With the weather having made a turn for the colder and daylight hours steadily dwindling, there’s no better time to start thinking ahead to next summer’s festival season. 

 

Roskilde Festival, the largest music festival in Denmark, announced the first ten acts for its 2016 edition on Thursday.

 

Headlining the announcement were Canadian ‘slacker rocker’ Mac DeMarco, New York rapper Action Bronson and Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett. 

 

The festival, which is gearing up for its 46th year, will have a total of 175 acts so the first batch represents only about five percent of the performers music fans can see between June 25th and July 2nd. 

 

“The festival is roughly nine months away, but we’re already busy putting together a line-up that’s both stylistically diverse and relevant. These qualities are very important to us and reflected by our announcements today that represent metal, rap, country, pop and much more,” the festival’s head of programme, Anders Wahrén, said. 

 

The Roskilde Festival attracts around 100,000 music fans each year. The non-profit festival is primarily driven by volunteers and donates its proceeds to worthy causes. The 2015 edition was fully sold-out and tickets for next year’s festival will go on sale next month. 

 

Relive last year’s action here

 

Organizers are currently soliciting fan requests for who should play in 2016. 

 

“This October we invite our audience to send us their music wishes, which we will collect and use as both inspiration and knowhow in the booking process over the course of the next year,” Wahrén said. 

 

Although an October line-up announcement may seem early, it actually comes later than Roskilde’s first announcement last year and more than a week after the heavy metal festival Copenhell triumphed its major booking of the legendary Black Sabbath for its 2016 edition. That concert will be Black Sabbath's last ever show in Denmark.

 

The ten acts introduced for the 2016 Roskilde Festival on Thursday were:

 

Action Bronson (US)

Mac Demarco (CA)

Courtney Barnett (AU)

Cattle Decapitation (US)

Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld (CA)

Ho99o9 (US)

Kuedo (DE)

Qwanqwa (ET)

Sleaford Mods (UK)

Sturgill Simpson (US)