Open'er festival 2017

[gregory]

I agree, think it's too late for KOL or Arcade Fire to be announced (even though they have a massive gap in their schedule), so it's got to be The Killers or a wildcard like QOTSA, The Strokes

[mln]

27 minutes ago, LiamMcMillen said:

They never really book 'older' acts though so my money is on acts like The xx, Glass Animals, Warpaint etc. Of the recently announced Lollapalooza Paris line up I can see (and am hoping for) Lana Del Rey, New Order and potentially Pixies. I'm still holding out for Arcade Fire too, but it's got to be The Killers hasn't it?

Just look at some earlier editions: 2009- Madness; 2011- Prince; 2012- New Order; 2013- Nick Cave.

[gregory]

The Killers are playing on Thursday 29th in Finland...

Looking more and more likely now, I'm getting excited. Fingers crossed.  

Edited January 18, 2017 by gregory

[LiamMcMillen]

49 minutes ago, mln said:

Just look at some earlier editions: 2009- Madness; 2011- Prince; 2012- New Order; 2013- Nick Cave.

Fair point. I'd love it to happen. I love Iggy and he's still exceptional live! 

[alan_ts]

+ The XX 

[gregory]

 

 

Good news is that after initial disappointment at seeing headlineram on instagram; they are co-headliners and not overall headliner. 

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...kiedy Romy, Oliver i Jamie będą co-headlinerami ostatniego dnia Open'era.

 

Edited January 19, 2017 by gregory

[neacaisa]

i suppose it's meaning that the name that will headline along them will not be something much bigger... probably at most something like frank ocean.

[home to you]

Selfishly quite happy it's the XX as I'm not a fan of Kings Of Leon/The Killers... would've liked Arcade Fire though.

Are Phoenix big enough to co-headline? Haven't played since 2014 IIRC.

Edited January 19, 2017 by TomViolence

[mln]

Oh no, I was hoping they would play Opener, but at the Tent Stage. I remember their last appearance when they played Main Stage at 00:00 in 2012 and that was completely dissapointing. They would perfectly fit the tent stage.

[LiamMcMillen]

What makes people say they're co-headlining? I'm happy with this, great band and I'm seeing The Killers at BBK. 

[HannahKirby]

I'm really hoping for Frank Ocean! He's Touring Europe around the time..

 

[LiamMcMillen]

1 hour ago, HannahKirby said:

I'm really hoping for Frank Ocean! He's Touring Europe around the time..

 

I think it's very likely. Either him, Lana Del Rey or Bon Iver are my guesses. 

[home to you]

1 hour ago, LiamMcMillen said:

I think it's very likely. Either him, Lana Del Rey or Bon Iver are my guesses. 

I'd be very happy with 1 of those 3

 

[Notorious J.O.E.]

Well, I'm glad they announced Foo Fighters and Radiohead first, as I wouldn't have chosen to go to a festival if the only headliners I knew then were The XX and The Weeknd! 

[gregory]

7 hours ago, Notorious J.O.E. said:

Well, I'm glad they announced Foo Fighters and Radiohead first, as I wouldn't have chosen to go to a festival if the only headliners I knew then were The XX and The Weeknd! 

I'm really hanging on to the co-headliner status. Hopefully Killers/Frank or someone of that size joins the xx, and not TDCC, Phoenix or Alt J

[gregory]

Okay; I've just noticed on the Open'er website, the polish version has removed 1 out of 2 co-headliner mentions (but 1 mention remains), while the English version says '...as another headliner!' and '...will headline the last day of Open’er'. Hmmm. 

[LiamMcMillen]

5 hours ago, gregory said:

Okay; I've just noticed on the Open'er website, the polish version has removed 1 out of 2 co-headliner mentions (but 1 mention remains), while the English version says '...as another headliner!' and '...will headline the last day of Open’er'. Hmmm. 

NME reported it as a co-headliner if that's anything to go on.

[mln]

Given that there were problems with indicating who is and who is not a headliner in the past, e.g. when Phoenix were announced as a main act for Saturday in 2014 (there were even big billboards with several cities with Phoenix on the top of the poster) and then, in May, they announced Faith No More as a headliner for the same day, it is no surprising at all that there are several version of whether The XX are headlining or not. When it comes to the communication with festival goers, Open’er has still a lot of work to do.

Edited January 20, 2017 by mln

[LiamMcMillen]

Lorde and Future Islands have just been announced for Rock Werchter. Would love to see both of them at Open'er. 

[muflon]

Hey, does anybody know what happend to the brotherhood of opener website open-er.eu? there is some spam web on that address instead now.

[mln]

There have some technical issues as far as I know, there was some announcement on the website that they are changing servers or something like that.

[muflon]

6 hours ago, mln said:

There have some technical issues as far as I know, there was some announcement on the website that they are changing servers or something like that.

 

Thanks for the info. Do you know if they have some social profiles or something else? It seems they lost the domain adress

[mln]

8 hours ago, muflon said:

Thanks for the info. Do you know if they have some social profiles or something else? It seems they lost the domain adress

I think there was some profile on last.fm but there was nothing going on and I can't even find it now. Hopefully, they will handle all their problems as it was the only site where you could have a substantive discussion regarding Open'er (and not only ;)). 

[gregory]

The Killers are in Sweden on the Saturday, so they won't be co-headlining with the xx.

[Gruefyx]

Anyone who's been alert since the first announcement know how often they get announced? I'm aware that they are named individually, but how frequent?