Pukkelpop 2024

[DDave]

14 hours ago, Rico_Pliskin said:

Is there space for one more band on Main?

Last years Sunday had 6, we have 5 so far for this year. 

 

Not much for me in the last few drops, hopefully they'll pull something out of the bag late on, after RW has finished etc. 

[gigi21]

On 6/22/2024 at 12:44 AM, johnybegood said:

Can we expect The Hives or Idles to play between EC and Offspring in Main Stage on Sunday?

I was expecting both months ago but at this point I'm honestly no more expecting them.

In 2023 we had 11 acts on Sunday Main+Marquee (with only The Killers playing 80 minutes and Balthazar 75 minutes replacing Florence, all the other ones playing 1 hour or less) and now we already have 10 acts. Meau, Merol and Pommelien Thijs all look kinda big in Belgium and, after them, the sequence The Haunted Youth > Electric Callboy > Rise Against > The Offspring > The Smile > Queens Of The Stone Age looks working to me, maybe with a bit longer average sets than last year.

Idles would always be welcome and they're playing Lowlands on Friday and then still available for both Saturday and Sunday, so it would look logical... But PKP would also be their fourth Belgian appearence in 2024, so I don't know.

The Hives are playing US mid July to August 9 and then their second leg European Tour is starting August 22 from Rock En Seine. Pukkelpop still doable but I won't bet on this two names anymore (if there's any name left for Sunday Main-Marquee).

Surely there's room on Friday (only 8 acts announced so far + Denzel Curry who cancelled).

For another example, I was also expecting Yard Act but they ended playing Rock Werchter and Down The Rabbit Hole on the same day, with a 40 minutes slot at 13.40 at RW, so for some reasons they are not available for Pukkelpop.

To organize a big festival lineup isn't always the easiest thing to do, sometimes artists aren't available for reasons we don't know...

Edited June 23 by gigi21

[joselito]

Idles are playing Paredes de Coura on Friday. 

[gigi21]

50 minutes ago, joselito said:

Idles are playing Paredes de Coura on Friday. 

you're right! On their website there's written aug-14 Paredes de Coura, aug-16 Lowlands but those are the festival start dates, not Idles day. In that case, they could also play Lowlands on Sunday and make Pukkelpop impossible.

[gigi21]

On 6/9/2024 at 8:29 PM, gigi21 said:

Friends, don't know what the hell is happening but I just did this on Booking.com phone app.
There's 20€ of taxes to add but it's crazy. It's a familiar room (4 beds) booked for 2 persons.
 

reservation canceled by Booking.com as expected. Don't mind this post.

[Semprini]

Not sure what the deal is for those outside the UK (VPN?) but a few PKP acts are playing Glastonbury this weekend and their sets are on the Iplayer?

 

Watched a bit of Barry Can't Swim earlier and Conman were predictably awesome soon after! If the line up positions are to be believed, they will play mid-afternoon in the Dance Hall which is great in that I doubt they will clash with too many others I want to see. Seems very low but no complaint from me! Fontaines now on, and they're sounding good, so will likely check them out as not seen before. Think Romy on Sunday is the other overlap I can see but reckon there will be too much other stuff going on when she plays PKP so will probably wait for the weekend after to catch her when we go to Field Day.

 

Fred again.. also played a secret set this evening, which they did well to keep quiet. He's easily going to get the biggest crowd of the weekend and is arguably the most significant booking they have made for the whole festival.

[DDave]

Ed Sheeran ruled out for 2025. Playing Antwerp in the August. 

[gigi21]

🤞🏻

 

[Nicklord]

Croatian organizer wrote they'll try to organize a concert at the end of the summer if logistics work out. Didn't seem like they think QOTSA will be out for too long but you never know with the recovery from any surgery 

[Archi]

Hopefully he gonna be ok to play in August! I saw them 3 days ago in Milano and it was insane, Josh didn't look sick at all. I saw after the show that the day before they spoke about the show possibly being cancelled. I'm glad it was still on: both QOTSA and Royal Blood played their best shows I've ever seen. So fingers crossed for PKP!

[DDave]

5 minutes ago, Archi said:

Hopefully he gonna be ok to play in August! I saw them 3 days ago in Milano and it was insane, Josh didn't look sick at all. I saw after the show that the day before they spoke about the show possibly being cancelled. I'm glad it was still on: both QOTSA and Royal Blood played their best shows I've ever seen. So fingers crossed for PKP!

Not many like for like replacements out there if they cancel. Blink 182 the most obvious but can't be bothered looking to see if the dates fit. 

 

 

[gigi21]

35 minutes ago, Archi said:

Hopefully he gonna be ok to play in August! I saw them 3 days ago in Milano and it was insane, Josh didn't look sick at all. I saw after the show that the day before they spoke about the show possibly being cancelled. I'm glad it was still on: both QOTSA and Royal Blood played their best shows I've ever seen. So fingers crossed for PKP!

Giving that it's surgery and that a quick recovery is expected, it should be something painful but not too serious and he probably took some medicines to not feel pain during last concerts.

They have another leg of 7 European shows August 8 to 21 which are still confirmed. Let's hope everything goes as expected. Surely all the festivals are already looking for replacement options.

[Karlos12345]

Rumor has it (Italian photographer for I-Days) Josh has hernia.

 

I think they canceled the obvious dates where a recovery is impossible and wait for an update after the surgery to decide on the rest.

 

Unfortunately I don‘t see him playing 7 shows in 14 days only 4.5 weeks after emergency surgery for hernia.

 

Fingers crossed but I don‘t have my hopes up. Hopefully they can reschedule the headline shows for the fall.

Edited July 9 by Karlos12345

[johnybegood]

If QOTSA get cancelled I can see them moving Rise Against to the Main Stage and booking a big rock band from Belgium like Brutus for a high slot in the Marquee

[gigi21]

A few more names are missing.

Time to seriously start studying and planning.

Thanks @kilero

[bluenova]

[gigi21]

The Smile cancelled 😭💔

[Rico_Pliskin]

Holy sh*t. Queens and the smile on the same Sunday.

[DDave]

1 hour ago, gigi21 said:

The Smile cancelled 😭💔

That's a sad one. I know they were at a lot of people's list this year. 

 

Potential replacements in the same vein who are on tour but aren't at other Belgian festivals

 

Pulp

The National

New Order

Slowdive

Fever Ray

 

Wouldn't be surprised if it's someone like Fever Ray

 

 

 

[charlierc]

2 minutes ago, DDave said:

That's a sad one. I know they were at a lot of people's list this year. 

 

Potential replacements in the same vein who are on tour but aren't at other Belgian festivals

 

Pulp

The National

New Order

Slowdive

Fever Ray

 

Wouldn't be surprised if it's someone like Fever Ray

 

 

 

Pretty sure they did Live is Live in Antwerp the other week

[Rico_Pliskin]

Wouldn't mind some Viagra boys or unknown mortal orchestra is they're floating about.

 

But yeah imagine having to replace 2 big acts on the same day.

 

Similar for alot of the Scandinavian fests too.

 

Hopefully they all organise together and get someone to come out of retirement/choice we weren't expecting 

[charlierc]

On 7/9/2024 at 9:41 PM, Karlos12345 said:

Rumor has it (Italian photographer for I-Days) Josh has hernia.

 

I think they canceled the obvious dates where a recovery is impossible and wait for an update after the surgery to decide on the rest.

 

Unfortunately I don‘t see him playing 7 shows in 14 days only 4.5 weeks after emergency surgery for hernia.

 

Fingers crossed but I don‘t have my hopes up. Hopefully they can reschedule the headline shows for the fall.

This is the rumour doing the rounds on QOTSA's Reddit community as well.

 

My dad had one of those develop last year that required surgery and it wasn't the most fun of occasions. Was also a few weeks recovery process. Must've also gotten to an awkward place if the surgery had to be an urgent procedure.

 

7 shows in 14 days is certainly an uncomfortable way to road-test the damage.

[Rico_Pliskin]

And please god not the National. I'm on overdose at this point.

[Rico_Pliskin]

LCD soundsystem would be a good shout.

[DDave]

8 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Pretty sure they did Live is Live in Antwerp the other week

They did. But that's gone now. There's a few bands that are in the same vein but are playing Lokerse or Ronquières Festival - Pixies, Future Islands, Massive Attack etc.