Talk:Roskilde Festival

NPOV & Comments
With a recent addition, I've been concerned that NPOV might have been breached. The sentence is "And there are all sorts of decorations on the terrain and in the tents that make one stop and think ort are just plain beautiful.". What is peoples opinion on this? I've chosen to leave it in for now, as I'm not experienced in telling when NPOV is breached.

Also, please beware of facts - Green Stage haven't existed since the 2002 festival & all stages, with the exception of Orange Stage, is now inside tents.


 * 2002 was the last year I visited this festival, so I didn't know about the name changes. The sentence about the decorations is by me and I wasn't too happy about it either, but not because it's pov (how does one describe decorations without sounding pov-ish?) but because it sounds lousy. I thought it would improve through other people's edits, so feel free to do with it what you like. Such as deleting it. DirkvdM 04:37, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

One of two biggest festivals in Europe?! What about Polish "Przystanek Woodstock" then? I've read (also on English wiki) that's the biggest gig, held every summer since 90s. So where's the "truth" ? Someone knows, any ideas/answers?


 * Przystanek Woodstock is listed as "about 150,000 - 380,000" participants while Roskilde lists "almost 110,000" (with 79,000 actually paying) so it looks like Przystanek Woodstock is bigger. // Liftarn

Reorganisation thoughs?
Been thinking about doing a makeover of this article, perhaps using the Glastonbury article as a template. Any thoughts, ideas or third about what could be added? KDLarsen 17:25, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Substitute image in template for Image:Roskilde_festival_2006.jpg]]
I personally find the image displays Roskilde Festival very well, and I believe the image in the template should be substituted for this. Anyone in favour? — Lasse Havelund (p · t · c) 17:53, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree a much better image. Charlie Markwick (c · t) 06:26, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup
"During Pearl Jam's concert at the Orange Stage in 2000, a violent accident occurred. Nine people died in front of the stage. The exact conditions as to how they died have been examined by both the police and the public prosecutor and at subsequent civil trials - the conclusion of these determines that it was an accident. Many people fell down, which often happens at big concerts, but at one place they did not get up again. Some crowdsurfers fell into this "hole" and are believed to have been factors of the event turning wrong (crowdsurfing was subsequently forbidden across most of Europe). The people at the bottom died of suffocation. When the security guards in front of the stage got to the area after the music had been stopped it was too late. In the following year, the accident led to massive changes with regards to safety to avoid similar situations - not just at Roskilde Festival, the security conditions for festivals everywhere in Europe changed. Before the accident in 2000, Roskilde Festival was considered one of the safest festivals, and yet the accident happened there. Many other festivals have smaller safety systems than Roskilde Festival and revised their procedures even further. For instance, Glastonbury Festival in England chose to cancel its festival in 2001 to have enough time to reorganize the safety planning since the festival in 2000 was not at all at level with Roskilde Festival. Each year Roskilde Festival makes an extensive health and safety assessment which the festival is executed on the basis of. The accident at the Orange Stage led to the construction of a memorial grove with a stone with the inscription "How fragile we are" surrounded by nine trees."

Seriously, this bit needs cleanup. -- Flash flash  ;  10:39, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Categories?
This article is tagged under 'Public nudity' and 'Clothing optional events'. Are those categories justified for this article? Just wondering. Thanks. -xC- 12:00, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Number of guests each year needs cleanup
There are no sources indicated for these numbers, and they're rather arbitrary. 1994 had 90,000 paying guests and so did 1995. But they're listed as "90,000" and "111,000" respectively. Seems some years include volunteers while others don't - some may also include media workers and artists. The question is, which number is most relevant to the article. Source for number of guests TheKaneda (talk) 19:08, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

2000 accident
I was an eyewitness and very close to what was happening. An important reason for the deaths were the "wavebreaker railings" which turned out to be dangerous obstacles where people were almost crushed against them by the crowd in the back. In order not to be squeezed into unconsciousness or bonebreaking, some people tried to crawl over and under these wavebreakers towards the front to avoid the pressure from behind. Some of them fell into people in front of them; this is how the "holes" happened. No crowdsurfing into the "holes" happened. People in the "holes" were on the ground and being squeezed to death by the crowd pushing from behind who had the impression that all of a sudden there was more space in the front. Crowdsurfing has not been outlawed after that incident in all of Europe. All these facts can be researched in the Danish press. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.157.62.86 (talk) 13:07, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

I think it's atrocious that nothing is mentioned about the nine lives lost in the year 2000 while attending this festival. It's disgusting that it's not mentioned like those people never existed or mattered to begin with. No GFY (talk) 14:41, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

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