Pukkelpop 2016

[Semprini]

As much as I like LCD, I'm not convinced about their headline status either. A lot of the younger crowd won't have really heard of them and, let's be honest, that's the main demographic the festival is aiming at now. Dance closer is a good shout as they're too big for the Marquee. If the organisers are serious about responding to the criticism then they need to have at least 2 from Muse, Kings of Leon and The Cure. They're all proper headliners as the others we've mentioned fall into either 'sub' or 'dance closer' categories.

I know this is the first time it's been billed as four days but I think the set up will be the same as last year - just the dance corner open on Wednesday night. I hope they beef it up a bit though by having bigger name DJs in the Boiler and maybe someone like Pendulum in the Dance Hall.

 

[DDave]

Main thing is that the pool of medium to big bands that are available and haven't been ruled out is as good as I can remember. The organisers would have to go out of their way to really fuck this year's edition up.

[pete76]

7 hours ago, johnybegood said:

Frequency Festival (Austria same PKP Weekend) first names seem to be:

257ers 
Bilderbuch 
Bloc Party 
Bring Me The Horizon 
Chefboss 
Coasts 
Dame 
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley 
Deichkind 
Die Antwoord 
Fat White Family 
Fat Freddy's Drop 

Flatbush Zombies 
Foals 
Frances 
G-Eazy 
Honne 
Iris Gold 
Jack Garratt 
Jennifer Rostock 
Käptn Peng & Die Tentakel von Delphi 
Limp Bizkit 
M83 
Massive Attack & Young Fathers 
Moop Mama 
Oh Wonder 
Ok Kid 
Parkway Drive 
Parov Stelar 
Paul Kalkbrenner 
Rudimental 
Seafret 
Skero 
Sportfreunde Stiller 
Tagtraeumer 
The Front Bottoms 
The Lumineers 
The Temper Trap 
Turbobier 
Umse 
Wakrat 
Alle Farben 
Austrian Apparel 
Dada Life 
Dirtyphonics 
Dub FX 
Extrawelt LIVE 
Golan 
Hudson Mohawke DJ SET 
Kaytranada 
Kid Simius LIVE 
Mann & Klamm 
Möwe live 
Rusko b2b Caspa 
Zomboy 
High Contrast 
Fred V & Grafix 
S.P.Y. 
Metrik 
Roni Size & DJ Krust present Full Cycle 

Last Shadow Puppets will be there as well

[DDave]

No headliners in that lot, surely?

Edit, I really like Front Bottoms....fnar, fnar.

 

Muse Playing Sziget on the 13th. I'd be amazed if they weren't at Frequency and PKP now.

Edited February 18, 2016 by DiscothequeDave

[Dietediet]

Looks like Foals became really unlikely now. If they do Pukkelpop they're playing 4 days in a row, whereas Werchter fits better into their tour schedule. 

[Semprini]

Bit strange why they haven't announced any headliners as that's obvioulsy what initially draws a lot of people in. It's no secret that Muse are around this summer so, if they have got them, can't see why they would hold back?

Don't think the Foals date at MS Docklands has been confirmed but if it's Saturday 20th then that 100% rules them out.

[DDave]

31 minutes ago, Semprini said:

Bit strange why they haven't announced any headliners as that's obvioulsy what initially draws a lot of people in. It's no secret that Muse are around this summer so, if they have got them, can't see why they would hold back?

Don't think the Foals date at MS Docklands has been confirmed but if it's Saturday 20th then that 100% rules them out.

On the Foals website, most of the festivals they're doing have a date that coincides with the first day of the festival. Doesn't look like its been confirmed for any of those yet. 

I don't think 4 days is out of the question. Logistics wise you'd imagine it'd be Frequency, PKP, LL then MS Dockville in that order.

Edited February 18, 2016 by DiscothequeDave

[DDave]

Here's the main updated list so far...

Confirmed

Clap! Clap!

Very Likely

Eagles of Death Metal, Mastadon,

Possible 

Muse, Massive Attack, LCD Soundsystem, Chemical Brothers, The Cure, Noel Gallaghers HFB,  M83, Foals , Sum 41, Within Temptation, Paul Kalkbrenner,  Chvrches, , Hot Chip, Booka Shade, Sia, John Newman, Garbage, NOFX, Bloc Party, Sum 41, , Bullet For My Valentine, Roisin Murphy, Years and Years, Iggy  Pop, Jess Glynne, Sleaford Mods, Young Fathers, Kaiser Chiefs, Primal Scream, James Bay, Deadmau5, Die Antwoord, Damian Jr.Gong Marley, Temper Trap, Lumineers, Kaytranada, Status Quo.

Bands ruled out

AC/DC, Paul McCartney, Prodigy, Sigur Ros, Pixies, Radiohead, Two Door Cinema Club, RHCP, Editors, Rammstein, Underworld, The 1975, Weezer. Coldplay, Black Sabbath, Florence and the Machine, Wiz Khalifa, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band , Lana Del Rey, Lionel Richie, Ryan Adams, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Flume, Pearl Jam, Billy Joel, Janet Jackson
 

Edited February 18, 2016 by DiscothequeDave

[Semprini]

Good work Dave! So much potential this year which means you're right, no excuse for a weak top end.

Wonder how many will get ruled out tomorrow in the RW annoucement?

Edited February 18, 2016 by Semprini

[DDave]

Dunno. As long as its not the Chems I don't care.

From that list, I can see Within Temptation being a Sub for Muse though 

[Semprini]

Think The Chems are safe but reckon Foals are the most likely casualty tomorrow.

The official Twitter account encouraged people to 'add pkpfestival on snapchat to discover the first #PKP16 names. Coming soon!' today. How soon is now though?

[johnybegood]

1 hour ago, DiscothequeDave said:

Dunno. As long as its not the Chems I don't care.

From that list, I can see Within Temptation being a Sub for Muse though 

Within Temptation are headlining Alcatraz Festival in Belgium the week before Pukkelpop. That festival also rule out some Shelter candidates like Airbourne or Ministry.

[thetime]

Rihanna to headline, seems a strange one as she is playing werchter boutique.

 

Edited February 19, 2016 by thetime

[SoLoCo]

Surprised by this one. I'm sure it'll go down well with the PKP crowd though. 

[reaper]

32 minutes ago, thetime said:

Rihanna to headline, seems a strange one as she is playing werchter boutique.

 

Boutique is cancelled

[thetime]

37 minutes ago, reaper said:

Boutique is cancelled

Never knew that, why is it cancelled?

[alan_ts]

http://www.werchterboutique.be/en/news/detail/rihanna-not-at-werchter-boutique.-the-anti-world-tour-to-halt-at-the-pukkelpop-festival

[DDave]

Wow.

 

Weirdly enough I was gonna suggest Rihanna and the Weeknd to be potential Pukkelpop material yesterday (honestly!) until I saw the Boutique show.

Well if that's the pop day sorted, it's a very decent start in my opinion and at least she's a big name and will put on a big show. Rules out Justin Bieber hopefully.

 

 

Unless of course this is the flavour for the rest of the festival.....then we're fucked.

Edited February 19, 2016 by DiscothequeDave

[DDave]

The Weeknd not confirmed? Bit odd.

The announcements not gone down well with some people on Facebook.

Edited February 19, 2016 by DiscothequeDave

[DDave]

Does anyone think that Muse could headline the Wednesday? 

Reason behind my thinking is that if they want to make it into a proper 4 dayer (selling day tickets for this day as well) then to guarantee a big crowd it'd have to be a big band who'd have their own massive following. They could still start it late and have the Boiler room and Dance Hall opening parties but could have the main stage on from about 6 with a couple of support bands and then Muse as the main. 

They'd make money via the extra day tickets and drinks sales without having to lay out a full days line up over 8 stages.

Just a thought.

[TheNewUnion]

Aaaand, don't hold your breath

 

http://m.eonline.com/news/741556/rihanna-s-anti-tour-has-been-pushed-back-because-of-production-problems

 

Tour delayed amid rumours of melt down. 

 

That aside, good booking really. Looks like a gift from Boutique though, doesn't it. Belgian festivals looking out for each other. Not my bag but a huge star name. 

[johnybegood]

There is one thing for sure: Rihanna is a last minute booking due to Werchter Boutique cancelation ofr security reasons, so Pukkelpop had the chance to book her and they did it. They have announced her now because there is a special presale for people who already had a Boutique ticket. so thursday tickets will be sold out so quick (probably before general sale starts).

So, if Pukkelpop spend a lot of money in a last minute booking make me think a theory: Neil said that Reading had problems in the negociations with their last headliner (maybe Green Day or G'n'R?) and they had to make a plan-b with another co-healine structure (Biffy Clyro and Fall Out Boy). Is it posible that this same headliner was pre-booked by Frequency and Pukkelpop but it decided not to tour Europe in 2016 and that's the reason why Frequency didn't announce any big name in their first announcement and Pukkelpop have found a last minute oportunity to programm a big name topping the bill on thursday (the day when PKP tends to place its bigger headliner)?

Edited February 19, 2016 by johnybegood

[Dietediet]

2 hours ago, DiscothequeDave said:

The Weeknd not confirmed? Bit odd.

The announcements not gone down well with some people on Facebook.

Would't be surprised if The Weeknd pops up at Les Ardentes. Heavily leaning on hiphop/rnb and seemingly slow in announcing their headliners.

Or playing Werchter.

[Dietediet]

1 hour ago, DiscothequeDave said:

Does anyone think that Muse could headline the Wednesday? 

Reason behind my thinking is that if they want to make it into a proper 4 dayer (selling day tickets for this day as well) then to guarantee a big crowd it'd have to be a big band who'd have their own massive following. They could still start it late and have the Boiler room and Dance Hall opening parties but could have the main stage on from about 6 with a couple of support bands and then Muse as the main. 

They'd make money via the extra day tickets and drinks sales without having to lay out a full days line up over 8 stages.

Just a thought.

I don't think they want to grow to a full-on fourth day. Last year already proved us how tough it can be to fill out the big names for three days, let alone four. And Thursday already requires the biggest headliner to sell out as a weekday.

[Semprini]

Well I wasn't expecting to wake up to that this morning! Echo much of what has already been said - not really my thing but a good piece of business by the festival. When one of the biggest names on the planet drops in your lap you'd be a complete fool to turn them down and say 'thanks, but no thanks'. Nice to see the festivals working together - not something that would happen here of course. She clearly wasn't their first choice, which many of the angry people on social media don't seem to have worked out yet. Guess that doesn't change the outcome though.

Interesting what you say about the possible Thursday headliner situation johny but I wonder how recently all this Rihanna business came about? You'd like to think PKP have had their Thursday headliner for a while so if whoever that is cancelled lke you said then fair enough. But if they didn't and PKP have been able to do a bit of shifting around.....