GrimFest

GrimFest began in 2004 as a garden party of four friends at a farm called Grimhoj outside Aarhus, its self-mocking name a direct pun on the more polished Smukfest, Denmark's Most Beautiful Festival. Now capped at roughly 5,000 guests over three August days at Skjoldhojkilen in Brabrand, it has built a genuine track record of booking Danish artists, including The Minds of 99, Tobias Rahim and Myrkur, before they became widely known.

Four friends threw a garden party at a farm called Grimhoj in 2004, and the joke name they gave it, Danmarks Grimmeste Festival, Denmark's Ugliest Festival, a direct pun on both the farm's name and the more polished Danmarks Smukkeste Festival, Denmark's Most Beautiful Festival, staged nearby in Skanderborg, has stuck through two decades of steady growth into a genuine, if still deliberately small, fixture on the Aarhus summer calendar.