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As I already wrote somewhere else:
I’m wondering if BKS really needs another DJ-stage (Stage Three). Right now about 40% of the acts are DJs.
The other thing that really worries me a little is that it was announced that Seven will have a capacity of around 300 people (if I remember correctly). Seven hosts a lot of the acts that usually would have played Three. Feels very much like downsizing. Also Five has a several acts that doesn’t seem to fit the previous concept of Stage Five (especially on Sunday). No idea why Seven on Sunday will host only four ambient acts in the afternoon.
Friday and Saturday will be great. The Sunday will be mostly over (for me) at about 20:00h.
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5 minutes ago, gigi21 said:
So do you think we'll have a totally pop stage 1 on sunday? I'm expecting a couple of more good acts (maybe a "sunday lunch" one like Johnny Greenwood, Explosions in the Sky or Ry X in the past years and another one for the early evening).
I agree that we'll definitely have 2-3 more quite big ones for saturday too.
Anyway, I love the undercard and don't mind if most of interesting names coming will not be the biggest ones... But a couple of more good surprises for saturday and sunday would be welcome
I don't think we'll get a full pop stage 1, because BKS is in the end to indie for that, but it could be a possibility to have a full female fronted Sunday (with Christine, Carly Rae, Kate Tempest and two other acts). BKS is pretty unpredictable, but who knows.
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12 hours ago, StupidDream said:
What do we reckon: Carly Rae on ONE or TWO?
My guess, based on tonday's lineup, is Carly R.J. as co-head on stage 1 and Interpol as Stage 2 head.
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I guess for Sunday most to be announced acts will be stage 5 and some other smaller acts, as visdave wrote. The Friday is pretty much complete (except of stage 4 and casbah acts), but for Saturday we might even get some stage 1 and other "bigger" acts.
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9 minutes ago, uncertain said:
Cool lineup. Unfortunately Spiritualized is missing from the bill and I was really looking forward to seeing them.
I'm sure they will be confirmed at a later announcement. It wouldn't make sense to have Spiritualized's photo with the ones of all the other announced acts and not confirm them sooner or later.
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I'm also mostly very happy with the lineup so far.
But I hoped that Christine would play as co-headliner before Kraftwerk and that we would get another big headliner for Sunday (I hadn't completely given up hope for The Cure, even though it has become very unrealistic in the meantime).
Some of the acts I expected have not been confirmed yet (The Streets, Tallest Man On Earth, Idles, Dream Wife, Fucked Up), nor some I hoped for (Doves, Jarvis Cocker, Big Red Machine, Mura Masa, Neneh Cherry, Sons of Kemet XL, Suede, Whispering Sons).
However, I still expect 15-20 bands to be confirmed for stages 1, 2, 3 and 5 - plus additional acts for Stage 4 and Casbah. Maybe there will be some welcome surprises. The Friday is already quite full, but on Saturday and Sunday there is still room for improvement.
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6 minutes ago, bananalover81 said:
Is it just me? I couldn´t be more disappointed about the line-up. Bought my ticket months ago because I was sure, they would book at least some cool bands like all the years before. But now I definitely won´t go there this year… Even if there are many good aspiring bands – for the ticket price you could expect some known names….
I'm fine with the lineup. BKS was never really about well known bands, more about the setting and discovering new bands. They have enough bands I'm really looking forward to and also will add about 30-40 additional acts. I'm not even sure if there won't be another headliner.
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9 minutes ago, poseidon44 said:
Metronomy
The Twilight Sad
Foals
The Streets
Jarvis Cocker
Die Antwoord (unfortunately)
For BKS? Unofficially confirmed?
Foals play Down The Rabbit Hole, making them unlikely. The other ones would fit.
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Another riddle from festileaks:
????? ????
?????? ????
????? ??? ??????
??? ?????2/4 also at Primavera
1/4 selfconfirmed for Primavera Porto
4/4 haven't been at BKS
Best guesses so far:
1) Dream Wife or Snail Mail
2) Viagra Boys
3) Carly Rae Jepsen
4) Big Thief, The Beths or Hop AlongWith 1, 3 and 4 at Primavera one of these will be definitely wrong. Probably 4.
Viagra Boys seem to be right, as they were one of two bands selfconfirming their Primavera Porto appearance and deleting it shortly after.
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2 hours ago, mellowmaniac said:
23 could be the age of Julien Baker or Nilüfer Yanya. Other artists like Sigrid and Mura Masa are only 22.
Okay, both have been at BKS before and are ruled out. Sorry.
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My best guess for 2. is Kate Tempest. She has been at BKS before, is from London, is on tour 2019 (and also at Primavera) and is booked by Friendly Fire (like Nilüfer Yanya and Julien Baker).
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23 could be the age of Julien Baker or Nilüfer Yanya. Other artists like Sigrid and Mura Masa are only 22.
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There is still no official news, but a user at Festileaks has posted hints about four bands who are supposed to play at the festival:
1.) Daughter from…
2.) Londen…
3.) 23…4.) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
He also wrote that his source confirmed Shame will be definitely at BKS.
He further hints, that he likes the side project of one of these acts and that he guesses that none of these bands will be playing the Main Stage.
Best guesses for No. 1 seem to be Charlotte Gainsbourg and Neneh Cherry.
London Grammar, Blonde Redhead and Guided by Voices were ruled out (for this riddle).
No. 2 has been at BKS before (and is the only one of these four).
No. 3 plays Primavera, too.
No. 4 has not confirmed a show around BKS yet.
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It's still very quiet around BKS. There were some changes on the website, but nothing new so far.
Governor's Ball in New York just had a lineup announcement. Chances are probably 99% that all these bands won't be at BKS - ruling out several acts which would have fit BKS very well.
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19 minutes ago, arteet said:
They are defo headlining. The description says 25,000 glasses will be handed out.
I'm sure they'll perform as last act on the mainstage, but there could be another headliner performing before them.
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1 hour ago, mellowmaniac said:
They will be the Saturday night headliner on Stage One.
I think they are a great addition to the lineup and much more worthy for the spot than Run The Jewels and Jamie XX. I know many people who were very skeptical in the past about Kraftwerk open air shows, but were blown away in the end. Nevertheless, a lot of people will not like it - but a lot of people also didn't like the Radiohead show at BKS. It's a matter of personal taste..
...BKS don't say that Kraftwerk are headliner, but "closing the Saturday". Who knows - we might get another Saturday headliner. (Even though Kraftwerk as headliner would be fine for me)
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3 minutes ago, uncertain said:
Is this the second headliner? They would be great for this year's Four Tet slot.
They will be the Saturday night headliner on Stage One.
I think they are a great addition to the lineup and much more worthy for the spot than Run The Jewels and Jamie XX. I know many people who were very skeptical in the past about Kraftwerk open air shows, but were blown away in the end. Nevertheless, a lot of people will not like it - but a lot of people also didn't like the Radiohead show at BKS. It's a matter of personal taste..
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I'm a bit underwhelmed by the Primavera line-up. Last year they had Arctic Monkeys, Björk and Nick Cave as headliners and this year Erykah Badu, Tame Impala, Janelle Monae, Cardi B., Solange und J. Balvin...!? I don't think any of these acts is a bad act, but compared to last year it seems a bit over ambitious in presenting the new gender balanced vision of the festival, resulting in a weaker (or perhaps just for my personal taste: to contemporary) headliner line-up.
If I take a look at all the acts of the lineup I'd like to see at BKS (non-returning) I could also have went to a nice indie festival in the mid-nineties and see most of them:
Erykah Badu, Guided By Voices, Dream Wife, Suede, Mura Masa, Low, Sons of Kemet XL, Stereolab, Jarvis Cocker, Primal Scream, Neneh Cherry, Built To Spill, Shellac, Big Red Machine (Aaron Dessner & Justin Vernon) and Filthy Friends (Corin Tucker, Peter Buck, Bill Rieflin, Krist Novoselic and more).
But: if we get 50% of these bands, I still will be more than happy with BKS, no matter what other bands (and headliners) will be confirmed.
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Some of the just confirmed bands for Hurricane/Southside, that seem probable for BKS:
- Macklemore (returning)
- Tame Impala
- Wolfmother
- Christine and the Queens (returning)
- Descendents
- Alice Merton
- Sofi Tukker
- Bear’s Den
- Alma
Already confirmed for BKS:
- Interpol
- Cigarettes After Sex
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APE 26.05.:
Christine and the Queens, Metronomy, Maribou State, Beach House, Honne, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Toro Y Moi, Ezra Collective, Baloji, Rina Sawayama, Cuco
Christine and the Queen seem most probable for BKS since a while and just got even more probable. The question is, if she is known enough in the Netherlands to be a headliner (as if BKS ever cared
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Four very solid names, but (kind of usual for BKS) 3/4 have already played BKS before - so no big surprises yet.
One of the major booking partners are Belmont Booking (who also book Bon Iver). Beside of all the other possible returning Belmont acts, there are two bands who seem very likely to be at BKS: The Tallest Man on Earth (after 2015 probably for the second time at BKS. Confirmend for APE on 02.06. and closely connected to Bon Iver) and Mudhoney (amazing show last month and fits perfectly BKS' 90s guitar band approach).
I'm actually a bit surprised BKS didn't announce at least a second headliner before the official ticket sale started.
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1 minute ago, lighthouse said:
Yeah maybe but mentally The National feels like a bigger, more established and widely more popular band. They have a lot of 'modern classics/well known songs' that Bon Iver lacks.
Love Bon Iver though! I just think they're sliiiiightly 'smaller' than The National. Doesn't matter though.
I guess many - if not most of us, aren't from the Netherlands and bands are very often on a quite different level of popularity in different countries. In Germany Bon Iver is even a bit bigger than The National and Arcade Fire right now. Bon Iver's last show in Germany was sold out at Max Schmeling Halle Belin (capacity 12.000), The National played two sold out shows at Tempodrom Berlin (capacity: 3.500) and Arcade Fire at Festhalle Frankfurt (capacity: 9.400)
Jamie XX played in Cologne in a venue fitting 800 people when headlining Best Kept Secret, Run The Jewel haven't even toured Germany yet and even Editors, while selling out arenas in Benelux played on their last tour in some venues fitting 1.500 people (and played at Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam fitting 17.000 people).
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51 minutes ago, tomes said:
And what about other headliners? Some tips? I want Vampire weekend and Strokes but I am afraid of chemical brothers...
BKS is pretty much unpredictable. I still would love to have The Cure and The Chemical Brothers as the other headliners, but it could also be someone no one every thought of as headliner (like other odd BKS headliners like Run The Jewels and Jamie XX).
Best Kept Secret 2019
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I don't know. The idea sounds very intriguing, but I always assumed that Seven would be an additional stage for really left of center acts and not "replacing" Three.
(Especially in the evening) Stage Two is usually overcrowded and a lot of people want to see live acts, instead of DJs. They put more acts on Five than before, but Stage Five and a 250 people sized Seven will not cover for everyone who wants to see live bands.