Festival season is coming in quickly, and we are less than a month away from Rock Werchter in Belgium. This year, the festival will celebrate its 50th anniversary! From July 3rd until July 6th, several stages will be filled with artists from all over the world. With Linkin Park, Green Day, Sam Fender and Olivia Rodrigo as headliners, the line-up looks like nothing less than one giant party.
Spread out over four days and four stages, guests will be able to pick and choose who they want to see from exactly 100 artists. With about 1/3rd of the line-up either being a female artist or a band with a female member, they are definitely one of the more representative alternative festivals out there. There will be something for everyone to enjoy, no matter if you’re coming for the older generation of rock bands like Green Day and Weezer or for the pop icons of the present like Dasha and Girl In Red.
With it being 50 years since the first Rock Werchter back in 1975, the festival will be closing with 2manydjs. This brother duo has a special past with the festival, playing it 13 times in three different forms: 2manydjs, Soulwax and Flying Dewaele Brothers. This year they will also perform as Soulwax on the Sunday and then end the whole festival as 2manydjs.
While the day tickets for Thursday, Friday and Sunday are sold out, you can still get your hands on day tickets for Saturday (€137) or the combi ticket, which includes the whole festival (€312). If you’re still interested in one of the sold-out day tickets, you can sign up for the waiting list. Everything you need to know about the tickets can be found here.
Being more sustainable is one of the things that Rock Werchter can be proud of, offering multiple options for people to get to the grounds with the lowest environmental impact. An example of this is the fact that every ticket includes a public transport ticket to get to the festival and go back home by train or the designated festival bus. They also have special low-cost night trains running to Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent. If you live nearby and want to come by bike, they offer free and secure parking spots to leave your bike safely. On both the festival grounds and backstage, they are already well on their way to recycling all, if not most, of the waste that is generated. The campsites usually leave the most waste afterwards, so this year, the festival goers who want to lend a hand with cleaning up can receive rewards for their work. The curious reader can read all about their ways to make the festival more green here. Along with this, the festival also shared its sustainability report for the 2024 edition, which you can find here.
Don’t forget to follow the festival on their Instagram and head over to their site for all the information.
Written by: Sabine de Graaf
Edited by: Marieke Weeda
