Rock Werchter 2016

[Mar2190]

Hoping for some of Biffy, 1975, Kendrick, Wombats, M83, Ice Cube and Springsteen today.

 

A couple of them would be grand! 

[McCallion]

All the rumours in Springsteen forums now have him down at TW Classic (which is where I'd put my money atm). Who knows whos gonna headline the Thursday! Let's bring on the announcement! 

[McCallion]

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Sunday party act as expected. Tbh, I'm fine with this. Should be fun enough

[jimitheking]

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.

WTF?!?!

[Dietediet]

Well, this was expected indeed. Party act aka coheadliner with Florence. 

[McCallion]

Just now, jimitheking said:

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.

WTF?!?!

Tbf, I think it's a pretty good booking for a Sunday night party closer. Sure as hell a lot more fun than Disclosure on Thursday. Could have just used with a few more names announced at the same time, definitely some more rock.

[Red Day]

Jeezus. It's getting beyond a joke now. I'm so annoyed with myself getting tickets before a reasonable portion of line up revealed. If i wanted a pop oriantated line up I could have gone to either T or V

[Dietediet]

It seems more and more likely that we're sharing our last headliner with Pinkpop, and they're announcing it Wednesday afternoon. That would mean Paul McCartney.

[McCallion]

I think everything now hangs on that Thursday headliner. Get a good name there and it might make up for some of the recent awful announcements. Part of me is wondering whether Springsteen is booked for TW Classic, but since Pearl Jam dropped out of RW they're trying to persuade him to come over this way instead. Who knows though, I'm just completely fucking confused about everything!

[thewayiam]

6 minutes ago, Dietediet said:

It seems more and more likely that we're sharing our last headliner with Pinkpop, and they're announcing it Wednesday afternoon. That would mean Paul McCartney.

Is that it?, just one act announced?

[heti]

6 minutes ago, Dietediet said:

It seems more and more likely that we're sharing our last headliner with Pinkpop, and they're announcing it Wednesday afternoon. That would mean Paul McCartney.

God, please. I'm starting to regret I bought ticket the day they went on sale ;/

[McCallion]

Pinkpop might be an option for me this Summer. The only act so far that I'd LOVE to see is Rammstein and they're there anyway. 

[Hawros]

A text conversation with my friend, just now...

[McCallion]

Just now, Hawros said:

A text conversation with my friend, just now...

You're a harsh friend Hawros! Hahaha!

[Tremousse]

No surprises, Macklemore was 99% sure since it has been announced to Main Square festival. Next week should be more interesting.

[Hyllebergxd]

I am not surprised either, and actually, I consider this as an awesome booking. The first Dance Act that I am actually looking forward to see. I am curious to see if they can be better than Major Lazor in 2014. That was an awesome dance party. One of the best I have been to of that kind of music. 

[Red Day]

11 minutes ago, Hyllebergxd said:

I am not surprised either, and actually, I consider this as an awesome booking. The first Dance Act that I am actually looking forward to see. I am curious to see if they can be better than Major Lazor in 2014. That was an awesome dance party. One of the best I have been to of that kind of music. 

So you're the one person who's happy with this announcement  

[Hyllebergxd]

4 minutes ago, Red Day said:

So you're the one person who's happy with this announcement  

Yeah. But now, I really REALLY need some more rock in my ROCK Werchter :). 

[Red Day]

7 minutes ago, Hyllebergxd said:

Yeah. But now, I really REALLY need some more rock in my ROCK Werchter :). 

If the rest of the line up is anything like the majority of announcements so far, that's not going to happen.  They seem to have completely lost the plot this year.

[Dietediet]

8 minutes ago, Red Day said:

If the rest of the line up is anything like the majority of announcements so far, that's not going to happen.  They seem to have completely lost the plot this year.

How so? So far I don't really have the feeling there's going to be more pop and electro than in the past years. Let's also not forget that we still have 55% of the names to go.

The ratio of pop-rock-electro is more or less the same every year, the difference just seems to be in the order that they're announcing things. The past weeks we've had quite a bit of tent and (after)noon acts that usually get announced only in March. We still have some big shots to go, and a fair share of rock stuff that's a semi certainty too (Biffy Clyro, Tenacious D, Iggy Pop, Deftones, Flogging Molly, ...).

Edited February 12, 2016 by Dietediet

[thetime]

Oh, that is all I can muster.

[thetime]

1 hour ago, Red Day said:

Jeezus. It's getting beyond a joke now. I'm so annoyed with myself getting tickets before a reasonable portion of line up revealed. If i wanted a pop oriantated line up I could have gone to either T or V

To be fair Florence into macklemore would be weak for even v or t.

[Tremousse]

4 minutes ago, Dietediet said:

How so? So far I don't really have the feeling there's going to be more pop and electro than in the past years. Let's also not forget that we still have 55% of the names to go and already have a fair share of tent acts announced. 

 

Yes, let's be optimistic  We don't need 40 rock names because firstly we can catch maximum 8 names a day, and we've already acts we can't miss  (Rammstein, Gütterdammerung), and Friday is already very good, we just need GOOD names among the number of coming acts, and it's still vey possible  Glen Hansard could be there, given his calendar, it's a first good point.

[Red Day]

34 minutes ago, thetime said:

To be fair Florence into macklemore would be weak for even v or t.

[zbo]

1 hour ago, Hyllebergxd said:

I am not surprised either, and actually, I consider this as an awesome booking. The first Dance Act that I am actually looking forward to see. I am curious to see if they can be better than Major Lazor in 2014. That was an awesome dance party. One of the best I have been to of that kind of music. 

no way they can be better than major lazer..saw macklemore at sziget in 2014 and the set was 50% singing and 50% talking with self-celebrating bullshit. btw when he sings is not that bad, but he cannot top a major lazer performance