Een bloemlezing van de voorspellingen van Ken19:
No Metallica for Graspop.
Metallica will happen, some day. Herman will fix that before Metallica announces their retirement. But not this year.
Just to make some things clear. Graspop is a live nation festival. The biggest bands are booked by Herman and his crew. Sometimes you have a band that’s possible on both festivals. Like Tool. But after years of lobbying and hard work, it’s obvious that they wanted Tool back in Werchter. In the Future they will play Graspop, they were an option for this year, but they will focus on the arena tour.
A perfect circle was not touring in 2018 in the Werchter weekend. Do the math..
A big band that is worth the delay ...
The big band (reason of the delay), earlier mentioned, is not in the announcement. Hopefully they follow one of the next weeks.
No RATM for GMM normally. But bigger size than the usual headliners.
Hi - not my usual thread, but why is there a thought of AC DC for GP? Cause 2 of the most trustworthy insiders Ken19 and Kusy said they'll be there That is something that i have never said
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Sunday they have 4 potential ms2 headliners: deftones, disturbed, the offspring and deep purple.
I expect a smaller, cheaper, headliner this day. Nightwish is a realistic option.
On Friday they have room for a very big name.
Bob Schoenmaekers, the man who is coordinating the program of Graspop, said in multiple interviews that one of his dreams was booking Motley Crue. In 2009 it happened, but they were not professional (Vince Neill arrived drunk), really crashed the backstage (old school), had problems with Graspop crew... and their show was not that good.
Never again he said.
No Volbeat for Graspop normally. I’ve expected them there but their agent wants to do something else next summer.
It looks like SOAD is the sunday headliner of Hellfest.
And if so, no SOAD for GMM.
SOAD will only play as a MS1 headliner/closing act on Graspop. Werchter is something else, bigger festival, more visitors...
You can not compare these two.
On Sunday they will have a strong line up with a lot of big acts, and a smaller headliner. Faith No More is perfect. On Saturday you will have the same situation. They will ad some strong names there. On friday you have normally the big headliner. That was the situation more than a week ago.
Why no SOAD on Graspop. A combination of some things. Better offer from other festivals the same weekend? A little bit too expensive (because they already have Maiden and the unknown big name)? They choose to play Werchter, because they loved it in 2017? Herman was happy about 2017 and wanted them back? No idea...
You think [RATM] might still play some shows in Europe over the summer? Yeah, there is something going on. But that is with so many artists, and sometimes something is very close (Coldplay) and finally doesn't happen anyway. Vampire Weekend on Rock Werchter last year for example. Or Roger Waters on TW Classic some years ago (divorce issues).
SOAD and Judas Priest play together on sunday, so I still hope they do the same at Graspop on saturday... No
Als we Ken mogen geloven, lijkt AC/DC dus misschien wel de beste papieren te hebben om die headline-positie op vrijdag in te vullen.