Rock Werchter 2017

[Red Day]

Having had a time to study clashwise it's not too bad for me.  The undercard is pretty weak overall and the Barn this year is very second rate.  I seem to remember the last bands on the Barn were a bit later than what's on website. Seems a bit early to close a stage.  Looks like headliners have used a fair bit of the budget and the undercard has suffered.  My excitement about the line up was maybe a bit premature when I saw headliners.  

Better than last year but not great

 

[thetime]

3 minutes ago, Red Day said:

 My excitement about the line up was maybe a bit premature when I saw headliners.  

Better than last year but not great

 

That's probably the sentiments of quite a few.

On the bright side radiohead get 2 and a half hours.

[thetechi]

5 minutes ago, Red Day said:

Having had a time to study clashwise it's not too bad for me.  The undercard is pretty weak overall and the Barn this year is very second rate.  I seem to remember the last bands on the Barn were a bit later than what's on website. Seems a bit early to close a stage.  Looks like headliners have used a fair bit of the budget and the undercard has suffered.  My excitement about the line up was maybe a bit premature when I saw headliners.  

Better than last year but not great

 

Yes!

I think this is the sentiment of the large majority of people on here.

Clashes, not too bad for what we actually have but when you look at it closely the undercard is disappointing. 

Everyone got excited when the headliners were announced, thinking the rest of the acts would be on-par but then each week there was an air of disappointment. 

 

Still, as always I'm very very excited to see the likes of Foos and SOAD and even LP.

And, as I said prematurely three weeks ago, it has been an absolutely pleasure trying to guess who'll be announced.

Thanks everyone.

[lightsnowpatrol]

The clashes have worked out well for me, shame Sunday is rubbish. Bad way to end

 

[Red Day]

36 minutes ago, thetime said:

That's probably the sentiments of quite a few.

On the bright side radiohead get 2 and a half hours.

Well there is that.  Love Radiohead

[Mar2190]

Opinions and all that but this is amazing for me and timings worked out great too.

 

Thurs - Prophets of Rage - Imagine Dragons/Lorde - Arcade Fire - Chainsmokers - KoL

Fri - Kaleo - Rateliff - White Lies - Royal Blood - Pretenders - Radiohead

Sat - Frank Carter - Blues Pills - Seasick Steve - JEW - Blink - SOAD - Linkin Park

Sun - Nothing but Thieves - Dropkicks - Rae Sremmurd - Rag n Bone Man - Soulwax - Foos 

 

Whatta weekend 

[SDNL]

Anyone want to speculate who the few remaining bands will be? Should be a bit easier now we know what day and time slots are free....

[arcuse]

1 hour ago, Apocalyptica said:

Guys Soulwax or alt-J? 

That's the most awful clash on the whole weekend, the rest of the splits is fine haha. Im going for Alt-J probs, depends on what the Klub C act will be after Soulwax, if it's not my taste then it'll defs be Alt-J. If it's something cool then itll be Soulwax - nice act - G-Eazy - Foo's  

[Nicklord]

2 hours ago, visdave34 said:

Nail on the head. At least there was excellent acts to choose from.

Now we have Passenger/Milky Chance/Kodaline vs JEW/Blink 182... So if you're not a nostalgic 90's/00's rocker or an adolescent pop lover, you're pretty screwed on Saturday. (sorry for the stereotypes, just hate both genres).

Don't put Milky Chance in there  They are great chill band, especially live 

[SDNL]

Saturday is pretty horrendous alright. Three bands I have an interest in, two of whom clash.

Doesn't look like the bands who have yet to be added will add all that much eithet given the timeslots they play at. Should end up pretty weak all told, despite the big headliners.

[Red Day]

1 hour ago, Apocalyptica said:

Guys Soulwax or alt-J? 

Personally it's Soulwax for me

Edited March 24, 2017 by Red Day

[gunther Mickey]

Very disappointed with the number of acts and with the undercard but the timetable is pretty great. The worst clashes : Warhaus/Kaleo, Rag'n'Bone man/The Lumineers, Milky Chance/Blink 182, Nothing but Thieves/Cage the Elephant, The Kills/Benjamin Clementine. For me, the more undecided day it's Sunday and the easiest it's Thursday. I'am very happy with the organisation of Saturday (nothing on the main until Blink and great timetable in the barn an klub c) and Thursday (exactly the opposite, all the great acts on the Main). 73 bands is clearly not enough in comparison with the past years.

[lightsnowpatrol]

any chance of father john misty for Friday klub c headliner

[Gossard]

1 hour ago, Apocalyptica said:

Guys Soulwax or alt-J? 

Soulwax......

[Orens]

1 minute ago, Gossard said:

Soulwax......

Damn straight, you should listen to the album they released today. From Deewee is pure pleasure.

[thewayiam]

1 hour ago, thetime said:

That would be the headliners.

Just a shame I can't put werchter headliners with sziget's under card. As werchter under card is average for my tastes and szigets head liners are not my bag. 

I only want to see two of the main one's. Sziget have done much better before lineup wise tbh, probably 3 acts on the lineup, maybe 4 I'd be bothered about seeing.

I get a heavy feeling they announced the lineup how they did this year as they knew after the main one's a lot of the under card was just going to be filler. I'm unsure I'd even stick around now after Above & Beyond for the rest of LP's 50 or so minutes set. It's similar to Nova headliners in the way of it's what I would have wanted 4/5 years ago.

[Apocalyptica]

13 minutes ago, Gossard said:

Soulwax......

Well Soulwax it is guys. 

Any idea how much time does it takes to go from one stage to other? 

[Gossard]

Just now, Apocalyptica said:

Well Soulwax it is guys. 

Any idea how much time does it takes to go from one stage to other? 

Not consider the crowd, I'd say 2-3min....5min if you're really drunk  

[Apocalyptica]

Just now, Gossard said:

Not consider the crowd, I'd say 2-3min....5min if you're really drunk  

5 minutes it is Haha. 

I have to choose the chainsmokers over Arcade fire because of my other friends

[Nicklord]

7 minutes ago, lighthouse said:

Some facs:

Arcade Fire is playing earlier as a headliner than 7 Years ago when they were a sub (yet to release The Suburbs). 

Also: a few Years back there were 81 acts. Now they'll probably have 73 acts.

The Barn will be headlined by a Belgian act, twice. A third night will be headlined by Bonobo...

In 2014 the last thursday act ended almost 2 hours later.

Money money money.

Also 2014 had only 4 headliners while this year has 6 and price for solo shows skyrocketed in the last few years while the price for the festival increased only 30 euros so I'm pretty sure that they are making the same amount of money now as they did in 2014.

[SDNL]

18 minutes ago, lighthouse said:

Some facs:

Arcade Fire is playing earlier as a headliner than 7 Years ago when they were a sub (yet to release The Suburbs). 

Also: a few Years back there were 81 acts. Now they'll probably have 73 acts.

The Barn will be headlined by a Belgian act, twice. A third night will be headlined by Bonobo...

In 2014 the last thursday act ended almost 2 hours later.

Money money money.

Whatever about the money side of things, there's no comparison between 2014 and the current line up. 2014 was comfortably stronger, despite (or maybe because of) the headliners we get this year.

[alan_ts]

3 hours ago, Apocalyptica said:

Guys Soulwax or alt-J? 

Absolutely Soulwax. "From Deewee" out today looks great...a sort of nite version but 'less nite'

[arcuse]

3 hours ago, lighthouse said:

Some facs:

Arcade Fire is playing earlier as a headliner than 7 Years ago when they were a sub (yet to release The Suburbs). 

Also: a few Years back there were 81 acts. Now they'll probably have 73 acts.

The Barn will be headlined by a Belgian act, twice. A third night will be headlined by Bonobo...

In 2014 the last thursday act ended almost 2 hours later.

Money money money.

That's actually really sad when you read that damn..

[arcuse]

3 hours ago, Apocalyptica said:

5 minutes it is Haha. 

I have to choose the chainsmokers over Arcade fire because of my other friends

The mud from last year probs had me around 10" switching stages hahaha

[Gossard]

5 minutes ago, arcuse said:

The mud from last year probs had me around 10" switching stages hahaha

Speaking of that, how is the side now? With all that sand they put on the field last year and all the mud, is the side back to normal?