Rock Werchter 2012

Roomic Cube

Anybody going to this, this year?

Lineup is starting to look pretty solid! Went in both 2009 and 2010, but wasn't into the lineup last year at all so I gave it a miss!

It's from the 28th of June to the 1st of July.

4 day ticket is €195 and camping is €18.
Your ticket includes a cook to get a free train and bus to the festival.

Lineup as of a new update on 27/02/2012:

The latest additions are Jack White, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Chase & Status, The Vaccines, Paul Kalkbrenner, Steve Aoki, Ed Sheeran, Netsky, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Ben Howard, M83, Kreayshawn, and Azealia Banks.

They join:

Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Florence + The Machine, Justice, The Cure, Elbow, Snow Patrol, dEUS, Blink 182, Kasabian, Deadmau5, Skrillex, Garbage, Katy B, Beirut, DJ Fresh presents Fresh/Live, Wolfmother, Wiz Khalifa, Katzenjammer, Mumford & Sons, Incubus, Gossip, Milow, Selah Sue, The Kooks, Dropkick Murphys, Calvin Harris, The Black Box Revelation, Skream ft. Sgt Pokes, James Morrison, My Morning Jacket, Rise Against, Mastodon, Noah and the Whale, Bat For Lashes, Anna Calvi, Amon Tobin, Miles Kane, All-American Rejects, The Maccabees, Other Lives, James Vincent McMorrow, and more. For the line-up details, as

or you could check it out here: http://www.rockwerchter.be/en/lineup/
or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Werchter#2012

The Nal

Not going but its on the to do list. I hear its great. Always have a solid line up too.

Minstrel27

I am contemplating going for just the Friday. I become too cranky when living in a tent so 4 days aren't for me :-)

AdMMM

Love the random inclusion of Mastodon!

Just spotted the lineup of this today and instantly decided that I have to go. I've been holding out for a Pearl Jam date in Ireland and missed out on Florence and the Machine, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

Anyone have an idea of when this usually sells out? Will take me two weeks to get the money together

icarus86

I was at this in 07 and it was great craic! good mix of bands at it and i gotta say it was so much better than oxegen, crowds are pretty tame though....

AdMMM

By tame do you mean subdued? The impression I got from reading other threads about Belgian festivals is that the crowd doesn't really get into the gigs and just tend to stand there which takes away from the atmosphere. Im not sure how controlled I could be when seeing some of the my favourite acts of all time!

I think I'd be somewhat worried about the cultural differences, even if I went over as part of a big group!

icarus86

Yeah pretty much, they were all really friendly and good enough craic but they just didnt seem to get into the spirit of things. In saying that,there will be loads of Irish and Brits there who are up for the craic, meet a few of them and it will be like being at home at a festival:D

hacx

Was going to Benicassim, but jesus, this lineup.

Gillington

Seriously giving this some consideration now that Editors are headlining

hacx

Anyone know what the price of drink is like in belgium?
And would i be ok buying a tent over there because of baggage limits?

Speaking of which, flights from Cork to Brussels are €105 return with Aer Lingus. Pretty good, IMO.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Just booked my flights for this!

Thursday morning with Aer Lingus from Dublin for 85 quid, unreal

SteelyDanJalapeno

hacx wrote: »

Anyone know what the price of drink is like in belgium?
And would i be ok buying a tent over there because of baggage limits?

Speaking of which, flights from Cork to Brussels are €105 return with Aer Lingus. Pretty good, IMO.

You'll pick up cans of beer in the supermarkets for the same as here, pints in the festival will be simialr to here, sometimes a little cheaper, they have a token system set up for food and drink, at 2.50 a token,

So best case scenario a pint will be 1 token, more than likely they will be 2 tokens

SteelyDanJalapeno

4 day combi ticket sold out

AdMMM

TiltedBrain wrote: »

4 day combi ticket sold out

Sickened as I was intending on buying them last night! Flights booked too, which probably wasn't the best idea on my part.

hacx

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SteelyDanJalapeno

AdMMM wrote: »

Sickened as I was intending on buying them last night! Flights booked too, which probably wasn't the best idea on my part.

I've read on a few forums that other sites still have them for sale, maybe have a look around?

good luck

LisaC251

TiltedBrain wrote: »

I've read on a few forums that other sites still have them for sale, maybe have a look around?

good luck

Where did you see other tickets available for the four days, I really want to go for the four days as opposed to spending a fortune on a three day pass.

AdMMM

There's a waiting list online now. Tickets are also available on viagogo.com but are insanely expensive there...

SteelyDanJalapeno

Waiting list is closed,

had a quick there Lisa, cant find any on the usuals sites anymore, ebay, gumtree etc,

there was a pair on toutless last week but they seem to be gone, it would be no harm to start a thread there anyway for wanted tickets.

www.toutless.com

edit, just saw a lisa251 post on toutless, I presume thats you, nvm my post so

edit edit! pm'd ya there

LisaC251

That's me on Toutless alright. I had a look around the other day but could not find anything that was not extortionate.
I am debating other European festivals as I really want to avoid the rain in Ireland at festivals this year!

SteelyDanJalapeno

Tomorrowland tickets go on general sale tomorrow, they wont last long, last year looked unreal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7CdTAiaLes

AdMMM

I bought 3 day tickets this morning. I'm on the waiting list so if I get offered one I'll buy it and sell on the 3 day tickets. Shame us Irish have a tendency to leave things until the last minute

SteelyDanJalapeno

AdMMM wrote: »

I bought 3 day tickets this morning. I'm on the waiting list so if I get offered one I'll buy it and sell on the 3 day tickets. Shame us Irish have a tendency to leave things until the last minute

indeed! theres combi tickets going for a little over cost price on ebay.be if your desperate

AdMMM

They might be starting at face value but the bidding wars are pushing them all north of €300.

AdMMM

Mr.S wrote: »

keep in mind they check ID to names on tickets and won't let you in otherwise.

Do they really? I know they say they do on their website but I would have thought that would be to just put people off buying the tickets on the secondary market.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Meh, i've been here once and Pukkelpop twice and I.D. was never checked, scaremongering

AdMMM

Do they ID people simply for age-verification purposes?

I'm actually curious about what happens if the credit card holder is not the person who's attending the event? Or if you can't go yourself and give it to a friend? Or if you've bought multiple tickets (as you don't have to provide names for each ticket)? It does state in the FAQ (only accessible via the footer at the bottom of the website) that you need a copy of this persons ID and a handwritten note saying that it's okay to attend should your name be different but I doubt that everyone reads every last detail of the Feedback section and that there would be a lot of genuine cases of people missing it...

I've sent viagogo an email asking what happens (considering they guarantee smooth transactions) in the event that your secondary market ticket is rejected because of a mis-match in names.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Mr.S wrote: »

When where you last there? Cus PP ID'd everyone around when we walked in

It would of been 2010 I think

maybe I just didnt notice them checking IDs but i wasnt anyway

LisaC251

AdMMM wrote: »

I bought 3 day tickets this morning. I'm on the waiting list so if I get offered one I'll buy it and sell on the 3 day tickets. Shame us Irish have a tendency to leave things until the last minute

Did you ever get a four day ticket on the waiting list? I stopped looking for a ticket when the Sunday sold out, which I am now regretting as many of the other festivals are not appealing to me.

SteelyDanJalapeno

LisaC251 wrote: »

Did you ever get a four day ticket on the waiting list? I stopped looking for a ticket when the Sunday sold out, which I am now regretting as many of the other festivals are not appealing to me.

Have you seen the Dour festival line up for price and diversity I think its the best around,

http://www.dourfestival.be/en/lineup

p.s. got your mail, reply soon.

AdMMM

Managed to get a ticket off eBay today from an Irish seller for €280. I'm a bit annoyed at myself for having to go down that route. I already had a Thurs, Fri and Sat ticket but the prices quoted for Sunday tickets by themselves were silly. I can sell them now to my friends who missed out so that I won't have paid too much over the odds!

Lesson learned however... popular European festivals sell out, Irish festivals don't!

Johnny Johnson

I hope someone can answer this for me. I assume there is transport to and from the festival site. What time does this finish up at night?

Johnny Johnson

Mr.S wrote: »

to and from where?

All the campsites are within walking distance to the festival.

Theres (free) shuttle busses to and from Leuven (where you get the train and stuff) all day and up to an hour after the last acts.

Acts generally finish up around around 2:30am on the Thursday and around 12:30-1:30 on the other days.

Keep in mind the trains out of Leuven finish at around midnight and only start up again around 5:30-6am.

To and from Leuven I meant. I am going to be staying in Leuven and not camping. Thank you for your answer.

AdMMM

Mr.S wrote: »

Just a FYI according the RW site, you'll need a photocopy of the sellers ID plus a written note saying its ok for you use to use the tickets.



You might not be asked for ID but last time I was at Werchter you had to hand up your ID to match your ticket, as did everyone in the queue with me. Better safe then sorry!

The seller was also aware of this condition of transfer and will be providing ID and a letter.

There's a few people starting to post on toutless with tickets but those who got back to me say they've had some many offers that they're selling them for €350!

UsedToWait

AdMMM wrote: »

There's a few people starting to post on toutless with tickets but those who got back to me say they've had some many offers that they're selling them for €350!

Report these price gougers to Toutless admins so they'll be banned - it's called Toutless for a reason

blakina1

I need to buy the official t-shirt for the rock werchter festival for 2009. Any advice please?

AdMMM

Quite a strange request! I saw lots of old memorabilia on eBay recently, but I'm sure you already tried there.

blakina1

I was at the festival in 2009, but my box full of memorabilia (including my t-shirt) was one of the boxes which got lost in transit when I got transferred abroad I did check on ebay....

AdMMM

It says on the email you get with your etickets that:

It is possible to download and print your ticket(s) several times. Keep in mind, however, that only the most recently downloaded tickets are valid as entrance ticket.

However, I just downloaded the tickets twice and compared the two and there's absolutely no difference in the two versions with all the text and even the barcodes being identical!

Is this just something they say to put people off trying to sell their tickets or is there some difference that I'm not seeing?

SteelyDanJalapeno

It's PDF its not gonna magically change after you print it off

AdMMM

But the only way you can access it is by clicking on the link in the email which means that technically they could generate new barcodes with every click. That doesn't seem to be the case however from asking on other forums.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Download the attachment once, its a PDF file, you dont need to keep going back to your email link,

Its just a deterrent for people thinking they can print multiple tickets

Melena

I'm going to Rock Werchter! very excited!

SteelyDanJalapeno

Flying out Thursday morning from Dublin! anyone else going??

Cant wait now!

Randomfriend

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Flying out Thursday morning from Dublin! anyone else going??

Cant wait now!

Myself and Melena are! Getting flights early Wednesday morning, got 5 day camping tickets so setting up shop on Wednesday evening

Melena

We're Bringing a big Irish flag! All Irish should camp around it

SteelyDanJalapeno

We're also bringing an Irish flag, and there's 5 of us too......

What campsite ye headed for?

Randomfriend

TiltedBrain wrote: »

We're also bringing an Irish flag, and there's 5 of us too......

What campsite ye headed for?

Apparently if you camp on Wednesday (which you need a specific ticket for) you can only camp in one of 3 areas so we will be in camp site A2, A3 or A4.

SteelyDanJalapeno

This is true, XL camping, we wont have access to those campsites,

miller82

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Flying out Thursday morning from Dublin! anyone else going??

Cant wait now!

ye me too. think its around 11 or 12 ?????

SteelyDanJalapeno

My flight leaves at like 06:50!