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15 hours ago, alan_ts said:
Where have you seen that? I see that they played there in 2013 but nothing about 2017.
The festival is run by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Aaron Dessner (The National). This doesn't necissarily mean that either band won't tour at that time, but makes it very unrealistic.
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30 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:
I'm seriously considering this as I have weddings the weekends before and after (so Glastonbury and my backup fest IOW are both out!). This is sort of an ideal lineup for me but I will need to do some convincing of someone to go with me!
Some questions:
- how much are the bungalows /cabins (or how much were they last year)
- what sort of times does it keep? is it like Benicassim where bands go into the night or more normal timings?
Hi,
last year the 6p bungalow did cost around 800 Euro for six persons. This included bedlinnen and endcleaning. You were able to buy tickets while booking the bungalow and the price of the tickets was 130 Euro each (no additional charges). I guess this year the ticket price with the bungalows will be 147,50 Euro, but no info about next year's bungalow prices before next monday.
The bungalows (as well as all other accomodation options) were always sold out after a couple of minutes, even when the festival didn't sell out at all (year two and three) - very high demand. Be quick and lucky!
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6 hours ago, alan_ts said:
Strong rumours around Radiohead.
I'm thinking of going this year because the dates fit perfect for my friends and me. (We are in doubt between bks, primavera and rw if it'll be the last weekend of june)
I've a few questions:
- i've seen that bks is a mid size festival and i always went to big size festivals: do you feel the difference? I mean, is it really small?
- camping situation: i read that the camping is a real camping (inside a safari -?-), how is the atmosphere? Is it like the other dutch/belgian festivals (I've been to Pukkelpop, Rw, Pinkpop)?
- other tips/reccomendations are welcome
Hi, I have been to all BKS editions so far. It's my favorite festival and definitely different to most other (bigger) festivals. It's quite adult. I'd say the average age is mid to late twenty with an audience from 18 to 60. The people there are very open minded and friendly (I never witnessed any kind of aggresion on site).
The capacity is 25.000 (MUCH less than Pukkelpop or even Pinkpop) and the festival usually doesn't feel too crowded. The big exception was last year with one former semi-outdoor stage transformed into a (pretty much all the time overcrowded) dark tent, but the festival promoter already aknowledged some difficulties with this stage. The mainstage area is right on the beach of the lake and fits the whole capacity of visitors. Last year the saturday seemed much more packed than usual. The reason probably were the Editors who headlined that day and are VERY popular in Benelux (IF Radiohead will be confirmed their day will be packed as well).
The musical concept is more of a boutique festival than a mainstream festival (not that many already famous bands, more new and upcoming, but always great acts). Beside the music there is also a big focus on food. The whole food area is like a streetfood festival with (I think) around 40 different food stalls, with food from veggie and vegan food, up to steak and oysters. Also the toilets are in a very good condition (if there isn't a big problem with weather as last year).
Camping is supposed to be very nice, but I personally always stood in a bungalow (which you can rent, but always sells out after minutes).
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Yes, he is headliner. I don't get it, too - but I'm not dutch and have no idea how popular he is over there. I guess the promoters had major problems getting a serious headliner. A lot of other possible headliner are booked by Mojo (which is the competitor of the BKS promoter) and also the timing might not have been perfect for several bands.
My favorite and quite realistic headliner would have been PJ Harvey, The Last Shadow Puppets, Brian Wilson, Massive Attack or Air (I even would have been happy with Foals, Tame Impala or Suede), but it didn't happen and we get a DJ as headliner instead (and not one with a very good "live"-set). But I'm usually not that interested in headliners anyway - it's just what sells the tickets.
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On 26.2.2016 at 0:31 PM, yaniv297 said:
So when are we expecting more acts? if at all? and do we expect more big names or just undercred?
I guess there will be one more bigger announcement and then several smaller ones.
It might be a bit statistical, but based on last year's line up, we will get 45-50 additional acts. About 17 for friday and saturday each and about 14 for sunday.
BKS seem to promote four levels of acts: headliner, co-headliner, medium-sized acts and small acts (based on the way they highlight the acts on the artwork). If this is right, they announced their three headliner (Beck, Editors and Jamie XX), eight of the nine co-headliners (Beach House, Christine and the Queens, Bloc Party, Caribou, Dinosaur Jr., Asgeir, Two Door Cinema Club and Wilco) and more or less all medium sized bands for saturday and sunday.
For new confirmations, the friday will probably be the most interesting day, with one co-headliner and about six medium sized bands still unannounced. The other unannounced bands might all be "small" bands, but if you ever visited BKS, these are usually the most interesting ones, because their booking is amazing and they really grab a lot of high quality on the rise bands before they are better known.
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Beck, Sigur Ros, The National and PJ Harvey could be headliners. They are all around (and except PJ Harvey booked by FKP for other festivals at the same weekend) and would fit the style.
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Hi,
Can someone tell me if the complete festival schedule will be published online before the festival begins?
If someone's curious, I made a list of some of the bands who will play on saturday (I'm there only on saturday, so haven't made a list for the other days...)
- Kraftwerk
- Underworld DJ-Set
- Lily Allen
- Mika
- Klaxons
- Hot Rats
- Florence & The Machines
- Little Boots
- VV Brown
- Ebony Bones
- Crazy P.
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No idea. In the past they announced more than "just" one or two headliner before the ticket sales started, but I don't think they ever announced all three headliner that early.
Last year they announced 13 bands (including two headliner) on December 16th and started the ticket sales on December 19th. Perhaps we'll get some more confirmations ahead of Saturday, but with these two headliner and with sales starting already in November they might wait a little longer before announcing more of the lineup.