Making our way back to a sun drenched Kongescenen, it’s time for the last act of the festival. And what an act is is. New Order have been selected to close 2012′s Slottsfjell festival, a legendary band in many respects who start as they mean to go on by powering through ‘Crystal’ on a stage dressed with an immense screen showing the iconic video to the track (and incidentally, the video from with The Killers took their name – fun fact for you). New Order classics such as ‘Blue Monday’ and ‘Ceremony’ are mingled with anecdotes from Bernard Sumner (“Apparently we haven’t played in Norway since 1980… but we only formed in 1981, so i’m not sure what happened there…”), before unleashing an encore which brings the Hus down.
Ending the set with a rendition of ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’, each member of the crowd stares transfixed at the stage, enjoying hearing such an iconic track be performed live on such a beautiful evening. Special moments like this don’t arrive too frequently as festivals, but Slottsfjell seems to manage to produce them consistently. A special location, a unique line up and a friendly atmosphere on a beautiful site, Slottsfjell has proven itself to be one of the warmest, most promising and most inspired festivals that Norway has to offer.
