Rock Werchter 2008
Thursday 3rd to Sunday 6th July 2008Werchter, Rotselaar, Belgium, Belgium
4 day pass £134, camping £15
R.E.M., dEUS, Lenny Kravitz, The Chemical Brothers, Mika, Sigur Ros, Kaiser Chiefs, Nightwish, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Counting Crows, Editors, Roisin Murphy, The Hives, Chris Cornell, The Kooks, Air Traffic, Justice, Digitalism, KT Tunstall, Beirut, Gossip, John Butler Trio, and Band of Horses are the twenty three names announced to thrill crowds at the festival which takes place from Thursday 3rd to Sunday 6th July. There are more names to come yet, with over 60 bands playing during the festival.
Rock Werchter, situated in the small village of Werchter in Rotselaar, Belgium, started life in 1974 as a one-day festival, and from 1996 has built up to a four-day festival. The event plays host to 280,000 fans over the weekend, or 70,000 per day.
Standard local bus and train travel are free with your festival ticket. Food and drinks are bought using a ticket system. The camping areas are around a ten minute walk away from the festival site, but they have clean showers for 2euros. For those who like to take in the sites Leaven has many beautful historic buildings and is home to the Stella Artois Brewery.
There are two stages and the area is pretty clean, as the organisers have an incentive to litter picking. 20 used cups gets you a small (the only size they do) cup of beer or water. There is no drinking water available from the taps so it is best to take some along.
Tickets cost approximately 140 euros for a weeknd ticket, a camping ticket is extra at 15 euros and a day ticket is around 60 euros. They are not yet on sale.
