08 July 2007

Roskilde- Day 2

Day 41
Distance- 0km (1697)
Weather- sunny
Highlights- Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Tunng and dry mud
Lowlights- end of the festival, still no luggage
Accommodation- Sylvia's house

Yah the sunshine wopppppppeeeee. We pack our muddy smelly clothes and are off to the festival again today. The mud has dried out a bit so there are only small patches of swamp and mostly soft squeltchy bits. The camp sites now look and smell like a rubbish tip. Quite glad we are not there with everyone else.

The Arctic Monkeys were the first big act. Funny how 'British the sound is'. They were great but left before the end to check out a few of the smaller acts. We discovered another British group called Tunng who play acoustic guitar techno, sounds funny but was really good. They are a five piece group, came out wearing matching brown hoodies then realise it was too hot and got these off.

We then filed with everyone else to main stage to see the Muse. They were definitely pulling a big crowd. I presumptively plugged in the earplugs which was lucky because their sound was as big as the crowd. Great, heavy, loud, exactly what we expected. Once again we didn't stay the whole set but headed off to see the boys in matching red trackies, Data Rock. We had seen a video clip before and they seem a little like LCD soundsystem. Mmmm how wrong were we try electro punk, we reeled in surprise and stood there laughing at the these five Norwegian guys jumped round the stage.



We then made an executive decision to leave and miss Basement Jaxx to get out while we could. People were streaming out and the station was crowded but we got a train and headed home to our warm comfy bed.