Saturday at Roskilde 2025 is a strange, beautiful, confusing cocktail of giant names, queer energy, TikTok stars, depressive uncle rock and a trillion drums on Amapiano beats. It's going to be the kind of day when you might as well let reason stay in the tent -- and just try to keep up.
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Disclaimer: Apropos Magazine received access or a review copy. As always, we share our own impressions — unfiltered.
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Africa Express is Roskilde's major prestige project.
It's improvised, huge, and anything can happen. Usually with Damon Albarn (him from Blur and Gorillaz) in the fold, but now without the “gorilla”.
You never know who will step up on stage -- and that's exactly the point.
Is it chaotic? Yes. Is it magical? As a rule.
Look forward to three hours of too much of everything.
Anohni and the Johnsons — Beautiful, vulnerable and a little dangerous to speak about
Anohni delivers some of the most sensitive, beautiful and politically charged music at the festival.
It's queer, it's grandladent, and it's not something you smalltalk your way through.
It will be a concert where you either stand with tears in your eyes — or feel like the world's most tone-deaf person. No middle ground.
Nine Inch Nails — When you don't know whether to dance or cry
Nine Inch Nails is struggle on the Roskilde scale.
Trent Reznor brings all the dark, dirty and smashed of '80s industrial grunge with him.
You know Hurt (the one Johnny Cash turned into a tear-jerker), and maybe Every day is exactly the same -- if you've ever felt like Monday became Tuesday without you noticing.
Expect darkness, noise, and the feeling of someone pulling a black carpet across the festival site.
Noah Carter
Noah Carter is Copenhagen's very own rap-soul-ener.
He knows something international, and at Arena (maybe) it could easily become one of those concerts where the audience feels a little cooler just by being there.
Expect friendly guest appearances, heavy beats and a bit of that “we're in on something not everyone's got yet” vibe.
Major League DJz — Drums, Sweats and Last Call to the Dancefloor
Major League DJz is bringing South Africa's amapiano wave straight to Roskilde.
It's house music, but with soul, rhythm and heavy bass that creeps right up the spine.
It will be the last push out onto the dance floor when the body is really ready to capitulate.
If you can still stand up, stand here.
Tyla — the TikTok queen, the basic-bitch daydream and Saturday's pop fest
Tyla is the definition of a tensile patch that hits everybody Segments:
Old men, young girls, after-school students, TikTok stalkers.
She's small, South African, insanely talented and so good-looking you get a bit of a guilty conscience just from looking at her.
With the hit Water in her luggage and Victoria's Secret on the résumé, her concert becomes one big dance floor.
If you haven't already seen her reels, do it afterwards. Just wait.
