Rock Werchter 2025

[thetime]

3 minutes ago, sisco said:

Tbf, he sold out a Belgium date in minutes the other day

 

I personally love fender, I don't think he is a werchter headliners.

 

That being said, he is more a headliner than Lenny Kravitz. 

[e2p2]

19 minutes ago, sisco said:

Tbf, he sold out a Belgium date in minutes the other day

Vorst National is not The biggest indoor venue in Belgium, its capacity is about 8k. Artists like London Grammar (sold out), Cigarettes After Sex, Ben Howard, Michael Kiwanuka, Rise Against are all playing there. While I love Sam Fender, I think we should have another headliner to play Saturday, but last year headliners shake my thinking.

Edited 4 hours ago by e2p2

[sisco]

15 minutes ago, e2p2 said:

Vorst National is not The biggest indoor venue in Belgium, its capacity is about 8k. Artists like London Grammar (sold out), Cigarettes After Sex, Ben Howard, Michael Kiwanuka, Rise Against are all playing there. While I love Sam Fender, I think we should have another headliner to play Saturday, but last year headliners shake my thinking.

Oh I appreciate it’s only 9k, but selling it out in 5 mins (so I was just told) indicates he could have sold lots more tickets.  
 

It’s good that theres a bigger pool of headliners anyway, no point just rotating the same ones, they’ll soon die out!  also you can only book who’s touring. 

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, thetime said:

 

Agree.

 

Mainskin is bigger than fender in mainland Europe, Mainskin was headlining festivals last year.

 

Fender is a weak headliner for Werchter, but the UK people will travel. 

 

Not for him lol

1 hour ago, sisco said:

Oh I appreciate it’s only 9k, but selling it out in 5 mins (so I was just told) indicates he could have sold lots more tickets.  
 

It’s good that theres a bigger pool of headliners anyway, no point just rotating the same ones, they’ll soon die out!  also you can only book who’s touring. 

 

I think you can use that case for anyone though who sells tours quickly, a Rock Werchter headliner should be selling tickets 4/5 times that easily over there combined in venues to headline if you consider he's just sold about £96k tickets in England. It's a weak headliner by any standard over there and their socials don't disagree.

Edited 3 hours ago by northernangel

[sisco]

5 minutes ago, northernangel said:

 

Not for him lol

 

I think you can use that case for anyone though who sells tours quickly, a Rock Werchter headliner should be selling tickets 4/5 times that easily over there combined in venues to headline if you consider he's just sold about £96k tickets in England. It's a weak headliner by any standard over there and their socials don't disagree.

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 

[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 (;