Rock Werchter 2023

[BenG92]

LAODS of other acts I'd like to see back from that 2020 poster: Disclosure, Wilco, Liam G, Archive, Kendrick, The Streets (also dropped out 2022), Anderson Paak, City & Colour, SOAD, Volbeat, Placebo.

Damn, just remembered how much I was looking forward to 2020 at the time!

Sadly Faith No More are almost guaranteed out, Mike's only just getting over his agoraphobia by trialling two Mr. Bungle shows in December. Probably not enough time after that to put FNM back together and tour summer. 

[Floyd_Ams]

5 minutes ago, BenG92 said:

LAODS of other acts I'd like to see back from that 2020 poster: Disclosure, Wilco, Liam G, Archive, Kendrick, The Streets (also dropped out 2022), Anderson Paak, City & Colour, SOAD, Volbeat, Placebo.

Unfortunately, you can rule out Archive for the 2023 poster too (Darius was diagnosed with cancer and their entire tour was postponed until autumn '23). Disclosure were there last summer though 😉

[BenG92]

12 minutes ago, Floyd_Ams said:

Unfortunately, you can rule out Archive for the 2023 poster too (Darius was diagnosed with cancer and their entire tour was postponed until autumn '23). Disclosure were there last summer though 😉

Oh that's sad to hear 😔 Forgot about Disclosure playing this year, we were getting a good spot for The Killers and didn't fancy dancing after a tray of Stoofvlees! 

[lighthouse]

43 minutes ago, BenG92 said:

LAODS of other acts I'd like to see back from that 2020 poster: Disclosure, Wilco, Liam G, Archive, Kendrick, The Streets (also dropped out 2022), Anderson Paak, City & Colour, SOAD, Volbeat, Placebo.

Damn, just remembered how much I was looking forward to 2020 at the time!

Sadly Faith No More are almost guaranteed out, Mike's only just getting over his agoraphobia by trialling two Mr. Bungle shows in December. Probably not enough time after that to put FNM back together and tour summer. 

Thom Yorke too! Hoping to see him in Werchter next year. 

[BenG92]

7 minutes ago, lighthouse said:

Thom Yorke too! Hoping to see him in Werchter next year. 

I've got The Smile nailed on as a Barn headliner in my mind for sure.

[polnico]

One band I am certainly hoping for is Foals. Haven't been in Belgium in a while, and would be both a great late afternoon act on the main or a Barn head (2nd option sounds perfect to me).

[lighthouse]

7 hours ago, polnico said:

One band I am certainly hoping for is Foals. Haven't been in Belgium in a while, and would be both a great late afternoon act on the main or a Barn head (2nd option sounds perfect to me).

They would be a small Barn head then…

[polnico]

11 hours ago, lighthouse said:

They would be a small Barn head then…

As a huge fan, I am certainly biased, but compared to some of the Barn heads of previous years (Disclosure, Khalid, Marshmello, Jorja Smith, Jamie XX, Polo G, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Elbow...), I'd say thet're about just big enough. Yes, they're not a NIN or a Kylie, but I'd say such big barn heads are not the majority (two per edition maximum).

[Aech2ElectricBoogaloo]

2 hours ago, polnico said:

As a huge fan, I am certainly biased, but compared to some of the Barn heads of previous years (Disclosure, Khalid, Marshmello, Jorja Smith, Jamie XX, Polo G, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Elbow...), I'd say thet're about just big enough. Yes, they're not a NIN or a Kylie, but I'd say such big barn heads are not the majority (two per edition maximum).

Yeah if it was in the UK they'd be comparable with those acts but not Belgium

[49Lawson]

Blur as an outside shout for the 4th headliner?

[Boss89]

7 minutes ago, Aech2ElectricBoogaloo said:

Yeah if it was in the UK they'd be comparable with those acts but not Belgium

Think Foals is atleast as big here as The Good The Bad & The Queen, Polo G, Marshmello,...

[misterplow]

4 hours ago, 49Lawson said:

Blur as an outside shout for the 4th headliner?

Are they touring??? Because that will make 2023 150% more exciting for me, given the current rumours.

[Muppetmark]

22 minutes ago, misterplow said:

Are they touring??? Because that will make 2023 150% more exciting for me, given the current rumours.

Wembley stadium in July

[misterplow]

8 minutes ago, Muppetmark said:

Wembley stadium in July

Okay I may go to RW after all!

[ParanoidTourist]

1 hour ago, Muppetmark said:

Wembley stadium in July

Wow I wasn't aware of this! They headlined Werchter before. I am 100% sure of going if Blur shows up. 

[The Black]

Blur still haven't confirmed Wembley though yet. Still a rumor. Read a recent interview with Graham Coxon where he eluded to nothing coming, but Depeche Mode did the same recently.

[Muppetmark]

1 hour ago, The Black said:

Blur still haven't confirmed Wembley though yet. Still a rumor. Read a recent interview with Graham Coxon where he eluded to nothing coming, but Depeche Mode did the same recently.

The owner of this site has corroborated the rumour

[SweetJesus]

Can someone please tell me one good song from Blur except Song 2?

I’m 1000% serious. Thanks

[ParanoidTourist]

11 minutes ago, SweetJesus said:

Can someone please tell me one good song from Blur except Song 2?

I’m 1000% serious. Thanks

On top of my head:

Beetlebum

This Is a Low

For Tomorrow

No Distance Left to Run

Out of Time

[Fabrizzo]

56 minutes ago, SweetJesus said:

Can someone please tell me one good song from Blur except Song 2?

I’m 1000% serious. Thanks

The Universal

Country house

Charmin man

Good song

Trimm trab

Coffee and tv

Etc etc etc

PS : i don' t think you are serious 😂

[Scarnic]

On 10/14/2022 at 9:16 AM, Aech2ElectricBoogaloo said:

Yeah if it was in the UK they'd be comparable with those acts but not Belgium

I had this conversation last year.

Rock Werchter obviously think they are big enough for Belgium as they had them to play at the Encore event last year on a 1930hrs slot. Before the whole thing got pulled.

[Matt86]

22 hours ago, Fabrizzo said:

The Universal

Country house

Charmin man

Good song

Trimm trab

Coffee and tv

Etc etc etc

PS : i don' t think you are serious 😂

"charmLESS man" you mean ^^ great song by the way

[Ohad]

Jumping in on the Blur songs name dropping with my unpopular opinions: you're so great, London loves, ghost ship, country house, tender

[Judithmt]

On 10/12/2022 at 10:17 AM, polnico said:

Pretty happy about this, but I understand that this might end up being the smallest of all headliners. Hoping for a nice co-head that day, Kendrick / Tame Impala would both work well with Stromae to form a nice "poppier day" (Tame Impala's gotta play in the dark though)

3x Amsterdam Ziggo + 3 times Brussels...might be small in your book, but not in Belgium/Netherlands. Many people left after his show at Boutique and did not even stick around for Gorillaz.

[polnico]

5 minutes ago, Judithmt said:

3x Amsterdam Ziggo + 3 times Brussels...might be small in your book, but not in Belgium/Netherlands. Many people left after his show at Boutique and did not even stick around for Gorillaz.

I am from Belgium, so believe me, I definitely know how big Stromae is. Probably should have added "smallest headliner on an international basis", but it's true that he's been solding out shows in the USA. I still feel he'll be one of the smallest though, simply because he's one less likely to shift tickets to people coming from UK, Ireland and other countries. He'll sell plenty of tickets to people from Benelux/France though.