Rock Werchter 2023

[Floyd_Ams]

16 hours ago, EV123 said:

His show in belgium this year sold very bad. If he comes, he would need to be happy with at least one spot lower than before imo. Or maybe as a Barn head?

Depends on who the headliner(s) will be and the rest of the lineup that day. With a very strong/popular headliner (like RATM, SOAD, Blur, etc), I wouldn't be surprised if he'll still be the second most popular name on the day even though, solo, he might not be selling as well as in the past in Belgium.

[Scarnic]

Shame about Rammstein. Would like to have seen them at Werchter again. I feel the shows and the band are too big for festivals now.

[Matt86]

3 hours ago, SweetJesus said:

Great for you. If you ask people who were at Reading/Leeds, many of them will say that Alex Turner looks like he don’t wanna be on stage.

"if you ask people" lol , try to make your own opinion instead of trusting everything you read on social media 😉 Turner is no Dave Grohl, everyone knows that.

[SweetJesus]

Okay man, I went to Pula. And in that amazing venue, Arctic Monkeys didn’t impress me at all. So at festivals, it could be only worse

Edited September 1, 2022 by SweetJesus

[Mondo-kun]

I can assume that AM lives are hit or miss.
IMO their show at Sziget this year was brilliant. Couple days after at Lowlands they also were good, but nothing special.

[clasher]

They were bad in Pula, which was even more obvious after Tame Impala killed it the next day. I heard sziget was no better. Glad to see some enjoy their shows, but they certainly won't sell me any tickets.

[The Black]

3 hours ago, Scarnic said:

Shame about Rammstein. Would like to have seen them at Werchter again. I feel the shows and the band are too big for festivals now.

They could easily do one or two days at the Werchter site, however they are not dealing with Live Nation (at the moment).

[VolkIreland]

Just gonna chime in on the AM discussion. 

They were actually shite at RW last time. 

[pigital]

And they were terribly boring at Pukkelpop too. Lots of people leaving, Alex was definitely not in the mood which happens more often than not. Also didn’t sell their day out on a smaller festival than Werchter. For me they don’t have to be there at all as it won’t be a convincing name for many who saw them at Werchter or Pukkelpop already.

[Matt86]

here's 2 pieces of videos (brianstorm and teddy picker), you can see 1) they're doin' great and 2) people having fun.

Sorry for you guys if in Belgium their shows are boring.

[Nicklord]

Unpopular opinion: Arctic Monkeys were amazing the last time at Rock Werchter and the crowd was the one that sucked because they only wanted to hear Do I Wanna Know on repeat 

[pigital]

8 hours ago, Nicklord said:

Unpopular opinion: Arctic Monkeys were amazing the last time at Rock Werchter and the crowd was the one that sucked because they only wanted to hear Do I Wanna Know on repeat 

I do agree that part of them never being too good in Werchter or Pukkelpop is simply because we’re not fully their type of audience here in Belgium. It’s like Herman Schueremans said, Belgians ease into the concert slowly but when you have them they give you all. Bands that need the energy more to bring energy into a crowd (AM for example) will always have a harder time in Belgium than bands that feed energy and then enjoy together (Coldplay for example). For the first type of band it’s always hit or miss at Belgian festivals, of which Gorillaz was another example this summer. With other crowds I indeed see this happening less, of which Sziget is a nice example.

[ParanoidTourist]

17 hours ago, Nicklord said:

Unpopular opinion: Arctic Monkeys were amazing the last time at Rock Werchter and the crowd was the one that sucked because they only wanted to hear Do I Wanna Know on repeat 

I agree about this too! They were great last time imo!

[Red Day]

21 hours ago, Nicklord said:

Unpopular opinion: Arctic Monkeys were amazing the last time at Rock Werchter and the crowd was the one that sucked because they only wanted to hear Do I Wanna Know on repeat 

I saw them at NoS a few weeks later and they were dire.  My son saw them at Leeds Festival last weekend and also thought they were pretty boring.  More suited to indoor venues these days.

[Matt42]

Arctic Monkeys
Pink
RATM
SOAD
Pulp
Doja Cat
Queens of The Stone Age
The Strokes

[BenG92]

This conversation about whether AM are "good" live or not is so silly. It's not about "good", it's about the fact that they've changed their style so much since the earlier albums and Alex is doing his crooner Bowie thing and slowing every song down.

That's always gonna work for some people and not for others, it's not about them being good or bad, just different. For me I'm glad I ticked them off the list but they won't sell me on a festival again. 

Edited September 3, 2022 by BenG92

[heti]

8 hours ago, Matt42 said:

Arctic Monkeys
Pink
RATM
SOAD
Pulp
Doja Cat
Queens of The Stone Age
The Strokes

That would be A line-up (besides Doja Cat for me but I despise this type of music so I'd go to The Slope probably :p)

[Trufflehound]

On 9/2/2022 at 1:53 PM, Nicklord said:

Unpopular opinion: Arctic Monkeys were amazing the last time at Rock Werchter and the crowd was the one that sucked because they only wanted to hear Do I Wanna Know on repeat 

That sounds pretty much like Blur's experience when they headlined RW back in the late 90s. The band were pretty good IMO, but the vast bulk of the crowd was only there for Song 2.

[SonicSleuth]

Gotta be honest, I was with a group of about 12 people at AM RW 2018 and every one of us was a fan... and every one of us was completely bored by their set. As a group we loved The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Gorillaz... hey, even Nick Cave (although they didn't know 90% of his songs), but we were already to dance our tails off and we ended up just sitting down and drinking. And chatting. That's never a good sign.

And I've seen AM in their pre-worldwide phenom shows where we did dance our tails off. Not saying anybody else should feel differently - we like what we like - but we all wanted really bad to have fun at that show. It barely registers as a memory now.

[clasher]

I am most annoyed they're still playing so much of AM, a massively overrated album with one cool riff, a couple of good songs and full of fillers with the same generic and rather boring drum beat (namely One for the road, Arabella, Why'd you only call me when you're high, Knee socks - all of them they sadly refuse not to play). And although I enjoy tranquility base (and the new track as well), it really should've been Alex Turner solo/Last shadow puppets album.

I'm afraid Helders will start wearing jeans on stage if they continue like that. 

After their disappointing Mad Cool 18 show, I thought they might be better suited to smaller, more intimate venues. After seeing them in one of the sexiest venues, arena in Pula, I can say that's not the case. Still don't mind listening to their tunes, but live? No thanks.

[The Black]

Not sure if anybody mentioned it already, but apparalently Depeche Mode are heavily rumored to do a festival tour in 2023.

[ParanoidTourist]

1 hour ago, The Black said:

Not sure if anybody mentioned it already, but apparalently Depeche Mode are heavily rumored to do a festival tour in 2023.

That's great news! I always enjoyed them at Werchter!

[Andrej]

Yes, apparently Depeche Mode will be out in Europe during June and July.

[BenG92]

I'd be really happy with a Depeche Mode appearance and I couldn't even name many songs. I just know they're great and Violator is one hell of an album. 

[49Lawson]

Have no idea where the Depeche Mode rumours have come from but they’re one of the few bands that would sell me a ticket on the strength of them alone. They were absolutely incredible at Mad Cool in 2018, and then at Werchter would be a dream