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Roskilde organizers hand out gum boots after wettest festival
Jul 10, 2007, 14:36 GMT
Copenhagen - Thousands of pairs of gum boots were available - for free - after what has been wettest Roskilde festival, reports said Tuesday.
Gum boots were a must to negotiate the seas of mud and pools of water generated by heavy rainfall in the run up as well as during the first few days of the four-day festival that ended Sunday.
Some 2,000 to 3,000 pairs of muddy boots have been collected, the newspaper Roskilde Dagbladet reported.
'If anyone needs gum boots, they are welcome to contact me,' festival spokesman Esben Danielsen told the newspaper.
Danielsen said that extra costs for pumps, wood chips and hay used during the water-logged festival as well as more expensive restorationof grass fields and other areas used for the festival site were likely to impact the profits.
He told reporters the festival would likely turn a slight profit or break even.
Next year, organizers said they doubted that the festival will sell all 75,000 tickets.
Danielsen told the Politiken newspaper they anticipated sales of 65,000 tickets citing 'the older part of the crowd, those over 35, have likely reached the limit of their discomfort.'
The first Roskilde festival was held 1971.
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