Pukkelpop '07

honru · 12-05-2007 09:14PM

If you arrive the morning the festival begins, expect to be in the rear end of the field.

Last year I arrived during the evening the night before and I was at the halfway point pretty much. It does fill up fast, though it's quite a wide field. You shouldn't be walking for too long.

honru · 13-05-2007 06:51PM

It's funny, the Belgians I talked to think €130 is expensive. That and the fact that the festival has never been a sell out... madness.

robotfridge · 15-05-2007 10:38PM

Yeah my rough guess-timate for the festival is 140 (ticket) + 70E (flights) plus 100E spending money. Thats 310e and im headin into brussels after for 2 days and stayin in ahostel for 25e a night, right in the city centre!
Im flying into brussels on the wed morning then heading to the festival that evening, so we'll have a day to set up and start drinking.
For 6 days of fun thats a great price
I cant wait now!

MikeHoncho · 16-05-2007 11:12AM

100 euro spending money!! I knew I was an alco.

robotfridge · 17-05-2007 06:04PM

There's now a news section on the site. Interesting!
I have now convinced 7 of my mates to come as well, it started with only 3 of us going.
Do you pay for drink tickets in the festival or something, is it the same with food?

honru · 17-05-2007 06:48PM

robotfridge wrote:

Do you pay for drink tickets in the festival or something, is it the same with food?

Yep. One drink ticket for €1 and drinks are €2. Bear in mind they are half pints... or slightly smaller than half pints.

The absolute worst thing about this festival imo (and probably gripe I have) is that they don't provide free drinking water. Shít, I had to go to the ambulance tent previously 'cos I was so dehydrated, thankfully they had water there.

But a little cup of water (the pure stuff) will set you back €2.

Same for food, one food ticket for €1 with typical festival food prices on offer.

honru · 18-05-2007 04:37PM

Did they have taps at Rock Werchter? I couldn't remember them having any.

honru · 19-05-2007 10:25PM

Maybe I wasn't looking in the right places. There were campsite taps but the water wasn't suitable for drinking, or so the signs there said.

There should be a new announcement on Tuesday, and I'll probably have my flights booked by then.

robotfridge · 21-05-2007 02:56PM

f®eak s&#169 wrote: »

There should be a new announcement on Tuesday, and I'll probably have my flights booked by then.

How do you get all this info freak scenery? I can't find out much until its on the site.
You should be proud of yourself lol

robotfridge · 23-05-2007 09:19PM

cheers

honru · 26-05-2007 01:53AM

New announcement! Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., The Shins... plus, it would "appear" that Kaiser Chiefs are headlining, hopefully there will be something better on at the time.

Day breakdown online aswell.

robotfridge · 26-05-2007 11:11AM

yeah im hoping therell be someone decent on when kaiser chiefs appear on stage too...

eoinmul · 29-05-2007 03:33PM

Really looking forward to this. So many acts I wanna see. Has anyone bought tickets from the proximusgoformusic site before? I wanna book my ticket but I'm worried about them delivering to Ireland. Can anyone appease my fears?

eoinmul · 29-05-2007 06:42PM

#Elites wrote:

i used them before, their safe:)

"proximus" is like Vodafone

Cool, thanks. Belgium here I come

dirtydress · 31-05-2007 02:25PM

Really want to go to this but a bit worried about booking tickets online, the proximus site is only in dutch or french http://www.proximusgoformusic.be/nl/index.php?home=y, can't seem to find an english option..am I just blind or do you all speak fluent french/dutch?!!

dirtydress · 31-05-2007 03:42PM

^ Thanks so much, that's great must keep it bookmarked and get on to the interrailing posse!! Lifesaver!

honru · 06-06-2007 11:30PM

Want to book the flights but really need to know what the bus situation is. I've actually had to put up a post on the Rock Werchter forum since the information seems to be completely nonexistant. Or in complicated Dutch.

MikeHoncho · 07-06-2007 10:39AM

f®eak s&#169 wrote: »

Want to book the flights but really need to know what the bus situation is. I've actually had to put up a post on the Rock Werchter forum since the information seems to be completely nonexistant. Or in complicated Dutch.

Hi Freaks. What exactly do you mean by Bus situation? If you fly in to Charloi there is a return bus for 20 Euro to Brussels central. From there you just hop on a train which is included in the price of your festival ticket to Hasselt. If you fly in to Brussels airport im pretty sure you can get a train straight to the festival from there. If you are planning to fly into Holland first im not too sure what the situation is.

honru · 07-06-2007 11:05AM

MikeHoncho wrote:

If you are planning to fly into Holland first im not too sure what the situation is.

That's what I'm doing.

There were definetly buses between Eindhoven and Hasselt last year, but since my buddy and I will need to avail of them before the festival period, I'd like to be sure there's a regular service before booking flights and a hotel.

And just so you know, if you're flying to Charleroi, all the transport you should have to pay for is the aiport transfer to the train station. From there on, once on the train, travelling is free within the festival dates.

MikeHoncho · 07-06-2007 12:14PM

Yeah when I was there last year I remember a load of Irish lads who had been to Eindhoven for "supplies". They said it was easy enough to get their and back and one of my mates even contemplated heading early on the Thursday for an hour. The train included in your ticket thing is brilliant. You would never see that kind of sensible thinking at festivals over here. The only bad thing is queing for the trains home on the sunday morning. So far I have a group of 10 people confimed to go but could end up with about 20 by August. Should be a great weekend.

robotfridge · 07-06-2007 06:00PM

more bands announced. chris cornell and a few others in it

honru · 07-06-2007 09:32PM

MikeHoncho wrote:

Yeah when I was there last year I remember a load of Irish lads who had been to Eindhoven for "supplies". They said it was easy enough to get their and back and one of my mates even contemplated heading early on the Thursday for an hour.

Yea, I'm sure there will be buses during the festival period but since I plan to head down to Hasselt on the Tuesday night, I'd like to make sure.

Sonic Youth are playing Daydream Nation in full at this, which is cool since I didn't get to catch the last half of it at Primavera Sound.

honru · 07-06-2007 11:14PM

**** it, just booked flights there... wanted to get in on the Ryanair €20 off sale. Oddly enough the Charleroi flights around the dates are still way cheap, like €75 return w/ taxes. The Eindhoven flights however, are just going up and up. In the end I paid €130 round trip.

Third time at Pukkelpop, looking forward to it.

honru · 14-06-2007 12:29AM

Good stuff, we should have a meet.

You'll find a camping spot... somewhere. It's a big field.

There are small supermarkets around Kiewit but you'd probably want to leave an hour spare with the amount of walking involved. You could always stock up in Hasselt before hand, which would probably be a better idea since the nearer you are to the festival, the more likely the local shopkeeps have shamelessly hiked up their prices.

I think the music starts between 11:00 and 12:00.

honru · 18-06-2007 07:30PM

#Elites wrote:

Fre@k, whats the deal with drink on the campsites? doesn't really explain it on the site, like can we bring as much as we want /glass?

I'm pretty certain you can bring in as much as you want, but deffo no to glass, and they will search your bag.

New bands and stage breakdown are online. And the Chateau is back!

Looks like the worst of the clashing will be on the Thursday.

MikeHoncho · 19-06-2007 12:49PM

Yeah it all looks a bit clashtastic but if I remember rightly from last year they kind of spread the bands out time wise pretty well. So there might be a forty minute gap between NIN and Tool in which you could nip off and catch a bit of Sonc Youth etc.

Eagles of Death Metal second band on Thursday great way to kick start the festival:D

honru · 19-06-2007 04:50PM

It certainly has one of the nicest timetables of the European festivals. Sets don't have the tendency to overlap with one another; when an act finishes up on one stage the next act starts on another, etc. You'll still have to decide between the acts on the stages that clash however, but at least you can watch their whole set without missing the next batch of acts.

You should definetly be able to see all of Sonic Youth between Nine Inch Nails and Tool as the Marquee and Main Stage don't clash, at least in the two previous years I've gone.

MikeHoncho · 19-06-2007 05:31PM

Line up with stages below. There should be much more to come so I expect to see this move about and change a bit over the next 2 months.

Thursday

Main Stage
Silversun Pickups
Eagles Of Death Metal
Editors
Fallout Boy
Ozark Henry
Basement Jaxx
Iggy and the Stooges
Kaiser Chiefs

Marquee
Seasick Steve
The Cribs
Im From Barcelona
Gogol Bordello
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Devendra Banhart

Dance Hall
Bonde Do Role
Boys Noize
Gildas & Masaya
The Go! Team
Riton
Zombie Nation
Digitalism
Dizzee Rascal
MIA

Skate Stage
Peter Pan Speedrock
The Draft
The Fire
The Blackout
Ignite
La Coka Nostra
Soulfly

Boiler
Deetron
Dominik Eulberg
The Glimmers
Sebastion
Tiga

Club
Lo-Fi-funk
Polytechnic
1990’s
The Pigeon Detectives
Just Jack
Jamie T
Battles
Low

Chateau
Apse
Liars
Jack Penate
My Brightest Diamond
Balkan Beat Box
Architecture In Helsinki

Wablief
Toman
Rye Jehu
Arquttes
Larsson
The Blackbox Reveleation
Fixkes
Sharko

Friday

Main Stage
Within Temptation
The Hives
Chris Cornell
Arcade Fire
The Smashing Pumpkins

Marquee
Nosfell
Art Brut
Biffy Clyro
The View
Flip Kowlier
The Rifles
Badly Drawn Boy
Sophia
Dinosaur Junior

Dance Hall
****disco
Matthew Dears Big Hands
Black Strobe
CSS
Laurent Garnier
Groove Armada

Skate Stage
Star****er
Cobra Starship
The Academy is…
Beatsteaks
The Black Dahlia Murder
Brand New
Funeral For A Friend
Juliette And The Licks
Turbonegro

Boiler
Cajuan
Uffie & DJ Feadz
DJ Markz
MSTRKRFT
James Holden
DJ Jazzy Jeff
Collabs 3000

Club
Bedouin Soundclash
Devotchka
The Besnard Lakes
The Enemy
Matt And Kim
Pop Levi
The Noisettes
Patrick Wolf
Alex Gopher

Chateau
Milanese
Apparat
Skream
Fujiya & Miyagi
Fridge
Various
Von Sudenfed

Wablief
Prima Donkey
Jerboa
Dez Mona
Mud Flow
El Guapo Stuntteam
Triggerfinger
Henry Rollins

Saturday

Main Stage
Lacuna Coil
The Streets
Kings Of Leon
Nine Inch Nails
Tool

Marquee
Hellogoodbye
The Rakes
Albert Hammond Jr
Silverchair
The Shins
CocRosie
LCD Soundsystem
Sonic Youth

Dance Hall
New Young Pony Club
Nid & Sancy
Tanya Stephens
Booka Shade
Trentemoller
Justice
Cassius
Erol Alkan
Goose

Skate Stage
Heavy Heavy Low Low
Morda
The End
Fear Before The March Of Flames
From Autumn Too Ashes
Mad Caddies
Enter Shikari

Boiler
Denis Ferrer
Agoria vs Oxia
DJ 4T4
Goldie
Andy C
Armand Van Helden
Felix Da Housecat

Club
Home Video
Voxtrot
Tokyo Police Club
Broomheads Jacket
The Whitest Boy Alive
The Sounds
…And You Will Know Us By Trail Of Dead

Château
The Bony King Of Nowhere
Arbouretum
Patrick Watson
Loney, dear
Hanne Hukkelerg
Spoon
Rilo Kiley
Woven Hand

Wablief
Soapstarter
White Circle Crime Club
Hollywood Porn Stars
The Tellers
Krakow
Absynthe Minded

honru · 19-06-2007 06:07PM

If there's an average of 8 acts per stage then there's about 20-25 names left to be announced I reckon.

honru · 23-06-2007 09:00PM

Yea, on the Wednesday they will open the dance section of the festival site for what they call "Boiler Parties". In fact throughout the festival the Boiler tent will keep going after all the other stages have finished up. Like, until 5am or so.

Pukkelpop '07

Comments