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Rock Werchter 2014


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I sent RW an e-mail and asked if KoL would close the festival or if we could get another headliner/dance-act on Sunday. I also asked if the signed KoL because negotiations with Foos/Muse or any other band broke down. I got an answer after about 2 min(I'm not joking):

As the person answering this to you, I can’t really give you an answer to your questions (or I can’t - yet)... I assume we’ll all find out soon enough if KoL are the last band on Sunday or not.

I personally don’t know about negotiations with Muse, Foo Fighters or other bands. Though both bands you named haven’t really planned a European tour, at least for now. That might be a very good reason for not having them at RW14, I guess.

Nevertheless, I hope the rest of the line-up can please you and I hope you’ll enjoy the festival in July!

Kind regards,

Rock Werchter

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A little prediction following the announcement:

Thursday

Main: Skrillex / Metallica / Placebo / Dropkick Murphys / Slayer

Klub C: Royksopp & Robyn / ? / ? / ? / Bakermat

Barn: Portishead / White Lies / MGMT / Warpaint

Friday

Main: Major Lazor / Arctic Monkeys / Linkin Park / Kasabian / Wiz Khalifa / Foals / Jake Bugg

Klub C: Kavinsky / Disclosure / Haim

Barn: Massive Attack / Jack Johnson / The Lumineers / Miles Kane

Saturday

Main: Pearl Jam / The Black Keys / Beck / Alice In Chains / Triggerfinger / Imagine Dragons

Klub C: ? / Baauer / Frank Turner / Gesaffelstein

Barn: Pixies / Interpol / The 1975 / Cage The Elephant

Sunday

Main: Kings Of Leon / The Prodigy / Jack White / Lily Allen / Selah Sue / Foster The People / The Pretty Reckless

Klub C: Rudimental / ? / ? / Pushta T

Barn: Stromae / Franz Ferdinand / Bastille / Julian Casablancas / Blood Red Shoes

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A little prediction following the announcement:

Thursday

Main: Skrillex / Metallica / Placebo / Dropkick Murphys / Slayer

Klub C: Royksopp & Robyn / ? / ? / ? / Bakermat

Barn: Portishead / White Lies / MGMT / Warpaint

Friday

Main: Major Lazor / Arctic Monkeys / Linkin Park / Kasabian / Wiz Khalifa / Foals / Jake Bugg

Klub C: Kavinsky / Disclosure / Haim

Barn: Massive Attack / Jack Johnson / The Lumineers / Miles Kane

Saturday

Main: Pearl Jam / The Black Keys / Beck / Alice In Chains / Triggerfinger / Imagine Dragons

Klub C: ? / Baauer / Frank Turner / Gesaffelstein

Barn: Pixies / Interpol / The 1975 / Cage The Elephant

Sunday

Main: Kings Of Leon / The Prodigy / Jack White / Lily Allen / Selah Sue / Foster The People / The Pretty Reckless

Klub C: Rudimental / ? / ? / Pushta T

Barn: Stromae / Franz Ferdinand / Bastille / Julian Casablancas / Blood Red Shoes

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Well now my sulk is over about KOL healining 3/4 headliners I would pay to see is not to bad. I would watch Metallica, Pear Jam and Arctic Monkeys compared to Blur and Depeche Mode last year.

I am Hoping a really strong Barn headliner for the sunday, maybe Portishead/bastille.

Anyway just need to book a hotel in leuven for the tuesday night.

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It wouldn't be a lot of money since KoL still asks about 1 million for a festival set, compared to the 1.2 million for FF. Possibly using it to get The Prodigy or Netsky as an extra act after KoL. QOTSA supposedly isn't in Europe during Werchter weekend.

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We weren't supposed to know :P But in 2011 a Pinkpop spokesman accidentally leaked the sum Coldplay got for their performance, and a Belgian newspaper did an article on the estimated budgets for all Pinkpop and Werchter headliners. It was fairly shocking to see how at least half of the budget goes to the headliners (Coldplay and Springsteen 1.3, Metallica and Muse 1.2, Rammstein 1, etc).....

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