Rock Werchter 2014

[Dietediet]

Do werchter tend to share any names with pcklepopp? Or is the same deal with dour?

[Trufflehound]

Do werchter tend to share any names with pcklepopp? Or is the same deal with dour?

[Stretchryan]

Anybody listen to the New Manics albums in the last 4/5 years. All terrible.

Was a massive fan. Seen the only theM once with Richey at Féile festival in Ireland.

I will go see them play a club show here in Luxembourg in May but defo not a festival band anymore

Edited March 10, 2014 by Stretchryan

[weird science]

Last candidates that I think that could be contenders:

Royal Blood, Blood Red Shoes, You Me At Six, Lily Allen, Bombay Bicycle Club, Chvrches, Kasabian, The Kooks

Pretty much of these...

[e2p2]

I don't see a sub on that list. Still hoping for 2.

[branvan]

Rewind The Film was an album of the year for me! (but i did always prefer the 'poppy' side of MSP)

[skipper23]

So outkast pretty unlikely, you reckon we'll get some names this week?

[Gossard]

I'm pretty sure well Deftones. They are not at Duor, Graspop or Pukkelpop so far and are around and have played RW before. Come on RW.

[Daniel Comino Royuela]

dammed Pukkelpop, they've taken 2 names that make blood in my heart

The Bloody Beetroots and Kavinsky

((((((((

hoping for good names this week

after this only I'm only expecting Kasabian or The Prodigy as still big names to come...

[Dietediet]

I wonder what other names the Belgian July festivals will take away from Rock Werchter. Les Ardentes, Cactus Festival and Dour are all still lacking a headliner, and look what they've taken away from Werchter already...

[ParanoidTourist]

Suede recently got announced in Brussels Summer festival so maybe they are not coming to RW. However, someone said eairler they are not big in Belgium either.

Edited March 10, 2014 by ParanoidTourist

[ParanoidTourist]

Damn Pukkelpop again. They also announced Portishead.

[Dietediet]

Damn Pukkelpop again. They also announced Portishead.

[TheBoz]

Damn Pukkelpop again. They also announced Portishead.

[ParanoidTourist]

They also announced Ed Sheeran so every cloud...

[thetime]

Wouldn't have expected them anyway, Geoff Barrow has had a grudge against Werchter ever since 2011.

[Gossard]

Don't blame him, awful placing them before Coldplay.

[Dietediet]

I actually quite liked Portishead in 2011....

[Gossard]

Portishead was amazing, they always are. Problem was playing right before Coldplay, including the massive waiting crowd who mostly didn't even know Portishead. There even are stories about Coldplay die hards on the first rows starting to sing Coldplay songs during the Portishead set because they were bored...

[Dietediet]

That reminds me of Nine Inch Nails before Metallica in 2009.....

[Mushy25]

There are sources saying that Lenny Kravitz will be at Pinkpop, and he said in an interview that he would be playing Belgium in Summer. I can see him being one of the missing subs (either that or he's touring with Rolling Stones and playing TW Classic instead).

[Gossard]

And Incubus/Portishead before Metallica in 2007, Arcade Fire before Pearl Jam in 2010, Nick Cave before Kings Of Leon/Rammstein in 2009-2013. Basically subbing is the worst spot you can at Werchter get if you don't appeal to the same crowd as the headliner...

There are sources saying that Lenny Kravitz will be at Pinkpop, and he said in an interview that he would be playing Belgium in Summer. I can see him being one of the missing subs (either that or he's touring with Rolling Stones and playing TW Classic instead).

Edited March 10, 2014 by Gossard

[Dietediet]

I was in the front in 2010 and 2009 and trust me, the crowd was loving Arcade Fire but at NIN a lot of people were just waiting for Metallica. I remember when Trent was singing Hurt and you could hear the Metallica fans chanting. But I agree with you about the sub, he has to appeal to the same set of fans as the headliner or you risk exactly this.

Lenny Kravitz headlined TW Classic in 2012, do you think he'd sub there now two years later? There was a rumor about him playing RW14 a few months back but it seems to have cooled down. Hopefully these sources are right as I loved him at TW Classic in '12. Lenny Kravitz and Tool as subs and I'll be ecstatic ...I know, Tool does probably not exactly appeal to your average AM/KoL fan but I don't care, I want Tool

[thetime]

Portishead was amazing, they always are. Problem was playing right before Coldplay, including the massive waiting crowd who mostly didn't even know Portishead. There even are stories about Coldplay die hards on the first rows starting to sing Coldplay songs during the Portishead set because they were bored...

[Gossard]

I was in the front too (were you on the right side if you look towards the stage?) and I thought most people were rather tame. At least the singer seemed to think that too, he kept stirring up the crowd. But yeah, NIN was a whole different deal, in the end he was just verbally abusing the Metallica fans

TW Classic '12 apparently didn't have the best ticket sales, and that was even with Sting as sub. So yeah, if they have RS to headline Lenny could easily be degraded to sub. But that'd fit great at RW imo. A safe guess would be him on Friday and Florence + The Machine on Sunday (people can't complain about her not being big enough for sub, she's bigger than Franz Ferdinand and the day is already sold out).

Edited March 10, 2014 by Gossard