Pukkelpop 2020

[johnybegood]

4 hours ago, DDave said:

'almost time' and 'it's not been an easy task this year' according to one of the insiders at festileaks. I'm guessing that means at the top end of the line up. 

Rita Ora named for Zurich Openair btw. Urrgh. 

What will be the excuse for not booking decent headliners this year? RATM and The Strokes were avaliable for this time of the year.

Edited February 24, 2020 by johnybegood

[Ken19]

10 minutes ago, johnybegood said:

What will be the excuse for not booking decent headliners this year? RATM and The Strokes were avaliable for this time of the year.

RATM was not available. They tour a week later. The Strokes were a priority for RW for more than a decade. And RW needed some headliners too.

[johnybegood]

12 minutes ago, Ken19 said:

RATM was not available. They tour a week later. The Strokes were a priority for RW for more than a decade. And RW needed some headliners too.

Every year there is an international conspirancy and Pukkelpop is the victim, so they book as headliners Bastille, Oscar And The Wolf, Editors...

Let’s hope than under KoL, Dua Lipa and some hip hop headliner, we get a decent undercard (also atracttive for over-30 yo people) and lets hope that they avoid repeating one more time their typical rock bookings (BMTH, YMA6, Refused, Amenra...) and surprise us with attractive guitar bands (last year was great, but 2018 and 2017 were shit)

Edited February 24, 2020 by johnybegood

[The_Preach]

@Ken19 do you have any intel about Eminem's announcement being delayed or something? Not sure if he will play at pkp but still.

[Ken19]

2 hours ago, johnybegood said:

Every year there is an international conspirancy and Pukkelpop is the victim, so they book as headliners Bastille, Oscar And The Wolf, Editors...

Let’s hope than under KoL, Dua Lipa and some hip hop headliner, we get a decent undercard (also atracttive for over-30 yo people) and lets hope that they avoid repeating one more time their typical rock bookings (BMTH, YMA6, Refused, Amenra...) and surprise us with attractive guitar bands (last year was great, but 2018 and 2017 were shit)

BMTH will play there. Play Lowlands and no other belgian date announced. 
They have to focus on the undercard. Major headliners don’t tour very often this period. And are too expensive. 
 

I expect Editors as a headliner, i hope that I’m wrong.
 

 

[johnybegood]

29 minutes ago, Ken19 said:

BMTH will play there. Play Lowlands and no other belgian date announced. 
They have to focus on the undercard. Major headliners don’t tour very often this period. And are too expensive. 
 

I expect Editors as a headliner, i hope that I’m wrong.
 

 

So we can get the Werchter Joker headlining combo: Kings Of Leon and Editors.

So "funny"... 

Edited February 24, 2020 by johnybegood

[gigi21]

Mark Lanegan announced for Cinzella in Italy on August 16th.

Last year they shared the international names with Pukkelpop.

[johnybegood]

4 hours ago, gigi21 said:

Mark Lanegan announced for Cinzella in Italy on August 16th.

Last year they shared the international names with Pukkelpop.

He played in Hasselt a few weeks ago. I don't know if this fact makes him more or less posible....

Edited February 25, 2020 by johnybegood

[gigi21]

6 hours ago, gigi21 said:

Mark Lanegan announced for Cinzella in Italy on August 16th.

Last year they shared the international names with Pukkelpop.

I also add Grace Jones, Angel Olsen (already announced for Lowlands) and Daughter (already announced for Paredes de Coura), all playing at TOdays (Turin, Italy, August 28-30)

[Ken19]

Daughter is nailed on for PKP. 

[Death By Sexy]

3 hours ago, gigi21 said:

I also add Grace Jones, Angel Olsen (already announced for Lowlands) and Daughter (already announced for Paredes de Coura), all playing at TOdays (Turin, Italy, August 28-30)

Angel Olsen is booked for Werchter I think. 

[Ken19]

27 minutes ago, Death By Sexy said:

Angel Olsen is booked for Werchter I think. 

No, normally she isn’t ... normally Pukkelpop 

[DDave]

Oooooh..

EDIT - European exclusive. Fuck.

 

 

Edited February 27, 2020 by DDave

[Ken19]

21 minutes ago, DDave said:

Oooooh..

EDIT - European exclusive. Fuck.

 

 

Is not the kind of band that still has a place on Pukkelpop 😢

[DDave]

Tallest Man on Earth ruled out (Cactus Festival)

[Salva]

Several interesting acts touring in august...hope we get a lot from this list.

Angel Olsen, Bambara, Bon Iver, Black Midi, Caribou, Caspian, Chromatics, Daughter, Denzel Curry, Fever 333, FKA Twigs, Floating Points, Foals, Girl Band, Goldfrapp, John, Koffee, Little Simz, London Grammar, Metz, Oathbreaker, Shame, Squid, Stake, Sudan Archives, Tash Sultana, This will destroy you, Viagra Boys,...

 

[DDave]

More names for Highfield

 

[lighthouse]

15 minutes ago, DDave said:

More names for Highfield

 

Holy hell. This lineup is the stuff of nightmares. 

[The_Preach]

21 minutes ago, DDave said:

More names for Highfield

 

BMTH, TDCc, Bad Religion, Frank Carter and the hunna.

[DDave]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10162952951280257&id=288732020256

[Death By Sexy]

I expected Black Midi at Pukkelpop

 

 

[DDave]

23 minutes ago, Death By Sexy said:

I expected Black Midi at Pukkelpop

 

 

I was a million percent sure of Black Country, New Road.

[gigi21]

4 hours ago, Death By Sexy said:

I expected Black Midi at Pukkelpop

 

 

 

3 hours ago, DDave said:

I was a million percent sure of Black Country, New Road.

With Black Country, Black Lips, Black Madonna, Black Midi and Black Sun Empire, Dour will need a lot of lights this year 😅

[Ken19]

4 hours ago, DDave said:

I was a million percent sure of Black Country, New Road.

Won’t be the first that is doing both...

[Semprini]

Think that whatever the issue is Frequency has had with headliners has also affected PKP, which could explain why they've been pretty quiet recently on socials. Based on the last few years I was confident we'd get the first names on Tuesday (just gone) but it's now even doubtful we'll get news this week. They need to close the wish list at least a few days/week before announcing anything so we're probably now looking at second week of March at the earliest.

If a headliner (or two) has pulled out then that explains any delay but doesn't bode well, based on previous form, for us getting a 'big' replacement. I'd much rather though we had a few 'smaller' names grouped together at the top of the bill than someone really expensive as that would allow for a stronger line up lower down, which for me is the most important thing. Still think we'll get someone 'bigger' than Lowlands (as that's usually the case) but hard to see who that might be based on what's already been announced?

Bit worrying the many great names Dour have announced so far as its close proximity to PKP makes it unlikely bands will do both. Looking at Creamfields, Deadmau5 has got to be a serious contender now for Main/Dance Hall finisher. Granted he hasn't released much new music recently but the lack of 'big' dance acts on the circuit means he can command that kind of slot based solely on his back catalogue. Think Pendulum Trinity are a dead cert now and would love to see Eric Prydz and Boris Brejcha feature, seeing as they're in the area. Wouldn't be surprised at all if Calvin Harris co-headlines one night and think it would be great as his new ravey stuff is superb!