News & Rumors
Last update on March 25th 2008 at 15.22 CETMay 12th Explosions in the Sky cancelles summer tour
Explosions in the Sky has cancelled all thier jobs in may, july and august due to illness.
Apr 18th RUMOR: A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Apr 18th RUMOR: Per Vers
Apr 18th RUMOR: Against Me
Apr 18th RUMOR: Corgan & co. at RF'07 ?
Apr 18th RUMOR: Maybe ...
Speaker Bite Me plays RF'07 according to this homepage
Balkan-band KAL probably plays on July 7th
Apr 8th RUMOR: The Thermals
Apr 4th RUMOR: Trentemøller will play on July 6th.
Thus the rumor seems to be true
Apr 4th New names confirmed
Mar 30th Pavillion Jr. lineup
According to a danish newpaper the lineup for the Pavillion Jr. stage will be:
1234 (DK)
Analogik (DK)
As In RebekkaMaria (DK)
Atoi (DK)
Choir of Young Believers (DK)
Detektivbyrån (S)
The Downward Candidate (DK)
The Floor Is Made Of Lava (DK)
Forest and Crispian (S)
Gorilla Angreb (DK)
Highway Child (DK)
Kasper Spez (DK)
Kloak (DK)
Lazee (S)
Høgni Lisberg (FO)
Marybell Katastrophy (DK)
Mit nye band (DK)
Sort stue med piratkor (DK)
Turboweekend (DK)
Ungdomskulen (N)
Mar 30th RUMOR: Diplo
Diplo (US) also lists a Roskilde gig on thier MySpace profile.
Mar 29th New Young Pony Club, Taxi Taxi!, The Psyke Project
New Young Pony Club (UK) will play friday.
Taxi Taxi! (S) will play saturday.
The Psycke Project (DK) will play thursday.
All these and more have been posted during the week in our forum.
Mar 29th RUMOR: The Sounds
Danish music mag Gaffa reports that The Sounds (S) will play Roskilde.
Mar 29th This weeks confirmations
This week the festival confirmed the rumors on Artic Monkeys, Tunng and Volbeat
Confirmed this week were:
Artic Monkeys (UK)
Camera Obscura (UK)
Holly Golightly (UK)
Tunng
(UK)
Volbeat (DK)
Mar 26th RUMOR: Indie Laundry: Wilco at Roskilde
Mar 26th RUMOR: Volbeat to open Orange Stage
In a radioshow on Danish national radio sunday evening it was announced that Volbeat (DK) will open Orange Stage on Thursday afternoon.
Roskilde thereby sticks with tradition to let an up and coming danish act open Orange Stage.
Updated march 29th: The rumor has been confirmed.
Mar 22th Bigbang, perhaps, perhaps
In an online discussion in a Norwegian newspaper website Bigbang (N/US) says they believe they will play Roskilde this summer.
Mar 22th RUMOR: LCD soundsystem
New York based LCD Soundsystem has added a Roskilde gig on July 5th to ther MySpace page.
The tourplan on thier official website has not yet been updated though.
Mar 22th RUMOR: Datarock to play Roskilde
Mar 22th Hiphop, world music, etc.
A grand mixture of bands were confirmed yesterday:
Mahmoud
Ahmed (ETH)
Junkyard
Productions (DK)
K'Naan (SOM)
From the hiphop label Stones Throw
Records comes:
Peanut Butter Wolf (US)
J-Rocc (US)
Aloe Blacc (US)
Percee P (US)
Guilty
Simpson (US)
Mar 15th RUMOR: Lionheart Brothers
Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.no claims that Lionheart Brothers will paly Roskilde this summer.
Mar 15th RUMOR: Beirut
According to the record label of Beirut the band will play Roskilde sunday.
Mar 14th RUMOR: Loney, Dear
Mar 14th RUMOR: Booka Shade
Mar 14th Muse and Arcade Fire confirmed
Mar 11th MySpace bands
MySpace has become a very popular place for bands and artists to publishes their tour plans. Several posts in our Forum mentions bands who lists Roskilde gigs on thier MySpace page
New entries is for example:
Auditorydesigns (DK)
will play in Roskilde Lounge.
Darko Rundek & Cargo
Orkestra (FR) plays saturday
Please drop us a line if you spot other bands playing Roskilde. Use our Forum or drop us an email: roskilde@uradio.ku.dk !
Mar 9th RUMOR: Arctic Monkeys to play in Denmark this summer
Updated march 29th: The rumor has been confirmed
Mar 8th RUMOR: Stone Sour
After playing a concert in Denmark Corey Taylor of Slipknot/Stone Sour told danish online music magazine Rock-Zone.dk that Stone Sour will probably play Roskilde this summer.
Mar 7th Beastie Boys, The Killers and more confirmed
Five names were added to the lineup today:
Beastie Boys (US)
The Killers (US)
Mando Diao (S)
Peter Bjorn & John (S)
Quit Your Dayjob (S)
Mar 4th Tunng ready
Feb 28th New Metal names added
Slayer (US)
Mastodon (US)
Pelican (US)
Cult of Luna (S)
Feb 23th Metallica visits Europe .. Update
Metallica gig in Århus, (DK) - not Roskilde ..
Feb 22th Roskilde confirms Basement Jaxx and Klaxons
Feb 19th RUMOR: Klaxons ready?
Feb 17th Björk at RF '07 - update
Feb 16th Queens Of The Stone Age at Roskilde 2007
Feb 14th Techno and poppunk
Two new names confirmed today:
Tïesto (NL)
My Chemical Romance (US)
Feb 12th The Police Reunion tour to start late summer
This story on Billboard.com says that the Police take off in August:
Sources close to the tour exclusively tell Billboard.com that the plan is for the Police to tour North America through the first week of August, then play the U.K. and Europe, returning to North America in late October.
The fan site Stingus.net says the tour will kick off on May 28th in Canada. Over the summer til the beginning of August the band will play stadions and areanas in Canada and North America. From late-August until mid-October the tour will visit the U.K. and Europe before heading back to the States. Late also Mexico, Australia and New Zealand is palnned.
According to Billboard.com no other festivals than Bonnaroo are planned. Looks like the Police wont make it to Roskilde after all.
Feb 9th Norwegian names added
A couple of Norwegian names was added to the lineup today:
Thomas Dybdahl
120 Days
Feb 8th The Who at RF ´07
Feb 7th Additions to the line up confirmed
Feb 5th RUMOR: Roky Erickson ...
According to this fan site Austin based Roky Erickson (US) plays this years festival.
Feb 4th RUMOR: Arcade Fire: We're interested in Roskilde
Arcade Fire (CAN) played a concert in London Friday. The band also gave an interview to danish musicmag Gaffa.
On the question if a Roskilde performance is possible the band answered that they would be interested in playing Roskilde. The festival has a good name and Arcade Fire is impressed with the great plastic cup refund system.
We can only hope that the bands agency recieves a call from the festival bookers in the near future...
Feb 4th Band Ane named Hope of the Year at award show
The Danish Association of Music Critics awarded Band Ane (DK) Hope of the Year saturday at an award show in Copenhagen.
Besides the honor this also means that we will be seeing Band Ane at Roskilde Festival this year.
Band Ane also played the festival i 2006.
University Radio Copenhagen congratulates Band Ane. We look forward to the concert!
Jan 31th RUMOR: KoRn rumors
KoRn will play Full Force XIV festivallen i Leipzig in june.
According to korn.simpol.net theres also a rumor that the band will show up at Roskilde!
Updated Mar 22th: Korn will play Ozzy Osbourne at a concert in Denmark on June. Hence Korn at Roskilde is not very likely.
Jan 28th RUMOR: Danish indieband Dúné negotiating with RF
On may 7th danish indie act Dúné releases thier debut album in Denmark. The band dreams that they will play Roskilde this summer.
According to our sources negotiations with the festival is well under way. A live performace at the festival seems to be within reach for the band.
Jan 28th RUMOR: Danish electronica act Trentemøller ready
Trentemøller is preparing a new live setup. Trentemøller will be joined by several live musicians as well as his well know partner DJ T.O.M.
The act gave its first performance at the Danish National Radio "P3 Gold" award show.
This summer you can experience the act at Roskilde Festival as well.
Jan 24th Red Hot Chili Peppers at RF ´07
Jan 13th RUMOR: Danish Alice Rose hopes for a Roskilde gig
Jan 12th RUMOR: roskildefestival.de: Frontline Assembly ready!
Jan 7th RUMOR: Iron Maiden ready?
Iron Maiden will play Roskilde 2007 the band said during the concert they played in Aalborg in November.
This rumor comes from fans who saw the concert. Did you see the concert? Can you confirm this? Drop us a line at roskilde@uradio.ku.dk.
Updated Mar 22th: Last concert on the Iron Maiden summer tour is June 23rd. Hence its not very likely they will return to Roskilde 2 weeks later.
Jan 7th RSS Feeds
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Jan 3rd RUMOR: Reunited The Police af Roskilde 2007?
Dec 27th RUMOR: Red Hot Chili Peppers?
Dec 23th Lets get started!
Finally we came around to kick off the warm up for Roskilde Festival 2007!
The debate in our forum started months ago so it was about time now. Still theres no plausible rumors, but keep your eyes and ears open, and participate in the forum or drop us a line if you discover some interesting news on Roskilde Festival.
As you have probably noticed we put a new design on these pages. We hope you all like it. Another new feature is CAPTCHA passwords in our debate. Hopefully this will help prevent spam.
Ticket sale has started, but still no names have been confirmed for 2007.
The 2007 festival will bring some changes to the stage setup. Te Ballroom stage will be replaced by a new stage called "Astoria". This stage will be a place for "delicate and intimate acts play in the daytime, while the late hours present a club stage with energetic parties in the closed tent. Roskilde Astoria makes room for intimacy between artists and the audience." The Metropol stage will be replaced by a new stage "Cosmopol", which will be "a new hot spot for the underground urban genres. Here you can hear hip hop, dancehall, grime, R&B, urban world music, neo soul and music from the more organic electronic scene." That ought to be good.
-- Kind regards Casper, University Radio Copenhagen