Pukkelpop 2020

[Death By Sexy]

If they announce today that the first name will be Monday, it will definitely be Eminem. 

[FestivalJamie]

So have we got any idea of who's playing Pukkelpop this year, or when the line up will be released?

[DDave]

6 hours ago, FestivalJamie said:

So have we got any idea of who's playing Pukkelpop this year, or when the line up will be released?

Confirmed - None

80% plus chancers

Foals, Black Country, New Road, Soulwax, Noisia, Pendulum, Shame, Sigrid, Michael Kiwanuka, London Grammar, Bring Me the Horizon, Tash Sultana, Parquet Courts, Caribou, Denzel Curry, Jpegmafia, Coffee

Headliner/sub/closer options:

Chemical Brothers, Dua Lipa, Kings of Leon, Major Lazer, Die Antwoord, Slipknot, RATM, Bon Iver, Calvin Harris, Khalid, Robyn (and I'd still throw Nick Cave into the mix) 

When it get the first names? No idea. Thought we might get something today but literally nothings been stirring at all and the wishlist is still open. If they announce it like they did last year, If we don't get anything tomorrow it'll be another week at least I'd have thought. 

 

Edited February 17, 2020 by DDave

[FestivalJamie]

Foals, London grammar and dua lipa would be nice...

How does this compare to Sziget, I don't really want to do a 7 day festival this year and this is only 3 days with more compact line up across the 3 days so that suits me better, so was wondering how it compares in terms of overall atmosphere etc.

[DDave]

Haven't done Sziget so can't comment. Atmosphere at Pukkelpop is really good and everyone is really friendly and up for a good time. The festivals strengths are it's varied line up, it's not a trek to go from tent to tent, almost always get a decent viewing position the organisation of it is the best I've seen at any festival/event (i.e. getting in, getting a drink, toilets etc). Weather is normally decent as well.

Runs from 12pm ish to 4am. Here's last years clashfinder https://clashfinder.com/m/pkp2019/?user=0ojeud.rm

Doesn't always get the bigger bands and the main stage is often the worst out of the lot but I'd rather a strong undercard, which Pukkelpop has most years.

[FestivalJamie]

Yes I agree, wasn’t a big fan of last year’s headliners but the undercard looked really really strong

[DDave]

Cactus Festival announces its first names in the morning so doubt we'll get anything tomorrow either.

[Dietediet]

9 hours ago, DDave said:

Cactus Festival announces its first names in the morning so doubt we'll get anything tomorrow either.

Aren't we anyway expecting a tease on social media first?

[DDave]

8 minutes ago, Dietediet said:

Aren't we anyway expecting a tease on social media first?

You'd think. 

The daughter has tweeted 'Excited #pkp20', maybe that's the Pukkelpop PR machine going into overdrive. 

 

[gigi21]

to @DDave @Death By Sexy and all the other guys who usually book the Hostel H (and anyone else should be interested, of course).

Maybe you already know that, but I just discovered this tip: on the Radisson website there are interesting offers that make their rates ways lower than the ones on booking.com.

Registering to the website and booking now for the pkp days, you can get a triple room at Radisson Blue (4 stars, maybe many pkp artists stay there?) for 135€ per night or a double room for 109€, or a double at Radisson Park Inn (decent 3 stars) for 81€ per night.

[Death By Sexy]

21 minutes ago, gigi21 said:

to @DDave @Death By Sexy and all the other guys who usually book the Hostel H (and anyone else should be interested, of course).

Maybe you already know that, but I just discovered this tip: on the Radisson website there are interesting offers that make their rates ways lower than the ones on booking.com.

Registering to the website and booking now for the pkp days, you can get a triple room at Radisson Blue (4 stars, maybe many pkp artists stay there?) for 135€ per night or a double room for 109€, or a double at Radisson Park Inn (decent 3 stars) for 81€ per night.

I don't sleep at Hosel H, I live near Pukkelpop, so I sleep at home or at the camping

[johnybegood]

Miley Cyrus announced for Lolla Berlín a couple of weeks after PKP...

Dua Lipa + Miley closing one night Main Stage? Girls power!!

Edited February 18, 2020 by johnybegood

[FestivalJamie]

1 hour ago, johnybegood said:

Miley Cyrus announced for Lolla Berlín a couple of weeks after PKP...

Dua Lipa + Miley closing one night Main Stage? Girls power!!

Pray to god they don’t announce miley cyrus... Dua lipa would be a solid booking though.

[gigi21]

1 hour ago, Death By Sexy said:

I don't sleep at Hosel H, I live near Pukkelpop, so I sleep at home or at the camping

Sorry, maybe we've also been talking about this, but Grimbergen Double was very good 😅

[DDave]

1 hour ago, gigi21 said:

to @DDave @Death By Sexy and all the other guys who usually book the Hostel H (and anyone else should be interested, of course).

Maybe you already know that, but I just discovered this tip: on the Radisson website there are interesting offers that make their rates ways lower than the ones on booking.com.

Registering to the website and booking now for the pkp days, you can get a triple room at Radisson Blue (4 stars, maybe many pkp artists stay there?) for 135€ per night or a double room for 109€, or a double at Radisson Park Inn (decent 3 stars) for 81€ per night.

Thanks. Saw that the Radisson had good rates this year. We normally have tea/coffee up in the sky bar at lunch time before hitting the beers but they didn't open it up till 5pm this year. Lovely hotel though, might treat ourselves this year :-). Bands do stay there as well, shared a lift with Elbows keyboard player once

Good thing about the H Hostel is that it's so close to the station is that it stops us heading into the Irish Times when we should really know better.

[TheKiewitGuy]

Really bummed that Balthazar is playing Lokerse Feesten. Went to their show in Brussels yesterday and I'm sure it would have been the highlight of the PKP weekend. What a band!

[DDave]

42 minutes ago, TheKiewitGuy said:

Really bummed that Balthazar is playing Lokerse Feesten. Went to their show in Brussels yesterday and I'm sure it would have been the highlight of the PKP weekend. What a band!

+ The Libertines ruled out 

[johnybegood]

The Libertines also announced for Lokerse Feesten, so another band to rule out

(Ignore the post, Dave was quicker than me)

Edited February 18, 2020 by johnybegood

[DDave]

11 minutes ago, johnybegood said:

The Libertines also announced for Lokerse Feesten, so another band to rule out

(Ignore the post, Dave was quicker than me)

Balthazar were also in Cactus Festivals names this morning - BALTHAZAR > BLACK BOX REVELATION > HET ZESDE METAAL > ZWANGERE GUY > EEFJE DE VISSER

Very Belgian line up.

[DDave]

Nick Cave back on the road in September, leaves a 3 month in the tour schedule 

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-new-tour-dates/

[DDave]

From festileaks:

'Bright Eyes is currently in Europe. On Sunday 23/08 they have nothing yet, the day after they are in Paradiso. They would play 5 days in a row, but they often do that in their tour schedule ... Would be a nice name, as far as I am concerned!'

[gigi21]

23 hours ago, DDave said:

Confirmed - None

80% plus chancers

Foals, Black Country, New Road, Soulwax, Noisia, Pendulum, Shame, Sigrid, Michael Kiwanuka, London Grammar, Bring Me the Horizon, Tash Sultana, Parquet Courts, Caribou, Denzel Curry, Jpegmafia, Coffee

Headliner/sub/closer options:

Chemical Brothers, Dua Lipa, Kings of Leon, Major Lazer, Die Antwoord, Slipknot, RATM, Bon Iver, Calvin Harris, Khalid, Robyn (and I'd still throw Nick Cave into the mix) 

When it get the first names? No idea. Thought we might get something today but literally nothings been stirring at all and the wishlist is still open. If they announce it like they did last year, If we don't get anything tomorrow it'll be another week at least I'd have thought. 

 

Kraftwerk 3D playing at La Route Du Rock, St. Malo (FR) on friday August 21st. No Belgium/Netherlands dates at the moment.

[Warriorandweirdo]

7 hours ago, TheKiewitGuy said:

Really bummed that Balthazar is playing Lokerse Feesten. Went to their show in Brussels yesterday and I'm sure it would have been the highlight of the PKP weekend. What a band!

Why wouldn't they play PKP? It's a Belgian band who did only 2 Belgian shows last summer, so I'm expecting a lot of Belgian festivals that have booked them, including PKP.

[Ken19]

11 minutes ago, Warriorandweirdo said:

Why wouldn't they play PKP? It's a Belgian band who did only 2 Belgian shows last summer, so I'm expecting a lot of Belgian festivals that have booked them, including PKP.

Normally no Pkp for them

[DDave]

16 minutes ago, Ken19 said:

Normally no Pkp for them

Any idea when the first names arrive Ken?