The problem with European festivals is that most years the line-ups often end up being indistinguishable from one another.  The headliners, middle-order bands and up-and-comers are generally from the same sample group, with the rest of the bill often determined by their standing locally.
 
Denmark's Roskilde festival has it's own way of dealing with this, which we'll come to shortly.  One of Europe's longest running festivals (it's been going strong since 1971), it's certainly among the most famous, though not always for the right reasons - 2000's event went down in infamy with the death of nine people in crowd surges during Pearl Jam's set.
 
The festival has since successfully recovered from that tragedy - a memorial to the lost nine stands by the main Orange stage - and this year welcomes Radiohead to open up tonight.  Whilst the smaller stages are a little light on names recognisable outside of Denmark and Northern Europe, it's Roskilde's Orange stage line-up that intrigues the most, and manages to make the festival stand out from the pack, albeit perhaps not entirely deliberately...
 
And what is this trick Roskilde has up its sleeve you ask?  Well, the organisers have taken a gloriously idiosyncratic approach to the programming of the main stage schedule.  So Friday features The Streets headlining, following a performance by Nick Cave's down'n'dirty southern blues outfit Grinderman.  Better still, Saturday has Neil Young sandwiched in between Judas Priest and The Chemical Brothers!
 
But it's on the Sunday when the most genius scheduling since the Stereophonics headlined a Reading bill featuring Eminem, Rage Against The Machine and Slipknot occurs...
 
Slayer followed by Jay Z anyone?
 
Genius.  Just utter, utter genius.
 
Thursday until Sunday
Roskilde, Denmark