Pukkelpop 2023

[Ken19]

8 minutes ago, DDave said:

Billie Eilish is a cert for this I think given the Sziget dates. Big question is do we get Blur? Slim chance but you never know

Headliners can be probably whittled down to 3 of BE, Florence, Blur, Stormzy, and Imagine Dragons. 

I'll go BE, Florence and Stormzy with Macklemore closing the Florence night. 

Please not imagine dragons, they are utter shite. 

 

No cert

[DDave]

3 minutes ago, Ken19 said:

No cert

Ah just seen the RW forum, destined for that then? suits me fine. 🙂

Edited December 1, 2022 by DDave

[DDave]

12 minutes ago, gigi21 said:

so no guitar headliners at all, after an edition with Slipknot, Arctic Monkeys and Tame Impala?

Fair comment. 

Anyone but Imagine fucking Dragons please, that better? 🙂

 

[gigi21]

2 minutes ago, DDave said:

Fair comment. 

Anyone but Imagine fucking Dragons please, that better? 🙂

 

anyways... Foals, Moderat, M83, Sam Fender, Jamie XX, Youngblud, Nothing But Thieves, Frank Carter, The Comet Is Coming, Viagra Boys, Amyl And The Sniffers, Kelly Lee Owens playing Sziget. All very likely names for PKP undercard... Not a bad start.

[DDave]

20 minutes ago, gigi21 said:

anyways... Foals, Moderat, M83, Sam Fender, Jamie XX, Youngblud, Nothing But Thieves, Frank Carter, The Comet Is Coming, Viagra Boys, Amyl And The Sniffers, Kelly Lee Owens playing Sziget. All very likely names for PKP undercard... Not a bad start.

Yeah fingers crossed for a good undercard although you can add Ellie Goulding to that list as well. Frequency Festival announcing more names tomorrow as well. 

[P.bintein]

1 hour ago, DDave said:

Fair comment. 

Anyone but Imagine fucking Dragons please, that better? 🙂

 

ID is a really big seller. In France today they sold la Défense Arena (40 000) in a few minutes.

[DDave]

1 minute ago, P.bintein said:

ID is a really big seller. In France today they sold la Défense Arena (40 000) in a few minutes.

I know...but they're awful. 

[Archi]

The show from Imagine Dragons this Summer - especially Werchter - was really good! So much better than expected. They would fit perfectly at Pukkelpop.

[DDave]

[SilverLining]

is there a way we can have a whip round to pay PKP to not book Imagine Dragons? I think they are pretty much bolted on, how did they get so popular? Tiktok or something? God I feel like im in that south park episode with the tween music that just sounds like fart noises when listening to them.

[DDave]

1 minute ago, SilverLining said:

is there a way we can have a whip round to pay PKP to not book Imagine Dragons? I think they are pretty much bolted on, how did they get so popular? Tiktok or something? God I feel like im in that south park episode with the tween music that just sounds like fart noises when listening to them.

Theres generally always one duff headliner, let's hope it's just limited to ID

[SilverLining]

another Q -after camping originally in chill then moving to relax its even getting too much for my old body. I barely hopped between the arena and campsite like i would in years past and just stayed in the arena the whole day once i headed over.

Theres 7 of us that usually go, expecting one drop off this year - any good hotel recommendations in Hasselt or is it worth the money to stay in the wee shed accommodation they set up?

Cheers!

[DDave]

2 hours ago, SilverLining said:

another Q -after camping originally in chill then moving to relax its even getting too much for my old body. I barely hopped between the arena and campsite like i would in years past and just stayed in the arena the whole day once i headed over.

Theres 7 of us that usually go, expecting one drop off this year - any good hotel recommendations in Hasselt or is it worth the money to stay in the wee shed accommodation they set up?

Cheers!

We stay at the H Hostel but it looks to be full this year. Maybe worth emailing them. We normally book through booking.com but they've taking bookings via email this year which is a bit weird. Not even sure if we've got it booked this year as they were all very casual about it. I need to follow it up. 

Holiday Inn, holiday Inn express, Radisson etc are all decent, central hotels but pricey for that weekend. Always worth checking regularly to see if anything comes up. We always stay in Hasselt and enjoy it as much as the festival itself. 

[gigi21]

2 hours ago, SilverLining said:

another Q -after camping originally in chill then moving to relax its even getting too much for my old body. I barely hopped between the arena and campsite like i would in years past and just stayed in the arena the whole day once i headed over.

Theres 7 of us that usually go, expecting one drop off this year - any good hotel recommendations in Hasselt or is it worth the money to stay in the wee shed accommodation they set up?

Cheers!

 

28 minutes ago, DDave said:

We stay at the H Hostel but it looks to be full this year. Maybe worth emailing them. We normally book through booking.com but they've taking bookings via email this year which is a bit weird. Not even sure if we've got it booked this year as they were all very casual about it. I need to follow it up. 

Holiday Inn, holiday Inn express, Radisson etc are all decent, central hotels but pricey for that weekend. Always worth checking regularly to see if anything comes up. We always stay in Hasselt and enjoy it as much as the festival itself. 

all what Dave said + I also saw a couple of new big apartments in Hasselt city center on Booking.com that look nice

[Ken19]

9 hours ago, SilverLining said:

is there a way we can have a whip round to pay PKP to not book Imagine Dragons? I think they are pretty much bolted on, how did they get so popular? Tiktok or something? God I feel like im in that south park episode with the tween music that just sounds like fart noises when listening to them.

Too late 

[Archi]

3 minutes ago, Ken19 said:

Too late 

Good news! Can we expect the first names in 2022 or only early next year?

[johnybegood]

1 hour ago, Ken19 said:

Too late 

Imagine Dragons + Florence almost confirmed for PKP’23. Who will he the 3rd one? A rock band? pop band? hip hop?

[Andrej]

Imagine Dragons are by far and wide the worst big band in the last 10-15 years, its pretty impressive how they are so massive right now. All jokes aside, their numbers are monstrous, they sell equily well in any part of the world. But the music is so stale, these guys so so un-charismatic, they write the same song all over again, if you listen to Radioactive, Thunder, Believer, they found a formula that works and just repeat it. Just awful, and no one would say anything if thats Arena level here and there, but its becoming stadium size and they will be the biggest headliner any fest can have very soon. Just crazy.

[Muppetmark]

13 hours ago, johnybegood said:

Imagine Dragons + Florence almost confirmed for PKP’23. Who will he the 3rd one? A rock band? pop band? hip hop?

Billie eilish surely as she's doing august fests

[johnybegood]

Just now, Muppetmark said:

Billie eilish surely as she's doing august fests

Ken said no Billie for PKP. 

[P.bintein]

2 hours ago, Andrej said:

Imagine Dragons are by far and wide the worst big band in the last 10-15 years, its pretty impressive how they are so massive right now. All jokes aside, their numbers are monstrous, they sell equily well in any part of the world. But the music is so stale, these guys so so un-charismatic, they write the same song all over again, if you listen to Radioactive, Thunder, Believer, they found a formula that works and just repeat it. Just awful, and no one would say anything if thats Arena level here and there, but its becoming stadium size and they will be the biggest headliner any fest can have very soon. Just crazy.

Imagine Dragons produce easy listening music. Their second album for me was really good, good mix between rock and pop song. Since, their albums are more pop than rock but the energy in live show is always present even if they use a lot of vocals backing track (Natural).

And in France they have a lot of radio diffusions (one of the only pop rock who are played in radio).

They 're engaged in a lot of humanitarian cause.

Edited December 3, 2022 by P.bintein

[Muppetmark]

2 hours ago, johnybegood said:

Ken said no Billie for PKP. 

I missed that. Damn 

[gigi21]

17 hours ago, johnybegood said:

Imagine Dragons + Florence almost confirmed for PKP’23. Who will he the 3rd one? A rock band? pop band? hip hop?

Something like

My Chemical Romance - Paramore

Imagine Dragons - Stormzy

Florence - The Strokes

would it be too much for PKP?

[Ohad]

Blur is an option, or early summer festivals rules them out? Because Werchter seems unlikely and there's no Belgian date yet

[johnybegood]

6 minutes ago, Ohad said:

Blur is an option, or early summer festivals rules them out? Because Werchter seems unlikely and there's no Belgian date yet

Too good to be real