The largest music event in Scandinavia presents this year’s lineup
With the addition of Jack White, this year’s biggest rock icon, Roskilde Festival has added another great headliner to this year’s lineup, which already includes Bruce Springsteen, Björk, The Cure, Mew, Bon Iver, and The Roots.
Today’s lineup release also brings great news to fans of Alison Krauss, Machine Head, Janelle Monáe, The Cult, Santigold and Amadou & Mariam. Extremely melodic The Shins are returning to Roskilde Festival with a brand new and already very popular record, and exciting new bands such as Django Django, Cold Specks and Clock Opera have also been added to the poster.
Music director Rikke Øxner says: "It's a difficult art presenting an artist at the perfect time in their career, but I think we've succeeded in doing so with a large part of our bookings. Needless to say, we also need to present timeless artists such as The Cult, Alison Krauss and Machine Head, as well as the brand new artists, whose great career still lies ahead of them."
Throughout the years Roskilde Festival has presented unique musical set ups and 2012 will not be any exception. The international super group Apparatjik, DJ Static and music collective Copenhagen Collaboration are already preparing unique Roskilde Festival shows designed especially for this summer’s festival. Furthermore, Roskilde Festival has announced a new stage for electronic music, Apollo, which will host some of the hottest bands of the genre, such as Modeselektor and Pretty Lights.
With the addition of another stage, the total number of bands on Roskilde Festival comes close to 200.
A city of Dreams at Roskilde Festival
Alongside the release of the lineup Roskilde Festival introduced a new ‘city’ at the festival’s camping area – Dream City. Dream City will be designed and built by the festival-goers. It is a place for those, who dream of making a difference and dare to realise their dreams. Here you can bring whatever you dream of, you can build large and tall, expand your ideas wide out and engage the people around you – as long as you do it for the enjoyment of everybody and take home what you brought to the festival to create your project.
“Dream City is one of the additions to this year’s festival, that I personally am most proud of and have greatest expectations for. This gives our audience such a great opportunity to participate and be a part of creating the festival, but I have to admit that we are eager to see how it turns out: Is it possible? Will the festival-goers embrace the project?”, Roskilde Festival’s spokeswoman Christina Bilde expressed during the release.
So far the festival-goers have added 30 ideas to the Dream City ‘idea bank’. The festival-goers develop these ideas in collaboration on the Dream City website and on workshops starting in the end of May.
Link to band pictures (1,6 GB): https://www.wetransfer.com/dl/XV2qg8Tj/d22d4398a967ba964ec65f1e16808b6e299c174f9f9d28566dd0a0607827d9c5708e945831a4c66
Roskilde Festival Poster 2012: http://tiny.cc/roskilde2012
Band contact information attached (pdf).
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Christina Bilde, spokeswoman
M: christina.bilde@roskilde-festival.dk
T: +45 46 36 66 13
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