Rock Werchter 2021

[Sparticus]

21 minutes ago, Daniel Ferreira said:

They postponed it because they were going to start assembling the Festival now.
The organization does not yet proceed with any confirmation on the poster because the conversations with the artists will only start now. But they will probably keep the same names, in Portugal Rock in Rio is very criticized because the festival itself has little Rock to be called Rock in Rio.

Thanks, each to their own, I think the lineup for the foo fighters day looks great!

[thewayiam]

26 minutes ago, misterplow said:

People like that still exist? 😅

iTs CaLlEd RoCk In RiO sO It CaN OnLy HaVe RoCk BaNdS 

Can kinda see their point. There is 1 of 4 days that is booked with rock. It's basically party in Lisbon.

[Daniel Ferreira]

Rock in Rio when he came to Portugal in 4 days and it was:
1 Day Rock
1 Day Metal
1 Day Pop
1 Day Brazilian and Portuguese Music together.

Currently:
2 Day Rock
2 Day of Pop and Brazilian Music

[Ken19]

Today in Belgium newspapers, news about RW and their plans... 😉 

They will share some news very shortly. 

[heti]

5 minutes ago, Ken19 said:

Today in Belgium newspapers, news about RW and their plans... 😉 

They will share some news very shortly. 

What's in the papers since it was already published today??

[mln]

Apparently Tomorrowland and RW are considering moving to late August / early September:

https://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20210308_95630993

[heti]

IF the festival will happen later this year then the most honest & sincere policy would be announcing the majority of the delayed 2021 line-up the same time when they'll tell us about the late holidys scenario. 

 

[Ken19]

2 minutes ago, heti said:

IF the festival will happen later this year then the most honest & sincere policy would be announcing the majority of the delayed 2021 line-up the same time when they'll tell us about the late holidys scenario. 

 

It will be nothing compared with a normal RW. Nice European acts will be there, but a major part of the line up will be moved to other years. 

[mln]

Just now, Ken19 said:

It will be nothing compared with a normal RW. Nice European acts will be there, but a major part of the line up will be moved to other years. 

Do you know if other European festivals will follow?

[Judithmt]

7 minutes ago, mln said:

Do you know if other European festivals will follow?

No official confirmation yet, but Lowlands said they want to have the festival at their usual dates. International line up, but no big American headliners. Depends on the details of the government risk fund.

Edited March 8, 2021 by Judithmt

[thetime]

Hopefully not clash with leeds festival.

[heti]

18 minutes ago, Ken19 said:

It will be nothing compared with a normal RW. Nice European acts will be there, but a major part of the line up will be moved to other years. 

2022 for me then 😞

[lighthouse]

Well, out of the 4 announced headliners (PJ, Gorillaz, 21P, RHCP), the only one European one (Gorillaz) is by far the most interesting one for me. But let's see how things turn out.

Good to see things moving again, with APE rescheduled for august as well. 

[Ken19]

I think you have to look at bands like Royal Blood, Fontaines, Balthazar, Altin Gun, Paul Kalkbrenner... 

But no guarantee. No big production or Crew. 

[ParanoidTourist]

7 minutes ago, Ken19 said:

I think you have to look at bands like Royal Blood, Fontaines, Balthazar, Altin Gun, Paul Kalkbrenner... 

But no guarantee. No big production or Crew. 

Well, I'll be happy with a small scale festival (if it happens) considering the entire world hasn't seen any live band in one year:)

[xxialac]

3 minutes ago, ParanoidTourist said:

Well, I'll be happy with a small scale festival (if it happens) considering the entire world hasn't seen any live band in one year:)

Bit of an exaggeration!! There have been concerts happening al year in some parts of the world and later this month even in Europe.

[pete76]

50 minutes ago, Ken19 said:

I think you have to look at bands like Royal Blood, Fontaines, Balthazar, Altin Gun, Paul Kalkbrenner... 

But no guarantee. No big production or Crew. 

Scary lineup

[thewayiam]

This is a bit telling is it not given that Belgium's numbers are lowers than ours.

[thetime]

1 hour ago, Ken19 said:

I think you have to look at bands like Royal Blood, Fontaines, Balthazar, Altin Gun, Paul Kalkbrenner... 

But no guarantee. No big production or Crew. 

Time for Editors then

[Ken19]

45 minutes ago, thetime said:

Time for Editors then

And Oscar & The Wolf... bands whose production is coordinated by the same people as the production behind RW. 

[thetime]

3 minutes ago, Ken19 said:

And Oscar & The Wolf... bands whose production is coordinated by the same people as the production behind RW. 

I actually would take that with Editors, Royal Blood, Fontaines, Balthazar, Altin Gun, Paul Kalkbrenner. A 2 day festival first week of september would work for me.

[lighthouse]

Maybe we can look at who's playing All Points East in London. Gorillaz is also scheduled to play soms UK shows in August... 

[Ohad]

10 hours ago, Ken19 said:

And Oscar & The Wolf... bands whose production is coordinated by the same people as the production behind RW. 

Really? He did not play since 2019 and there's still no new music out. If true it's exciting 

[birchtree29]

Bring back Stromae

[Ken19]

They plan to announce the cancellation of the original weekend before the end of March, and at the same time the light version and... 

But I think you’ll be all surprised. 
 

Fingers crossed. Don’t shoot me if you have to wait a little bit longer. But there is really light at the end of the tunnel. We are lucky that a lot of the suppliers are born in the lap of Rock Werchter (stageco, zippola, powershop, ...).