Ah yes, it’s that time of the year again where we feel our intestines start to weaken at the thought of three more days of drinking, eating junkfood (by choice not because there isn’t anything healthy to eat) and listening to loud music. In other words, it’s Pukkelpop time! This year it will all take place on August 14-16 at the same place it always does, Kiewit.
Thursday is not only a great band, it’s also the day when the action begins. And how! We will kick the day off with the ridiculously catchy indierock of The Pigeon Detectives, to be followed immediately by the scathing hardcore attack that listens to the name Have Heart. They will be playing at The Shelter. No, this is not the zillionth Pukkelpop stage. It is the revamped version of the Skate Stage.
Next up is the first of many difficult choices... do we go for The Cribs or the new sensation that is Santogold. We don’t know yet but we will hopefully when the time comes. Any way, we will be washing a burger down with a beer or two after that while enjoying the not so soothing sounds of either The Unseen or Danko Jones. We have never seen The Unseen before which is why they are The Unseen. Once we have seen them they will have to disband or change their name. We have however already seen Danko Jones countless times yet he always plays an amazing show... second hard choice of the weekend!
Next on our lists is a mix of old and new(er) with Joan As Police Woman, the anthemic folkpunk of Dropkick Murphys, Serj Tankian (System Of A Down frontman for those of you living in a cave), maybe a little bit of Black Light Burns (Wes Borland’s latest project), the honest alt-country of Drive-By Truckers or – like last year – Editors and a spoken word performance by Henry Rollins. Not to mention that we would also like to see The Flaming Lips, Thrice and The Ting Tings. Which would make this difficult choice 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 respectively. By then it’s already Friday technically speaking and to wake us up a little for the drive home, we plan on watching Soulfly tear it up and then find our way back home without tearing anything up. After all, we will still have two more days to go!
On Friday we get to sleep in a little and enjoy a healthy (or not so) breakfast because the first band we want to see is Cult Of Luna. After that things will no doubt become hectic again with Los Campesinos, Cold War Kids and the Canadian skatepunks A Wilhelm Scream. Oh, and Volbeat. Unless they have another death in the family and have to cancel their show again like at Graspop. Let’s hope not for their and our sake.
Time for dinner is planned in next because even tireless rock journalists need some fuel. And beer. It’ll either be a noisy night with Metallica and Meshuggah playing or we can go for the double attack of Lanegan and Dulli (The Gutter Twins) which is a little more quiet as are Alkaline Trio, Tokyo Police Club or the nervous twitchy rock of The Futureheads. By then we will have no doubt lost count of the amount of difficult choices. Oh well, as long as there is enough beer to wash down the occasional attack of sorrow we should make it just fine.
We would probably like to keep things a little more quiet on day number three but the people at Pukkelpop didn’t take that into account and so they planned a lot more cool acts for the final day of Pukkelpop. How about showing some Belgian pride? God knows we can need in a time where we don’t even have a government. Luckily for us we do have some excellent bands and they all seem to gather at Pukkelpop: Black Box Revelation, Monza, The Hickey Underworld, Soulwax and so on... they’re all gonna be there.
Thursday is not only a great band, it’s also the day when the action begins. And how! We will kick the day off with the ridiculously catchy indierock of The Pigeon Detectives, to be followed immediately by the scathing hardcore attack that listens to the name Have Heart. They will be playing at The Shelter. No, this is not the zillionth Pukkelpop stage. It is the revamped version of the Skate Stage.
Next up is the first of many difficult choices... do we go for The Cribs or the new sensation that is Santogold. We don’t know yet but we will hopefully when the time comes. Any way, we will be washing a burger down with a beer or two after that while enjoying the not so soothing sounds of either The Unseen or Danko Jones. We have never seen The Unseen before which is why they are The Unseen. Once we have seen them they will have to disband or change their name. We have however already seen Danko Jones countless times yet he always plays an amazing show... second hard choice of the weekend!
Next on our lists is a mix of old and new(er) with Joan As Police Woman, the anthemic folkpunk of Dropkick Murphys, Serj Tankian (System Of A Down frontman for those of you living in a cave), maybe a little bit of Black Light Burns (Wes Borland’s latest project), the honest alt-country of Drive-By Truckers or – like last year – Editors and a spoken word performance by Henry Rollins. Not to mention that we would also like to see The Flaming Lips, Thrice and The Ting Tings. Which would make this difficult choice 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 respectively. By then it’s already Friday technically speaking and to wake us up a little for the drive home, we plan on watching Soulfly tear it up and then find our way back home without tearing anything up. After all, we will still have two more days to go!
On Friday we get to sleep in a little and enjoy a healthy (or not so) breakfast because the first band we want to see is Cult Of Luna. After that things will no doubt become hectic again with Los Campesinos, Cold War Kids and the Canadian skatepunks A Wilhelm Scream. Oh, and Volbeat. Unless they have another death in the family and have to cancel their show again like at Graspop. Let’s hope not for their and our sake.
Time for dinner is planned in next because even tireless rock journalists need some fuel. And beer. It’ll either be a noisy night with Metallica and Meshuggah playing or we can go for the double attack of Lanegan and Dulli (The Gutter Twins) which is a little more quiet as are Alkaline Trio, Tokyo Police Club or the nervous twitchy rock of The Futureheads. By then we will have no doubt lost count of the amount of difficult choices. Oh well, as long as there is enough beer to wash down the occasional attack of sorrow we should make it just fine.
We would probably like to keep things a little more quiet on day number three but the people at Pukkelpop didn’t take that into account and so they planned a lot more cool acts for the final day of Pukkelpop. How about showing some Belgian pride? God knows we can need in a time where we don’t even have a government. Luckily for us we do have some excellent bands and they all seem to gather at Pukkelpop: Black Box Revelation, Monza, The Hickey Underworld, Soulwax and so on... they’re all gonna be there.
As are the psychedelic rockers from Black Mountain, the fun lovin’ skapunks that make up Less Than Jake, the slightly dramatic Dresden Dolls or the hype of the last months, MGMT. You like more reputed and subdued names? Well, how about Manic Street Preachers, Elbow, Bloc Party and Sigur Ros? Or what’s that? You say fuck subdued? Alright, for those who like things a little louder than their parents there’s always As I Lay Dying, Neurosis or the reigning kings of metalcore, Killswitch Engage.
Whatever it is that gets your panties in a bunch, you are sure to find it at Pukkelpop. We will be there and no doubt so will you!
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