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Very good start indeed. Let's see how many other nice names they book

Very cool game! I would add to the ones mentioned by all of you guys: Toro y Moi (Moi... Moi post) There are some singers who wrote songs entitled "Note à moi-même" or "Ne changez rien" but I don't know them... It could be something else... Letter to Myself by Eminem? 😲

I could add to the already mentioned: Rock En Seine, Vodafone Paredes de Coura, Electric Picnic, La Route Du Rock, Flow (Finland) - Oyafestivalen (they share many names with Way Out West), Canela Party, Off (Poland), Misty Fields, Haldern Pop, TOdays - Ypsigrock (small italian festivals). Most of them are smaller than the ones you've been to. It also depends on your music tastes and what you're looking at a music festival.

their social media posts only say "next week". Maybe someone on Festileaks knows some more infos

It starts shaping cool

LEAK

None in particular but BKS will probably announce a batch of names who won't be at Pinkpop

Announcement from Best Kept Secret coming next week. We'll know who can we rule out.

Can't we see them as possible Marquee headliners? Something like The National in 2019: a co-headliner but playing in the Marquee instead of the Main Stage. Maybe it's no more possible to have such big Marquee shows after the pandemic and the increases in concert production prices, maybe now their main goal is to attract as much young people they can... But one of the PKP things I loved most during the last decade is the possibility to attend to shows like The National, Tame Impala, PJ Harvey, Interpol, Elbow, Flaming Lips, etc... In the Marquee. I want to dream that something like that is still possible.

what are your feelings about QOTSA? Are they GMM material ore more likely for PKP or for RW again?

probably they have to wait for the official announcement during the next days. It's June 15 and it fills a big gap between 2 dates, so I think it's true.

it's all relative, as someone else said, including the hype. On Primavera and i-Days forums it's probably bigger than elsewhere for that reason.

I'm from Italy and they only came here twice in their whole history (2006 and 2019). After 2019 tour they released an album and only had one European Tour in Spring 2022 with no Italy, Spain or Portugal shows. And before 2019 they hadn't played in Europe for over a decade. If there's an active band who "tours a lot", they're not Tool, at least not in Italy or Spain.

I might be wrong 🙂

I think this makes them more unlikely for RW. Maybe they could play PKP being announced in March-April.

TOOLMORROW'S THE DAY

Very nice start for WOW with Fred Again, Pulp, PJ Harvey, Queens Of The Stone Age already announced. QOTSA played Werchter last year, so I'd say they're likely for PKP (or GMM?) in 2024.

I can also see Weezer here, as they'll be touring UK-Ireland together with The Smashing Pumpkins June 7-14

Some of you have probably already read the news but Pulp and PJ Harvey are the first names announced for Oya 2024

I think they'll be touring Europe May/June until the Werchter/Open'er weekend

so, who's their biggest ever headliner?

Oddly no rumor about Portishead this year 👀

Back home from Paris, enjoyed a lot this one. Beautiful park, very easy to reach, a lot of choices in food and beverage including some nice beers. Very good audio at any stage, except a couple of electricity problems during Fever Ray and The Strokes' shows. Weather has been warm but not hot, with only 10 minutes of rain during Wet Leg / Young Fathers. My cons: - The stages are disposed on a vertical line and they're not really close to each other (it takes a 20 minutes walk, more or less, to reach the Grand Scene from the Scene Bosquet and a 10 minutes one from the Scene Cascade). There's always a lot of people during the night shows at Grande Scene and shows start suddenly as the ones on the other stages end, so, if you want to get quite close to the main stage, you have to miss the previous concerts on other stages. On the contrary, leaving the Grande Scene during the last song by Foals to reach Cascade for Bonobo has been quite easy because most of the people stayed there for The Strokes. The festival started early afternoon every day and ended at 00.30 on Friday and Saturday and 11.30 pm on Sunday (with only The Strokes playing in the entire festival area from 10 to 11.30 pm), so every day you better choose the 3-4 concerts you want to attend to. It's difficult to do more, unless you don't want to see half concerts. Florence cancellation let us attend full sets by Dry Cleaning and Yeah Yeah Yeahs (skipping Cypress Hill) + The Chems kinda far from the stage (but amazing anyways). With Florence instead of Cypress we'd have to make one more choice. - Most of the people left the festival around midnight on Sunday, so the underground was overcrowded, but there's a train every few minutes, so the waiting hasn't been long (we walked 800 metres to the second stop and catched the first train, to be honest). My highlights: The Chemical Brothers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Christine And The Queens, Fever Ray, Bonobo, The Murder Capital (all incredible imho). Also enjoyed Foals, Viagra Boys, Dry Cleaning, Altin Gun, Placebo, Turnstile, Gaz Coombes, Wet Leg. I'm reading many conflicting comments on RES social pages regarding The Strokes set. Basically, from what I read, Strokes fans loved it, the rest of the crowd didn't. I'm honestly not a fan. They weren't as sh*tty as many people say in the comments, but it's been the show I liked the less. Definitely worth it and worth a trip to Paris with my girlfriend.

Is that guy always wearing a vintage cycling world champion t-shirt? He's amazing!

She was the most logical replacement for Florence but for some reasons it didn't happen during these two weeks, so it won't happen later, I think.