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The Roskilde Festival takes place this weekend in Denmark. It’s a gigantic festival and some 80,000 rock music fans will converge upon this northern European city to enjoy the sun, music and people. Tickets are $220.

Here are a few TravelPod bloggers who have been in the past. Have you been? Are you going?

Mojoh and friends at the Roskilde Music Festival

Enjoyed the bands way much more than Glastonbury however the Danish are CRAZY! At least the pot smoking hippies and pill-popping ravers at Glastonbury were clean and polite…and respectful of the environment…but the Danish….they’re ANIMALS…and we thought Australians were loud and obnoxious when drunk. We’ve been woken up several nights in a row to them screaming gibberish at 4-5 am and blowing what sounded like foghorns. And to top it off…we found out that after we left on Sunday evening, (the last day of the festival) they destroyed our tent when we left it intentionally to donate to good causes (tents and sleeping bags left behind at the festival are donated to the homeless) and they also BURNT our sleeping bags and JohnBs bag with all his possessions in it. Luckily he had his passport and that we had gotten out of there. Very mixed feelings overall for this festival…the bands were good…everything else was an eyeopener. – Mojoh

Leahandgreg after the Muse concert at Roskilde

We went into the town of Roskilde, for a look around and it started to rain. When we got back to the fest at about 4 it was pissing down and we sank into the mud as we walked back to our tent. It rained all night but we woke in the morning and the sun was out for a beautiful day, we manged to dry our clothes and have a swim in the lake and a smile returned to Leah’s face. – Leahandgreg

The main stage area of the Roskilde Music Festival

SURREAL! This festival is unreal. We are both great and looking forward to seeing Tool and Kanye West within the next two hours. We cannot even begin to explain the scale of the festival, there are just no proper words. – Kaylz

Chelbynz experienced the other side of the festival. She worked at Roskilde:

Chelbynz and workmates at the Roskilde Festival

My last day was the Sunday and we finished at about 2am and we headed to one of the stages that was staying open til like 4am to watch some of the last music playing. It was house/dance music which I’m not all that into but it was a lot of fun. It was the only night I went out after work, every other night I went straight to bed while the others went out drinking and smoking and whatever else they do. We were in the Arena til about 3.30am boppin along to the music that was playing. I met some Kiwi guys from Napier who live in London and I met a Dane though I don’t remember his name but had a bit of fun with him until the music stopped and I left with my workmates! We headed back to our camp (which was like 20min walk from where we were working!) and met up with the guys from the other trailer who didn’t finish until way after us. And they had a fire going and were getting drunk and high. So I hung out with them for awhile and then headed to bed at like 5am. – Chelbynz