Rock Werchter 2023

[BenG92]

It's been about 36 hours since RHCP walked off stage at Rock Werchter 2022 and I'm already thinking about the possibilities for next year while I deal with the post-festival blues!

Assuming we're back on track for a normal reveal schedule post-Covid, we should be expecting the first names around November, maybe a little earlier or later.

No better time to get the thread started!

[polnico]

27 minutes ago, BenG92 said:

It's been about 36 hours since RHCP walked off stage at Rock Werchter 2022 and I'm already thinking about the possibilities for next year while I deal with the post-festival blues!

Assuming we're back on track for a normal reveal schedule post-Covid, we should be expecting the first names around November, maybe a little earlier or later.

No better time to get the thread started!

Can't add reactions anymore to do this, so I'll do it by responding : 🏆

Here are my (very) early picks:

Thursday:   Tame Impala - Arcade Fire + Nine Inch Nails (Barn) - Bonobo (Klub c)

Friday: RATM + SOAD - Charli XCX (Barn) -  Little Simz (Klub C)

Saturday: Kendrick Lamar + Billie Eilish + Foals - Gojira (Barn) - Four Tet (Klub C)

Sunday: Arctic Monkeys + QOTSA  - The Smile (Barn) - Caribou (Klub C)

100% need to get my own hopes down, but please give me a few of those and I'll already be happy.

Edited July 5, 2022 by polnico

[BenG92]

Some previously planned acts, cancelled acts, old favourites, new blood. Slightly alternative Saturday again.

Thursday: Muse / Arcade Fire / Rosalia

Friday: The Strokes / Queens of the Stone Age / Faith No More

Saturday: Kendrick Lamar / The Weeknd / Charli XCX

Sunday: System of a Down / Bring Me The Horizon / Nine Inch Nails

[Scarnic]

Rage against the machine should have a good chance as they should have played 2021 so are probably contracted for a show at some time in the next couple of years. Subbing them with SOAD for a mosh pit day like no other would be class.

[Codhead]

Dreaming and I know it'll never happen but I want. Foos, Placebo, Snow Patrol and Greenday as headliners

[gingerevans84]

4 hours ago, BenG92 said:

Some previously planned acts, cancelled acts, old favourites, new blood. Slightly alternative Saturday again.

Thursday: Muse / Arcade Fire / Rosalia

Friday: The Strokes / Queens of the Stone Age / Faith No More

Saturday: Kendrick Lamar / The Weeknd / Charli XCX

Sunday: System of a Down / Bring Me The Horizon / Nine Inch Nails

Friday would need someone else, but other than that, beautiful. 

[misterplow]

5 hours ago, BenG92 said:

Some previously planned acts, cancelled acts, old favourites, new blood. Slightly alternative Saturday again.

Thursday: Muse / Arcade Fire / Rosalia

Friday: The Strokes / Queens of the Stone Age / Faith No More

Saturday: Kendrick Lamar / The Weeknd / Charli XCX

Sunday: System of a Down / Bring Me The Horizon / Nine Inch Nails

Muse again? Last time was awful. Other than that being it on.

[BenG92]

35 minutes ago, misterplow said:

Muse again? Last time was awful. Other than that being it on.

I'm not a huge fan of their newer stuff but they have a new album due soon, think they'll be around at festivals next year including RW. 

[Andrej]

RATM should be there next year.

Not so sure about SOAD.

NIN also likely to tour again next summer. 

[SweetJesus]

1 hour ago, Codhead said:

Dreaming and I know it'll never happen but I want. Foos, Placebo, Snow Patrol and Greenday as headliners

Weak, very very weak

[SweetJesus]

5 minutes ago, Andrej said:

RATM should be there next year.

Not so sure about SOAD.

NIN also likely to tour again next summer. 

@Ken19 said few times that SOAD will be back in 2023. But that was long time ago…

[Aech]

Radiohead // Faith No More // Snow Patrol

Blur // The Strokes

Arctic Monkeys // Queens of the Stone Age

Rage Against The Machine // System of a Down // Nine Inch Nails

 

[Codhead]

1 hour ago, SweetJesus said:

Weak, very very weak

In your opinion, which i disagree with.

[Name taken]

4 hours ago, Codhead said:

Dreaming and I know it'll never happen but I want. Foos, Placebo, Snow Patrol and Greenday as headliners

So 2004

[49Lawson]

9 hours ago, Aech said:

Radiohead // Faith No More // Snow Patrol

Blur // The Strokes

Arctic Monkeys // Queens of the Stone Age

Rage Against The Machine // System of a Down // Nine Inch Nails

 

Sold

[ParanoidTourist]

10 hours ago, Aech said:

Radiohead // Faith No More // Snow Patrol

Blur // The Strokes

Arctic Monkeys // Queens of the Stone Age

Rage Against The Machine // System of a Down // Nine Inch Nails

 

Yes! Make it happen!

[Bram]

Never been to RW and (up to now) this is the only music fest this year with glowing review from the audience side.
 

Been thinking to go to RW next year but really curious  on how long usually the ticket sold out from the initial sales? And  How far the distance from one stage to the other?Is it difficult to get through the front and middle barricade on the main stage, barn and klub cv? 

 

[VCF]

Arctic Monkeys / Nine Inch Nails

Kendrick Lamar / Arcade Fire (AF could even play in the dark should Kendrick have a shorter set)

Rage Against the Machine / QOTSA

Taylor Swift / The National (wont change my mind on this)

Boutique : Billie Eilish

[polnico]

31 minutes ago, Bram said:

Never been to RW and (up to now) this is the only music fest this year with glowing review from the audience side.
 

Been thinking to go to RW next year but really curious  on how long usually the ticket sold out from the initial sales? And  How far the distance from one stage to the other?Is it difficult to get through the front and middle barricade on the main stage, barn and klub cv? 

 

If you plan on being at the front of the stage for every single show, you can of course forget it, but arrive 10-15 (careful with the biggest tent names though) mins early for a Barn/Klub C act and you usually get a good spot (back is crowded but front is kinda ok). There are no "middle" barricades in the Barn and Klub C btw !

For the main stage, this can get more tricky if you want to enter one the 2 front pits, and for big acts, this usually mean arriving at the gates of the pits as the previous act finishes, which means a bit of waiting. However if watching main stage concerts from further is ok for you, no worry. 

The walk from Barn to main is max 10minutes, a tiny bit less from Klub C. Barn and Klub C are next to each other. The Slope is located 5 min from Klub C and max 10 from Main Stage. 

Edited July 6, 2022 by polnico

[Aech]

1 hour ago, VCF said:

Arctic Monkeys / Nine Inch Nails

Kendrick Lamar / Arcade Fire (AF could even play in the dark should Kendrick have a shorter set)

Rage Against the Machine / QOTSA

Taylor Swift / The National (wont change my mind on this)

Boutique : Billie Eilish

If Wercher want to keep making hand over fist selling 3.50 euro 250ml beers and 14 euro burgers they'll stay away from the teenage crowd. The day ticket crowd this year on Saturday were noticeably younger (sober) girls and that's just the twenty one pilots affect, Taylor will have that place swamped and Kendrick is only going to bring in drunk teenage lads that BYOB.

Arcade Fire and The National certainly won't be enough to impress the rest of us if they're anything like me. Crowds were so much better at Werchter this year (the Metallica and Covid effect) a lineup like this would see me bored to tears in the Rage crowd I expect like the front of Muse in 2019.

Edited July 6, 2022 by Aech

[Floyd_Ams]

14 hours ago, Aech said:

Radiohead // Faith No More // Snow Patrol

Blur // The Strokes

Arctic Monkeys // Queens of the Stone Age

Rage Against The Machine // System of a Down // Nine Inch Nails

 

Too good to become true but yes please!!!

[Aech]

7 minutes ago, Floyd_Ams said:

Too good to become true but yes please!!!

Add QOTSA to this years Friday and it's no different in size or cost to this years headliners slate I imagine.

[Floyd_Ams]

23 minutes ago, Aech said:

Add QOTSA to this years Friday and it's no different in size or cost to this years headliners slate I imagine.

I agree! I was mostly referring to the many "IFs" involved for such a lineup to be formed. Will Radiohead get back together and tour (with The Smile being on tour till the end of '22)? Same for Blur. Will The Strokes accept to be the sub? But one can dream...

Edited July 6, 2022 by Floyd_Ams

[Aech]

1 hour ago, Floyd_Ams said:

I agree! I was mostly referring to the many "IFs" involved for such a lineup to be formed. Will Radiohead get back together and tour (with The Smile being on tour till the end of '22)? Same for Blur. Will The Strokes accept to be the sub? But one can dream...

Sorry yeah for sure Radiohead is mostly a lot of hope, not for me but my two friends who love them. No need for Strokes to sub it'll just be another headline slot like The Killers (even though they finished early) or Twenty One Pilots. My dream is:

 

Foo Fighters // The Strokes // Liam Gallagher

Guns n Roses // System of a Down // Royal Blood

AC/DC // Slipknot // Bring me the Horizon

Tyler The Creator // Florence + The Machine // Lizzo

Edited July 6, 2022 by Aech

[BenG92]

Radiohead are basically the end of my bucket list at this point so that alone would probably sell me for '23.