my second Roskilde Festival

I bought today my ticket for the best festival in the world - Roskilde Festival!!! yay!!
It was fucking expensive, but totally worth it!! I was there last year but working, therefore I coulnd't attend some concerts. This year I decided I would pay just because I want to be free and enjoy the whole festival.

Names confirmed so far I want to see: The Killers, Björk, Muse, Mika, Arcade Fire, Klaxons, Arctic Monkeys, Basement Jaxx, moi Caprice
some other I want to check out: Mando Diao, Oh No Ono, Camera Obscura, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Against Me!
and some others I'm not really into: Red Hot Chilli Peppers, My Chemical Romance, Beastie Boys
and still more 100 bands to be announced... WOOHOO!!!

i cried a river

FANTASTIC!!

this is a clip made by one of my friends from university. She managed to condensate all the good moments we shared as a group and as friends in the last 4 years we studied together... the music is awesome, the images perfect... it gave me goosebumps and made me feel sad because it has ended... :"(

Obrigado Vânia!!

EE sempre ;)

gin by the pool

I've been at my hometown this last week.

Seeing old friends and being with my family. And you know when you meet old friends, old feelings and unresolved issues arise...

It's always fun to do that, so last weekend we bought some gin and lemon juice and headed to one of my friend's swimming pool.

The drinking led to a stripping game, so we all ended up in underwear in the pool at 3:00 am!!!

Needless to say, it was freezing and we all got a cold and one threw up. If it was the alcohol or the water we're not sure, but it was memorable.

Photos to come...

playlist

concerts that I saw at Roskilde (the ones which say only sound was because I was working at the time they were on, but as the place where I worked was close to the Orange stage, I could heard them):

Wednesday
Band Ane
Vincent Van Go Go

Thursday
Editors
Jenny Wilson
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (30 min)
Sigur Rós

Friday
Morrissey (30 min)
Rufus Wainwright
Bob Dylan (15 min)
The Streets (30 min)
Scissor Sisters
Kashmir (30 min)

Saturday
Josh Rouse (30 min)
Primal Scream (15 min)
Kanye West (only the sound :P)

Sunday (only the sound)
The Strokes
Franz Ferdinand
Roger Waters

the ones I couldn't see and feel really bad about missing them:
Death Cab for Cutie (same time as The Streets)
Happy Mondays (same time as Rufus)
Goldfrapp (Allison cancelled due to illness :s)
Coldcut/Placebo/Kaiser Chiefs (I was working)

the lowdown

I don't even know where to begin...

Anyway, here it was my last week in Denmark which was also my week at Roskilde Festival.

The idea I had on my mind was nothing compared to the real thing: guys peeing against fences, girls squatting and peeing everywhere, people running around naked, thousands of tents so close to each other you could barely move in between them... after some days it looked like a refugee camp with garbage all around, people with teared clothes and dirty faces... and the smell... ohhh the smell!!!

The freezing nights and the hot mornings that made you sleep 3 hours in average every night, the drunk girls chatting you up, the queues for the portable toilets... this images and (particularly) smells will stay with me for a long while!!! :/

And then there was the music, although it was much more than about just music. It's like the only time of the year that Danes can free themselves, that they're repressed throughout the whole year and this is it. They turn into completely different people: they are dirty, filthy, irresponsible, destroy their tents and set them on fire on the last night. By sunday, the festival site looks like a battlefield.

And then there is the people - the people you go with, the people you meet there... Thank you Anita for all the good music you introduced me to, thank you Mike for the booze and the wild nights, thank you Alex for the most amazing days I've spent with someone for a while. I'm gonna cry now...

And all this had to happen days before my departure from Denmark!! I hate this bad timing I always seem to have!!!

Roskilde warm-up

Today I went to Roskilde for an instruction meeting. As you know I'll be working at the festival selling beers and other drinks, so today the workers met with the boss and received the instructions, the T-shirts we need to wear (which are really awesome!) and the bracelet that gives access to the festivalsite.
While in the train I could already sense the festival was beginning, with a completely crowded train. When I got to the Roskilde train station the feeling was even more intense with hundreds of people arriving each 10 minutes carrying tents, sleeping-bags, cranes of beer and stuffed backpacks.

The party mood was SO on!!! I can't hardly wait to join on tuesday evening!!!

It will be a blast!!! :D