Roskilde Festival part 2

Bombetrussel (bomb threat) på Roskilde festival

”We’ve got front row seats to death here”

Our camp was set up at westcamping "C", located right by the festival train station where on day 2, Sunday June 28, a package of 3 tubes and wiring was found and a bomb threat thereby called in.

The train station was shut down and everybody located at camping "C" were quickly evacuated to the other side of the police line.

So with chairs in hand, we crossed over to the safe side and after 6 hours in the sun of close huddling, the threat was called off.

Fortunately there were no explosives to be found. I am otherwise not sure what the outcome could have been considering we were evacuated only a mere few meters away (our camp was setup just behind the tents in the photo) and beer, rather than sunblock was the item we grabbed to take along with us on this very sunny and hot afternoon.

Read more about the bomb threat here.

On the other hand, it was nice that the festive mood was not affected due to the relaxed nature in which the situation was handled by the police and event security.

Krudt and Ole 'bombe' camp friends

This day hanging out with ''bombe'' friends listening to 'Bam Bam', a 1982 reggae classic song by Sister Nancy also turned out to be one of my better memories of the festival.

After many hours of sunshine and alcohol, delirium set in and the lyrics of the chorus for us developed into:

'bomb bomb...waiting for the bomb bomb..'

Click play on the video above and sing along with the new lyrics yourself. It works!