You mean you _didn't_ go to Roskilde

I did the boost at about 1am on Thursday morning to Cophenhagen from Dubai for the Roskilde music festival (www.roskilde-festival.dk). It was such a wicked time. Roughly four days of pumping music, beautiful Scandanavian girls and great weather made for a phantasmagoric time. I did a quick tour of Copenhagen on Thursday while the festival was warming up - a nice city. Didn't have any Copenhagen icecream though.

Staying at a hotel for 800 Danish Kronor a night wasn't really an option when I could have bought a tent for a quarter of the price and camped out with the 80,000-odd others there. So I did.

The highlight of the first night (and probably the 2nd best performer there) was Armand Van Helden. He has real talent for mixing music and put some Nirvana in half way through his set of two hours. The next night was Autechre and was a bit of a blow out. I shouldn't be surprised, but from what I had heard of other warp artists (Squarepusher) that even though they put on "out there" performances, they were still entertaining. Autechre had the lights dimmed down to about 10% and nothing on the TV screens behind him. I would honestly prefer to listen to his music (which is pretty cool by the way) with headphones by myself since the atmosphere was pretty downbeat anyway. About 85% of the acts I saw were all in the metropol tent, which was pretty much dance/electronic bands.

There was also a cuban reggae band in the early Friday evening - very energetic. It was called Ska Cubano. Worth checking out if you're in to that sort of hanky panky. Captain Comatose was a bit average, but DJ ATA had some good dance tracks. He was aparently from Frankfurt, but he didn't make any appearances at U 60346, where most DJs (including Carl Cox - twice) played. Audioslave was also pretty ace but the dude's vocals were a bit up the corks.

I missed Jimmy Eat World since I was boozing it up with a bunch of mettlers from Denmark and Sweden (there were buggar all Norwegians at the festival I noticed). Real friendly dudes, and I'd say the Danish have the best English of all Benelux and Scandanavia. Carl Cox, Foo Fighters, Royksopp, Alter Ego were also kae te nui te pai choice and at 4.30am on Sunday morning I decided to call it a day after hanging at the camp fires singing Stairway to Heaving 25 times with some dudes.

So flying back to Dubai on Sunday night and arriving at 7am the next morning to hit the ground running at work was a bit dicey but I think I fooled them and pulled it off.

This week is a real ball-buster at work, so no weekend for me. I'm looking forward to trying out some water skiing in the next few days. Aparently they've got it at the hotel here...I had a good time hitting black balls at squash tonight....also at the hotel.

Maaalo....Choice.