johnybegood

This is the best Pukkelpop line-up from the last years. Maybe one of the best line-ups in the European 2024 circuit. Congrats to the booking team. They made an amazing line-up for all ages.

Hi and welcome to he Pukkelpop thread. Late and night there are no trains, so I think that the best idea is to try to find a room for friday night in Hasselt and then move on saturday morning to Brussels. There is a free shuttle bus from the festival to Hasselt that works perfectly at night. Besides, your train journey will be free with the Pukkelpop ticket (you will receive in early summer a link from you can download your train tickets). Maybe will be cheaper a room in Hasselt than the taxi trip + the hotel night in Brussels. Feel free to ask everything you need. Here there are really nice people as @Semprini, @DDave, @Trufflehound... that have attended the festival lot of times.

Sooooooo jelaous!!!!!!

I bet that Idles are playing 3rd down in the Main Stage on Sunday once their day in Rock Werchter is sold out. QOTSA / The Offspring / Idles makes sense.

Placebo dont have a summer belgian date, they are quite near on Friday and Saturday and they are free on Sunday, but I think that they never play 3 days in a row.

After analyzing how fast Pukkelpop tickets have been sold, I think that we are understimating how big are nowadays Fred Again and Sam Smith.

I've bought a combiticket because of the Sunday. I cannot be the only one... or maybe yes? 🙂

I only hope that Sugababes get a 5 or 6pm slot at Dance Hall and do not clash with the last 2 bands of Main Stage and Marquee. It would be a really fun act to see live but I want to see at least 2 complete sets and and half between QOTSA, The Smile, Rise Against and Offspring.

I sent them an email and received my tickets in 5 minutes. So here we go!

24 hours and I have not received any email from Pukkelpop… so strange…

I also bought my tickets yesterday. Have you received any email with a confirmation or with the tickets? I havent received it yet.

Enough Is Never Enough is one of the best songs Ive listened in the last years

The Clockworks are an amazing band.

Marquee and Main Stage wont clash but I think that you will have to leave 15 minutes before Rise Against end to get a good place for watching Offspring. What I am thinking is that if they programm rock acts in the Marquee (stage that clashes with Backyard), maybe they will make this stage dissapear and we will get a strong Marquee rock day similar to 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Sunday has the best big names for my tastes since 2010. Pukkelpop 2024, here we go!

The Libertines are playing Cabaret Vert (2 hours by car to Hasselt) on Saturday. Can you see Pukkelpop booking them for the QOTSA & Offspring as 3rd down in the Main Stage?

QOTSA is the best rock act that a festival can book nowadays, imo. Their last álbum is awesome. The Offspring used to be one of my fav bands in the 90’s in my punk & skate days, along with Bad Religion, NOFX, Millencolin and Pennywise. But yes, as Dave said is not an inspiring booking, I would have preferred Korn instead.

CDW and Goldband are also really cheap options. This will mean a strong undercard, I think.

Tomorrow several European festivals are annoucing at 11am (Mad Cool, Cabaret Vert, Pukkelpop) and Rock en Seine and Reading are also making announcements tomorrow.

Sam Smith + Goldband would be the weakest headline combo in PKP history

Will the Backyard Stage still alive? This is a good question.

I can’t see Pukkelpop missing QOTSA, Korn, Lana del Rey, Blink 182, Arcade Fire… for booking Goldband, CDW, Stormzy or Sam Smith. I am sure than QOTSA are booked.

I can see them brave enough to jump The Offspring as subheadliners in 2024.

Dave, are you still sure that Goldband is not taking a subheadliner status? Reading insider information on festileaks I think that QOSTA, CDW and Goldband are taking the highest slots at Main Stage. Only one big name remaining. Maybe Sam Smith for making the headline acts even worse? Insider also confirmed The Smile & Soulwax for Marquee headline and Peggy Gou, Jorja Smith and Skrillex for Dance Hall headline spots. These are all good bookings. Next week we will have a better overview of the situation. This year there were so many good names in the August circuit, so not an excuse for booking 100% repeated bands for the headline spots.

Is Festileaks insider teasing Goldband to take a subheadline slot? Google Translator does not make its job properly… 🙂