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Danish musical festivals reveal final line-ups

Both Odense’s Tinderbox and Aarhus’s NorthSide have released their final efforts to knock the Roskilde Festival off its throne.

Published: 15 April 2015 11:31 CEST
Danish musical festivals reveal final line-ups
Photo: NorthSide
The people of Denmark may still be walking around in heavy coats and gloves, but there is one sure-fire sign that summer can’t be too far off. All three of Denmark’s major international music festivals have now revealed their final line-ups. 
 
Aarhus’s NorthSide festival, which takes place June 12-14, added a handful of acts on Tuesday, including Antony and the Johnsons and Danish rapper S!vas. They will join previously-announced performers including The Black Keys, the Wu-Tang Clan, Grace Jones, Interpol and The Jesus and Mary Chain. 
 
The final NorthSide line-up can be seen here:
NorthSide reports that its single-day tickets for Friday and Saturday are sold out but that Sunday tickets and full three-day passes are still available. 
 
Over in Odense, the newest players on the Danish festival scene announced their final additions on Wednesday. The Tinderbox festival, which will hold its inaugural edition June 26-28, added American rapper Angel Haze, Danish producer TopGunn and English rock band Nothing But Thieves. 
 
They’ll hit Odense’s Tusindaaskoven alongside around 50 other performers, including Robbie Williams, The Prodigy, Faith No More, The Cardigans and Joey Bada$$. 
 
Tinderbox’s full line-up can be viewed below (click for larger version): 
 
 
Tinderbox’s music dirctor Brian Nielsen declined to say how many tickets the festival has sold but said he was very happy with his first-year line-up. 
 
“I’m very proud of the first ever Tinderbox program. It has actually been very hard to book artists as very few big names are touring this summer. So to land big artists like Calvin Harris, Robbie Williams, Ellie Goulding, Major Lazer, The Prodigy, Faith No More and more is actually extraordinary, especially when we are a brand new festival,” he told Jyllands-Posten. 
 
The Roskilde Festival, which is Denmark’s biggest and longest-running, announced its final line-up in March. Among the highlights of Roskilde’s 150-plus acts are Paul McCartney, Muse, Kendrick Lamar, Mastodon Die Antwoord and The War on Drugs.  
 
The 2015 Roskilde Festival runs from June 27 – July 4, with the main musical acts performing over the last four days. Single-day tickets for Saturday, when McCartney will perform are sold out, but other tickets are still available. 
 
Here is the full Roskilde line-up (click for larger version):

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New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday’s death

Fans of the late Johnny Hallyday, "the French Elvis Presley", will be able to commemorate the sixth anniversary of his death with two songs never released before.

Published: 17 November 2023 09:05 CET
New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday's death

Hallyday, blessed with a powerful husky voice and seemingly boundless energy, died in December 2017, aged 74, of lung cancer after a long music and acting career.

After an estimated 110 million records sold during his lifetime – making him one of the world’s best-selling singers -Hallyday’s success has continued unabated beyond his death.

Almost half of his current listeners on Spotify are under the age of 35, according to the streaming service, and a posthumous greatest hits collection of “France’s favourite rock’n’roller”, whose real name was Jean-Philippe Leo
Smet, sold more than half a million copies.

The two new songs, Un cri (A cry) and Grave-moi le coeur (Engrave my heart), are featured on two albums published by different labels which also contain already-known hits in remastered or symphonic versions.

Un cri was written in 2017 by guitarist and producer Maxim Nucci – better known as Yodelice – who worked with Hallyday during the singer’s final years.

At the time Hallyday had just learned that his cancer had returned, and he “felt the need to make music outside the framework of an album,” Yodelice told reporters this week.

Hallyday recorded a demo version of the song, accompanied only by an acoustic blues guitar, but never brought it to full production.

Sensing the fans’ unbroken love for Hallyday, Yodelice decided to finish the job.

He separated the voice track from the guitar which he felt was too tame, and arranged a rockier, full-band accompaniment.

“It felt like I was playing with my buddy,” he said.

The second song, Grave-moi le coeur, is to be published in December under the artistic responsibility of another of the singer’s close collaborators, the arranger Yvan Cassar.

Hallyday recorded the song – a French version of Elvis’s Love Me Tender – with a view to performing it at a 1996 show in Las Vegas.

But in the end he did not play it live, opting instead for the original English-language version, and did not include it in any album.

“This may sound crazy, but the song was on a rehearsal tape that had never been digitalised,” Cassar told AFP.

The new songs are unlikely to be the last of new Hallyday tunes to delight fans, a source with knowledge of his work said. “There’s still a huge mass of recordings out there spanning his whole career,” the source said.

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