8 Reasons Why You Should Visit Denmark's Roskilde Festival This Summer

Roskilde Festival in Denmark
Roskilde Festival in Denmark | © Simon Frøsig Christensen / Roskilde Festival
Aliki Seferou

Roskilde Festival 2018 starts on the 30th of June at the homonymous city in Denmark and locals have already started packing their camping tents, bathing suits and rubber boots (yes, in that order) for the summer’s biggest event. Those of you who have already asked a Dane what makes the popular Danish music festival so special are probably already packing as well. The rest of you? Just keep reading.

It’s the largest music festival in Northern Europe

Roskilde Festival is one of the largest music and culture festivals in Europe and the largest in Northern Europe. It’s estimated that this year 130,000 festival-goers will attend Roskilde Festival either for the whole eight-day experience or for fewer days with one-day tickets. Spending eight days surrounded by 130,000 people that like music, partying and beer is like living in a dream city (which, by the way, would be the 4th-largest in Denmark).

The Orange Stage at Roskilde Festival 2017

Roskilde Festival 2018 has a strong line-up

Eminem, Nick Cave and Nine Inch Nails will perform at Roskilde Festival 2018

And many upcoming artists worth seeing

Roskilde isn’t only known for its internationally known headliners but also for hosting upcoming artists from Scandinavia and other countries. Many Nordic singers and bands that are quite popular nowadays, such as and Iceage, performed on Roskilde Festival’s stages Countdown and Rising when they were in the first steps of their career. Each one of these stages fit 5,000 visitors and, trust us, they’re always packed with music devotees eager to discover new artists.

The Orange is Roskilde Festival’s most popular stage

There is a lot of art, performances and interesting talks

Roskilde Festival isn’t only about music. Throughout the eight days of the festival, Art Zone displays artwork while performances, talks, debates and other activities take place at the Flokkr area. Take a break from partying and get involved in the ‘Value of Art’ debate or ‘What is Money’ discussion. Chelsea Manning is one of the guests invited to this year’s festival to talk about activism while at the KlubRÅ stage concerts, poetry, installations and DJ sets will be taking place all day long.

‘Human non Human’ mural at Roskilde Festival 2017

You have to experience the campsite’s great atmosphere

Since 1971 that Roskilde Festival took place for the first time some of the biggest names of the music scene have performed live at the Danish festival’s stages. However, that’s only one of the reasons Roskilde Festival has earned a place in music lovers’ hearts and attracts thousands of festival-goers. It’s the great vibe both at the concerts and at the camping site that make people come back to Denmark for the festival. Last year, 7% of the participants had been to the festival more than 10 times. That’s approximately 9,000 people, not counting the volunteers.

A small part of Roskilde Festival’s camping area

It’s a great festival for millennials

Whether you’ll set your tent at the festival’s campsite for the whole eight days or for just a few, chances are that when you leave Denmark you’ll have a bunch of new friends from all around the world. Roskilde Festival attracts people of every age, nationality and style but the average age of visitors is 24 years old. So, millennials, you just got another reason to add Roskilde Festival 2018 to your bucket list.

There will be more than 170 acts during Roskilde Festival 2018

For eight days, you’ll party from morning until the wee hours

Even though that’s probably obvious, we thought it’s necessary to emphasize. You’re going to party all day long for more than a week! You’ll wake up and sleep under the sound of music, the smell of beer and roasted sausages and be surrounded by people your age. What more to ask for your summer holidays?

130,000 festival-goers will attend Roskilde Festival 2018

You can be in Copenhagen in only 30 minutes by train

In case partying all day long and sleeping in a tent isn’t exactly your thing but you still want to watch your favourite band performing onstage, then Roskilde Festival should definitely be in your bucket list. Why? Simply because it takes place in the homonymous city, which is only 30 minutes away from Copenhagen. So if at the end of the day you want to take a warm shower in a comfy accommodation and then head back to the festival the next morning for another day full of music, you can do just that. You only have to grab the train and in less than an hour be at your destination.

Roskilde Festival site
landscape with balloons floating in the air

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