Roskilde festival 2006 (Part III)

News flash: Only recently got back from spending a considerable amount of time (taken into consideration the heat level we're having here) at the 70 km afar beach. It's still freakin hot, though some thunderstorms are threatening to devastate everything that comes into their reach. Even the water at the sea can give only a short-term comfort and I would prefer staying there and keep on acting like I was a starfish floating along the tide instead of sitting in a overheated, frying-pan-like flat.

Back to Roskilde..
Thursday (June 29) was "officially" the opening day of the festival.

Hardly could wait for it to happen as one of the first bands to kick-off was a very favourite of mine - indie rockers Editors from good ol' Britain.
Been humming and listening to their songs for quite a while and was REALLY eager too see how they are live. And they didn't disappoint me in spite of several reviews I've read that their act had a lack of improvisation and being UKs Interpol, naaaaah!
The band gave all they had with the frontman (soo bloody hot!) going nuts at times on the stage flinging his arms in the air a-la style of Coldplay's Chris Martin, sparkling eyes (hehe) and leaving the crowd begging for an encore that didn't come unfortunately..

Editors - Munich [link expired] highly recommended!

After that our little company stayed at the Odeon stage to enjoy the performance of the apparently pregnant Swede Jenny Wilson. Had listened to few of her songs before (nice catchy synth-guitar-pop tunes) but wasn't overly impressed to start a deeper exploration of her music (well, happens a lot with me until a sudden click hits me). Anyway, was a nice performance, even not knowing almost any of the songs. There was something in the air keeping me mesmerised listening.
Charming, charming!

Jenny Wilson - A Brief Story [link expired] (am too tired now to put "highly recommended" to each track, but you should get the point by now!)

Having slightly different taste in music always leads to one thing - parting. So, I stayed to listen to a bit of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and what I've heard didn't end in doing as the band name instructs. The sound was unpleasent for my ears and the frontman could hardly be heard not to mention lyrics of their songs...

But it was all made up entirely with the stunning performance and out-of-this-world music of Sigur Rós (Iceland). It doesn't really need words to describe how easily you can get goose bumps during their gig, fall in a trance and really see or feel like an angel flying forgetting all sorrows that lie on your heart. *Sigh*

Here's a link to their homepage where you can download several of their tracks, especially this one - Starálfur!