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Parken: What Happens When a Football Ground Becomes a Stage

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Rammstein at Parken: Fire as a Civic Event

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 09:00:00 +0000

On 19 June 2019, Rammstein brought their first stadium tour to Parken and set a Copenhagen football ground alight. The show sold out. Somewhere in an office in Østerbro, weeks earlier, a Danish official had signed a permit that authorised a German band to burn several hundred litres of propane, in choreographed bursts, in a residential neighbourhood, for two hours, on a Wednesday night. That signature is the thing I keep coming back to. A stadium concert is loud. A Rammstein stadium concert is a small municipal decision to allow fire.

Metallica at Parken: When the Biggest Band Alive Plays a Football Ground

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:00:00 +0000

On 11 July 2019, just under forty-five thousand people packed into Parken, the Copenhagen football stadium, to watch Metallica. It was a Thursday. The roof was open, the Danish summer holding for once, and the pitch that normally belongs to FC København had been floored over and turned into the biggest standing crowd the city can legally assemble. There is a specific strangeness to seeing the biggest band alive play the ground where you watch the national team lose to Germany, and that strangeness is the whole subject here.