Pukkelpop 2023

[Semprini]

26 minutes ago, DDave said:

Hopefully good news at 10am

Stad Hasselt did a live stream on FB from the container yesterday so might do the same today.

[pryce]

Slipknot was a very different booking last year ..... im calling Rammstein for this year .......maybe not 

[Semprini]

Angele and Anne-Marie

[johnybegood]

Just now, Semprini said:

Angele and Anne-Marie

Billie should be really expensive. It was expected to have one "cheap" headliner + cheap subheadliners

[Semprini]

So Florence tomorrow then...

[SilverLining]

They are putting a really good effort in to alienating any non gen-z festival goers with this line-up it looks like, older people surely spend by far the most money on bars/food etc.

If PKP starts going the way for tiktok line-ups it will be sad, most of my group will definitely not go, meaning I likely won't go now 😢

[DDave]

11 minutes ago, Semprini said:

Angele and Anne-Marie

Urgh

[SweetJesus]

17 minutes ago, pryce said:

Slipknot was a very different booking last year ..... im calling Rammstein for this year .......maybe not 

Rammstein are not playing festivals

[johnybegood]

4 minutes ago, SilverLining said:

They are putting a really good effort in to alienating any non gen-z festival goers with this line-up it looks like, older people surely spend by far the most money on bars/food etc.

If PKP starts going the way for tiktok line-ups it will be sad, most of my group will definitely not go, meaning I likely won't go now 😢

This year there were so many headliners touring in late summer: Strokes, Killers, Arcade Fire, Chemical Brothers... If they go for Billie, Florence, Angele, Anne-Marie and CDW as main acts is because it is their choice and this year they want a teenage crowd after having one year with Slipknot, Arctic Monkeys and Tame Impala headlining. 

I am 99% out this year.

[pryce]

2 minutes ago, SweetJesus said:

Rammstein are not playing festivals

it was tongue in cheek

[DDave]

Just now, johnybegood said:

This year there were so many headliners touring in late summer: Strokes, Killers, Arcade Fire, Chemical Brothers... If they go for Billie, Florence, Angele, Anne-Marie and CDW as main acts is because it is their choice and this year they want a teenage crowd after having one year with Slipknot, Arctic Monkeys and Tame Impala headlining. 

I am 99% out this year.

I said last week that they couldn't fuck it up this year. Looks like I was wrong. 

[pryce]

1 minute ago, johnybegood said:

This year there were so many headliners touring in late summer: Strokes, Killers, Arcade Fire, Chemical Brothers... If they go for Billie, Florence, Angele, Anne-Marie and CDW as main acts is because it is their choice and this year they want a teenage crowd after having one year with Slipknot, Arctic Monkeys and Tame Impala headlining. 

I am 99% out this year.

if im doing an August fest now it will defo not be Pukkelpop even if its still my fav .....Lowlands or Rock en Seine will be the one 

 

makes me regret not doing last years now 

[SilverLining]

Just now, DDave said:

I said last week that they couldn't fuck it up this year. Looks like I was wrong. 

We could have a strong undercard but based on lowlands, nothing stronger than what I could just go to in the UK. Also being the last festival to announce anything doesn't really help anyone that has to sort hotels, flights etc etc.

[gigi21]

The only thing I'm saying now is: let's wait for the undercard 🤞

[DDave]

So they've hinted at Guns N Roses on their FB page

[Rico_Pliskin]

7 minutes ago, DDave said:

So they've hinted at Guns N Roses on their FB page

Where?

[DDave]

12 minutes ago, Rico_Pliskin said:

Where?

 

[Akujin]

3 minutes ago, DDave said:

 

Damn, that's pretty straight forward.

[DDave]

2 minutes ago, Akujin said:

Damn, that's pretty straight forward.

It is. Does make sense. They've not been announced for Glasto yet and are probably the missing Mad Cool headliner. Maybe they're waiting on the band to announce their dates first. 

That would get me over the line tbh, even after such a dodgy start today 

[Dietediet]

1 minute ago, DDave said:

It is. Does make sense. They've not been announced for Glasto yet and are probably the missing Mad Cool headliner. Maybe they're waiting on the band to announce their dates first. 

That would get me over the line tbh, even after such a dodgy start today 

Several insiders already mentioned GnR for Graspop + it's rare that American acts stay in Europe for 2 full months + the Billie Eilish/GnR combo would be waaay over Pukkelpop's headliner budget (even with Angele being the cheaper third). This is not happening.

[DDave]

Just now, Dietediet said:

Several insiders already mentioned GnR for Graspop + it's rare that American acts stay in Europe for 2 full months + the Billie Eilish/GnR combo would be waaay over Pukkelpop's headliner budget (even with Angele being the cheaper third). This is not happening.

They've probably booked Tame Impala again. 

[Dietediet]

It'll just be Billie - Angele - Florence, I'd bet. Shifting the ticket balance more towards weekend than day tickets, then counting on those 3 headliners speaking to the same demographic (+ the Billie effect).

Add a good undercard + some great tent headliners (plenty of good stuff available, looking at Rock En Seine and Lowlands), and you might still convince the alternative crowd despite the set of poppy main stage heads.

[matrainertje]

I'd rather have Florence than Guns and Roses. And I'm net even a fan of Florence.

GnR doesn't match current PkP at all.

Edited February 2, 2023 by matrainertje

[Death By Sexy 2.0]

Last year, they also used GnR lyrics in Facebook comments. 

They are definitely not hinting GnR. 

[Archi]

It's great to have Belgian artist headlining major Belgian festivals. Stromae at Rock Werchter, Charlotte de Witte co-headliner last year at Pukkelpop and Angele this year. I'd be disappointed but not surprised if they announce Florence and The Machines tomorrow (just because I don't like her music). A band like The Killers, The Strokes or Imagine Dragons would have been really cool. But there are so many bands and stages there, we can have some fun somewhere else 🙂 

For now, I'll go on Friday. And maybe combi tickets when the line-up is fully announced (or almost).