Rock Werchter 2025

[northernangel]

1 minute ago, sisco said:

You can only sell it 4/5 times if you do 4/5 gigs.  He chose to do a small tour for this run and then bigger venues in the summer (and seemingly festivals too)

 

Whatever way you look at it he’s a big artist and he’ll only get bigger with the tour, new album and Glasto/RW headline spots 

 

Not every artists gets to the same size in every country, he's not a Wrchter headliner, he's a saving money headliner. He actually makes the top like we could have dent quite a bit.

[Archi]

Really surprised to see him headline. I guess we could have a strong Saturday with a co-headline like 2022 (Imagine Dragons - Twenty One Pilots - Yungblud - Maneskin - Sum 41). Not excited and a bit disapointed like many of you. Let's what they have for us next week 🙂

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, Archi said:

Really surprised to see him headline. I guess we could have a strong Saturday with a co-headline like 2022 (Imagine Dragons - Twenty One Pilots - Yungblud - Maneskin - Sum 41). Not excited and a bit disapointed like many of you. Let's what they have for us next week 🙂

Not sure why the repeat itself should be a surprise. They booked Yungblud, Maneskin and Sum 41 in 22 with the former two reversed to each other the same day

[Ohad]

Fingers crossed for a worthy Barn closer for Saturday (;

[gingerevans84]

Feel like whenever a festival brings up a new headliner, they are never big enough. So in that regard do you want the same people over and over again or at least try and create new headliners.

[sisco]

3 minutes ago, gingerevans84 said:

Feel like whenever a festival brings up a new headliner, they are never big enough. So in that regard do you want the same people over and over again or at least try and create new headliners.

It’s exactly this.  Until someone is given the opportunity how do you know?!

 

You can also only book who is around and the major acts are preferring to do their own tours these days, even Glastonbury has struggled the last couple of years.

 

Of course we need to wait a few more weeks to see the final headliners and a pool of acts but So far I’m struggling to see who people actually wanted who is available.  Hopefully that random name will appear

[northernangel]

36 minutes ago, gingerevans84 said:

Feel like whenever a festival brings up a new headliner, they are never big enough. So in that regard do you want the same people over and over again or at least try and create new headliners.

I think it may just end up showing that even RW will struggle to get anyone they want now. Based on this year, u don't think people would have chosen Maneskin more than a co-headliner even though he does well in Belgium. They certainly won't have Lenny so maybe settings sights too high. I don't believe this though can't be bettered unless they've got two/three others that really cost.