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The best photos of the 2015 Roskilde Festival

In our final dispatch from northern Europe's biggest music festival, our photographer Bobby Anwar shares a hand-picked selection of his week's greatest shots.

Published: 6 July 2015 12:10 CEST
The best photos of the 2015 Roskilde Festival
Photo: Bobby Anwar

Like Damon Albarn getting carried off the stage at 4am, we just don't want to let the Roskilde Festival go. 

It was another terrific year at Denmark's best party, filled with super concerts, great food and drinks, and a lot of special memories. The party lasted a full week for many guests and the massive operation was run almost solely by volunteers. 

After a week of coverage, the one last thing to do is to share the absolute best photos of the festival. 

GALLERY: The Local's best photos from Roskilde Festival 2015

The Local asked Bobby Anwar to take his camera to Roskilde, shoot all week and then pick the shots the best summarized his Roskilde experience. Always up to the challenge, he has selected his 25 best photos from the 2015 Roskilde Festival. 
 
Click through on the photo below for the full gallery. 
 

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ROSKILDE FESTIVAL

Roskilde Festival reveals first names for 2016

Denmark's largest festival gives fans a little teaser with the first ten names added to next year's line-up.

Published: 8 October 2015 12:35 CEST
Roskilde Festival reveals first names for 2016
Photo: Vegard Kristensen/Roskilde Festival
With the weather having made a turn for the colder and daylight hours steadily dwindling, there’s no better time to start thinking ahead to next summer’s festival season. 
 
Roskilde Festival, the largest music festival in Denmark, announced the first ten acts for its 2016 edition on Thursday.
 
Headlining the announcement were Canadian ‘slacker rocker’ Mac DeMarco, New York rapper Action Bronson and Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett. 
 
The festival, which is gearing up for its 46th year, will have a total of 175 acts so the first batch represents only about five percent of the performers music fans can see between June 25th and July 2nd. 
 
“The festival is roughly nine months away, but we’re already busy putting together a line-up that’s both stylistically diverse and relevant. These qualities are very important to us and reflected by our announcements today that represent metal, rap, country, pop and much more,” the festival’s head of programme, Anders Wahrén, said. 
 
The Roskilde Festival attracts around 100,000 music fans each year. The non-profit festival is primarily driven by volunteers and donates its proceeds to worthy causes. The 2015 edition was fully sold-out and tickets for next year’s festival will go on sale next month. 
 
 
Organizers are currently soliciting fan requests for who should play in 2016. 
 
“This October we invite our audience to send us their music wishes, which we will collect and use as both inspiration and knowhow in the booking process over the course of the next year,” Wahrén said. 
 
Although an October line-up announcement may seem early, it actually comes later than Roskilde’s first announcement last year and more than a week after the heavy metal festival Copenhell triumphed its major booking of the legendary Black Sabbath for its 2016 edition. That concert will be Black Sabbath's last ever show in Denmark.
 
The ten acts introduced for the 2016 Roskilde Festival on Thursday were:
 
Action Bronson (US)
Mac Demarco (CA)
Courtney Barnett (AU)
Cattle Decapitation (US)
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld (CA)
Ho99o9 (US)
Kuedo (DE)
Qwanqwa (ET)
Sleaford Mods (UK)
Sturgill Simpson (US)
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