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Well, I guess this confirms the trend discussed here and in other threads - the lineups/experience focused narrowly a certain demographics do better than a general, more diverse lineup. Hardly a surprise but I am wondering what does that mean for Werchter going forward.   Thursday and Sunday feel like 2 completely different things tbh, more like 2 Boutique day than 1 event. Given the growing share of daily tickets as mentioned last year, I just wonder if we will see more diverse but rather monotone days (e.g. Fred Again day / Metallica day)? Fri/Sat feels like a standard Werchter lineup to me but they're not sold out yet and I dare to say it's not due to headliners as GD is arguably as strong as LP/OR. I am curious who will be added to Thu/Sun now. Anyway, tickets bought, Werchter and Rock for People for me next year 🙂

Hope the weather is kind to you!

NOTHING    

I was at Slipknot at the o2 last night, and enjoyed it, they seemed to be a bit muddy and indistinct for the first 3 or 4 tunes (I mean there is nine of em up there, with a drummer and two sort of percussion fellas, I can understand it not being tight until they’re on the same wavelength, it’s a big noisy ship to try and right) but then when they did get it all facing the right way and sounding awesome and unstoppable, there was only an hour left!  I know gigs are ridiculously expensive these days, and £80 for an o2 headliner set is relatively cheap, and they did state it wasn’t a standard gig and was just the album prior to the sales, but I still walked out feeling a little shortchanged. I just plain wanted more. half an hour of another 5 or 6 songs cherry picked from the rest of their oevre and it really would have been perfect. It’s unusual for me to go to big venues, I tend to prefer much smaller gigs and accordingly smaller bands, but it was nice to see heavy stuff appreciated on a grand scale. The o2 will never not feel weird as hell to me, a shopping centre in a tent ffs 😁

WILLIAM