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This page was last updated on Nov 16. 2000 at 00:12



The Festival is NOT sold out yet!


- and the weather ...!

Latest news

FINLEY QUAYE has been cancelled due to "family problems". Eagle Eye Cherry will be moved to Yellow stage, but there will be no replacement for FINLEY QUAYE.

Have a look at pictures taken at Roskilde Festival.

THE VERVE has been cancelled! Instead, SISTERS OF MERCY have been flown in from the UK. They will play Green stage, while German RAMMSTEIN is moved to Orange stage, where THE VERVE should have played.

As of June 25th at 3.45 pm, there are about 7.000 tickets left - they can be bought at the entrance.

MARILYN MANSON, FU MANCHU and ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN have been cancelled.They will be replaced by MISFITS, IN FLAMES and STRANGLERS.

A TRIBE CALLED QUEST has been cancelled.

The line-up for all the bands has been released.

BLACK SABBATH played without their drummer, Bill Ward

This years Official Festival Radio will be made by the 5 Danish college radio stations, including University Radio Copenhagen. Besides from the Roskilde area you can also listen to part of these festival broadcasts in the Copenhagen area on 95,5 MHz.

1998 will be the last year with a DeeDay-stage. The idea of a stage dedicated to electronic music is copied by so many now, that the festival will try to come up with a new concept next year.

Wanna see the new festival poster ??

April 5th: only 20.000 tickets left for sale in Denmark

Danish PSYCHED UP JANIS opens the orange stage on thursday the 25th

End of guessings: Metallica won't play Roskilde '98 !!

This year 'only' 80.000 tickets will be on sale which is 10.000 less than last year. Read more here.


A map of the festival area


The Chillout tent
- the final line-up ..

Monday : Tobias Von Hoffsten
Tuesday : Dr. Disk - Daniel - Dr. Disk
Wednesday : Quickstep - The Godiepal - Quickstep
Thursday : Gregers Kirkegaard - Eran Remez
Friday : Klaus B goes for the record (16 timer)
Saturday : Mikkel Voks - Hansen - Mikkel Voks


Bands
- for dates, times ans stages, see the line-up

A A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
ADAM F (UK)
AISHA KANDISHA'S JARRING EFFECT (MOR)
ALABAMA 3 (UK)
TORI AMOS (US)
ASH (UK)
ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION (UK)
ATARI TEENAGE RIOT (D)
NATASHA ATLAS (EGY/UK)
AZIZA-A (TYR)
B BAAL (DK)
BACKYARD BABIES (S)
BEASTIE BOYS (US)
BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE (UK)
BJØRN SVIN (DK)
BLACK SABBATH incl. OZZY OSBORNE (UK)
BLEEDER (DK)
HANNE BOEL (DK)
BOOM BOOM SATELLITES (JAP)
BOOTLEG BEATLES (UK)
BRAVE COMBO (US)
MEREDITH BROOKS (US)
BUDDY GUY (US)
BERNARD BUTLER (UK)
C CATATONIA (UK)
EAGLE-EYE CHERRY (S)
MC CLEMENS (DK)
COAL CHAMBER (US)
D D:A:D (DK)
DEFTONES (US)
DIMMU BORGIR (N)
DJ 360 (DK)
DJ ABSTRACT (N)
DJ ARON (DK)
DJ CARL COX (UK)
DJ CHAOTIK RAMSES (F)
DJ CJ BOLLAND (B)
DJ HELL (D)
DJ IAN O'BRIEN (UK)
DJ JEFF MILLS (US)
DJ PETER SKOVSTED (DK)
DJ SCHACK (DK)
DJ SNEAK (US)
DJ'S KRUDER & DORFMEISTER (A)
DJ'S MARIO J & KENNY GLASGOW (CAN)
OSCAR D'LEON (VEN)
DR. JOHN (US)
THE DRAGS (US)
DRUM ISLAND (N)
DUB SYNDICATE
BOB DYLAN (US)
E EARL GREY (UK)
STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (US)
LISA EKDAHL (S)
E.T.A. (DK)
F FISCHMOB (D)
FRIEND (S)
G GALAXY (SEN)
GARBAGE (US)
LAURENT GARNIER (F)
GINMAN/JØRGENSEN (DK)
GREAT WHITE
GREEN VELVET (US)
GYPSY PASSION ORCHESTRA feat. JOAQUIN CORTÉS (E)
H HAB (S)
RICHIE HAWTIN a.k.a. PLASTIKMAN (CAN)
HEADRILLAZ (UK)
KRISTIN HERSH (US)
HYPNOTIX (SEN/CZE)
I IDLEWILD (UK)
IGGY POP (US)
ILLDISPOSED (DK)
IMPULSE (D)
IN FLAMES
J THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN (UK)
THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (US)
JUNKIE XL (NL)
K KASHMIR (DK)
KENT (S)
KONISHI (JAP)
KRAFTWERK (D)
KREIDLER (D)
L LOIS (DK)
THE LO-FIDELITY ALLSTARS (UK)
LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES (VEN)
LUKE SLATER (UK)
LUKSUS (DK)
M M@LK DE KOIJN (DK)
JULIAN & DAMIAN MARLEY (JAM)
MEW (DK)
THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES (US)
MISFITS
MOGWAI (UK)
NILS PETTER MOLVÆR & KMEHR (N)
MOONSPELL (P)
MUSAFIR (IND)
MYNTA (IND/S)
N NEW BIRTH BRASS BAND (US)
NEW YORK HIP HOP feat.:
  • ARSONIST (US)
  • BOBBITO THE BARBER (US)
  • THE BOULEVARD CONNECTION/LOOP TROOP (DK/S)
  • COMPANY FLOW (US)
  • CUTTING CREW (DK)
  • HIGH & MIGHTY (US)
  • MASS INFLUENCE (US)
  • MR. LIVE & TONY BONES (US)
  • NON PHIXION (US)
    NIKOLAJ NØRLUND & RHONDA HARRIS (DK)
  • O ON TRIAL (DK)
    ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE BARBÈS (MAR)
    THE ORIGINAL DANISH POLCALYPSO ORCHESTRA (DK)
    P PALACE OF PLEASURE (N)
    PARADISE LOST (UK)
    ROY PASCAL & ON PURPOSE (INT)
    PAULITO Y SU ELITE (CUB)
    PENNILESS (FIN)
    PIZZICATO FIVE (JAP)
    PORTISHEAD (UK)
    PSYCHED UP JANIS (DK) - opens the orange stage on June 25th
    PUDDU VARANO (DK)
    PULP (UK)
    Q QUANT (S)
    QUEENS OF SHIBA (FIN)
    R RADISH (US)
    RAMMSTEIN (D)
    REEL BIG FISH (UK)
    REFUGEE CAMP ALL STARS (JAM)
    ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT (US)
    S NITIN SAWHNEY (UK)
    SAWT EL ATLAS (ALG)
    SCANX (F)
    KEITH SECOLA & THE WILD BAND OF INDIANS (US)
    SEIGMEN (N)
    SETONA (EGY)
    SHANKS (DK)
    SKATALITES (JAM)
    SLAYER
    SMILIN' MYRON (US)
    SONIC YOUTH (US)
    SORTEN MULD (DK)
    SOULFLY (BRA)
    SPEAKER BITE ME (DK)
    SPIRITUALIZED (UK)
    SPORTSGUITAR (CH)
    STEREO TOTAL (D)
    STERNKLANG (N)
    STEVE STOLL (US)
    THe STRANGLERS
    STOMPIN' CRAWFISH (F)
    SUBGUD (N)
    SUPER CAYOR DE DAKAR (SEN)
    T TABOU COMBO (HAI)
    OLE THEILL (DK)
    TRICKY (UK)
    TORTOISE (US)
    TURBONEGRO (N)
    TV·2 (DK)
    U ULAN BATOR (F)
    V VIEJA TROVA SANTIAGUERA (CUBA)
    W WEEPING WILLOWS (S)
    Z SOPHIE ZELMANI (S)


    Rumors

    IN FLAMES - June 26th


    Tickets

    During some years the festival management has talked about making the festival a bit smaller than the last couple of years 90.000 visitors, so therefore only 80.000 tickets will be on sale this year.

    For info on prices and where to buy the tickets click here.


    Links

    The Official website (DK)
    ICQ Roskilde Festival '98 Interest Group (N)
    Birdy (S)
    Dag-Øyvind Paulsen (N)
    XFM (DK)
    Thomas Brattli (N)
    Hartmut Oberstech (D)
    Einvaldur (S)
    Camilla Styrström (S)
    Peter Rasch (DK)
    Marcel Jutte (NL)
    Ölhävers (S)
    Michael Rytters festivallinks (DK)
    Vegard Johansen (N)
    Marco Koeppen (D)


    Do you have questions, rumors or other good stories about the '98-festival,
    then please send them to University Radio Copenhagen at Roskilde98@uradio.ku.dk

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