Cancelled: What a Pulled Festival Does to a Town

Sat, 20 Jun 2020 09:00:00 +0000

Roskilde should be starting about now. Late June, the campsite fields off Route 21 already trodden into mud-brown paths, the Orange Stage rigged and waiting, tens of thousands of tents going up in neat rows that will be chaos by Thursday. None of that happened this year. The festival was cancelled in April, the second cancellation of its kind I’ve watched land in a single miserable spring, and the field is just a field — grass growing back over ground that usually doesn’t see grass by June at all. I’ve spent the week that should have been the best one of my year going for walks instead, thinking about what actually goes missing when a festival doesn’t happen.

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Cancelled: What a Pulled Festival Does to a Town