Meshuggah @ Roskilde Festival
Meshuggah @ 2016 Roskilde Festival (Avalon Stage)
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Ghost @ 2016 Roskilde
The first time I saw Ghost was at Roskilde in 2011. This year was their first time back. What a difference five years can make!
In fact, Ghost has really upped their game since the last time I saw them in early 2013. I take back what I may have inferred about Ghost in my comparison to Tribulation. Ghost no longer just goes out there to play their songs. Lots of theater is involved. I still prefer Tribulation’s heavier and more complex tunes, but both bands put on quite a live performance.
Ghost also received a major stage upgrade. In 2011 they played on the now defunct Odeon Stage in front of maybe 1,000 people. This year, even though they didn’t go on until 2 in the morning, there were over 17,000 people watching them on the Arena Stage.
Mr. Zero’s Ghost
Before Ghost got to the 2016 Roskilde Festival, Papa Emeritus’s likeness made it onto a wall in the graffiti zone. The graffiti zone turned into a major pissing area. By the last day the smell of urine was so bad I avoided getting near the walls.
Ex Eye @ Roskilde
Ex Eye’s Colin Stetson
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Ex Eye was the surprise of the Roskilde Festival for me. While I probably wouldn’t have gotten into Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats without the Roskilde Festival (as I listened to Uncle Acid nearly nonstop in the weeks leading up to festival), Ex Eye wasn’t even on my radar. And why should they have been? They haven’t recorded anything. Roskilde was just their second performance ever I think. However, I had a couple hours to kill between Uncle Acid and Black Breath so I started looking at the details of the bands playing in that time frame. The Roskilde Festival website described Ex Eye as “hard and heavy” so I figured I would check them out.
Ex Eye’s Toby Summerfield
Wow! What an incredible show. First of all, the Gloria Stage is kind of amazing. I’ll post more photos of the venue later. It’s fairly intimate for Roskilde, but all kinds of trippy things are going on with the lighting. Then Ex Eye hits the stage and just blows everyone away. There are videos of their performance on Youtube now, but they don’t really do the set justice. You really had to be there to experience it to even come close to understanding how awesome it was at that moment.
Ex Eye at 2016 Roskilde Festival on the Gloria Stage
Neil Young @ Roskilde
Neil Young and “Promise of the Real” on the Orange Stage at 2016 Roskilde
I’ve seen Neil Young many times over the years. And I will see him again at Desert Trip in Southern California later this year (October I think). But his performance at Roskilde really got me. I don’t know exactly what it was–the setlist, something in the air, the rain stopping just before he went on, his “conducting” of Promise of the Real, or just the fact that I haven’t seen him in over a decade? I don’t know, but it really worked for me.
The above photo was taken with an extremely wide-angle lens. I actually wasn’t that far from the stage. The video, below, of Powderfinger is from a guy standing just behind and to the right of me. Of course he has it zoomed up a bit for most of the video.
The setlist, BTW, was:
After the Gold Rush (on piano)
Heart of Gold
The Needle and the Damage Done
Mother Earth (on pump organ)
Out on the Weekend
Unknown Legend
Human Highway
Someday
Alabama
Words
Winterlong
Love to Burn
Powderfinger
Mansion on the Hill
Western Hero
Vampire Blues
Country Home
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Seed Justice
Rockin’ in the Free World
Love and Only Love