Foreign Music Festival for the year

Posted by jill on July 22, 2008

This time last year I was on the West coast of USA, enjoying two weeks of great shows. This year I went to Norway for Slottsfjell Festival, named after the tower around which the festival is based. Located at the edge of the oldest town in Norway, Tonsberg, it was a beautiful location for a festival. On one side of the hill was the lake, and the other side the houses in the town.

Half the line up consisted of Norwegian acts, some of which were apparently amongst the more popular bands in Norway. However, us, enjoying the sun a bit too much, took a more relaxed approach to listening to music. Musical highlights of the weekend included Annie (the only act we saw on the main stage), Lethal Bizzle performing to a mainly white crowd and dancing to Swedish band Slagsmålsklubben at the club afterwards on the last night.

After the Seattle experience last year and this festival this year, it seems like a music festival abroad is definitely preferable to something in the UK.