Tinderbox is the kind of festival where you can shout along to Basket Case, spout Love on the Brain, and forget your life's bad decisions in a Ferris wheel over Odense. It's not just a music festival -- it's a sensory explosion of sorts, with pop, rock and techno mingling with draft beer, tinsel and canned sunshine.
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Thursday — Raw rock and dance-friendly mayhem
Thursday starts hard and well. The Black Keys give the guitar a comeback at 7pm, and The Minds of 99 prove once again that they can get even the most jaded campers bawling along at 10pm. And then of course there's Magicbox -- Denmark's only dedicated electronic stage at a festival -- where you can disappear into a beatdrop with Afrojack and forget what time it is.
Friday — Pop Queens and '00s Nostalgia
If you need a soundtrack for your inner protagonist, Friday is your day. Kylie Minogue hits the Panorama stage at 10pm, and yes, she's still got it. Natasha Bedingfield and the Scissor Sisters at the Plaza give Friday a kitschet, queer-happy energy. And down in the Magicbox, ARTBAT and Kölsch overpower your senses while the Ferris wheel spins behind you like a silent disco in the sky.
Saturday — Grand final in green surroundings
Green Day closes and extinguishes, and it stays with fire, eardrops and all the stuff you hoped they still had in them. But before then: HUGORM, The Streets and Latto set fire to Odense. And when it all gets a little too much -- and it does -- you can grab a ride in the Ferris wheel with a bucket of nachos and feel like the protagonist of your own teen movie.
Let's just put it like this...
Tinderbox 2025 is like a well-composed playlist you couldn't have made yourself — but that hits everything right. The festival has something the others don't: an entire stage just for electronic music. And it has the guts to both book the biggest names and make room for quirky, kitschy, sweaty experiences. Plus a Ferris wheel. It's not necessary. But it's brilliant.
A festival that almost hits spot on every parameter -- with room for a little more surprise next year.
