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Also Highfield Festival has confirmed most of its 2021 line-up DEICHKIND · BEATSTEAKS BRING ME THE HORIZON · KONTRA K · CLUESO · SIDO · KUMMER MADSEN · SUM 41 · TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB · ESKIMO CALLBOY GIANT ROOKS · BAD RELIGION · LEONIDEN · JUJU · WANDA · CALLEJON FERDINAND IS LEFT BOY · ANTILOPEN GANG · FRITTENBUDE TURBOSTAAT · PASCOW GROSSSTADTGEFLÜSTER · YOU ME AT SIX · BETONTOD FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES · FEVER 333 · NURA · LAGWAGON MOOP MAMA · ZEBRAHEAD · THE HUNNA · PROVINZ · THE BOUNCING SOULS · KAFVKA CLEOPATRICK · 100 KILO HERZ

Pixies over System Of A Down? Sum 41 over 21 Pilots? Quite Strange...

No way that they can swith those bands back? Liam for PKP and Chems for RW in 2021?

Were Pixies supposed to play Werchter + Pukkelpop in 2020? They had a 4 gap in their schedule in PKP dates (August 21st they were playing in France and August 25th in Amsterdam, so day had a 4 days gap and Belgium was in their rute between France and Holland)

Maybe they will headline the Marquee on its "Rock Day" as Incubus and Rise Against did in the last couple of years

Editors, BMTH and Chemical Brothers were confirmed by Ken for PKP20 so I think that we can count on them for next year edition.

Bad Religion had sold almost 15k tickets for their Spanish 2020 tour, in 6 cities. Punk In Drublic festival is getting bigger and bigger (with Belgian date this year for the first time) I think that these bands are a good value for money and they are all touring Europe in August. Groezrock is a great festival and Hans is a cool guy. I had no idea that they had financial problems. Such a pity.

Take a look to Rock Werchter 2020 thread in the last months.

I always loved this festival because there were very young people mixed with older people, being all in perfect harmony. With 8 stages running there is space for everybody. Last year they booked Johnny Marr, Mike D, Eels, PoR or Pennywise... so they haven’t forgotten 100% about nostalgic people... Let’s see what will they prepare for 2021...

There are thousand of nostalgic people that buy tickets for Brakrock or for Lokerse punk day. And these oldies spend more money in the bars that young people drinking in the camping. I don’t like Sum 41, but they are big enough to get a slot in Werchter Main Stage.

I am pretty sure than a Shelter headlined by Bad Religion or Sum 41 and 4 or 5 Punk Rock Holiday bands before them (Lagwagon, Strung Out, Zebrahead, Sick Of It All...) can sell 4K tickets easily. 2020 was a year without Groezrock. Just look how many tickets are sold in the punk day of Lokerse Feesten and how many tickets are sold now in Brakrock and how many did this small festival used to sell when the Shelter was running. Not all PKP stages are full during all day. I have seen empty concerts at 6pm in the Marquee, Main Stage and in the smaller stages. In the last years all nice punk bands are touring Europe in August, so new punk and rock festivals are appearing (Tsunami, Bay Fest, Crash Festival) or growing (Punk Rock Holiday or Brakrock). It is so stupid killing the Shelter just when you can choose between tons of cool bands touring Europe (much more bands avaliable than in 2016)

One of them was Gwen Stefani (Ken hinted it)

Last year of the shelter, they made it smaller and I saw lot of crowded concerts there: Refused, Thrice, Comeback Kid, Beach Slang or Marky Ramone come to my mind. That year there wasn’t any rock headliner, but if you book a band like Slipknot, Green Day or SOAD as headliner, you will have no problem in packing shelter all day, as happened in 2015 when Linkin Park played there (this year also booked bands as Offspring, Dropkick Murphys or Limp Bizkit for the Main Stage so the Shelter was really crowded all weekend.

Ken, why did Pukkelpop killed Shelter Stage 3 years ago? Now that not many bands are touring Europe in August as 10 years ago, the best punk/hc bands of the planet are touring Europe due to festivals as Punk Rock Holiday, Bay Fest, Tsunami or Rebellion. Why refusing these thousands of tickets sold and why giving the opportunity to Brakrock to book all these bands and stealing them 4 or 5 thousand of people? Shelter Stage was best PKP Stage for lot of people (me included) Eppo loves this kind of music. Why did he permit this stupid decision?

So, why will they book again for PKP 21 if they have time enough to look for another headliners?