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| Rock Werchter A Belgian annual music festival held in the village of Werchter, near Leuven, since 1973. It is one of the five biggest annual rock music festivals in Europe (the other four being Exit, Sziget Festival, the Glastonbury Festival and Roskilde Festival). The 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 festivals received the Arthur award for best festival in the world at the International Live Music Conference. It can host 85,000 guests daily. 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 Belgium's largest music festival. 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. The festival is organised every first weekend of the summer vacation in Belgium (last weekend of June or the first of July). Until the 1990s the festival attracted mostly Flemish people, but in recent years it has become more and more international with an especially large influx of Dutch, French, Walloon, British and a notable Australian and South African contingent. Belgian alternatives remain in the Pukkelpop and Dour festivals. http://www.rockwerchter.be/ |
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The Rock Werchter 2014 programme is set and includes 79 names. Fourteen new names complete the picture. Radkey and Bombay Bicycle Club have been added to the line-up on Thursday, July 3. Coely, Puggyand Paolo Nutini have been added on Friday, July 4. Altrego, Jonny Lang, Twenty One Pilots, tUnE-yArDsand Ozark Henry will perform on Saturday, July 5. Oscar & The Wolf, Kuroma, Royal Blood and Lykke Licomplete the programme on Sunday, July 6. The time schedules will be announced soon.
Here is an alphabetical list of the 79 names that grace the Rock Werchter 2014 line-up: Agnes Obel, Altrego, Angus and Julia Stone, Arctic Monkeys, Arsenal, Babyshambles, Bastille, Biffy Clyro, Birdy, Bombay Bicycle Club, Chase and Status, Coely, Crystal Fighters, Damon Albarn, Daptone Super Soul Revue featuring Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires, Antibalas, The Sugarman 3 with special guests Saun and Starr and Master of Ceremonies Binky Griptite, Dropkick Murphys, Eels, Ellie Goulding, Foals, Foster The People, Franz Ferdinand, George Ezra, Gesaffelstein, Haim, Imagine Dragons, Interpol, Jack Johnson, Jonny Lang, Katy B, Kings of Leon, Kodaline, Kuroma, London Grammar, Lykke Li, Major Lazer, Melanie De Biasio, Metallica, Metronomy, MGMT, Midlake, Miles Kane, Milow, Moderat, Oscar & The Wolf, Ozark Henry, Paolo Nutini, Parov Stelar Band, Parquet Courts, Passenger, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Placebo, Puggy, Radkey, Reignwolf, Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Royal Blood, Rudimental, Sam Smith, SBTRKT, Skrillex, Stromae, The 1975, The Black Keys, The Naked and Famous, The Opposites, The Strypes, The Subs, The Temperance Movement, The Wombats, Trentemøller, Triggerfinger, Trixie Whitley, tUnE-yArDs, Twenty One Pilots, Valerie June, Warpaint and White Lies.
Combi tickets for Rock Werchter (valid for all 4 days) and one day tickets for Thursday, July 3, Saturday, July 5 and Sunday, July 6 are sold out. The last 600 day tickets for Friday, July 4 can be purchased fromproximusgoformusic.be. Click here for detailed ticket info.
About Rock Werchter:
Rock Werchter 2014 will be taking place from Thursday 3 July to Sunday 6 July. Over four days on the Festival grounds in Werchter (Belgium), you will be able to see music’s finest on three stages: Main Stage, KluB C and The Barn. At Rock Werchter we firmly believe in bringing together a mix of different genres, and that’s proved very popular. Rock Werchter is an international hit and has been awarded multiple prizes. Last year’s four-day festival attracted some 140,000 (individual) festival-goers from far and wide and was completely sold out in advance.
Rock Werchter is an international hit and has been awarded multiple prizes. Last year’s four-day festival attracted some 140,000 (individual) festival-goers from far and wide and was completely sold out in advance.
Rock Werchter is a story of large numbers. Meanwhile, it is a story of a few million visitors. Of billions of decibels. Of more than 1.000 concerts. Of more than 500 artists. From 20 countries.
Rock Werchter is a story of passion and desire. A few daredevils who wanted to put a meadow on a map. And who ended up at the best festival in the world with the best stage artists. Of many thousands of employees and volunteers who have provided the rocking humanity with food, tickets, mosquitoes ointment and a safe journey home. Of a village that rests 361 days in order to be able to give everything for 4 days.
Rock Werchter is a story of changing times. The history of Werchter is the history of the rock industry. They have grown up together, with ups and downs. It is the awakening of the youth culture in our country. And the beginning of many fantastic ways to celebrate summer. Rock Werchter is a story of people and moments. A first Werchter is like a first school trip, a first kiss … It is a poignant event, a lasting memory. That was the case in 1975 and that will still be the case in 2025.
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