Pukkelpop 2023

[johnybegood]

8 minutes ago, Newjem said:

My prediction... No Imagine Dragons for Pukkelpop.

I think that Ken confirmed them por Pukkelpop a few pages ago…

[Newjem]

2 minutes ago, johnybegood said:

I think that Ken confirmed them por Pukkelpop a few pages ago…

Oh, I forgot about that but he also said no Billie. Just checked their tour dates and with Vilnius (16/8), Frequency (17-19/8) and Lovestream festival (20/8) already announced they don't seem very likely, especially when they rarely do 3 days in a row...

[DDave]

1 hour ago, Newjem said:

My prediction... No Imagine Dragons for Pukkelpop.

My solid prediction is that Lowlands will get the Chems and Pukkelpop won't

[Archi]

1 hour ago, Newjem said:

My prediction... No Imagine Dragons for Pukkelpop.

Why?

[DDave]

23 minutes ago, Archi said:

Why?

A million percent they'll be there. 

 

Edit - I hope they aren't

Edited January 28, 2023 by DDave

[Archi]

Seems 99.99% sure they'll be there. And I'm gonna enjoy it, 99.99% too 🙂 

Never been there a whole weekend, just for one day. Hope I'll find enough bands to there the whole weekend. Really enjoy the vibes from this festival last Summer!

[Death By Sexy 2.0]

6 hours ago, DDave said:

Sounds like it. Hope they just don't announce her on her own. 

We're committed to going if the Strokes are announced. 

 

 

Facebook says: first names. 

[Semprini]

6 hours ago, Death By Sexy 2.0 said:

Facebook says: first names. 

Reckon we'll get about 40-50 names as this is probably the earliest they've ever announced, at least in the time I've been going. Think the very first year I went we didn't get any names until about April!

[Archi]

9 hours ago, Semprini said:

Reckon we'll get about 40-50 names as this is probably the earliest they've ever announced, at least in the time I've been going. Think the very first year I went we didn't get any names until about April!

Indeed! I thought they dropped their first names in February last year but it was on 21 March 2022 (when they drop 90% of the line-up). Then the last names on June 16th and the very last names July 13th.

Hope we'll get all the headliners and some names who haven't announced anything yet this Summer to have some (hopefully good) news!

[gigi21]

Bjork's European Tour starting September 1st with no dates in Belgium, Netherlands and UK.
Will she add some festivals?

[DDave]

1 hour ago, gigi21 said:

Bjork's European Tour starting September 1st with no dates in Belgium, Netherlands and UK.
Will she add some festivals?

Would be an odd one, I know they booked her before but can't see it myself. Would explain that there's no Belgium / Dutch gigs though 

[gigi21]

1 hour ago, DDave said:

Would be an odd one, I know they booked her before but can't see it myself. Would explain that there's no Belgium / Dutch gigs though 

I totally haven't considered her as a possible festival name this summer, especially for festivals like Pukkelpop, but...
Last times she came to Italy, she builded monumental shows in crazy places like an archeological area in Rome, with very expensive tickets.
This time in Italy we have two normal sports hall with 7-8k people capacity, so probably her next tour production could fit some festivals.
No Scandinavia, no BeNeLux, no UK, no Hungary make sense if she appears at Sziget, WOW-Flow-Oya, PKP-Lowlands, somewhere in UK...

I still see her as a not-very-likely act but who knows.

[gigi21]

The Smile back in America June 22 to July 20.

Europe then?

Edited January 30, 2023 by gigi21

[Ken19]

On 1/28/2023 at 3:09 PM, Newjem said:

Oh, I forgot about that but he also said no Billie. Just checked their tour dates and with Vilnius (16/8), Frequency (17-19/8) and Lovestream festival (20/8) already announced they don't seem very likely, especially when they rarely do 3 days in a row...

Yeah, some things changed. That is why my posts are very limited. 
Multiple announcements from Pkp this week. But no big batch. 

[Archi]

26 minutes ago, Ken19 said:

Yeah, some things changed. That is why my posts are very limited. 
Multiple announcements from Pkp this week. But no big batch. 

Not only on Wednesday then? Interesting! Hope we'll have enough names to keep the hype 🙂 

[Semprini]

3 hours ago, Ken19 said:

Multiple announcements from Pkp this week. But no big batch. 

Not doubting your intel at all @Ken19 but this approach will only really work if Lowlands decide to do the same. They always drop a bunch of names so be a bit of an own goal for PKP if they just give us Billie and Lowlands announce another 20-30 on top.

A friend who's involved posted on FB at about 10am today that it was '48 hours to go' so unless someone has worked out a different time from the countdown clocks, we should be getting news at 9am in the UK on Weds.

Anyone else getting SAW vibes off the container they've dumped in Hasselt?!? Fully expecting that clown puppet to appear on the screens, with a live feed to someone strung up in a dingy warehouse with the names of the bands carved into their body 😂

[DDave]

EOTR

[Archi]

Pukkelpop have some nice way to announce their names nowadays! I remember last year the live on SN with artists painting the names on a wall in Hasselt. This time this giant box in the city. That's really fun! Looking forward to see the names tomorrow. I thought it was 11am but I can be wrong.

[gigi21]

14 hours ago, Semprini said:

Not doubting your intel at all @Ken19 but this approach will only really work if Lowlands decide to do the same. They always drop a bunch of names so be a bit of an own goal for PKP if they just give us Billie and Lowlands announce another 20-30 on top.

A friend who's involved posted on FB at about 10am today that it was '48 hours to go' so unless someone has worked out a different time from the countdown clocks, we should be getting news at 9am in the UK on Weds.

Anyone else getting SAW vibes off the container they've dumped in Hasselt?!? Fully expecting that clown puppet to appear on the screens, with a live feed to someone strung up in a dingy warehouse with the names of the bands carved into their body 😂

I'm expecting something like 2019, when they announced a small bunch of names during a week in February,  including Billie Eilish, Twenty One Pilots, Tame Impala, The National and Royal Blood (if I remember well) and, after a couple of weeks, the first poster with something like 80-90 names.

[Dietediet]

20 hours ago, Semprini said:

Not doubting your intel at all @Ken19 but this approach will only really work if Lowlands decide to do the same. They always drop a bunch of names so be a bit of an own goal for PKP if they just give us Billie and Lowlands announce another 20-30 on top.

In the past few years, Pukkelpop has always announced their first names several weeks after Lowlands' first batch. So I doubt they are really viewing each other as competitors.

It's not uncommon for major acts to drop their Benelux dates in one go (we've seen similar things in recent years with Werchter and Pinkpop co-announcing the same headliner). So I think Billie Eilish is just forcing Pukkelpop to drop names earlier than usual. Too early to drop the typical "first batch containing 50-60% of the lineup".

[DDave]

Last minute predictions. Imagine. Dragons can't play the Sunday so I think they'll play the Friday and BE will close the main on the Sunday with the 'indie' names sandwiched in between. I'm still going for CDW to close a night again due to the technical problems last year. Reckon we'll get 20-30 names. I'm optimistic but as always, prepared to be disappointed. 

 

Limp Bizkit / Imagine Dragons / Netsky
 

Nothing but Thieves / Florence / The Strokes / CDW

Yungblud / Major Lazer / Billie Eilish

Under card

Foals, Idles, Joji, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, King Giz, Girl in Red, Amyl and the Sniffers, Peggy Gou, Turnstile , NOFX, Paul Kalkbrenner, Dropkick Murphys, Wilco, The Walkmen

[Semprini]

57 minutes ago, Dietediet said:

In the past few years, Pukkelpop has always announced their first names several weeks after Lowlands' first batch. So I doubt they are really viewing each other as competitors.

It's not uncommon for major acts to drop their Benelux dates in one go (we've seen similar things in recent years with Werchter and Pinkpop co-announcing the same headliner). So I think Billie Eilish is just forcing Pukkelpop to drop names earlier than usual. Too early to drop the typical "first batch containing 50-60% of the lineup".

My point wasn't that they are competitors - the reality of course is they work together to facilitate bands playing both festivals over the weekend - but that I've never really understood why PKP wait to drop pretty much the same names Lowlands revealed a few weeks before? By the time they do, we know with a fair degree of certainty who and what to expect, so the element of 'surprise' is lost. I know there may be arrangements in place with RW and there's always bands that want to have a say when things are done but they still maintain a lot of control over the release schedule.

You could argue that happens anyway with R&L and the Scandinavian festivals who always release their first names before PKP. However, they're so closely linked with Lowlands that it seems anticlimactic to an extent to see their names and then wait a few weeks for 50-75% of the same ones. I want to see them appear on the PKP website and socials first, or at least at the same time - that's an opinion I've had for many years.

I get the whole 'big bands want to announce regional dates at the same time' thing (and remember well when we got Metallica in 2008 before Christmas) but if it is just Billie tomorrow then it's not going to be a surprise or big exclusive as she's obviously doing other dates in Europe quite close by.

You say it's 'too early' to drop names but I have it on good authority that by this time each year more than half of the line up is confirmed. They could release 100 names tomorrow if they wanted, so it's only too early because that's how they choose to do it.

Anyway, I hope we get a few tomorrow and not a drip feed like the other year (that was until N*E*R*D got involved!).

[DDave]

Viagra Boys confirmed for what I think is their first August date (Way out West). They're a cert for Pukkelpop now

[DDave]

11 hours ago, Semprini said:

Anyway, I hope we get a few tomorrow and not a drip feed like the other year (that was until N*E*R*D got involved!).

Can't imagine they'll expect people to turn up to this TV box thingy in Hasselt just to chuck out a couple of headliner names so hoping we'll get a few. 

So names at 10 then.. 

Edited February 1, 2023 by DDave

[johnybegood]

40 minutes ago, DDave said:

Viagra Boys confirmed for what I think is their first August date (Way out West). They're a cert for Pukkelpop now

They played last year, didn't they? 

I think that your predictions will be accurate this year. The only name that is imposible is NOFX, as they are doing their farewell tour in 2023/24 and there won't be no more european dates announced this year.