slipknot and Volbeat.

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HIGHASAKITE (NO) seems to be the new big Norwegian music act. Their alternative pop is filled with hit potential and catchy tunes. "Indian Summer" has already spread its heavy-hearted sweetness on the radio. The song is almost a signature tune for the Norwegians who like to play live wearing Indian outfits.

DAKHABRAKHA (UA) creates a self-confessed "ethnic chaos" of sensitive falsetto vocals, accordion, cello, bass-dark jazz and Ukrainian folk music. The expression is spiritual, melodious and here and there almost a bit scary like the most shadowy corners of a remote bazaar. Elements of both Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian descent pop up along the way.

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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE is a very central name when it comes to alternative experimental pop. The New Yorker band has pushed pop music into a whole new dimension on a number of deeply curious albums, latest on Centipede Hz from 2012. For fans of especially alternative rock and pop - well, innovative music, generally - this is a dream booking. We haven't seen these wunder kids since 2006 when they were still a rather small band playing on our small Pavilion stage.

And then it's all about hip hop…
The rest of today's package is a batch of young hip hop with a respectful nod to the 90s.

In a time of full of exciting genre fusions, it's kind of liberating to have a bunch of hip hop bands who really appreciate old-school styles - without sounding passé.

ACTION BRONSON has a past as a gourmet chef, but has put palette knife and carving fork aside to devote himself to rap. With great confidence, he stands on the shoulders of Ghostface Killah and the rest of the Wu-Tang Clan as his rap takes him away from the kitchen and straight onto the hip hop scene.

DANNY BROWN has grown up in Detroit, is a self-confessed music geek and has continued the legacy of the cap-clad king of the city J Dilla in the company of Black Milk. His lyrical universe often revolves around drugs and the grim conditions of his home town. His mental condition is not all that bad, however, as he leaves room for plenty of quivering women's thighs and hefty doses of humour.

FLATBUSH ZOMBIES is a duo whose rap is based on four classic hip hop subjects: smoke, money, ladies and freshly baked waffles. Erick Arc Elliot produces the couple who has also rapped alongside A$AP Rocky. Meechy Darko and Zombie Juice deliver philosophical horrorcore with a stoned twist.

JOEY BADA$$ is a New York rapper on fire. He is part of Pro Era, a young group of hip hoppers who seems to have a well-developed love of the classic 90s scene of their hometown. This crew may be New York's equivalent of Los Angeles' Odd Future, and Joey Bada$$ is one of the Brooklyn collective's most noted members.

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We call it an eight-day experience ladder that leads to a greater festival, peaking when the music's playing on all stages between Thursday and Sunday.

This means that you don't have to be late for anything – even if you start higher up the ladder.

So in the coming months you should watch out for news from Dream City, Relax City, Game City, Street City and Cinema City. The volunteer planners are in the process of creating the best environment for you and your camp in a way that you haven't experienced before.

Apollo Zone moves into the borderland
We're particularly pleased to open the gates to a new Apollo Zone. It's the name of a new hood bordering between camping city and the festival area, and it's built on reclaimed grounds – the refilled gravel pit not far from the Pavilion stage. Here electronic music and art melt together in a crackling and festive universe with the Apollo stage at the very center.

The inflatable electro cocoon (one of many names for the stage) starts the festival by touring the campsite and presenting fresh, undiscovered electronic acts – before landing in its own zone and continuing with electronic music in the same variation as its debut year 2012.

Look forward to seeing when Apollo plays the sun down and fills the zone with hot, orange-red visuals.

109 days in Dream City
We're moving Dream City much closer to the festival site where it fuses with Green City, Poor City and Media City. Dream City is still all about what you want to create – be it art, installations or ideas – along with others.

If you dare build this year's festival, you can sign up right now and get access to build your project up to 100 days before the site opens for everyone else. That gives you 100 days of construction, 8 days of festival and 1 day of cleaning up the in total 109-day long Roskilde Festival!

More music on the way
And we have good stuff coming up. Right now we're focused on finalising the planning of the festival site. This includes moving the Gloria stage out of its tent and into one of the halls nearby, and in the other hall you will find a new food court with room for 20 different food stalls of the more experimental kind. Bon appétit!

Oh yeah, then there's the music. 200 acts on 8 stages in 8 days. Check the list of already announced acts here, and we've got much more coming...

So what more do you want? Gotcha, a ticket. It's to be found here, and if you shop before 1 March, it's yours for the same price as in 2012. After 1 March the price increases.

Happy new year and we can't wait to see you!

ps: Do you feel an urge to go already? Maybe this film will fire up those expectations.

Dream City is about community co-creation, collaboration – and great ideas. Dream City is an audience-driven area at Roskilde Festival. It is the place for those who want to create the right setting and content at their festival. It is for those who want to do something extra with their camp, build something extraordinary, make some cool activities or do something that elevates others’ festival experience.

Reserve your camping area before the festival starts
In Dream City you can establish your camp as you want to. You have the opportunity to reserve a camping area and build your camp or project in one of the festival's most central camping areas.

All you need to stay in and be a part of Dream City is a ticket to Roskilde Festival 2013 and the desire to build an audience-driven area at the festival. In Dream City you can build the elements that will make both your and other peoples’ Roskilde Festival perfect.

Participate
In the early 2013 we are doing three workshops where you can discuss your ideas and get assistance to realise them. At the three workshops you can also get your camp approved on the spot. The first workshop will take place on Thursday 24 January 2013, and the next two on 14 February and 14 March 2013.

If you want to participate, please send an e-mail to dreamcity@roskilde-festival.dk. We have room for 50 participants at the workshop and we are working with on a first-come-first- served principle.

Workshop # 1:
When: Thursday 24 January 2013
Time: 18-22
Where: Valby Kulturhus, Valgårdsvej 4, 2500 Valby, Denmark

WHEN SAINTS GO MACHINE (DK) plays flamboyant, electronic pop – fronted by the incomparably versatile singer Nikolaj Vonsild. Their impressionistic sound is permeated by a desire to experiment. Yet, the melodies and the delicate sway of the hips are never abandoned. And their latest single "Mannequin" demonstrates that the towering ambitions are unlikely to be lowered on the next album. It’s planned for release in 2013 when the Copenhagen dandies visit Roskilde Festival for the third time.

SEE BAND LIST

DISCLOSURE (UK) has on the first single release paved the way for the future of pop, house and dubstep. It's chic, urban and touches upon several hot spots on the electronic genre map.

BAAUER (US) blends house, southern hip hop and bass music in his own instrumental rehash. Reputable electronic names such as Rustie and Diplo have noticed this promising wiz kid.

HOLY OTHER (UK) mixes house, moody R&B and British dubstep in a darkened sound full of copy-pasted ghostlike vocals, clicking rimshots and keyboards in minor.

JAM CITY (UK) reinvents, mutates and transforms music as if Gyro Gearloose were let loose behind a mixing console. Somewhere inside the violent, futuristic music you find a wreckage of soul, house, techno and pop.

VATICAN SHADOW (US) also records under the name Prurient and is head of the trendsetting record label Hospital Productions. The American's disturbing electro is dark, dystopian and industrial.

Today's announcement shows that Roskilde Festival 2013 will also be characterised by a first-class offering in almost every conceivable type of electronic music. And with our new, unique stage Apollo, we know that the artists are in good hands.

SEE BAND LIST

Now we have picked out 10 winner candidates, which we believe are the best ones to capture the ‘Roskilde Festival feeling’ – in only 30 seconds.

Among the 10 winner candidates you’ll find ringtones in many different genres, e.g. rock, dance punk and electronica. And they are all contributing with their each and own unique sound and atmosphere.

Now the 10 finalists will be rated by our panel of hardcore Roskilde Festival guests, and then soon we’ll announce a final winner.

LISTEN TO ALL THE CANDIDATES

Special mentions…
We’d like to mention some of the ringtones, even though they weren’t picked as winner candidates.

For instance ringtone #122 is a very original composition about a worried mother who calls Roskilde Festival about her missing son – in very broken English.

The composer of ringtone #90 is a Belgian who’s hopelessly in love and looking for his loved one, a Danish girl. And he hopes that this contribution to the contest can help him on his quest to find her.

Both #141 and #142 are also worth listening to as they individually contain a lot of creativity and absolutely don’t sound like anything you’ve ever heard before.

Almost 15 years after their debut album, SLIPKNOT (US) has become one of the world's greatest metal bands – on a par with much older icons. They have conquered a top spot in the black league with a series of raging metal albums and unforgettable stage shows in which they commit themselves 101 %.

Plays few shows in 2013
The Iowa band’s Roskilde debut was in 2004. In 2009, they proved again why their hard-tuned metal extravagance is perfect for the Orange Stage and the very top of the festival poster. Slipknot crowns just a few, chosen festival posters in 2013 as absolute headliners.

The joy and pride of having them back is great. In recent years, there has been some doubt as to whether the band would continue – even if their homecoming show at Knotfest in Iowa last summer gave renewed hope.

Roskilde Festival has already announced Queens of the Stone Age, Volbeat, Sigur Rós, C2C, Kvelertak, Deadelus and Goat for the 2013 edition.

SEE BAND LIST

For instance, you can buy a nice tube scarf or a fold beanie to keep you warm during winter. We’ve also got two new and different kinds of cool caps and a T-shirt.

Remember, there’s still sale with up to 50 % off the price on most of the items in the web shop.

Go to the web shop.

All the video footage in the quiz is from Roskilde 2012, and the questions are related to the everyday life of the festival-goers. So if you participate, you can win cool prizes and relive some of the atmosphere from 2012.

Each day throughout December we release a video and a question. Your chances of winning increase with every correct answer, but with just one single correct answer you’re in the draw for a guided backstage tour for the entire camp, an Ultimate Roskilde Festival Kit for your camp containing all the need-'n’nice-to-have things such as a lightweight pavilion, festival chairs, condoms, sunscreen, loads of duct tape and five crates of beer and food tickets.

You can keep track of your personal score, which is updated every day at midnight when we announce the correct answers. We also give props to the top quizzers with the most correct answers on the scoreboard throughout the month.

Remember, the more you participate, the bigger the chance of winning.

PARTICIPATE IN THE QUIZ

Films produced by Søren Bang Clemmensen. Videographers: Jacob Jorp Hansen, Christoffer Sandau Schuricht and Christian Helskov Nielsen

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE (US) play psychedelic heavy rock reeking of both cactus acid, sex and petrol. At the same time they have conquered the airwaves with hits that have made them one of the most beloved rock groups of the 21st century. 2013 will clearly be a new landmark year for the band. According to front man Josh Homme, the new album is a return to the band's early virtues.

C2C (FR) delivers a turntable concert tightly packed with hip hop, soul, electronica and other genre acrobatics. The four Frenchmen have won the DMC DJ team championship four years in a row. In recent years, the four-piece have split up into two successful projects, Hocus Pocus and Beat Torrent, both of whom have visited Roskilde earlier.

DAEDELUS – ARCHIMEDES SHOW (US) is a complete concert experience tailored to match the American original’s skewed avant-garde electronica. A wall of mirrors combined with lights and projections create the impression of standing inside a giant mirror ball. This kind of magic cannot be done just anywhere, so we’re proud to present this at Roskilde.

SEE BAND LIST

Ticket sale starts today
The ticket sale for Roskilde Festival 2013 starts today. 78,500 full festival tickets are up for sale. The price is DKK 1790 (approx. EUR 240) – the same price as in 2012. Come 1 March 2013 the price rises to DKK 1890. A full festival ticket gives access to eight days of experiences and up to 200 music acts. Tickets are sold through Billetlugen.

The result is an amazing series of pictures, and now you can buy the five best photos.

The pictures are printed directly on aluminum plates in the format 50x75 cm. Aluminum print is sharp as a razor, and therefore it's an excellent media for CphCph’s works. The price is DKK 2,500 (EUR 335) apiece including postage.

The pictures from Roskilde Festival 2012 differ from CphCph’s usual projects, which take place on rooftops, in the underground, secret places and empty squares in Copenhagen. But their love of strong colours, dizzying angles and mystery can also be found in this unique series of pictures.

Get a unique Roskilde memory up on YOUR wall.

BUY A CPHCPH-IFIED ROSKILDE PICTURE

VOLBEAT (DK) has developed from a Nordic favourite to a huge'n'heavy name on the international metal scene. In 2013, Volbeat will make another impact. A new, galloping rock album is released this spring. The homecoming at Roskilde Festival will be a proud reunion with some local heroes whose world domination is about to be a reality.

SIGUR RÓS (IS) is back at Roskilde Festival for the first time since 2006. Their abstract and poetic future rock has turned them into a unique institution on the modern music scene. The Icelandics' latest album Valtari showed a very quiet side of the band. On the double album Innni from 2011 you can hear Sigur Rós’ qualities as a rock band in front of the audience.

KVELERTAK (NO) has made the international audience gasp for air with their blend of hardcore punk, black metal and garage rock. Roskilde Festival sent out an early invitation and booked the band as the very first this festival season.

GOAT (SE) plays psychedelic rock with an African flavour. With electric guitar, accordion, organ and a well-developed sense of funk and trance, Goat invites us on a wild ride towards a gaudy parallel world. The debut album World Music is one of the most hyped and critically acclaimed coming out of The North in 2012.

And we're off!
With today's announcements we have set the bar high for a new summer peak full of musical impacts and surprising experiences. We can't wait to put together another lineup that reaches into every imaginable genre, colours and sounds.

The ticket sale opens on 1 December 2012.

SEE THE BAND LIST

Roskilde Festival Charity Society has chosen to donate DKK 500,000 (approx. EUR 67,000) to eight different organisations in Norway and Sweden, all working for better conditions for refugees and asylum-seekers. The organisations have been chosen with the help of our Norwegian and Swedish audience who was asked to suggest organisations that could use a helping hand.

The chosen organisations all work in a field varying from medical care and legal advice to creating awareness about the conditions asylum-seekers live under, and to create networks where they can find support and help.

To qualify, you have to post your guess as an answer in the specific thread in the forum. You may change your guess as much as you want until 30 November at 23:59. After this deadline you’re not allowed to change your guess.

Only artists released after 1 December count. For example, if an act is released 28 November, it doesn’t count in the quiz. You can however, remove the artist from your list and add a new one.

When the contest ends, festival-goer Martin Horn Pedersen will announce the winner with the most correct guesses.

The person, with the most correct guesses wins a Roskilde Festival board.

GO TO THE COMPETITION IN OUR FORUM

The tune must:
• signal Roskilde Festival
• have a duration of maximum 30 seconds
• be an original composition (no sampling from other works allowed)
• be in English if you use words
• be freely used by everyone

You can use all kinds of instruments, sounds, voices or whatever you find fitting for your version of the Roskilde ringtone. Be creative and original. Come up with a unique tune, which you believe will be perfect as The Official Roskilde Festival Ringtone.

The contest closes 5 December 2012. The winner will be announced in December.

What’s in it for me?
Besides the honour, the winning ringtone will be launched as a free download gift from the festival to over 100,000 visitors, fans and whoever interested.

Furthermore, the winner of the contest receives two tickets and transportation to Roskilde Festival 2013 and a unique backstage tour + food and beverages.

How do I join the contest?
The contest is hosted by Audiodraft and to join you have to a register on the site.

FOLLOW THIS LINK AND GET STARTED

The sale continues throughout all of November and December, which means that there will be plenty of opportunities for you to fill the wardrobe with the coolest Roskilde merchandise. The perfect idea for at Christmas present for you or your family and friends.

Delivery everywhere in the world, only 5 €

CHECKOUT THE WEB SHOP HERE

On Tuesday October 30, Swedish radio station P3 gives you the opportunity to listen to the captivating concert (again) from this year’s festival.
You can stream the concert from Swedish P3’s website.

LISTEN TO THE CONCERT DIRECTLY FROM SWEDISH P3’S WEBSITE

Vote for Roskilde Festival
The winner is the festival with the most votes on European Festival Awards' homepage. So if you think Roskilde Festival is Europe's best festival, hurry up and place your vote via the link below. All voters enter the draw for two tickets to all award-winning festivals from the ceremony.

Voting ends on 7 November 2012

CLICK HERE AND GIVE US YOUR VOTE

Here at Roskilde Festival we cheer for the Danish team, but homeless football serves a much higher purpose than a series of victories and defeats in the world cup.

When the organisation Ombold has spent the past several months training and coaching the players, it's about getting homeless and excluded people back to a normal life through engagement and participation.

And a world cup experience should be the ultimate chance in the transition from excluded to selected.

That’s why we have signed up as official team sponsor with a donation to Ombold. We wish the players Daniel, Imran, Patrick, Andrew, Tim, Eerli, Rasmus and Christian the best of luck in Mexico in the coming week.

It is the seventh time the Danish homeless national team participates in the world cup. The draw placed the Danish team in Group A along with Mexico, South Africa, Croatia, Canada and Haiti.

Follow your own country’s homeless team here.

Roskilde Festival is for the audience. Therefore, it’s important for us to hear your say on who should play. Even though we can’t fulfill every wish, your requests are an invaluable source of knowledge and inspiration.

Your requests make a difference
Every year, some of the most popular band requests also make it to the top of the poster. One example is Bon Iver who was a big request last year and, as you might know, they played at the festival this summer. We also get a hint about the most popular of the “smaller” acts. So, you can have a big influence on the music booking, if you make your requests now.

Correct spelling, please
Follow the link to our Facebook page where you can make your five music requests. Please be careful about spelling the artist names correctly, or else your request won’t be registered. So give your record cover an extra look before you type away.

GO TO FACEBOOK

All LEGO characters are different and each has a unique personal touch that makes it possible to recognise it in the crowd. Some have clothes or costumes on, characteristic of their camp, while others have all sorts of crazy or plain clothes on. A mixture we only see among Roskilde-goers. For example a member of camp 'Where's Wally' is heading towards the pits, while pirates, cowboys and aliens can be seen in other places at the festival site.

Everybody is welcome to send minifigures, and if you have specific requests as to what you want your minifigure to do in the exhibition, just write it, and we will make sure to follow your request.

LEGO employees also want to be in front of Orange Stage
Employees at LEGO not only love LEGO, but also Roskilde Festival. A Roskilde donation among LEGO employees is proof of that. We have received 64 LEGO men and women from LEGO employees who all want to have a minifigure representing themselves in front of our LEGO Orange Stage.

The exhibition must benefit all
The LEGO Orange Stage is currently located at Roskilde Festival's headquarters, but we’re currently working on getting it placed outside the house, so that many people as possible can enjoy it.

If you want to become a part of the exhibition, handin your minifigure at the front desk at Roskilde Festival - or send it to us at: Roskilde Festival, Havsteensvej 11, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.

The theme for the short film category was 'the first time', and the music video was made for the song "Når jeg stikker af" (when I run away) by the Danish group Dig & Mig.

The two lucky winners won tickets to Roskilde Festival 2013 and a Nikon D5100 SLR camera including microphones.

Decided by audience vote
The winners of the two categories were found by audience vote. Among all audience votes we have drawn two winners, Max Madsen and Christine Majbritt Nielsen, who have won tickets to Roskilde Festival 2013.

The group Dig & Mig selected the five nominees for the category music video while a jury selected the five nominees for the short films’ category.

The winners:

The Urban Green House is a mobile greenhouse, made for use in the city, and designed to counter the obstacles urban architecture creates for gardening.

The idea of a mobile room for gardening and relaxation intrigues us at Roskilde Festival. So at Roskilde Festival 2013 you will find the Urban Green House at the festival where we will test the project in a different environment.

The soiled earth and the almost constant shadow in the city are some of the obstacles the Urban Green House is designed to counter. But it is also designed for relaxation in a green spot in the middle of the city and in 2013, at Roskilde Festival.

We've had 2000 LEGO men in front of our LEGO Orange Stage but only on loan. During this year's festival, we received more than 100 LEGO audiences from the festival guests, but we need more.

Be creative
Feel free to be creative and donate LEGO minifigures that reflect characteristic situations or festival guests who you think is part of Roskilde Festival. For example, some festival guests wear certain clothes and some camps bring specific flags to concerts. Maybe you even want your own camp to be part of the exhibition.

LEGO Orange Stage is a reproduction of Roskilde Festival 2011. It is a true likeness with Against Drugs signs, food stalls, toilets etc.

The man behind our new stage is Roskilde enthusiast Morten Øberg. He has, without Roskilde Festival’s knowledge, spent six months building the model of 50,000 LEGO blocks.

Find the LEGO audience you wish to donate and hand them in at the front desk at Roskilde Festival - or send them to us at: Roskilde Festival, Havsteensvej 11, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.

But photo is the very best one? You decide.

We have picked a larger handful of the many pictures we have received, and they are now entering a final round. We now ask you to vote for your favourite among the exactly 58 candidates.

Follow the link below to our gallery on Facebook. Vote for the image you like best. The photo with the most votes wins the contest of best audience photo. You can vote until (and including) Wednesday 15 August.

SEE WINNING CANDIDATES AND VOTE

True to tradition, we now go hunting for the best photos taken by our audience at this year’s festival. So if you have taken some great pictures at Roskilde, then send them to us.

The photographer behind the very best photo wins a ticket to Roskilde Festival 2013.

To enter the contest, send us your very finest shots. Each photo must have your name and e-mail address in the file name – and we prefer to receive the photos in high resolution. We recommend you to send via the service www.wetransfer.com. The recipient address is competition@roskilde-festival.dk. Remember to include your name and address in the e-mail as well.

To partake in the contest you have to send your photos before 1 August.

Roskilde Festival reserves the right to use all received photos in the festival's own media. The photographer is always credited by name.

During this year's festival, Roskilde-goers were equipped with cameras and microphones. 48 hours was all they had to record and cut a finished film. They could either produce a film based on the topic 'the first time' or a music video for Danish band Dig & Mig's song "Når jeg stikker af".

But which film is the best in each category? We have chosen 5 films in each category. The rest is entirely up to you.

Follow the link below. Watch the films and vote for best topic film and best music video. By doing so, you enter the draw for 2 tickets to next year's Roskilde Festival. The voting ends on 20 September.

Enjoy!

VOTE FOR BEST FILMS

The performing artists on Apollo were impressed with the sound, the lights - the entire setting, actually. Next year, Apollo will become an even bigger part of the true soul of Roskilde Festival. Expect more bass and more crackling sounds from this futuristic cocoon.

Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa stood up against the stereotypical perception of American rappers. The queen of bluegrass Alison Krauss made grown men shed a tear under Arena's lights. Bowerbirds, Julia Holter and tUnE-yArDs won over new fans at a festival, which – as tradition dictates – also had a big amount of heavy metal in its blood, courtesy of Weedeater, Crowbar and Baroness.

During warm-up, the best new Nordic bands proved that you don't have to be a seasoned player to make an entire Pavilion Junior stage go crazy. With music video recordings and pop-up concerts, the party started, and it is now coming to a climax with DJ Static. In these exact moments, he and a long list of guest performances are shutting down Arena in style.

More highlights at a festival which will surely make 2012 one of finest Roskilde Festivals in history.

All in the name of community
The best of times for the rest of time. Those were the words the American artist Steve Powers chose for his thought-provoking decoration on the grandstand wall opposite Orange Stage, thereby capturing the essence of the Roskilde Festival experience in one short sentence. The exact meaning of the words is up for interpretation, but perhaps Steve Powers is trying to remind everyone not to let go of the friendships made at Roskilde Festival, and the wish to let one self be moved?

American performance artist Charlie Todd carried out his mp3 experiment with great success – and a little bit of chaos. Hundreds of guests had shown up for the flash mob in which they downloaded instructions on an mp3 file. Moments later, everyone made a big, synchronised movement in the crowd, creating much joy and surprise among the audience.

The common rules and regulations at the camping areas were allowed a few days off in Dream City, making way for full-blown creativity among guests. This resulted in an amazing sculpture made entirely of 30 kilos worth of well-chewed chewing gum, a genuine kissing booth, among many other fantastic things.

A big appetite at Roskilde Festival
The food experience at Roskilde Festival is as unique and unforgettable as the concert experiences, and this year the festival presented a number of different food events, all designed to teach the guests more about the food they eat at Roskilde Festival.

The programme involved events such as porridge workshops, a traditional Danish cake buffet, live pig carving and juice pressing. There was clearly a big appetite for these events among guests as they all sold out.

Face to face with asylum seekers
With this year's Statement campaign, Roskilde Festival has sparked the debate on the need for inclusion in terms of asylum seekers living at asylum centers in Denmark. Roskilde Festival promotes inclusion, and about 100 young asylum seekers joined our team of 30,000 volunteers – on the same conditions as everyone else. Both Statement volunteers and asylum seekers have told how they experienced a shift in how asylum seekers were perceived by the guests – not as weak and defeated but as strong individuals willing to fight a courageous battle to become a part of the Danish society.

The will to support the Statement campaign among guests has been fantastic. When buying their tickets to Roskilde Festival, guests were able to donate money to aid organisations working for asylum seekers, and so far DKK 350,000 (approx. EUR 47,000) was donated by guests. The amount donated during the actual festival is still unknown.

The refund collection has celebrated its 10-year anniversary this year, and signs show that the will to donate empty bottles and cans to the turquoise-coloured refund collectors is stronger than ever. The 720 refund collectors have so far collected refund worth more than DKK 500,000 (approx. EUR 67,000) from guests at Roskilde Festival.

290 tons of waste
It's no secret that 130,000 guests and volunteers leave behind large amounts of waste – about 290 tons to be as precise as possible. But even though this is more than last year, studies carried out by Roskilde Festival show that nearly half of the guests find it easier disposing their waste than last year. They know that waste is an important issue they can help solve. Many of the guests put their filled bags of waste outside the tents. The garbage vans came by, picked them up and left new bags. Just like in a real city; and it just happened without Roskilde Festival having planned it. This helped prove that Roskilde Festival is an urban experiment in which the inhabitants create the festival. Not the other way around. The Dome in Art City was supposed to have been a place to relax and chill out. It became a party hotspot. That's what the guests wanted it to be.

Come rain, come…?
"Has anyone seen the weather forecast?" Who knows how many times that question has been asked during the festival. Thankfully, Roskilde Festival 2012 was a sunny affair – even despite the fact that the sun and the blue sky had to give way to more unstable weather conditions passing over the festival grounds after warm-up. Friday was a wet affair with 7.4 mm of rain, but this year Roskilde Festival was spared any cloudbursts. And on Sunday, everyone left Roskilde Festival the same way most had arrived – under blue skies!

Against Drugs
The beginning of Roskilde Festival 2012 was marked by a tragic event when a 20-year-old guest from Sweden died after having used drugs in the camping areas. Roskilde Festival will cut the wristband on anyone caught selling drugs at the festival, and the festival also backs the police patrolling the festival by issuing warning wristbands to anyone caught with possession of drugs.

All tickets were sold
Roskilde Festival sold out this year. On top of 77,500 all-week tickets, 5,000 one-day tickets were sold for Saturday. Between 15 and 20 percent of the guests came from abroad, with Sweden, Norway and Germany as the biggest suppliers of happy festival guests. The profits are expected to be between DKK 8 and 12 million and must be donated before next year's festival.

Thank you for being a part of Roskilde Festival. See you in 2013!

Follow signs, listen to the instructions of the traffic staff and be patient when you drive to and from the festival.

The Reynolds triumph because they are wonderful neighbours. And fun to party with. And they're wonderful people. It’s as simple as that.

Read more about Camp Burt Reynolds

What is Camp of the Year?
Since 2006 Roskilde Festival has elected a Camp of the Year. Every day during the festival week, the committee elects a Camp of the Day. Saturday 7 July the best of this year’s Camp of the Day winners was announced Camp of the Year. This year, 68 camps participated in the contest.

"We just want to have a good time during warm-up with ukulele and mouth organ music. It's a great joint project and by spring 2020 we hope to have 100 people in the camp, but we do not want to compete, only add to the main festival ," she says with a slightly raised index finger.

For the 28 girls and guys from the Oslo area the goal is, that the festival is for everybody – just like its older sibling “Notoden Blues Festival” which has been an inspiration for this camp. There is room for jam sessions, quizzes from the stage in the banquet room and the plan to have Paper-scissors-rock replace beer bowling as the festival’s main game in the camping area.

What is Camp of the Year?
Since 2006 Roskilde Festival has elected Camp of the Year. Every day during the festival week, the committee elects a Camp of the Day. Saturday 7 July the best of this year’s Camp of the Day winners is announced Camp of the Year. This year, 68 camps are participating in the contest.

Nominate a camp – check out Camp of the Year’s Facebook-site!

If you have bought a one day ticket we encourage you to take the train as you may have a hard time finding a vacant parking lot nearby the festival.

Penguin Prison will not play at Roskilde Festival’s Cosmopol stage Saturday night at 01.30 am.

REPTILE YOUTH (DK) will be taking over the late night party instead. The duo plays electronic punk rock full of overcharged rave feeling. The potential of greatness was evident already in 2011 when Reptile Youth played the Pavilion Junior stage for up-coming Nordic acts. Mads Damsgaard Kristiansen and Esben Valløe share a sharp and dynamic attitude that will take them far and Cosmopol is the perfect new setting for this promising duo.

Unfortunately, Gurrumul from Australia is unable to play at Roskilde Festival 2012.

PETER BRODERICK (US) fills the space in the band-schedule originally intended Gurrumul on Gloria Sunday 8 July at 15 PM. The American multi-artist embraces folk, Americana, electronic and quiet piano minimalism.

We are sad not to be able to introduce Gurrumul, but happy to welcome back Peter Broderick to Roskilde, where he played in 2009.

“We are deeply engaged Tolkien-geeks. We know all of the 14 hours of film down to every detail. And then we all share the interest of musicals, which is how we met”, says the camp members. They are all young men, who have their cultural capital in check, which can be sensed from the Camp

At first sight it appears that the 50 people lying around the tower are sleeping. But they aren’t, they are listening. On a daily basis, the camp’s dedicated presenter reads aloud two chapters using his enchanting voice, which can imitate each and every one of the characters of Lord of the Rings. The recitations is a success and Wednesday there were about 100 listeners – here among a fire engine with firefighters leaning out from their down rolled windows.

The tower is the centre of the camp and surrounded by the guys’ tents. On second thought the tower may look like a phallus symbol. But is it really a good pick-up move to wear capes down to the floor, where only the face can be seen? “Schhh”, says one of the guys. “If you are quiet you can hear that three of our guys have girls visiting at this very moment”.

All right then. Whether it’s the girls’ wet dreams of Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortensen that allures them to the Lord of the Rings Camp is unknown, but it’s a camp full of fairytales with the sweetest and most welcoming tall hobbits.

“One does not simply walk into Mordor” couldn’t be further from the truth in this camp. Here, the good vibrations rule and hungover festival guests ought to take a stroll to one of the recitations.

The Lords of the Rings is now to be found in a modern version at Roskilde Festival. A modern version with cheeky, Danish young men, who would like to teach girls about the trilogy.

What is Camp of the Year?
Since 2006 Roskilde Festival has elected Camp of the Year. Every day during the festival week, the committee elects a Camp of the Day. Saturday 7 July the best of this year’s Camp of the Day winners is announced Camp of the Year. This year, 68 camps are participating in the contest. Nominate a camp – check outCamp of the Year’s Facebook-site!

From Orange Press, written by Anne Grønskov