Rock Werchter

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Rock Werchter
Genre	Alternative rock, rock, indie rock, pop, hip hop, heavy metal, electronic music, dance music
Dates	First weekend in July
Location(s)	Werchter Festivalpark, Werchter, Belgium
Years active	1974 – present
Founded by	Herman Schueremans
Website	Festival Website

Rock Werchter is an annual music festival held in the village of Werchter, near Leuven, Belgium, since 1976 and is a large sized rock music festival. The 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012 and 2014 festivals received the Arthur award for best festival in the world at the International Live Music Conference (ILMC). It can host 88,000 guests daily, of which 67,500 combine all four days, to add up to a total maximum of 149,500 different attendees.^[1]

The festival started in 1974 as a one-day event with performances from Banzai and Kandahar, but over the years it has evolved to become one of Belgium's largest music festivals. Originally it was a double-festival, called "Torhout-Werchter", with two festival areas at different sites in Belgium: one in Werchter and one in Torhout. In 1999, the festival dropped the Torhout site and since then has taken place only in Werchter. Since 2003 Werchter has been a 4-day festival, as it was sold by owner Herman Schueremans to American organizers Live Nation. Schueremans however remains the main organizer of the event. The festival is organized every first weekend of the summer vacation in Belgium (last weekend of June or the first of July).

In recent years, there has been controversy about rising ticket prices. Because of this, Schueremans was heckled during an appearance on HUMO's Pop Poll, a Belgian alternative award show. At €200 for four days (€18 extra to include camping or €25 for xl-camping) in 2012, it was still considered a relatively inexpensive music festival.^[2]

The camping sites officially open at 8am on the first day of the festival, but because of guests arriving early and camping on the street, the organizers have traditionally been forced to open the camping sites early - sometimes more than 24 hours. The campsites are located along the three main entrance roads into Werchter (from Haacht, Aarschot and Leuven), most of them within one kilometer of the festival site,^[3] but some located as far as 3 kilometers away. In 2011, for the first time, XL camping tickets are available, allowing festival goers to arrive and camp from 4pm on the Wednesday before the festival.^[4]

Until the 1990s, the festival attracted mostly Flemish festival goers, but in recent years it has become more and more international with an especially large influx of Dutch, French, Walloon and British visitors, with notable Australian, South African and other contingents.^[5] Belgians alternatively go to the Pukkelpop and Dour festivals.

All graphics of Rock Werchter, inclusive the posters, were designed by Tom Hautekiet, who died in April 2020.^[6]

History[]

The festival started off as a one-day event, then named "Torhout-Werchter" festival, becoming a two-day festival in 1996, a 3-day festival in 2000, and a 4-day festival named "Rock Werchter" since 2003.

Before 1995, when the festival was still a double-festival, it had one stage with 8 or 9 bands performing twice, once in Torhout and once in Werchter. Since 1995 the Main stage was accompanied by a second stage. This stage was an open-air stage until 1999 when it was made a tent named 'Pyramid Marquee', with a capacity of 6,000 people. The performers in Pyramid Marquee are usually lesser-known or aimed at a specific audience. Sometimes groups that do well in Pyramid Marquee are expected to have a hard time taking the step to the Main stage, especially when they are seen as an act needing intimate, smaller venues. Sigur Rós is the most famous example of this, when they were programmed on Main Stage in 2008 after their 2006 performance in Pyramid Marquee, but they managed the transition and were hailed as one of the best performances of the festival.

In 2012, a new third stage was added, called "The Barn" which is translated to "De Schuur" in Dutch, a reference to the nickname of organiser Herman Schueremans.^[7] The new tent – with a capacity of 10,000 – is meant for the more intimate concerts on Rock Werchter, like Beirut in 2012.

In 2013, Pyramid Marquee was replaced by a new bigger tent, named "KluB C".

The bands presented at Rock Werchter are traditionally a balanced mix of well known artists, popular crowd-pleasing acts and local Belgian acts. Belgian band Deus in 2008 was the first local band to close the Main Stage on the last day for several years. The days usually start around noon and end around 1am. At the end of the last day there is a big fireworks show.

Satellite festivals[]

TW Classic[]

Since 2002, the organizers created TW Classic as a tribute to the early days of Rock Werchter. TW Classic ('TW', as in Torhout-Werchter, is the traditional abbreviation of the festival) is a one day/one stage festival held one week after the main event. It usually programs veteran acts like Bruce Springsteen, Phil Collins, The Police, Depeche Mode or Simple Minds, supplemented with younger mainstream Belgian acts. In 2014, The Rolling Stones headlined TW Classic as one of their few festival concerts of 2014. In 2015, Robbie Williams headlined with his Let Me Entertain You Tour, and in 2016 Bruce Springsteen returned to the stage.

Werchter Boutique[]

This new festival was created in 2008 and organised one week after the main festival. It mainly aims at complete families with acts for children, teenagers as well as adults. The main acts in 2008 were Tokio Hotel, Santana and Doe Maar. In 2009 was centered on a concert of Madonna during her Sticky & Sweet Tour. In all, 68,000 tickets were sold for the concert, making it a one-day sell-out event. In 2010 Prince made one of his only 3 stops in Europe as the headliner. In 2012, it was headlined by metal band Metallica, supported by various heavy metal and rock bands like Gojira, Mastodon and Soundgarden. Muse performed there during their 2013 Unsustainable Tour, with Belgian bands Balthazar and SX as support. In 2016, Rihanna was planned to headline the event, but a shortage of police forces on the planned day because of the Belgian national holiday led to the 2016 event being cancelled, with Rihanna rescheduled to appear a month later at Pukkelpop.

Main Square Festival[]

Since 2008, the organizers created a small version of Rock Werchter on the central square of Arras, in northern France. It is held on the same dates as Rock Werchter, with a similar line-up - which is an advantage for organisers as they can offer artists two shows instead of one. Arras was chosen as a location because of its large historic central square and because of the lack of big rock festivals in France.

Festival by year[]

Year	Dates	Guests per day (avg)	Main artists	Notes
1977		5,000	Philip Catherine, Jan Akkerman, Kayak, Dr. Feelgood
1978		6,000	Talking Heads, Dr. Feelgood, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds & Rockpile
1979		12,000	Raymond van het Groenewoud, Talking Heads, Dire Straits, Rory Gallagher
1980		18,000	Kevin Ayers, Fischer-Z, The Specials, The Kinks
1981		23,500	Elvis Costello & the Attractions, The Cure, Robert Palmer, Dire Straits	The Cure, after being told to cut their set short by Robert Palmer's managers, play a 9-minute long rendition of "A Forest".
1982		37,500	Allez Allez, U2, Steve Miller Band, Talking Heads, Jackson Browne
1983		36,000	Eurythmics, Simple Minds, U2, Peter Gabriel, Van Morrison
1984		55,000	Chris Rea, John Hiatt, Joe Jackson, Simple Minds, Lou Reed	Schueremans and De Meyer created StageCo Staging Company. All audio and video equipments were dismantled at Torhout and transported to Werchter to be built up for the Werchter leg of the festival. This had to be done in 10 hours.
1985		63,000	Ramones, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, R.E.M., Depeche Mode, U2, Joe Cocker
1986		60,000	Simply Red, Talk Talk, UB40, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Simple Minds	Ticket price was Bfr 850, which is €21 nowadays.
1987		60,000	Iggy Pop, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Pretenders, Eurythmics, Peter Gabriel
1988		60,000	Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers, Los Lobos, John Hiatt, INXS, Bryan Adams, Sting	Bryan Adams records his live album Live! Live! Live! while it "rained in torrents."
1989		50,000	Texas, Pixies, Tanita Tikaram, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Robert Cray Band, Elvis Costello, R.E.M., Joe Jackson, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd	Elvis Costello is all by himself, yet he manages to overwhelm the crowd
1990		60,000	Mano Negra, De La Soul, The Jeff Healey Band, Lenny Kravitz, Ry Cooder / David Lindley, Wendy and Lisa, Sinéad O'Connor, Midnight Oil, Bob Dylan, The Cure
1991		50,500	The Scene, Dave Stewart, Deee-Lite, Happy Mondays, Bonnie Raitt, Pixies, Iggy Pop, Sting, Paul Simon	In Torhout the crowd spontaneously started throwing empty bottles in the air during Sting's song 'Message in a Bottle', soon filling the skies with bottlework. The same happened in Werchter the next day, ending with bottles hitting people's heads and resulting in injuries. This incident marked the beginning of the prohibition of visitors bringing their own drinks to the festival, a decision criticized and alleged to be for mere commercial purposes.
1992		60,000	The Tragically Hip, Extreme, The Smashing Pumpkins, Crowded House, Lou Reed, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bryan Adams, Luka Bloom and Michael Jackson.	Kiedis shouted at the crowd: "If you love us, throw more mud!" A few seconds later the stage was transformed in a place best described as a mud fight arena.
1993		60,000	Sonic Youth, The Levellers, The Black Crowes, Faith No More, Neil Young w/ Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Lenny Kravitz, Metallica
1994		50,500	Tool, Clawfinger, Therapy?, Sepultura, Rage Against the Machine, Aerosmith, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd	A camping festival was held the night before the festival itself. dEUS and Tool performed on this stage.
1995		65,000	Jeff Buckley, PJ Harvey, The Offspring, The Cure, The Cranberries, R.E.M.	Second stage added.
1996		50,000	David Bowie, The Chemical Brothers, Afghan Wigs, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Björk, Pulp, Massive Attack, Foo Fighters, Neil Young & Crazy Horse	First time as a two-day festival. First time ever Radiohead played Paranoid Android.
1997		50,000	David Bowie, Daft Punk, Supergrass, Live, Radiohead, Jamiroquai, The Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Deus
1998		20,000	Sonic Youth, Eagle Eye Cherry, Garbage, Therapy?, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Beastie Boys, Björk
1999	2–4 July	51,500	Pavement, Blur, Marilyn Manson, Bryan Adams, Metallica, Placebo, Robbie Williams, Faithless, Lenny Kravitz, R.E.M.	First time in Werchter only. First time as a three-day festival (shows started at 5pm on Friday).
2000	30 June – 2 July	55,000	Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Bush, A Perfect Circle, Counting Crows, The Cure, Eels, Paul Weller, Live, Hooverphonic, Manu Chao, Kelis, Suzanne Vega
2001	29 June – 1 July	60,000	Fun Lovin' Criminals, Sting, Beck, Placebo, PJ Harvey, Muse, Sigur Rós, Grandaddy, Faithless, Coldplay, Incubus
2002	28 – 30 June	63,000	Sonic Youth, The White Stripes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rammstein, Queens of the Stone Age, Faithless, Coldplay
2003	26 – 29 June	70,000	Radiohead, Björk, Massive Attack, Moby, Metallica, Queens of the Stone Age, R.E.M., Coldplay	First time as a four-day-festival Arthur award for Best festival in the world
2004	1 – 4 July	70,000	The Cure, Metallica, KoЯn, Lenny Kravitz, Pixies, Muse, 2 Many DJs, Placebo, Moloko	Arthur award for Best festival in the world. Headliner David Bowie cancelled because of a shoulder nerve injury. 2 Many DJs were flown back from the UEFA Euro 2004 Final in Lisbon to replace him.
2005	30 June – 3 July	80,000	New Order, The Chemical Brothers, Garbage, Green Day, Kraftwerk, Queens of the Stone Age, Snoop Dogg, Faithless, Rammstein, Foo Fighters, R.E.M.
2006	29 June – 2 July	80,000	Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Eyed Peas, The Who, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Placebo, Deus, Depeche Mode	Arthur award for Best festival in the world
2007	28 June – 1 July	80,000	Muse, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Pearl Jam, The Chemical Brothers, Metallica, Queens of the Stone Age, Faithless	Arthur award for Best festival in the world. Pearl Jam finally played at the festival after cancellations in 1992 (Eddie Vedder's stress collapse) and 2000 (drama at Roskilde).
2008	3 – 6 July	80,000	The Chemical Brothers, R.E.M., Moby, Neil Young, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Deus, Beck, Kaiser Chiefs	The ILMC (who gives the Arthur Awards) changed their restrictions, a festival which has won 2 years in a row can not enter the next year. This change has been done in favour of the other festivals.
2009	2 – 5 July	80,000	Coldplay, The Killers, Lady Gaga, Placebo, Metallica, Kings of Leon, Oasis, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Nine Inch Nails, Limp Bizkit	European Festival Award for Best line-up, artist's favourite festival and best promoter
2010	1 – 4 July	80,000	Arcade Fire, Pearl Jam, Muse, Pink, Rammstein, Faithless, Green Day, Them Crooked Vultures, Editors
2011	30 June – 3 July	82,750	Coldplay , Linkin Park, Kings of Leon, Iron Maiden, The Chemical Brothers, Arctic Monkeys, Queens of the Stone Age, Robyn, Black Eyed Peas	European Festival Award for Best line-up
2012	28 June – 1 July	85,000	Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cure, Garbage, Skrillex, Justice, Pearl Jam, Deadmau5, Mumford & Sons, Editors, Rise Against, Chase & Status, Snow Patrol	Third stage added, Arthur award for Best festival in the world
2013	4 – 7 July	85,000	Depeche Mode, Blur, Rammstein, Green Day, Kings of Leon, The National, Editors, Netsky, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Volbeat
2014	3 – 6 July	88,000	Pearl Jam, Metallica, Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, Pixies, The Black Keys, Placebo, Damon Albarn, Skrillex, Ellie Goulding	One of only two festival appearances by Pearl Jam in their exclusive 12-date 2014 European tour.
2015	25–28 June	88,000	The Chemical Brothers, Faith No More, Mumford & Sons, Pharrell Williams, Lenny Kravitz, The Prodigy, Muse, Kasabian	[8]
2016	30 June – 3 July	TBD	Rammstein, Florence and the Machine, Paul McCartney, Ellie Goulding, Editors, Iggy Pop, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
2017			Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Linkin Park, System Of A Down, Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, Alt-J, Blink 182, Imagine Dragons
2018	5-8 July		Arctic Monkeys, Queens of the Stone Age, Pearl Jam, Gorillaz, The Killers, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Jack White, Nine Inch Nails,	First year with 4 stages
2019			Pink, Kylie Minogue, Tool, The Cure, Muse, Mumford & Sons, Florence and the Machine, Bring Me The Horizon

Recent years[]

2003[]

Day 1: Underworld, Radiohead, Björk
Day 2: Massive Attack, Moby, Ozark Henry, The Roots, Feeder, Morgan Heritage, The Polyphonic Spree
Day 3: Metallica, Arno, Queens of the Stone Age, Anouk, Xzibit, Millionaire, Stone Sour, 't Hof van Commerce, Krezip
Day 4: R.E.M., Coldplay, Counting Crows, Cypress Hill, The Cardigans, Supergrass, Stereophonics, De la Soul, Das Pop

2004[]

Day 1: Basement Jaxx, The Cure, Pink, Sean Paul, Michael Franti & Spearhead
Day 2: Metallica, KoЯn, The Darkness, Dropkick Murphys, Monster Magnet, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Lostprophets
Day 3: Lenny Kravitz, Muse, Moloko, Wu-Tang Clan, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, The Black Eyed Peas, Within Temptation, Heideroosjes, The Rasmus
Day 4: 2 Many DJs, Placebo, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Lamb, Starsailor, Zornik, Danko Jones
David Bowie was meant to headline the festival but had to cancel.

2005[]

Day 1: The Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk, Snoop Dogg, Ozark Henry, New Order, The Bravery
Day 2: Faithless, Green Day, Velvet Revolver, Garbage, Within Temptation, Jimmy Eat World, KT Tunstall, Simple Plan
Day 3: Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails, Audioslave, The Game, 't Hof van Commerce, Daan, Pennywise, Therapy?
Day 4: R.E.M., Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Soulwax, Keane, Feeder, Kane, Flogging Molly

2006[]

Day 1: Matisyahu, Deftones, Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System, Kaizers Orchestra, Death Cab for Cutie, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Eyed Peas, Tool, Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, The Streets, Roger Sanchez
Day 2: The Who, Muse, Skin, Kanye West, Editors, Live, Anouk. The Kooks, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Elbow, Mogwai, Radio Soulwax presents: Vitalic, Soulwax Nite Versions, Tiga, 2 Many DJs
Day 3: Wolfmother, Arsenal, Kelis, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Placebo, Deus, Donavon Frankenreiter, Arctic Monkeys, Goldfrapp, Sigur Rós
Day 4: Absynthe Minded, Eels, Starsailor, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Hooverphonic, Depeche Mode, Collective Soul, Bettye LaVette, An Pierlé & White Velvet, Laurent Garnier & Bugge Wesseltoft featuring Philippe Nadaud, Superdiscount, Hard-Fi

2007[]

2008[]

Day 1:
Main Stage: The Chemical Brothers, R.E.M., Lenny Kravitz, Mika, Counting Crows, Air Traffic
Pyramid Marquee: 2manydjs, Soulwax, Shameboy, The National, Vampire Weekend, Modern Skirts

Day 2:
Main Stage: Moby, Neil Young, The Verve, Jay-Z, Babyshambles, Slayer, , The Black Box Revelation
Pyramid Marquee: Digitalism, Hot Chip, Zita Swoon, Duffy, My Morning Jacket, Ben Folds, Patrick Watson, The Cool Kids

Babyshambles canceled and were replaced by Air Traffic.

Day 3:
Main Stage: Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Kings of Leon, Editors, The Hives, Gossip, The Whigs
Pyramid Marquee: Róisín Murphy, Gnarls Barkley, MGMT, Kate Nash, KT Tunstall, Galactic, Band of Horses, Donavon Frankenreiter

Day 4:
Main Stage: Deus, The Black Box Revelation, Anouk, Beck, Kaiser Chiefs, The Raconteurs, The Kooks, Panic! at the Disco, The John Butler Trio
Pyramid Marquee: Nightwish, Underworld, Justice, Grinderman, Mark Ronson, Hercules and Love Affair, Tim Vanhamel, DeVotchKa

2009[]

Day 1:
Main Stage: The Prodigy, Oasis, Placebo, Dave Matthews Band, Lily Allen, Eagles of Death Metal
Pyramid Marquee: Tiga, Pendulum, Laurent Garnier, Fleet Foxes, Emiliana Torrini, Expatriate

Day 2:
Main Stage: Coldplay, The Killers, Bloc Party, Elbow, Amy Macdonald, White Lies, Just Jack
Pyramid Marquee: Lady Gaga, Arsenal, Jason Mraz, The Streets, M.Ward, Priscilla Ahn, Henry Rollins - Spoken Word

Day 3:
Main Stage: 2ManyDjs, Kings of Leon, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Franz Ferdinand, Limp Bizkit, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Social Distortion, Triggerfinger
Pyramid Marquee: Boys Noize, Grace Jones, Katy Perry, Mogwai, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Regina Spektor, Jasper Erkens

Day 4:
Main Stage: Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Kaiser Chiefs, The Black Eyed Peas, The Mars Volta, Seasick Steve, Mastodon, Metro Station
Pyramid Marquee: Milk Inc, Röyksopp, Ghinzu, The Script, Lady Linn And Her Magnificent Seven, De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, The Hickey Underworld

2010[]

2011[]

Day 1:
Main Stage: Linkin Park, The Chemical Brothers, Queens Of The Stone Age, Anouk, The Hives, Seasick Steve and OFWGKTA
Pyramid Marquee: Hurts, Beady Eye, Eels, James Blake, Aloe Blacc, TV On The Radio and Warpaint
Day 2:
Main Stage: Kings of Leon, Arsenal, Arctic Monkeys, The National, White Lies, Triggerfinger, My Chemical Romance and Mona
Pyramid Marquee: The Subs, Goose, Chase and Status, Ozark Henry, Jimmy Eat World, Kesha, Lissie and Grouplove
Day 3:
Main Stage: Coldplay, Portishead, PJ Harvey, Elbow, Bruno Mars, The Gaslight Anthem and Rival Sons
Pyramid Marquee: Underworld, Magnetic Man, Selah Sue, Bright Eyes, I Blame Coco, Jenny and Johnny, The Pretty Reckless and
Day 4:
Main Stage: Iron Maiden, The Black Eyed Peas, A-Trak, Grinderman, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Social Distortion and All Time Low
Pyramid Marquee: Digitalism, Robyn, Fleet Foxes, Brandon Flowers, Two Door Cinema Club, Tame Impala, The Vaccines and Everything Everything

2012[]

	Thursday 28 June	Friday 29 June	Saturday 30 June	Sunday 1 July
Main Stage	The All-American Rejects Within Temptation Rise Against Blink-182 Elbow The Cure Justice	X Mastodon Wiz Khalifa Gossip Jack White Deus Pearl Jam Deadmau5	't Hof van Commerce The Black Box Revelation Wolfmother Kasabian Mumford & Sons The xx Editors Chase & Status	The Hickey Underworld The Vaccines Dropkick Murphys Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Florence and the Machine Snow Patrol Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pyramid Marquee	Kraantje Pappie Amon Tobin Cypress Hill Netsky Skream ft. Sgt. Pokes Skrillex	Eastern Conference Champions Perfume Genius Kreayshawn Azari & III DJ Fresh Katy B Birdy Nam Nam	James Vincent McMorrow Alabama Shakes Nneka Ben Howard M83 Regina Spektor Paul Kalkbrenner	Other Lives Kitty, Daisy & Lewis Die Antwoord Mac Miller Knife Party Steve Aoki
The Barn	Metric Bombay Bicycle Club The Maccabees Garbage Selah Sue The Kooks	School is Cool Miles Kane Katzenjammer The Temper Trap Lana Del Rey Bat for Lashes Beirut	Michael Kiwanuka Noah and the Whale Simple Minds My Morning Jacket Agnes Obel Incubus	Anna Calvi M. Ward Ed Sheeran James Morrison Milow

2013[]

	July 4	July 5	July 6	July 7
Main Stage	All Time Low Airbourne Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Vampire Weekend The National Green Day Netsky Live	The Bots Two Door Cinema Club The Hives The Script Phoenix Kings of Leon Blur	Modest Mouse Graveyard Kendrick Lamar Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Volbeat Rammstein	A Day to Remember Gogol Bordello Band of Horses Thirty Seconds to Mars Depeche Mode Editors
KluB C	Fidlar Vintage Trouble Laura Mvula Jessie Ware Jamie Lidell Dizzee Rascal The Bloody Beetroots	Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaries Angel Haze Kesha Major Lazer C2C Vitalic VTLZR Boys Noize	Rudimental Azealia Banks Disclosure James Blake Goose	Bastille Tom Odell Passenger Asaf Avidan Jake Bugg
The Barn	Palma Violets The Black Angels Balthazar Biffy Clyro Bloc Party Sigur Rós	Gary Clark Jr. Lianne La Havas The Lumineers Richard Hawley John Legend Ben Howard	Trash Talk Jonathan Jeremiah Odd Future Earl Sweatshirt Django Django Tame Impala Frank Ocean	Matthew E. White Alt-J Of Monsters and Men The Gaslight Anthem Modestep

2014[]

	July 3	July 4	July 5	July 6
Main Stage	Radkey Dropkick Murphys Miles Kane White Lies Placebo Metallica Skrillex	The 1975 Puggy Rodrigo Y Gabriela Ellie Goulding Paolo Nutini Arctic Monkeys Major Lazer	The Temperance Movement Kodaline Haim Biffy Clyro Triggerfinger The Black Keys Pearl Jam	Reignwolf Babyshambles Rudimental Bastille Franz Ferdinand Kings Of Leon Stromae
KluB C	Daptone Super Soul Revue Valerie June London Grammar Damon Albarn Gesaffelstein The Opposites	Coely George Ezra Trixie Whitley Parov Stelar Band Crystal Fighters Katy B The Subs	Altrego Twenty One Pilots tUnE-yArDs Mélanie De Biasio SBTRKT Trentemøller Moderat	Kuroma Parquet Courts Angus & Julia Stone Passenger Foals MGMT Interpol
The Barn	The Wombats Bombay Bicycle Club Milow Robert Plant & The Sensational Space shifters Warpaint Arsenal	The Strypes Sam Smith The Naked and Famous Foster The People EELS Jack Johnson	Jonny Lange Midlake Ozark Henry Imagine Dragons Agnes Obel Pixies	Oscar and the Wolf Royal Blood Metronomy Birdy Lykke Li Chase & Status

2015[]

	Main Stage	KluB C	The Barn
Day 1 25 June	The Chemical Brothers Faith No More Florence and the Machine Rise Against Royal Blood Eagles of Death Metal Marmozets	Caribou SBTRKT Hot Chip Jungle Chet Faker Years & Years St. Paul and The Broken Bones	Elbow Oscar and the Wolf Patti Smith James Bay First Aid Kit Jack Garratt
Day 2 26 June	Pharrell Williams Mumford & Sons Balthazar Of Monsters and Men Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley Archive The Last Internationale	Magnus FKA twigs The Cat Empire Kwabs Ibeyi Fufanu Sharon Kovacs	Róisín Murphy Alt-J John Newman Death Cab for Cutie Gavin James Lonely The Brave
Day 3 27 June	The Prodigy Lenny Kravitz Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds The War on Drugs Hozier Royal Blood FIDLAR	De jeugd van tegenwoordig Selah Sue Kid Ink iLoveMakonnen Seinabo Sey Tout va bien	Damien Rice Angus & Julia Stone Ryan Adams Dotan The Tallest Man on Earth Other Lives
Day 4 28 June	Muse Kasabian The Script Counting Crows Circa Waves Enter Shikari Red Fang	Gabriel Rios Maxi Jazz Christine and the Queens Fink Tove Lo Blaudzun Leon Bridges	Die Antwoord Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals Alabama Shakes The Vaccines Catfish and the Bottlemen The Van Jets

Canceled Artists
Day 1: Foo Fighters --> Faith No More, Royal Blood
Day 2: BADBADNOTGOOD -->

Day 2: Ben Howard --> Balthazar (moved from the Barn to Main stage)
Day 3: Sam Smith --> The Tallest Man on Earth
Day 4: JD McPherson --> The Van Jets
Day 4: Jessie J --> Circa Waves

2016[]

	Main Stage	KluB C	The Barn
Day 1 30 June	Disclosure Paul McCartney Ellie Goulding Jake Bugg Kaiser Chiefs The London Souls	James Blake Sigma Flume Walk Off The Earth Ryan Bingham Barns Courtney	Years & Years New Order Gutterdämmerung Guy Garvey Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Samm Henshaw
Day 2 1 July	Rammstein The Offspring At the Drive-In Black Box Revelation Bring Me the Horizon The Van Jets Blackberry Smoke	Puggy The 1975 Trixie Whitley Oh Wonder Jagwar Ma Blossoms	Parov Stelar Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters Richard Hawley Daughter Gary Clark Jr. Frightened Rabbit
Day 3 2 July	Editors Red Hot Chili Peppers Goose Two Door Cinema Club Band of Horses Kensington The Struts	Paul Kalkbrenner Lost Frequencies Alessia Cara BADBADNOTGOOD Savages Bazart	Tame Impala PJ Harvey Beirut Glen Hansard Courtney Barnett Mura Masa
Day 4 3 July	Florence + The Machine Macklemore & Ryan Lewis The Last Shadow Puppets Iggy Pop James Bay The Strypes Vintage Trouble	Skunk Anansie SX Unknown Mortal Orchestra Låpsley Elle King Aurora	Jamie XX Beck Foals Lianne La Havas Bear's Den Alice on the Roof

2017[]

	Main Stage	KluB C	The Barn
Day 1 29 June	Savages Prophets of Rage Imagine Dragons Arcade Fire Kings of Leon	Declan McKenna Whitney Warhola Beth Ditto Xavier Rudd Mura Masa	Tout Va Bien Cigarettes After Sex Mark Lanegan Agnes Obel Lorde The Chainsmokers
Day 2 30 June	Coely Slowdive Nathaniel Rateliff White Lies Royal Blood James Blake Radiohead	LANY Vuurwerk Maggie Rogers Dua Lipa The Pretenders Charlotte de Witte	Tamino Warhaus Future Islands Birdy Bazart Oscar and the Wolf
Day 3 1 July	Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes Blues Pills Seasick Steve Jimmy Eat World Blink-182 System of a Down Linkin Park	Tash Sultana J. Bernardt Machine Gun Kelly Charli XCX Milky Chance Crystal Fighters Above & Beyond	Toothless Glass Animals SOHN Kodaline Passenger Bonobo
Day 4 2 July	Nothing but Thieves Dropkick Murphys The Kills The Lumineers Alt-J Foo Fighters	Karen Elson Noname Fatima Yamaha Benjamin Clementine Warpaint The Avalanches G-Eazy	Cage the Elephant Thurston Moore Rae Sremmurd Rag'n'Bone Man Soulwax Tourist LeMC

2018[]

Date	Main Stage	KluB C	The Barn
Day 1: 5 July	Gorillaz Queens of the Stone Age The Script Alice in Chains The Vaccines Rae Sremmurd Rival Sons	Triggerfinger Craig David Vince Staples Anne-Marie Little Simz Kali Uchis	Marshmello James Bay At the Drive-In Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Steven Wilson Gang of Youths
Day 2: 6 July	The Killers London Grammar Snow Patrol Russ The Kooks Air Traffic Courteeners	Arsenal Franz Ferdinand Chvrches Curtis Harding Walking on Cars Tom Walker	Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals Ben Howard Angus & Julia Stone First Aid Kit IAMDDB Dermot Kennedy
Day 3: 7 July	Pearl Jam Jack White Jack Johnson Stone Sour Stereophonics The Last Internationale The Struts	blackwave. Petit Biscuit Jorja Smith STIKSTOF JP Cooper Susanne Sundfør	Khalid Fleet Foxes MGMT The Breeders Millionaire Angèle
Day 4: 8 July	Arctic Monkeys Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Eels Kaleo Novastar PVRIS	Fever Ray Roméo Elvis X Le Motel Rone NAO Sigrid Naaz	Parov Stelar Nine Inch Nails David Byrne George Ezra Post Malone Albert Hammond Jr.

2019[]

Date	Main Stage	KluB C	The Barn	The Slope
Day 1: 27 June	P!nk Bastille Vance Joy Bang Bang Romeo	Paul Kalkbrenner Charlotte Gainsbourg Raleigh Ritchie Maribou State Black Box Revelation	Elbow BROCKHAMPTON Richard Ashcroft Ólafur Arnalds Mogwai Zwangere Guy	Deaf Havana Palace Geike The Vintage Caravan Georgia
Day 2: 28 June	Tool The Cure Bring Me The Horizon Weezer The 1975 Nothing But Thieves Whispering Sons	Robyn Snarky Puppy Tom Misch Khruangbin Warhola Denzel Curry	Kylie Years & Years Janelle Monáe Jungle Kurt Vile & the Violators Masego	The Twilight Sad Our Last Night SWMRS Yonaka Foxing Sea Girls
Day 3: 29 June	Mumford & Sons Florence + the Machine Macklemore Bear's Den Beirut Miles Kane All Them Witches	The Blaze Clean Bandit AURORA King Princess SYML IBE	The Good, The Bad & The Queen Angèle Two Door Cinema Club Tourist LEMC Strand of Oaks	The Slow Readers Club Barns Courtney Alice Phoebe Lou Donny Benét The Murder Capital John J. Presley
Day 4: 30 June	Muse Greta Van Fleet Balthazar Parkway Drive YUNGBLUD De Staat Sports Team	Underworld $uicideboy$ RY X Dean Lewis Mahalia Grace Carter	New Order Mac DeMarco Rosalía Tamino Lewis Capaldi Lizzo	Amyl and the Sniffers Ibibio Sound Machine Zeal & Ardor Black Honey Didirri

2020[]

Canceled due of COVID-19 pandemic

2021[]

Canceled due of COVID-19 pandemic

See also[]

• List of historic rock festivals

External links[]

• Official website

References[]

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Coordinates: 50°58′5″N 4°41′3″E / 50.96806°N 4.68417°E / 50.96806; 4.68417