Photo: Ditte Valente

Roskilde: Avoiding going to concerts alone

Software and programming
New app connects festival-goers based on their concert preferences. The developers hope that the app can help to create even more spontaneous meetings at the festival.

Three DTU students had grown tired of missing concerts, because they did not want to miss out on the parties. They have therefore developed an app listing the concerts at Roskilde Festival to make it easy for festival-goers to get in contact with other guests who would like to see the same concert as themselves.

“In our group, we have all been at festivals before and missed concerts—which we would actually have liked to see—because the other people from the camp went to another concert. When that happens, you know very well where the party is going to be, and then you join the others. And then you miss out on the concert. With our solution, you’re always sure you have someone with you,” says Maiken Kock Rask, who is studying Digital Media Engineering and who has developed the app together with Martin Jesper Low Madsen and Christian Kjær Laustsen—both studying Telecommunication.

Chat and agree on a place to meet
Maiken explains that you use the app to select the concerts you would like to see. You can then see which of your friends—perhaps also from other camps—want to go to the same concert and then agree to go together. By pressing +1 in the app, you can see the first name and age of all those who have indicated that they also want to go to the concert, and who need someone to go with. You can then chat with them via the app and agree on a place to meet.

Digital generation
But why use an app for this?, some people might ask. After all, there are already hundreds of other people at the concert you can talk to and party with.

"Our generation is used to meeting each other through social media, and we’re definitely used to always being able to get in contact with each other. "
Maiken Kock Rask

“It’s correct that Roskilde Festival is a place where you meet a lot of other people and that people are very open towards each other, but I still believe that people like to know who they’re going with and to have established some form of contact before arriving at the concert,” says Maiken Kock Rask, and continues:

“And then you also have to remember that our generation is used to meeting each other through social media, and we’re definitely used to always being able to get in contact with each other. When we can see that our friends have decided to skip a concert to go with the majority of the camp members, it makes sense to use social media to create even more spontaneous meetings and new friendships than are already being created at the festival, and still enjoy all the concerts you have ticked in the programme.”

Roskilde Festival +1 works on both iOS and Android.

Read more on the app website.