Rock Werchter 2024

[matrainertje]

Class booking. Dua Lipa excites me more than Foo Fighters, to be honest. But a really strong 1-2 punch for the festival.

Edited November 13, 2023 by matrainertje

[VolkIreland]

Well balls to that anyway. 

At least least I can take Saturday evening off and go into Leuven. (Providing theres not a good alternative act to stick around for)

[49Lawson]

Just seen Greta Van Fleet have been announced as headlining a festival in Norway the week before. Looking at that festival, they could definitely be a top line band at Graspop, but given that they played Werchter in 2019 and had to cancel in 2022 I wouldn’t be surprised to see them here again. 

I know they aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but they work for me

[ParanoidTourist]

In terms of pop acts, I would be way happier with Billie Eilish or Olivia Rodrigo (rather than Dua Lipa). However, Werchter usually have a nice Barn act at the same time as a pop act on main stage. 

[Floyd_Ams]

Not sure what this means for RW but I'm not gonna risk it. I'm buying tickets to see them as soon as they are out. Same as I have done for Depeche Mode. 

 

[gigi21]

2 hours ago, Floyd_Ams said:

Not sure what this means for RW but I'm not gonna risk it. I'm buying tickets to see them as soon as they are out. Same as I have done for Depeche Mode. 

 

I think this makes them more unlikely for RW. Maybe they could play PKP being announced in March-April.

[Floyd_Ams]

12 minutes ago, gigi21 said:

I think this makes them more unlikely for RW. Maybe they could play PKP being announced in March-April.

You may be right but I really hope you are not! 🙂

Unless they are not around or not touring at that time I cannot think of a single good reason why RW would pass on such an opportunity again.

Edited November 13, 2023 by Floyd_Ams

[gigi21]

26 minutes ago, Floyd_Ams said:

You may be right but I really hope you are not! 🙂

I might be wrong 🙂

[VCF]

Dua Lipa!

Fantastic booking. A strong undercard and that’s my day ticket sorted.

[just_one]

Does werchter has a history of announcing the last headliner on the day the tickets go on sale or when the tickets go on sale the headliners are all announced?

[Gossard]

I went on spotify and I did not recognize even one Dua Lipa song....this probably means that I'm very old😆

[SonicSleuth]

17 hours ago, Gossard said:

I went on spotify and I did not recognize even one Dua Lipa song....this probably means that I'm very old😆

Did you listen to the entire songs? I can't imagine not recognizing "Don't Start Now" or "Levitating", they've been all over popular advertising and social media. If you installed TikTok anything for about two years you knew these songs instantly. 😆

As I recommended earlier in the thread, her episode of "Song Exploder" on Netflix is excellent. The Killers also have one, that's very funny because they clearly film the band members in different time/location, only the singer and drummer from The Killers remain with the band.

Also, Dua had the main song from the Barbie movie, which... You know, a lot of people saw. She was in the movie, too. She's huge currently and a very good addition to the lineup, I think she played before Nine Inch Nails at Mad Cool and didn't feel out of place at all around all those rock bands.

[mikebat]

TOOL at Graspop.. out for Werchter !

[49Lawson]

LCD Soundsystem just announced for a festival in France the same weekend. Please!

[VolkIreland]

4 hours ago, 49Lawson said:

LCD Soundsystem just announced for a festival in France the same weekend. Please!

OMFG YES PLEASE!

[VCF]

Oh my god they’re back in the EU!

If they want a headline position I could see them as the third Live is Live headliner sadly.

[ParanoidTourist]

3 hours ago, VCF said:

Oh my god they’re back in the EU!

If they want a headline position I could see them as the third Live is Live headliner sadly.

LCD soundsystem? They never headlined Werchter as I recall. 

[SweetJesus]

Maneskin friday headliner

[49Lawson]

Not unexpected but not blown away by them. If the intel for Pearl Jam also playing that night is correct that could be an excellent double bill

[Mondo-kun]

On 11/2/2023 at 11:28 PM, tmolvik said:

If Maneskin even comes remotely close to headlining anything of this size, then music is dead and I'll stay home to hug my pillow...

RIP

[Kaboom Boxer]

1 minute ago, SweetJesus said:

Maneskin friday headliner

Are they bigger than I’m thinking? Just don’t scream headliner to me. Not to the same extent as global superstars like Foo Fighters or Dua Lipa. 

[mikebat]

Maneskin headliner is a joke....

[Kaboom Boxer]

4 minutes ago, Kaboom Boxer said:

Are they bigger than I’m thinking? Just don’t scream headliner to me. Not to the same extent as global superstars like Foo Fighters or Dua Lipa. 

Biggest band in the world right now according to Spotify:

 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX6wLDSDxUkBO?si=hfKnHb2ER5-1tZ9mRJQlKA
 

I must just be out of touch. 

Edited November 15, 2023 by Kaboom Boxer

[49Lawson]

8 minutes ago, Kaboom Boxer said:

Are they bigger than I’m thinking? Just don’t scream headliner to me. Not to the same extent as global superstars like Foo Fighters or Dua Lipa. 

Yeah, I think there’s got to be another big name on that day surely? Then again they are headlining RaR, Nova Rock already. I’ve got faith they won’t be headlining that day alone though…

[Archi]

Didn't expect them to headline Werchter... On their last arena tour, they played twice in Brussels selling very quickly 16k tickets and it was almost Mission Impossible to get tickets on TicketSwap. They could have sold bigger arenas in Belgium. But to imagine them headling RW... I guess we gonna have a real co-headline that day like Imagine Dragons + Twenty One Pilots in 2022.

08.11 Foo Fighters for Sunday
13.11 Dua Lipa for Saturday
15.11 Maneskin for Friday
??.11 ?? for Thursday

Hopefully we gonna have the Thursday headliner (or Friday co-headliner) soon enough.