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Once again, the Danish festival brings a top line-up with bands of every music genre and huge headliners. Not bad, right? And these are only five of the acts of the festival.

Throughout the eight days of the festival, Art Zone displays artwork while performances, talks, debates and other activities take place at the Flokkr area. Roskilde Festival attracts people of every age, nationality and style but the average age of visitors is 24 years old.

So, millennials, you just got another reason to add Roskilde Festival to your bucket list. What more to ask for your summer holidays? Simply because it takes place in the homonymous city, which is only 30 minutes away from Copenhagen.

So if at the end of the day you want to take a warm shower in a comfy accommodation and then head back to the festival the next morning for another day full of music, you can do just that. You only have to grab the train and in less than an hour be at your destination. As singer Eddie Vedder later recalled , the band had no idea what was happening until it was too late. We knew immediately it had gone on to that other level. In a bitter twist, Vedder noted that the next number in the set list was supposed to be "Alive," a hit from their debut Ten.

They started singing, 'I'm still alive. That was when my brain clicked a switch. I knew I would never be the same. Organizers and officials attributed the tragedy to a confluence of factors, including mud-slicked grounds that made it more difficult for audience members to stay on their feet, but the band members were outspoken in their belief that lives could have been saved if the festival had safer procedures in place — or if security had acted more quickly to let the group know things were unraveling on the ground.

The group's commitment to do right by the fans who lost their lives at Roskilde continued in the years that followed, as evidenced by a moving post at the band's official site that commemorated the year anniversary of the show — and subsequent efforts by band members to reach out to those left behind after the deaths.

We hope," he wrote. The space created by the absence of those 9 young men. More: Pearl Jam's 'Gigaton' is the angry but hopeful album we need right now. Facebook Twitter Email. Pearl Jam pays emotional tribute to fans who died in Roskilde Festival tragedy, 20 years later.