Was started by two students and friends at the local Roskilde Gymnasium (like high school, but for 15-20 year olds) back in 1971. The festival was inspired by Woodstock in the United States and America. The first festival had 12,000 visitors to the one stage where around 20 bands played.
Today that number has grown to over 115,000 people attending the festival over a week and have never once, over the past few years not failed to impress most of us festival-goers (at least not me – there are always pessimistic people, but you get good parties with the right attitude!).
When the last band played, and this years week of partying was officially over, we immediately started – eagerly – waiting for next years festival.
The feeling of that everyone’s welcome – the sun, the smiles of people passing by, and the immense amount of alcohol all mixes together into a sweet cocktail called ‘Orange Feeling’. Remember to drink …
