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Roskilde Festival 2016

edition of Roskilde Festival

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ108816208 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Roskilde Festival 2016 was held on 25 June to 2 July 2016 in Roskilde, Denmark. The festival was headlined by LCD Soundsystem, Tame Impala, PJ Harvey, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Wiz Khalifa, MØ, Tenacious D, New Order, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Neil Young + Promise of the Real.

Headlining set lists

Wednesday, 29 June

Thursday, 30 June

Friday, 1 July

Saturday, 2 July

Lineup

Headline performers are listed in boldface. Artists listed from latest to earliest set times.

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The public source identifies “Roskilde Festival 2016” as edition of Roskilde Festival. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Roskilde, Festival and edition.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Roskilde, Festival and edition providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Roskilde Festival 2016” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.