Rock Werchter 2015

[micvet]

Add: Oscar and The Wolf, The Script, Ben Harper, Roisin Murphy, Jungle.

[pship7]

Really expected The Prodigy today so that's massively disappointing for me...

But shouldn't be as there's some reasonable lower order/smaller acts in there from the last few days. Happy with Jungle as I missed them at Optimus Alive last year.

[KarmicChris]

Yeah Jungle should be good, take or leave the rest to be honest. Wednesday and Friday announcements a thing now?

[foolee]

I would say every Friday from now on because we've got 26 acts now.

[Gossard]

Ben Harper I'd like to see, the other acts, crap......The line up, after a good start, looks really weak!

[Red Day]

The Friday for me is looking very poor.

[Tremousse]

I agree with Gossard, I think that Ben Harper will be cool (like Jack Johnson last year), and Jungle will be a good time too. Where is the rock music on Friday ? For the moment, the line-up seems a little bit poor compared to last years...

[micvet]

Oscar and the Wolf was a certainty. Last month they won 3 Music Industry Awards (MIA's) in Belgium, beside Stromae the big winner.

[foolee]

Where will these acts play do we think?

[noneedtojudgeme]

would you say the sunday mainstage is set? ben harper> the script > kasabian> muse, and maybe a dance act after muse?

or where do you see ben harper play?

[JohnnyPotsmoker]

I agree with Gossard, I think that Ben Harper will be cool (like Jack Johnson last year), and Jungle will be a good time too. Where is the rock music on Friday ? For the moment, the line-up seems a little bit poor compared to last years...

You are right the line-up does look a bit weak compared to 2014 but im happy with muse,foo's and lenny kravitz, though i hope more big names will be announced because after all we have just 26 out of 120+

[foolee]

I'd say either that main stage or Ben Harper headlining the barn. Plus I think Muse are closing the festival so could be a dance act on the Saturday to be announced, some thinking the prodigy.

Only 79 acts played at Werchter last year and the year before so more like 53 acts left to announce, maybe a few more/less which depends on Rock Werchter really.

[Gucci Piggy]

Still think The Prodigy will be a remaining headliner/co-headliner/dance act/whatever. Mumfords will probably be at PKP rather than Werchter if they're headlining R&L.

Really not sure who else could be around to join Pharrell/The Prodigy as co-headliners. The National, I guess?

[micvet]

Like foolee said, Muse will close the main on Sunday.

[foolee]

I think high slots are mostly there with a few exceptions, I think 3 of the biggest names left to be announced will be The Prodigy, dEUS and Editors, maybe The Strokes/The Libertines but not sure I can see either of those two playing.

Can't see anyone else taking the spots unless someone like Coldplay/RHCP/Radiohead release a festival tour which is unlikely.

If the lineup is weaker in big acts it makes it a good reason to change the dates of the festival to get Foos because if they are struggling for headliners without Foo's I don't know how well it would sell but I could just be looking far too much into this.

[Gucci Piggy]

I think high slots are mostly there with a few exceptions, I think 3 of the biggest names left to be announced will be The Prodigy, dEUS and Editors, maybe The Strokes/The Libertines but not sure I can see either of those two playing.

Can't see anyone else taking the spots unless someone like Coldplay/RHCP/Radiohead release a festival tour which is unlikely.

If the lineup is weaker in big acts it makes it a good reason to change the dates of the festival to get Foos because if they are struggling for headliners without Foo's I don't know how well it would sell but I could just be looking far too much into this.

Yeah I guess so. People like Beck, too, who I guess could co-headline (not sure how weak this would be seen as). Morrissey? Bjork?

[thetime]

Can't see anyone else taking the spots unless someone like Coldplay/RHCP/Radiohead release a festival tour which is unlikely.

I've been saying for a while there is a major band waiting for the glasto announcement to release dates for other fests.

It can't be a coincidence that isle of Wight, werchter, roskilde etc etc are waiting for a headliner to be announced. I can't see it being Radiohead with Phil Selway playing dates in June, I would not be surprised if Coldplay are the missing headliner to play festivals I've mentioned.

Edited January 30, 2015 by thetime

[micvet]

If it's Coldplay, I think they will do Werchter Boutique.

[e2p2]

Well, last year people complained too about the lineup being weaker then the year before, and Im sure people said so before either. I wasnt there in 2012 but Im sure that when it turned out that Editors and the XX are the main acts of a day people were angry, but now people say it was indeed a great night (I know that M&S and C&S have played that day too but still).

With the way RW decide to announce acts this year in small packages (like last year), most of us usually cant find more than 1-2 acts we're happy about in each announcement but eventually it'll be OK.

[weird science]

Muse-Kasabian

Foo Fighters-Florence

2 days' head spots are full already.

and I think Pharrell is already one of the headliners. I'm expecting another pop artist under Pharrell, that could easily be Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, or someone like them. It'd be weird to see The National or Editors before Pharrell, really. If The Barn closes with Ben Howard + The National/Editors, it'd be perfect.

and Saturday.. Where will Noel be playing at? I don't think they'll co-head Lenny Kravitz, so there should be a name between them. It could be The Strokes / The Libertines, foolee is right.

The Chemical Brothers

Foo Fighters

Florence + The Machine

+ (Imagine Dragons)

+ (Kodaline)

+

+ (Major Lazer)

Pharrell

+ (Ed Sheeran)

+ (The Kooks)

+ (Bastille)

+

+ (The Prodigy)

Lenny Kravitz

+ (The Libertines)

Noel Gallagher

Royal Blood

+

Muse

Kasabian

+ (Tame Impala)

+ (The Vaccines)

The Script

+

Seems weak though.

[thetime]

Kasabian playing that high?

[weird science]

Kasabian playing that high?

Yeah, I think they are the co-headliner on Sunday.

[Dietediet]

Kasabian playing that high?

They're higher on the lineup than the script, who were one down sub in 2013.

[Gucci Piggy]

Yeah, I think they are the co-headliner on Sunday.

There aren't co-headliners every day. Muse will headline on their own.

[jdog]

They're higher on the lineup than the script, who were one down sub in 2013.

That day had a co-headliner though, they played before Blur, Kings of Leon and Phoenix.