I don't think you can compare werchter to hurricane, I've never even heard of a lot of the headliners at hurricane.
Hurricane is like werchter getting Soulwax and Deus(who got there name from a bjork/sugarcubes song 😍) headlining.
Yes, I also believe Ken, normally when he says this it is about things that are behind the scenes, that were going to happen and will no longer happen, like for example when he talked about Billie and London Grammer.