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Rock Werchter 2014


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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

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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...

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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).

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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).

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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 :D ...I know, Tool does probably not exactly appeal to your average AM/KoL fan but I don't care, I want Tool :P

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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...

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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 :P

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).

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