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Event Information:
The
Pukkelpop festival is an annual
music festival which takes place
near the city of Hasselt, Belgium in
mid-to-late August. It is held
within a large enclosure of fields
and woodland, between a dual
carriageway called Kempische
Steenweg, in the village of Kiewit,
approximately 7 km north of Hasselt.
It is the second largest music
festival in the country after Rock
Werchter, with an attendance rate of
180,000 over the course of the event
in 2009.
The
programme is noted for its wide
variety of alternative music,
spanning styles such as rock, pop,
electronic, dance, hip-hop, punk and
heavy metal. The event's organisers
aim the festival to be a
"progressive and contemporary"
musical event.[2] Notable acts that
have performed at previous editions
include Sonic Youth, The Mission,
Ramones, Nirvana, The Sisters of
Mercy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil
Young, The Smashing Pumpkins,
Radiohead, Metallica, Green Day,
Guns N' Roses, Pixies, Daft Punk,
The Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails and
Iron Maiden. The term "pukkel" is
the Dutch word for "pimple". The
festival will return in , with
Eminem, Foo Fighters and The
Offspring among the headlining acts.
In
1991, the festival moved to its
current home in Kiewit. In its first
year, the event took place on the
grounds of the children's petting
farm (Dutch: Kinderboerderij)
located in the village. Ramones
headlined on a bill which included
Nirvana, who performed at the
festival a month prior to the
release of the group's breakthrough
album Nevermind. In 1992, the
festival site was moved to the
fields by the Kempische Steenweg
motorway, where it has been held
ever since.
In 1993, a new indoor stage called
The Marquee was added, supplementing
the outdoor Main Stage and almost
doubling the amount of performers
over the previous year. A second
indoor stage, the Dance Hall, was
added in 1994. In 1995, for the
festival's ten year anniversary, the
event became a two-day event for the
first time, with Neil Young and The
Smashing Pumpkins as the headlining
acts. The festival also reached a
peak in attendees at 60,000.
Pukkelpop provides free camping
facilities to attendees. The camping
site lies on one side of Kempische
Steenweg, with the main event
grounds located directly on the
other, and is opened on the day
prior to the commencement of the
event. Traffic guards are
implemented in order to direct
traffic and attendees during the
festival period. To incentivise use
of public transport, an outward
return trip within Belgium to
Hasselt or Kiewit on the NMBS/SNCB
train network or on the De Lijn bus
network is included with all ticket
types. A free shuttle bus, which
runs regularly during the festival
period, is also provided to-and-from
Hasselt train station and the
festival site in Kiewit. There are
two ticket types available: day
tickets, which provide access to one
of the three days of the event, and
"combi" tickets, which provide
access to all three days of the
festival.
Line up for Pukkelpop :
Thursday 16 August
BJÖRK
SNOOP DOGG
BLOC PARTY
NETSKY LIVE
SANTIGOLD
FEIST
MARK LANEGAN BAND
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM
BUSH
NERO DJ SET
APOCALYPTICA
LAURENT GARNIER LBS FEATURING SCAN X
NICOLAS JAAR LIVE
HOT CHIP
SOCIAL DISTORTION
SUB FOCUS (LIVE)
MODESTEP
FLUX PAVILION
BORGORE
ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES
TINIE TEMPAH
MODESELEKTOR
DADA LIFE
tUnE-yArDs
THE HORRORS
EXAMPLE
DIRTYPHONICS
ZORNIK
OF MONSTERS AND MEN
LIANNE LA HAVAS
RUSTIE LIVE
HIGH CONTRAST FEAT. JESSY ALLEN &
DYNAMITE MC
FRANK OCEAN
STEAK NUMBER EIGHT
THE BIG PINK
GHOSTPOET
VIVE LA FÊTE
DORIAN CONCEPT
LABRINTH
DJANGO DJANGO
DE MENS
ISBELLS
MINUS THE BEAR
CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN
CHROMATICS
ALT-J
YOUNG GUNS
ALBERTA CROSS
RIZZLE KICKS
THE BONY KING OF NOWHERE & FRIENDS
THE BOTS
BLEED FROM WITHIN
KOAN SOUND
NO CEREMONY///
SCNTST
THE ZOMBIE KIDS
BOWERBIRDS
MUMBAI SCIENCE
THE JEZABELS
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT
CLOUD NOTHINGS
THE COMPUTERS
GREAT MOUNTAIN FIRE
TOUCHÉ AMORÉ
NOBODY BEATS THE DRUM
BED RUGS
MAD ABOUT MOUNTAINS
WHITE RABBITS
TLP
CLOUDS ON ELEKTRICITY
GLENN CLAES
STAY+
FRIDAY 17 August
THE STONE ROSES
LYKKE LI
KEANE
THE AFGHAN WHIGS
CHASE & STATUS DJ SET AND RAGE
DIGITALISM LIVE
MARTIN SOLVEIG EAGLES OF DEATH METAL
BILLY TALENT
GRANDADDY
ANDY C: ALIVE
KNIFE PARTY
BAND OF SKULLS
TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB
JAMES BLAKE DJ
MAXÏMO PARK
JAMIE WOON
GOOD RIDDANCE
CROOKERS
CARL CRAIG PRESENTS 69 LIVE
GOOSE
SAM SPARRO
CAMO & KROOKED LIVE
CHARLES BRADLEY & HIS
EXTRAORDINAIRES
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH
BLOOD RED SHOES
SEBASTIAN LIVE
FINK
JAKWOB LIVE
CUSTOMS
APPARAT BAND
FREAKY AGE
GORKI
BASSNECTAR
JOY ORBISON
BRODINSKI
EVERY TIME I DIE
LEN FAKI (FIGURE, OSTGUT TON,
BERLIN, GERMANY)
LETLIVE.
CANCER BATS
KAP BAMBINO
HESSLE AUDIO DJ SET (BEN UFO -
PEARSON SOUND - PANGAEA)
BARONESS
SKINDRED
WALLACE VANBORN
SOUND OF STEREO LIVE
MERDAN TAPLAK
THE WALKMEN
NINA KRAVIZ
WILLIS EARL BEAL
O' BROTHER
DOG IS DEAD
DEAF HAVANA
DOORLY
BRETON
YASHIN
WE ARE AUGUSTINES
FRIENDS
DRIVE LIKE MARIA
OBERHOFER
WILLY MOON
VONDELPARK
THE ME IN YOU
COM TRUISE
REIZIGER
POLLYN
EPTIC
AKS LIVE
RAVING GEORGE
GEPPETTO & THE WHALES
ZULU WINTER
FIDLAR
HONG KONG DONG
TRASH RADIO
MISS POLSKA
SATURDAY 18 August
FOO FIGHTERS
THE BLACK KEYS
THE HIVES
MAGNETIC MAN
A-TRAK
WILCO
REFUSED
DIZZEE RASCAL
THE SHINS
MIIKE SNOW
ALL TIME LOW
MAJOR LAZER
BURAKA SOM SISTEMA
TIGA
ENTER SHIKARI
DIPLO
OFWGKTA
BALTHAZAR
JACQUES LU CONT
BENGA LIVE
THE CRIBS
GESAFFELSTEIN (LIVE)
THE VAN JETS
GHOST
THE JOY FORMIDABLE
FOUR TET LIVE
SLEIGH BELLS
MS. DYNAMITE
SX
AMATORSKI
THE JIM JONES REVUE
STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS
JEF NEVE ‘SONS OF THE NEW WORLD’
GRAVEYARD
FEED ME
BOB MOULD PERFORMS 'COPPER BLUE'
THE ANTLERS
C2C
TRASH TALK
PATRICK WATSON
DIABLO BLVD.
FENCE
MARCO Z
PULLED APART BY HORSES
DRY THE RIVER
LOADSTAR LIVE
BLAWAN
KISS THE ANUS OF A BLACK CAT
TROUMACA
DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL
DAUGHTER
GEMINI
JESSIE WARE
JAMIE N COMMONS
CEREMONY
HOWLER
FLYING HORSEMAN
P MONEY
LOWER DENS
DILLON FRANCIS
COEM
LIGHT ASYLUM
EGO TROOPERS
DISCLOSURE LIVE
OSCAR & THE WOLF
MAN WITHOUT COUNTRY
ED & KIM
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