Saturday at Roskilde 2025 is a strange, beautiful, bewildering cocktail of huge names, queer energy, TikTok stars, depressive uncle rock and a trillion drums riding on amapiano beats. It’s the kind of day when you might as well leave reason 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 big prestige project.
It’s improvised, enormous, and anything can happen. Usually with Damon Albarn (the one from Blur and Gorillaz) in the mix, but now without the “gorilla.”
You never know who will turn up on stage — and that’s exactly the point.
Chaotic? Yes. Magical? Usually.
Look forward to three hours of too much of everything.
Anohni and the Johnsons – Beautiful, vulnerable and a little dangerous to talk about
Anohni delivers some of the festival’s most sensitive, beautiful and politically charged music.
It’s queer, it’s grand, and it’s not something you breeze through with small talk.
This will be a concert where you either end up with tears in your eyes — or feel like the most tone-deaf person on earth. No middle ground.
Nine Inch Nails – When you don’t know whether to dance or cry
Nine Inch Nails are huge by Roskilde standards.
Trent Reznor brings all the dark, dirty and shattered energy of 80s industrial grunge with him.
You know Hurt (the one Johnny Cash turned into a tearjerker), and maybe Every Day Is Exactly The Same — if you’ve ever felt like Monday quietly became Tuesday without you noticing.
Expect darkness, noise, and the feeling that someone is pulling a black curtain across the festival grounds.
Noah Carter
Noah Carter is Copenhagen’s very own rap-soul force.
He has something international about him, and on Arena (maybe) this could easily be one of those concerts where the crowd feels cooler just for being there.
Expect friendly guest appearances, heavy beats and a bit of that “we’re in on something not everyone has caught onto yet” feeling.
Major League DJz – Drums, sweat and the last call to the dance floor
Major League DJz bring South Africa’s amapiano wave straight to Roskilde.
It’s house music, but with soul, rhythm and a heavy bass that creeps all the way up your spine.
This will be the final shove onto the dance floor, when your body is really ready to give up.
If you can still stand, you should stand here.
Tyla – The TikTok queen, the basic-bitch daydream and Saturday’s pop party
Tyla is the definition of a draw that hits every segment:
Older men, young girls, boarding-school students, TikTok lurkers.
She’s small, South African, insanely talented and so beautiful that you feel a little guilty just looking at her.
With the hit Water in her pocket and Victoria’s Secret on her CV, her concert will be one giant dance floor.
If you haven’t already seen her reels, you will afterwards. Just wait.
