johnybegood

This is the time of the year when you see lot of great old bands touring in August and you dream that some of them will be at pukkelpop. This year you have Kraftwerk, Iggy Pop, Suede, Pixies, Bad Religion... Then Lokerse Feesten starts booking them one by one. The last step is Pukkelpop first announcement that brings you back to reality and wakes you up from that dream.

Triggerfinger are playing in France the day before Pukkelpop begins...

I can see Triggerfinger playing Pukkelpop 2022. Typical band that is booked every 3 or 4 years.

Oscar And The Wolf?

Don't forget Oscar And The Wolf has released a new album a few months ago and he has not been announced for any belgian festival yet...

Cabaret Vert is a french festival that takes place 2 hours drive from Hasselt that is happening during Pukkelpop weekend, so there must be a big overlap between both festivals. Line Up: https://cabaretvert.com/ Lot of questions come to my mind: Is Slipknot a posibility to take a Main Stage high slot? Are Pixies or Fontaines DC a posibility as a late announcement being shared with Rock Werchter? Will Liam Gallagher take again a headliner slot? Will Stromae comeback be ignored by Pukkelpop team? What do you think?

Not looking good for american bands in 2022. A friend of mine told me a few weeks ago that European August Festivals were looking for British headliners for 2022, in order to offer them a circuit with 6 o 7 festivals for making them attractive to tour in August. I am sure that big festivals will take place in june/july 2022. And that's the most important thing. With or without huge american bands.

Idles and Fontaines DC are two of fav bands nowadays. I hope you are right.

Rock Werchter has announced some of the acts from Pukkelpop 2021 line-up that I was expecting for 2022: Idles, Fever 333, Meute, Altin Gun, Anne-Marie, Lianne La Havas, Baltazhar, Bazart, Sam Fender...

Wolf Alice are playing Sportpaleis in july so you can rule them out. Idles will be in Pukkelpop. Fountaines were confirmed by Ken for Werchter.

Just one day!! You can organize a 3 days festivals with that ammount of bands!!

An "insider" has leaked some names in the Festileaks forum: Arctic Monkeys Wilco Slowthai Clutch Strand Of Oaks Joost Viagra Boys Little Simz King Hannah Low Goldband Erol Alkan Mdou Moctar Dry Cleaning Celeste Palace The Blaze Perfume Genius

While a positive Covid test means being isolated during some days, no US big headliner will tour Europe. The only option nowadays for US big bands is one gig or a one week/10 days tour. The feeling I have in Spain is that pessimism has come back to big promoters. We have 120.000 infected people per day, maximum in the pandemic and I am afraid that some huge acts are starting to consider the idea of postponing their tour to 2023. I hope that things will look totally different in February. Figers crossed!!!

Don't get me wrong. I just was saying that maybe Ken was being a bit ironic saying that it is Bruce Springsteen when the real sunday headliner maybe is somebody much smaller. I really appreciate Ken information and he is really important in this forum.

We all know the "love" that @Ken19 feels for Mad Cool. Maybe he was trolling us a little bit with some irony when he told us that Springsteen was Sunday Mad Cool headliner?

Trolling post in exiliados forum...

Turnstile and Thrice are playing in Germany on Saturday July 2nd. They have released two amazing albums this year, so I can see both of them playing the major European festivals, including Werchter.

With Stromae playing another belgian festivals, is he big enough to sell out Werchter field?

I got my money back last week

10 years from the storm that devastated PKP'11. Is a date that remain marked in my brain. I was in the shelter stage waiting for the next band and I remember seeing the tent shaking and the trees flying and crashing in the roof. It was a miracle that the tent didn't collapse or any tree didn`t destroy the roof and injure/kill somebody.

Booking Coldplay would sell out the festival in a few minutes. Booking Coldpay would keep the festival empty all days but Coldplay day. It’s imposible that a festival books them nowadys but Glastonbury or a festival like Firenze Rocks that is divided in several days independent events