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Hjalmer fell asleep at the piss end because he was too stiff: 'Festivals are just fat' | BT Kendte - www.bt.dk He has fallen asleep in the piss gutter, he has had a real 'I made it' moment, he has lost his wallet in a festival toilet and rediscovered his faith in humanity in the same place. In short, Hjalmer is both used to and crazy about being at a festival - whether it is on stage or in the mud. ‘Festivals are just cool. Shut up, I missed it, "says the 26-year-old musician. This summer, he and the band will recapture the outdoor stages across the country when the festival fever hits Denmark after two long years of absence, and for the first time, the hometown festival Tinderbox awaits. "I've been there one day in 2017 and seen my dad, but that's actually the only thing I've tried to be on Tinderbox, so I'm really looking forward to it," he says. But Hjalmer will also experience the atmosphere at Roskilde Festival together with the group of boys he was at the festival with for the first time in 2014. "At the time, I still just went and dreamed of being allowed to play music." "It was my huge dream, so for all the concerts I just stood and was wildly envious of them on stage, ”he recalls. By that time, he had just put on his student hat, and the first encounter with the festival was quite overwhelming. This summer will be Hjalmer's fourth time playing at Smukfest. One of his greatest experiences as a musician he had at the festival, and this year he is looking forward to being a teenager for the Justin Bieber concert later the same day that he himself performs. “It was the most beautiful week and I really fell asleep in the piss end at one point because I was too stiff. It was just as it should be, "he laughs. Both that and the following years at the festival he connects with the ultimate week of freedom, free from expectations and obligations. "It is rare for a human being to have such a week. That's what makes it so great. ”That's exactly what it's hard to do as a performing musician, where festivals are work before they are fun. "In the past, you just drank yourself down and didn't have to think about anything. Now you sit and have to think about having to sing in three days and not be able to drink 30 beers or shout. ”This also means that he will have to neglect part of the party with the group he is otherwise away with each years at Roskilde Festival. This also applied in 2019, when Hjalmer had four other concerts, the same week as he had to play at the festival for the first time. In front of the stage stood in the vicinity of 10,000 people, and in front fluttered a familiar flag. The flag of Camp Boogies. "The first thing I saw when I came out to that sea of people were my ten boys standing down in front." The friends had waited for many hours to stand at the very front and receive him. "It was just mega beautiful, it was just full circle. I remember I was so moved by it. Fuck man, then. It was really, really big. ”The name of the camp, Camp Boogies, is not only named after the friends' favorite bar in Odense. In 2017, they also asked if the bar owner would not sponsor their camp at Roskilde Festival. He wanted to - and prepared with flags, stickers, beer, Jägermeister and "everything possible" Hjalmer and his friends held a Boogies party in Roskilde. "There were a lot of people who probably did not have a relationship with Boogies at all, but there were also a lot of people who had." "And somehow it was so stupid, but it was also one of the funniest things ever." When all festivals were canceled in 2020, the group of friends saw no other option than to make their own festival, and they borrowed a allotment garden in Odense for the purpose. Earlier, Hjalmer had informed his family, girlfriend and friends that they should not expect to reach him on the phone. Although both Hjalmer and his friends from high school now live in Copenhagen, they still have in common that Boogies Dance Café is their favorite bar in Odense. That is why their regular camp at Roskilde Festival is also called Camp Boogies. For now it was festival time and everyone was ready for the five wildest days bathed in booze and love. "It also ended up with the police coming because it was a very small allotment garden association, where we might as well get to push it a little bit." "We were asked to screw down, vigorously. Maybe even more than once. But we did too, and everything was good. ”It was not Roskilde Festival, but something very special that, after all, reminded on a smaller scale. As a performing musician in his own name, the industry festival Spot Festival in Aarhus was Hjalmer's first festival in 2017. Since then, he has long since become a well-known name. 'I remember I had such a huge' made it 'moment in 2018 when I had just released the first one and it was still such a bit ...' Will it go well, or will it go bad? '' Right up until he heard his music being played in a camp. »Then you are like this: 'Okay, if it has come to Roskilde, then it will go well. Then we have something right. '' He had another and far less glamorous experience in 2014. An experience that began one afternoon in a festival toilet and ended the same night with a renewed confidence in humanity. “I was feeling a little bad. To be honest a little bad stomach, festival belly. So I had been on the toilet for a long time in those clammy stalls, "says Hjalmer. Nevertheless, he subsequently went to a concert, where one of his friends in turn got ill and had to be followed out to get some water. "He's no longer able to find his wallet or anything." "And since I have to pay, I can see that my wallet is no longer in my belt bag. And I'm just thinking, 'It's a lie, I've lost it somewhere.' and food stalls. Unsuccessfully. "It was two o'clock at night, and I was just thinking, 'It's gone, how bad it is.' I'm getting into the same booth I've been to before - quite by chance - and then my wallet is fucking on the sink and everything's in it. '' Dankort, cash. 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