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I don't expect a big name to be added. They can promote as subheadliners to The Opposites (Lowlands headliners) or Dave (Reading headliner). I thought that they had one big name from the Werchter family festivals (Placebo for example), but why didn't they announce them last week with Vitalic and Lil Uzi Vert?

Limp Bizkit has cancelled all their European Tour. Oscar And The Wolf aslo is cancelling all its 2022 dates due to mental health issues. Let's see how Pukkelpop acts. They are two subheadliners...

Colonia Marconi is a zone full of heroine and prostitution. Just google it. I would never park my car in a zone close to the festival. It's hard to understand why do they have chosen this location.

Yes, it has been confirmed by local authorities. This place is at the south of Madrid, close to M45 highway and Colonia Marconi: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3268044,-3.7010382,3a,42.2y,215.47h,84.61t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1syqYov9oYiG4pF5ajKUYavg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DyqYov9oYiG4pF5ajKUYavg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D351.47287%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

Maybe Shelter Stage is coming back but being smaller than the prevoius one until 2016? There is enough rock in the line up to fill 6 or 7 slots per day in a new stage.

Mad Cool 2023 will take place in Villaverde (south of Madrid), near Polígono Marconi. Not the best location, imo.

Not really. We caught the second metro once we arrived to the station. Then once you are in Nuevos Ministerios, walk towards Cuatro Caminos to get a taxi. We got one in less than 5 minutes.

Metro to Nuevos Ministerios and order a Cabify there or take a taxi near Nuevos Ministerios.

Hear Hear bands moved to Pukkelpop: Vitalic for Friday Meskerem Mees and Eefje de Visser for Sunday Also added Lil Uzi Vert, DoFlame and Miss Angel.

I think @Ken19 said in this forum that the Hear Hear ticket selling were going OK, and over 20k people was expected to be there.

Rock Werchter is 100% sold out but TW Classic is not. That would explain why if they have Placebo booked they cannot announce it yet... Maybe is a stupid theory, but we will see it in a couple of weeks...

They are waiting until Rock Werchter events happpen to announce the last acts and the timetable, maybe the big name missing on Friday will play RW or Boutique or TW Classic. Maybe Placebo? I sill remember this strange co-headline Placebo-Iron Maiden in 2010. Maybe Placebo-Slipknot 12 years after?

Jinjer are playing another festival in Germany on Friday August 19th (Summer Breeze). I think that Slipknot european tour poster is a bit confusing, and Jinjer and the other band are not playing the festivals as Cabaret Vert or Pukkelpop.

Sorry, double post.

HEISA sounds really great. Thanks for the tip. Lot of interesenting guitar names that I am discovering, so I am 99% in after 5 years. It is posible that they will create a new smaller Shelter Stage with some not big but quality rock bands.

Yes, they are the same.

It is in the middle of nowhere. This site was used for Rock in Río Madrid 15 years ago and it was a nightmare to go there and go back to the city.

Soulwax and Willow Smith have cancelled their Pukkelpop shows.

It seems a logical choice if he plays between Cypress Hill and Slipknot on friday, and maybe Paul Kalkbrenner closing the Main Stage.

Yes, it is.

Contracts, exclusivities and embargos in US festivals has nothing to do with European ones. You cannot compare Boston Calling or US festivals industry with European one. When an European big festival books a headliner, normally they sign in the contract that they cannot announce another show in the same country until the festival happens. You won't have this problems in the States where the festivals share their headliners. European (and Spanish) contracts with lot of bands have lot embargos and exclusivities. I remember Resurrection Festival announcing a headliner as "only show in Spain in the next two years". Be patient, wait until Primavera happens and then analize if Mad Cool have taken right decisions keeping silence. Their festival is sold out, as well as Werchter is, so they can act the same way that Werchter and do not replace the big bands that have pulled out or spend money in booking big bands once the festival is sold-out. Let's see...

Sometimes you cannot decide when to announce a headliner…

In booking.com you can find availability in most of Hasselt hotels: Express By Holiday Inn, Radisson, Holiday Inn, De Groene Hendrickx, Park Inn and a nice B&B near the main ring of the city. In a normal year it would be imposible to find a room in a hotel in Hasselt two months after the ticket selling start. Other hotels are Yup, Hassotel or The Century.

2 months since line-up announcement. Silence since then. Plenty of hotel rooms available in Hasselt. Camping at the other side of the road still available. Something is not going as planned in PKP headquarters. For sure.