Pukkelpop 2010

[Semprini]

It's on a couple of local forums and all over Twitter. Think it was announced in a Belgian paper or something.

[ketel]

big rumours

Band Optredens rond Pukkelpop

- Blink 182 Lowlands / Highfield Festival / Area 4

- Queens of the Stone Age Area 4 / Duitsland 24 & 25 aug

rumours

Band Optredens rond Pukkelpop

- Placebo Highfield Festival / Area 4

- The Gaslight Anthem

Frequency Festival / Highfield Festival / Area 4

- Kasabian V Festival

- Foo Fighters mogelijk Europese tour in late zomer

- White Lies V Festival / Frequency Festival

- Kings Of Leon V Festival

- Gogol Bordello V Festival

- All Time Low Highfield Festival / Area 4

- The Sounds Highfield Festival / Area 4

- Florence & The Machine V Festival

- Calvin Harris V Festival

- Groove Armada V Festival

- Mika V Festival

- Goldfrapp V Festival

- Chase and Status V Festival

- La Roux V Festival / Frequency Festival

- Kate Nash V Festival

- David Guetta V Festival

- The Prodigy V Festival

- Beirut Green Man Festival

- The Flaming Lips Green Man Festival

- Joana Newsom Green Man Festival

- NOFX Highfield Festival / Frequency Festival

- Mad Caddies Highfield Festival / Nirwana Tuinfeest

- Bad Religion Frequency Festival

- Mumford & Sons Frequency Festival

- Portugal. The Man Frequency Festival

- Paul Kalkbrenner Frequency Festival

- Skunk Anansie V Festival / Frequency Festival

- Shout Out Louds Frequency Festival

- Muse Frequency Festival / Coke Live Music Festival

- Caliban Slovakije 20 aug / Hongarije 21 aug

- Pulled Apart By Horses Lowlands

- Status Quo optredens Duitsland eind augustus

- GWAR Nirwana Tuinfeest

- Sepultura Nirwana Tuinfeest

- Sick of it All Nirwana Tuinfeest

- Ill Niño Nirwana Tuinfeest

- Monster Magnet Highfield Festival / Area 4 / Nirwana Tuinfeest

- Massive Attack optredens in Frankrijk eind augustus

- Jamie Cullum optredens in Duitsland eind augustus

- Pendulum optreden in Italië eind augustus

Highfield Festival / Area 4 > Duitsland V Festival / Green Man Festival > Engeland

Lowlands / Nirwana Tuinfeest > Nederland Frequency Festival > Oostenrijk

Coke Live Music Festival > Polen

Reeds uitgelekt voor Pukkelpop

- Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip

- Fun Lovin' Criminals

- Megafaun

- Renaissance Man

- The Toy Dolls

- Blood Red Shoes

- De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig

- Lektrobeerz

- Parkway Drive

- Ou Est Le Swimming Pool

- Les Petits Pilous

- Jawkob

[Semprini]

White Lies have self confirmed on myspace for the Friday (20/08/10)

Edit: They're coming in thick and fast tonight - Riva Starr will be playing the Boiler on the Friday too

Edited March 29, 2010 by Semprini

[Sparticus]

right the leeds lineup is out, if pukkelpop can nab some of the bands from that and v consider me in, werchter didn't really tickle my pickle this year but from some of the pics pukkelpop looks like a cool place. Do the belgians like madness?

[Semprini]

Wow.................

Iron Maiden, Queens of the Stone Age, Placebo, The Prodigy, Soulwax, The Kooks, 2Manydjs, Blink-182, Boys Noize, Limp Bizkit, The Flaming Lips, Pendulum, Mumford & Sons, NOFX, Goldfrapp, Diplo, Fake Blood, White Lies, Major Lazer, Richie Hawtin presents Plastikman live, Hot Chip, Digitalism, Magnetic Man, Gojira, Noisia, D.I.M., Parkway Drive, The Low Anthem, Au Revoir Simone, Boris Dlugosch, Four Tet, Switch Djedjotronic, Ill Nino, These New Puritans, OK Go, Les Petits Pilous live, Nero, Martyn, High Contrast, Beach House, Housemeister, Kylesa, Lonelady, Sleepy Sun, Speech Debelle, Joker & MC Nomad, Renaissance Man, Jack Beats, General Fiasco, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Aeroplane, Jakwob, Two Door Cinema Club, L-Vis 1990, Megafaun, Riva Starr, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Benni Benassi, Caspa & MC Rod Aslan.

Now that's not a bad start

Edited March 30, 2010 by Semprini

[branvan]

add Doves and the line up's already perfect for me

[DIsForDylan]

amazing lineup. im going here instead of leeds festival now, ill just extend my trip! so if I'm going anywhere from belgium it's free transport? is it easy to get there? do most of you guys stay in amsterdam the week before? thanks.

add Doves and the line up's already perfect for me

[Mr.S]

amazing lineup. im going here instead of leeds festival now, ill just extend my trip! so if I'm going anywhere from belgium it's free transport? is it easy to get there? do most of you guys stay in amsterdam the week before? thanks.

[DIsForDylan]

great incentive! are you going this year? is it easy to get on a train and find the station where the festival is?

Train/bus travel if free from anywhere in Belgium to the festival, once you have your weekend ticket:)

Easy enough to get to, direct train from Brussels and then either walk to the campsites or get a shuttle bus for 5min.

[Trufflehound]

I know it's early days yet, and there are a lot of names to be added, but I'm actually a bit disappointed with that lot, especially when we've been expecting them to pull the stops out for the 25th edition.

Bands like the Prodigy, Goldfrapp, Flaming Lips and Placebo seem to show up every year, and 2ManyDJs/Soulwax do show up every year, so there aren't many surprises.

Apart from Iron Maiden, but I am about as unexcited by that prospect as I was by Metallica two years ago.

Mumford & Sons and Hot Chip on the other hand...

Hopefully there will be better to come in the next few weeks.

Edited March 30, 2010 by Trufflehound

[DDave]

I for one am well happy with that line up so far.

[Mr.S]

great incentive! are you going this year? is it easy to get on a train and find the station where the festival is?

[Sparticus]

good first start, is that the headliners done then? gotta say i have zero interest in maiden so lets hope someone fun's on at the same time, will keep an eye on pukkelpop though, v's tempting me with it's lineup but the weather is usually awful, plus i don't like the way everything closes at 11 over there.

oh and are placebo headlining again? can't complain with flaming lips, perfect festival band!

[Mr.S]

good first start, is that the headliners done then? gotta say i have zero interest in maiden so lets hope someone fun's on at the same time, will keep an eye on pukkelpop though, v's tempting me with it's lineup but the weather is usually awful, plus i don't like the way everything closes at 11 over there.

oh and are placebo headlining again? can't complain with flaming lips, perfect festival band!

[Sparticus]

repeat headliners is a bit boring (love placebo and all but we know what they're like with pushing a new album and this one aint that great).

Also doves just got a hell of a lot less likely, headlining green man friday and v sat and sunday, which leaves thursday free for them, but four gigs in four days would be pushing it!

[TheNewUnion]

Thrilled with Iron Maiden. QOTSA, Placebo too. Great announcement for me

[luckysalt]

Iron Maiden are headlining Thursday - says on efestivals news page

The Prodigy are headlining Friday - They confirmed this themselvces [The Prodigy] Today

Im not sure who Saturday headliner is...

I want to know what days Digitalism and Hot Chip are playing so I can rule them out of V or not...

Hope The Prodigy aren't too knackered for V after headlining on Friday, I was hoping they'd be well up for it at V bvut I'll bet they'll just go through the motions now

[Semprini]

I've had a bit of a hunt around and managed to place a few of the bands to the day they are playing:

Thursday 19th August

Iron Maiden

Placebo

Blink 182

The Kooks

Jakwob

Friday 20th August

The Prodigy

Plastikman

White Lies

Riva Starr

Lektrobeerz

Ou est le swimming pool

Saturday 21st August

Queens of the Stone Age

Soulwax

2manydjs

Pendulum

The Toy Dolls

Au Revoir Simone

Caspa & MC Rod Azlan

Ill Nino

Renaissance Man

de jeugd van tegenwoordig

Although none of them are my cup of tea, the line up so far on Thursday on the Main Stage is arguably as strong as you'll see at any festival - Blink 182 followed by Placebo and then Iron Maiden Queens of the Stone Age are headlining Saturday but I'm sure they'll bulk it up with some other big names. I like the fact that the organisers seem to have gone for a number of relatively big bands rather than a couple of mega headliners, although I suppose you could put Iron Maiden in that bracket. I thought the overall quality of the festival bill was diminished in 2008 when Metallica played as they must have cost a packet. I'd much rather see a strong bill across all the stages and this first announcement has an excellent mix of new and established acts across loads of genres.

I'm personally very happy to see 2manydjs, Soulwax, Pendulum, Mumford and Sons, Goldfrapp, White Lies, Major Lazer, Plastikman, Hot Chip, Digitalism, Magnetic Man, Noisia, Four Tet, Nero, Martyn, High Contrast, Caspa, Joker, Aeroplane, Two Door Cinema Club, Riva Starr and Ou Est Le Swimming Pool on the bill. Oh, and of course the Prodigy

There's still over 140 bands/DJs to come yet so it's shaping up to be a memorable 25th birthday party

[lufcwls]

so when is the next announcement? week, fortnight? trying to organise about 15 ppl to pukkelpop this year and tbh im disappointed (i want to go to rock werchter but out voted ) . only mumford and sons, soulwax and 2manydjs standing out for me, progidy too but seen then countless times. when are the tickets on sale too?

[TheNewUnion]

That's a hell of a Thursday! Sign me up, come April 20th I'll be attempting Belgian/Dutch to buy tickets (unless there is an English language site of course?)

[Aeryn]

You can make pukkelpop.be into an english site by clicking 'EN' in the top right-hand corner. And there are booking sites in english too.

I'm loving the line-up so far; fair few bands I wanted to see plus some old favourites; I get the feeling this year will be loads of fun for me because a lot of my friends are going too. My boyfriend dislikes the lineup though, and doesn't want to go. Ah well, will have to have fun without him this year. I'm 99% certain I'm going at this stage

[Trufflehound]

I've had a bit of a hunt around and managed to place a few of the bands to the day they are playing:

[DIsForDylan]

so who's definately going to this? iam. i would like to meet some faces from here as i'm doing this extra trip on my lonesome.

Jónsi is also playing on the Saturday. (In case anyone hadn't realised, he's the leader of Sigur Ros, playing solo...)

I actually thought the 2008 line-up was as good of any of the 7 previous Pukkelpops that I've been to (apart from Metallica, who I could have done without - they nearly drowned out Tindersticks' set). I thought it was as good as the 20th edition (2005), and perhaps only slightly overshadowed by 1991 - but that was a different era: one stage, one day only, so of course all the names are going to be concentrated.

[TheNewUnion]

You can make pukkelpop.be into an english site by clicking 'EN' in the top right-hand corner. And there are booking sites in english too.

[Tristan]

Hmm, I'm not overly excited about the line up on that first announcement - none of the headliners really appeal, but I'm guessing this is about 20% of the finished article? Line up is not too important to me as it is, but I sense it might be hard to get my mates to go on the basis of this line up alone...will it sell out quickly, or will there be more bands announced before the sale date?