Preview Roskilde 2016

Roskilde is more than just a festival. In the same way Glastonbury turns a small section of Somerset into a small city for a week, Roskilde (29th - 2nd July) becomes the fourth largest town in Denmark for its ten day duration. The enormity of such an event is held together by a fantastic team of 30,000 volunteers – many of whom have been working for years at the site each summer. Once the prelude week of Scandinavian and regional acts subsides, the festival raises the bar with four days of headline status acts and carefully crafted eclecticism that rivals most other European lineups.

On Wednesday, a heavy run on the Arena stage from Bring Me the Horizon, Slayer and At the Drive In is closed off by Wiz Khalifa (of course). Thursday has welcoming returns from Santigold and Blood Orange previewing the upcoming Freetown Sound. Chicago’s Whitney play a hangover before a run of DIY favourites in Mac DeMarco, Foals, James Blake and Car Seat Headrest on Friday night. Saturday seems a lot more laidback but the festival isn’t over until one final blowout from Denmark’s own MØ and a festival run-out slot from LCD Soundsystem closing the festival off.

To whet your appetite, here’s a playlist of DIY’s own top picks: