Boss89

Anyday, everyday! Not the biggest fan of Otherside and Snow. Snow is rather boring if you ask me (but live it gets one of the best responses of the entire set, I experienced that multiple times last summer). Otherside I think is "okay" BUT the backings near the end are gold live, but still prefer almost everything from their back catalogue over those 2 songs.

Well it's not 50% chance for Can't Stop and 50% ATW. It's pretty random how they choose their sets. I think Can't Stop gets played more than ATW after all. I prefer Around The World though. But I'd also take Soul To Squeeze over Under The Bridge anyday. Or She's A Lover over Snow or Fortune Faded over Otherside...

Yep, saw them 3 times last summer. The shows had 16, 17 and 18 songs per night. I wasn’t very lucky with the setlists (some varied even more, like if I'd gone to the 2nd Paris show instead of the first it would've been a huge difference). But still I saw 27 different songs. + add that they do different jams and solo-interpratations every single night. Can't wrap my head around the fact that people are complaining that there are not enough hits. Taking risks like this is musicianships at its finest if you ask me.

RHCP vary their setlist a lot indeed. there were some certainties the last tour (but I hope they switch some of these around as well) 1st song is or Can't Stop or Around The World 2nd song was always Dani California I think. Somewhere halfway Snow. Ending the regular set with Black Summer, Californication and Give It Away. Encore starts with Under The Bridge, Soul To Squeeze or I Could Have Lied Encore ends with By The Way The other +/- 10 songs are constantly switched around from night to night, not many bands from that size that do this.

Depending on the production it's not that big of a deal to come over twice. She's young + there's lots of money involved. So basically anything is possible. I think the fact that 3/8 headliner are pop-oriented would usually be a bigger red flag. But I see it happening this year.

With such a stacked line up every year? How are you able to go see unknown bands? 😅

Why is Turnstile unlikeley? They seem to do a short european run to make up for their cancelled dates from last year (for example Rock Am Ring)

Would be totally bonkers to get the line up next week. Last wishlist I'm putting out here: headliners: Kendrick Lamar, Blur, Sigur Ros, The Black Keys, The War On Drugs, Phoebe Bridgers, Aphex Twin, The Mars Volta bodyliners: Iggy Pop, Sparks, Ty Segall, Blondie, Osees, The Walkmen, Sigrid, Skegss, Ezra Furman, The Chats, High Vis, The Bug Club, The Beths, Yard Act, Hinds I know... I know... Dudefest on the top.

RHCP only played 90 minutes on their own stadium shows as well. Around 90 minutes is their average show length.

Bon Iver is playing Europe early June...

I went the first weekend. The queues on the bar were a mess the first night (and the staff working the bars seemed like they had no experience or even any clue how to work behind a bar). Was way better the days after that though. But I never felt unsafe, dehydrated or stressed to be honest. At most a bit irritated when waiting for drinks. It's a shame a lot of people felt that way. Maybe it depended on where you were hanging out? Though I did the headliner combo that evening which I guess is the busiest place.

After Corona and the Ukraine vs. Rusland thing I thought the entire world was in a financial crisis? Don't know when you can call something a financial crisis. But the last couple of months gasprices are at the highest they ever been in Belgium. And prices of electricity are x3 or x4 of what they used to be.

Think Foals is atleast as big here as The Good The Bad & The Queen, Polo G, Marshmello,...

Already mentioned that The Chats have a giant gap in their tour-schedule during the Primavera weekend and don't have a Spanish date yet?

It's my wishlist. Not a "this is absolutely going to be the end result" list... Nor is this the final lineup. this would be... what... 15%(?) of the entire Primavera poster, so this could even become the strongest undercard ever for that matter 🤣 Last year was: Pavement - Tame Impala - Massive Attack - The National - Beck - The Strokes - Tyler - Gorillaz - Nick Cave quite the sausage fest as well. If they really need their ratio than you can give The Mars Volta or Flaming Lips a lower position and boost Phoebe Bridgers or Haim. Or just add Björk or Portishead or whoever, doesn't mean I have to put them on my wishlist.

Can't wait for (a part of) the line up. Who do you guys see as big possibilities? I'm hoping for as much as possible of this (realistic?) list: Headliners: Aphex Twin + Flaming Lips Radiohead + The Mars Volta Kendrick Lamar + Bon Iver Undercard: Wilco - Phoebe Bridgers - Spoon - Kevin Morby - Animal Collective - Julien Baker - FIDLAR - Destroyer - Sigrid - Peach Pit - Haim - The Distillers - Alex G - Night Beats - Venetian Snares - Nils Frahm - Yard Act - Camp Cope - Pinch Points - The Murlocs - Cheekface - Flyying Colours - Easy Life - Hockey Dad - Cate Le Bon - Dead Ghosts - Bass Drum Of Death

Even heard that everyone who bought a ticket could bring someone in for free last minute. Because sales were so poor.

Same as RHCP and Imagine Dragons only proves my point since they were als co-headlining with The Killers and Twenty One Pilots. Green Day + London Grammar for example is not a strong day for RW. Green Day + Tool or Green Day + Editors or something like that is something far more likely to happen. That you would love those 4 headliners is indeed an opinion. That these 4 being the 4 biggest bands on the line up is weak (for RW terms), is not an opinion but a fact.

In your opinion, which i disagree with. Well... If those are the biggest acts each day. Then sorry to burst your bubble but that is pretty weak, nothing to do with opinions. Placebo are sub-headliner at most. They were only 3rd last on TW Classic. Wouldn't be surprised if they play the Barn (as headliner ofcourse) next time. Snow Patrol is barely a subheadliner these days. Think the years that Green Day was a stand-alone headliner are gone. They were once asked to co-headline with Blur (if I'm not mistaken) and they declined. And RW wasn't interested in them as a standalone headliner.

20 years Postal Service 'Give Up' anniversary? They had Pavement reuniting after 10 years and then again after 20. So why not the same with The Postal Service?

This was my first Primavera. Enjoyed it. But it’s the kind of festival that really needs a stacked lineup. Don’t think I would enjoy myself if I had a couple of hours to kill every day. First day the bars were shite. But all the other complaints were a bit too much if you ask me. Okay it was busy. But I never felt unsafe during shows like King Gizzard, Dinosaur Jr, Pond, Tame Impala (which were probably the busiest I attended or at least from the place where I stood). If you have a tiny bit of brains. You were smart enough to go to a bar whenever you were walking to a show and pass a stage which no one were playing. Mostly I had my drinks in a couple of minutes that way. If you were extra smart you'd buy a beer and something stronger, which still tastes good if isn't cold anymore, like gin-tonic for example. First drink the beer. And after that you're still good for an hour. Best acts: Pond, Pavement, Caroline Polachek, King Gizzard (both at Razzmatazz 2 at la Ciutat, and at the festival).

The Linda Lindas - Wet Leg Faye Webster - Girl In Red - Dinosaur Jr - Gustaf - Tame Impala - Pavement - Black Midi - DJ Shadow Beach Bunny - Pond - Fontaines DC - Beck - Warpaint - The Strokes - Caribou Porridge Radio - Einsturzende Neubautan - Jawbox - Caroline Polachek - Bauhaus - Idles - Shame King Gizzard

Well... Normal that Weekend2 will have it's covid-dropouts as well. Which we can't know by now. Especially since a lot of the acts are ar Primavera weekend 1. Doing some festival is a huge risk for getting covid I suppose. I think we might be even lucky, that primavera is so early. I think it might be even worse in july and/or august. Want bands are touring for a couple of weeks doing loads of festivals.

The Strokes was my number 2 reason I initially bought a ticket (after Pavement). But was gutted about missing King Gizzard... Since their ciutat-shows are probably going to be special(full album?) sets. So you win some, you lose some I guess.

There's so many great bands playing. That even seeing half the bands I'm excited about will be quite the challenge. So I don't give a flying f*** about who's replacing who. The argument that you paid for this amount of bands is just ridiculous... You can only see about 10% (probably not even 10%) of the lineup so what does an extra band mean...? You've got plenty of options. It sucks if it's your favourite band that cancelled, but pretty sure you can sell your ticket if it's not worth the money anymore. It's been a disastrous 2 years for music/festivals/culture/everything related to that... So those organisation deserve some slack for atleast the next year. They probably wokred harder than half of the forum members here the last months/year while going bankrupt or losing jobs was just around the corner.