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  1. Have someone observed if Graspop shared names with Werchter? Audience very different but still in Belgium - 50km and a weekend apart...
    Thinking about the remaining 15ish bands for Graspop and names like Bad Omens, Janes Addiction come to mind... they all have a gap during the fest, but are also at RW.

    If they have only fillers for the last wave - no need to keep it for later. Line up is very strong already.
     

  2. 21 hours ago, FrogLobster said:

    One for the metal/hardcore/heavy music fans; Better Lovers self confirmed. Newish band formed of ex-members of Dillinger Escape Plan and Every Time I Die. 😁

    That's a great addition, indeed! Seen them few times on their UK tour last October and it was wild. If the Roskilde team bring in Chino Moreno with either with Deftones or Crosses it'll give a lot more depth and diversity to the line up...w8ing for the next announcements...

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  3. let's see tomorrow... with so many good and big bands touring in August, Sziget have a chance to gather amazing line up next year.
    Not sure if anyone mentioned NAS in the tread... He's touring in the period as well and would be great rap addition to the line up. 
     

  4. This prediction looks very probable, yes.
    Definitely fits Sziget direction and these bands are touring in the period... 

    If this gets announced, I'll be quite happy. Me being greedy would add "The Smile" but even without them I will consider visiting next year. I agree an announcement is imminent, so let's see the next couple of days.

  5. 11 minutes ago, Gejonimo said:

    You would not have thought there had been a full leak last night, this place is dead. Guessing this is gonna be pretty poorly received. 

    I expect so too. If the leak is legit, overall DW got most of good available acts for next year, but still weaker compared to the stacked 2023. Let's see
    P.S. I'll be surprised if there's no Crosses in the announcement today.

  6. On 12/21/2022 at 2:18 PM, justanothername said:

    Rise Against headlining? Are they really that big in Europe?

    From what I understood Rise Against are not main stage headliner. Rock am Ring are yet to announce the headliner there. Might be wrong though...

    Unless you're a die hard Metallica fan, so far (for me) RaR probably looks a bit better than Download even with all German bands I don't care about. This is of course at the moment and things will change with the next announcement.

    Still, I think this year Download have a real chance to have the second best metal line up in Europe (Hellfest) which would be a big thing. It would've been too easy to "open the old dusty closet" and add the Motley Crew/Def Leppard combo present at Copenhell, GMM etc. but for the first time in years they didn't which is very refreshing. 

    Looking forward the next announcement and the day separation.

  7. Weird discussion here... 
    What is middle aged man? Probably that's me (37yo) and I'm not sure what to make of this line up. 
    Overall I'm starting to get worried that Puscifer won't announce anything decent and will waste their EU leg with such horrible bookings.

    In regards of the middle aged people and this line up. (I presume most people here are in their 20s)
    RHCP are garbage in 202x and you're telling me they played this year as well? That's not good. Everyone above 30 have seen them and knows this. 1st time = kinda interesting, second time = not at all, 3rd time = there is no 3rd time
    Muse used to be a superb live act till around 2015ish... The middle aged men have seen them in their prime. What Muse are doing now is a bit offensive to people like me. QOTSA cool, AM yeah fine - I'll have some fun. This year PKP and especially Reading were good shows. Editors cool, Sigur Ros - great, Black keys... these guys still making music??? fine whatever.
    The very very strange bookings for the middle aged men are Amenra, Wardruna... Puscifer. 

    Last time I went to RW was in 2015 and I swore that I'll never go again because the festival is crap. I'm sure it still is. Did they fix "The Barn" stage cuz I doubt it... BUT in the same time I'm one Deafheaven away from buying a ticket, hahaha

  8. 17 hours ago, the_belette said:

    Have you guys been to any festival this year ?

    I just went to nova rock, and the organization was chaotic. From no beer at day one, to cashless system outage, 3 water points for the whole festival, etc ....

    We saw 2 hours+ lines to get a working wristband, people crying under the rain, sober crowds ....

    It seems that post covid festivals have a really hard time hiring and organizing things, let's hope mad cool is only chaotic before the festival actually happens.

    Generally, I would say all festivals increased their capacity a bit and that created some issues here and there...
    At novarock you had the big rain. I wasn't there but kudos to the organizers for not letting cars in the parking the day before as some vehicles would still be there I'm sure. Can't talk about the other issues though.

    Rock im Park few days before Novarock had fairly good organization with the exception of the two front of (main) stage sectors blocked by bars and toilets on both sides which caused HUGE bottlenecks. Otherwise all was pretty decent. 

    Primavera W2 was way worse. Way too few toilets. Almost no water points. At the bars, drinks were poured in the same cups people return - wtf. The 2 main stages with the huge sound decks platform (and VIP behind it) was just ridiculous. Facepalm. huuuge bottlenecks there. The first day with Gorillaz was absolutely horrible. All days after 1am the festival smells like shit and piss. I was really sorry for the team at the merch stand right next to the toilets. I hope they're still alive. This was my first time at Prima and probably the last.

    Pinkpop - 2 weeks ago had the classic festival experience. I really enjoyed it. For some reason they still use plastic, non-reusable cups and at 4pm the festival ground is absolute garbage site. Hope they fix this for the next edition. Queues and stuff were okay if you have some festival experience and know what you're doing and when to go where. Overall no complains.

    Hellfest Weekend 2 was just amazing in terms feel, design, organization... everything. I have few minor suggestions but overall highly recommended if you like this music.

    I'm sure Madcool will have bad organization but who cares - Deftones will be playing:)

  9. any suggestions who might replace Josh and Mike on the Friday?
    Weezer sounds like a terrible option to me. Hope this rumor is not true:) On the other hand Kendrick Lamar may be too big to fit here..?
    If they want to keep the guitar-ish vibe of the canceled acts they could have BMTH maybe. To to be honest though the whole line up is so musically inconsistent and all over the place that anyone could fit.. Dua Lipa, Slipknot, Post Malone, Green Day, etc. etc. Definitely not keeping my hopes up, pretty sure the replacement/s will be somewhere between bad and terrible compared to the original bookings...
    Let's see

  10. 13 hours ago, scatteredscreens said:

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    They're on the Thursday

    Sorry for not clarifying,  I meant the in-between festival thingy. They were supposed to play on the 7th but no more in the line up there. We're going to W2.
    It's a busy summer though, I'm sure we'll catch them somewhere else:)

    As for the NIN comment above - no. Yesterday's announcement clearly showed the parameters of the Hellfest exclusivity deal. Not only there no other dates in (continental) Europe, but all UK shows are in small venues/places with Brixton Academy (5k capacity) being the biggest - means they were tied on that front as well. Anyway congrats to Hellfest for bringing NIN to Europe in the first place. They would never come only for the Apollo in Man or the Academy in Glasgow which is super-super small. Still those of you who manage to get tix for those will be in for a threat. When else you'll see Trent in such a small venue nowadays...


     

  11. I was 100% sure Halsey will be there... and generally the pop acts don't appeal to me.
    overall the poster looks pretty decent though and is refreshingly different to most summer festivals so far.
    congrats to the team!

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  12. On 2/15/2022 at 12:40 PM, gigi21 said:

    yes but the question is: is UK still considered Europe or not? + I remember that Hellfest announced NIN as only EU appearance, but now I can't find this wording anymore. Let's see.

    Surely NIN will have more concerts in Europe around these dates.
    In recent years, they cherry-pick venues so I expect similar, bit exotic places for a couple more shows. Last UK shows back in 2018 were in Southbank and Royal Albert Hall so the current location fits. I don't think they'll be at Glasto.
    For this Europe leg I expect them to add standalone shows at least in Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris etc. but not too many.  Usually they don't stay in Europe more that 3 weeks so you have good idea when they'll be here. 

  13. yeah, "the leak" seems logical:)
    AM I think will be there as there are no dates in Belguim on their tour so far
    Also looking at the Reading poster, I believe Halsey is a good fit for PKP 2022. Some good potential names can be shared with Szitet as well.. Bottom line if they play their cards well. it could be very solid line up! Usually they share line up later in he year though, so let's see

     

  14. Well... going through through this tread, Frank Carter and Architects really seems to be one of the most obvious candidates for surprise set. To be honest, I was hoping for more bold or interesting acts... ever since I bought tix for the festival a couple of months ago I was hoping for Thom Yorke - either with the Modern Boxes show or The Smile. 

    Still, I hope FR have some interesting surprises we didn't thought of there:)

  15. 9 hours ago, rivalschools.price said:

    What’s annoying is that the festival aren’t even keeping us up to date.

    The fact Spiritbox have pulled out was discovered because someone spotted it on their instagram and Ho99o9 have been removed from the poster without comment.

    Fair play to Bloodstock who have kept us up to date every time there is a line up change.

    Unfortunately, this is not something new for RandL. In 2014 we bought tix mainly because of Chino Moreno's Crosses pretty much Europe exclusive gig in the Pit. The Band was removed from the poster without any explanation a month before the festival:/ I guess such things are inevitable when you're organizing a festival with 200+ bands. With the COVID situation, things are obviously worse...


    I don't know if Daniel P Carter still curates the Pit. I'm sure (if possible) he'll come up with some quality replacements.
    Let's see

  16. 8 hours ago, Hawky said:

    Yeah.... Spiritbox aren't playing, they're in LA with LB on 24/08 and they're in Canada in September.

    Absolutely gutted only band that I was really excited to see.

    Second act I was looking forward to... City Morgue and they're in same position, in Chicago a week before Leeds.

    Edit: unless Melvin has pulled off a miracle.

     

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    Well, you know this goes for everyone... Don't know what special arrangements are made for those bands. I was watching this news (not only for me, thinking how and when to travel) but what it generally means for all bands that were supposed to play Lowlands/Pukkelpop and then travel for R and L (Stormzy, Liam, Fever 333, Cleopatrick etc. etc. etc.)
     

  17. 1 hour ago, nathanh said:

    On the topic of final lineup who could still be added? 

    I see the bigger concern in the moment is towards who will be excluded...
    I also believe that on the 19th we will have the info. Would like to see Sleep Token added to the pit as well

  18. I was 11000 when entered the queue. Still managed to bag x2 for the NIN day after around 70mins of waiting. YEY! Obviously there were more Metallica fans waiting today and the Saturday & Sunday were already gone when I got in.

    Hope you had some success too

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