New names!

The hunting season has been opened! The hunt for festival stages can start. As usual, Pukkelpop lets loose more musical game just before the start of the season.

Lots of cooperation projects can be discovered on the list of new names. Broken Bells, the wonderful, brand-new project of Shins frontman James Mercer and Gnarls Barkley chief, Danger Mouse, will be in Belgium for the first time. A new Belgian act to look forward to is Radical Slave, the no wave project of Mauro Pawlowski, Dirk ‘Buscemi’ Swartenbroekx and Remo Perotti. Another great new act is Broken Glass Heroes, the group in which Pascal Deweze and Tim Vanhamel demonstrate their love for sixties and seventies pop. It will be their big premiere at Pukkelpop.

Pukkelpop continues to present young talent. Tame Impala, marvellously psychedelic, and I Blame Coco, the electro-pop project of Sting’s daughter will make their first appearance at the festival. Jack Parow will import mad hip-hop from vuvuzela country South Africa. From the States we have the terrific indie rattle rock of Harlem and the nice New Yorkers of We Are Scientists. The promising UK bands Villagers, Airship, Wallis Bird and Twin Atlantic will perform before a Belgian audience for the first time.
The fantastic Selah Sue has listed Pukkelpop among the small number of festivals at which she’ll play this summer, which pleases us very much. Later that day she will act as MC for the AKS dubsteppers. Our Hasselt friends Mint will present their new record and Kill Frenzy will start up the Boiler on Saturday. Partyharders feat. Highbloo will do likewise on Friday. The Sunpower punkers will kick off The Shelter. Long live Belgium!

Please note the following changes. The shows of Skindred and The Go Find have been moved to Thursday 19 August.

For those of you who can’t wait preparing for Pukkelpop, the day-to-day schedule will be online starting today.