Festival Preview Muse, Florence + The Machine among acts playing Roskilde this weekend

Denmark’s Roskilde Festival has managed to stick out as a top dog amongst an impossibly packed summer schedule of European festivals year after year. It’s been called the mainland’s Glastonbury, somewhat due to their parallel beginnings at the very start of the 1970s, and their unwavering commitment to keeping their respective festivals as green and community-friendly as possible (Roskilde is non-profit, and every year gives thousands upon thousands of pounds to charity after the festival).

Diversity and the idea of ‘something for everyone’ also tie the two events together even more tightly. Over the past five years at Roskilde, Slipknot have shared a stage with Rihanna, and Metallica have followed The National. The four-day bash (with another five days’ camping before that for the intimidatingly passionate Danes) hasn’t got any less varied with 2015’s line-up.

The main, Orange stage headliners don’t even begin to tell the story of Roskilde, but they certainly draw you in. Old meets new this year in a very British set of bill-toppers, with the new breed - Florence + The Machine and Disclosure - sharing duties with Sir Paul McCartney and Muse. The not-so-small names of Nicki Minaj, Mew, Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell Williams also join them on top of the line-up.

Like Glastonbury though, Roskilde is likely to be remembered and made by the far-out sets, breaking British acts through in Scandinavia, like a Jamie xx slot at 2am on the festival’s closing night on the striking Apollo stage - the set Disclosure played back in 2013 - or Joanna Gruesome’s first proper show with their new, six-piece line-up, or Bryce Dessner’s Kronos Quartet opening things up at midday on the Friday.

To fully emphasise the brilliance and diversity of this year’s (and every year’s…) Roskilde line-up, here’s a playlist of this year’s guaranteed highlights. Listen below.