|
The above will search Traveljapanblog.com. Concerts - Landscapes - Sports |
The typical shot of Nyhavn has been done a billion times. And why not? It’s a pretty one. But I’ve done that photo several times over so I went for something a little different here with this 6-photo photomerge. The tourists were numerous on this day so I had to a wait a while to get a foreground that was this free of walking people.
Dropkick Murphys @ 2016 Copenhell
@COPENHELL @DropkickMurphys
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.
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.
King ov Hell playing as part of Abbath @ 2016 Copenhell
Ex Eye’s Colin Stetson
@colin_stetson #rf16 @summerfieldt
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