#pukkelpop 2022

[kagamiwalker13]

Cornerstone Pukkelpop 2022

[aurora-daily]

“For the creatives, we started to work with our singer, Aurora. She gave us a lot of input on making this AI-driven dialogue and managing the emotes coming from here. She also wrote the narrative behind each of the songs.We didn’t want to make a concert that was just playing an artist’s songs. We wanted the songs to form a story, and we wanted the story to touch people, to make them cry in a good way. We started to work on a narrative with the artist. We designed the emotional arc in the same way we designed Journey. We designed the metaphor of the concert to be a metaphor about the tension between humanity and nature, the push and pull between nature and people.When we worked with the artist, she would give us the story that she has in mind when she’s making the songs. We wanted to bring her soul onto the stage. A lot of the time I see these rather commercial virtual concerts, and I always feel like the character looks soulless. I don’t really feel like they’re on the stage. In order to make the artist feel like she’s present, I asked her to give us her idea of what the players would do in the stadium. I asked Aurora to give us the narrative that she imagined would happen alongside each of the song. It would have her DNA. Then I would weave these stories together into an emotional arc. We used to worship nature, and we’re the masters of nature now. That’s the narrative. Then we play it out through all of these audience interactions.To me, this is an interactive concert. The audience shouldn’t just sit there and watch. They need to participate in the musical journey. The orange part here is the audience. They represent different aspects of nature throughout the concert. In the end, they become part of nature with Aurora, who represents a goddess of nature. It was a long process to creatively find where we are today. It’s not just a technical challenge. It’s a powerful piece. Emotionally, we were aiming for a high bar.I can show you the climax here, where everybody dies and is brought back to life. They’re like butterflies. This is 3,000 butterflies, and the sun rises, which brings back Aurora, who represents Mother Nature. A lot of people were crying. You can see the emotes from the players. Then we have this giant version of Aurora. Instead of just jumping around, she reaches out and touches you and holds you, like your mother. A lot of the players, when they played this part of the concert, they were crying. It reminds them of their mothers, the love they have.”

Jenova Chen on working with AURORA for Sky’s “Concert in the Light” in  GamesBeat interview (December 26th, 2022)

photos @ Pukkelpop by acalltothedreamers // 20.08.2022 // Hasselt, Belgium

[clubnate]

I am not the anon who followed for cobra and now will accept my fate as a tai fan, but please, please, please explain the connection between The Academy Is and Cobra Starship.

Unabridged is preferred tbh.

i got 2 anons about this and this is literally the thing i'm the most insane about omg ok warning this is gonna be long cause i'm just gonna include everything ive got on my google doc about this

TLDR; same record labels, snakes on a plane, lots of tours together, music videos, webshows and general friendship is the conncection

It starts pre-cobra with midtown. iirc, tai were just fans of midtown pre-tai and in the early days, they're from chicago and came up in the same scene as fob, mike carden (tais guitarists) old band had fob open for them and he was even asked to join fob in an early version of it, so fob, tai and midtown all eventually become friends which is when they met gabe and eventually they toured with midtown twice in 04-05.

2006- midtown dies in 05 and from the ashes rises COBRA STARSHIP. Cobras gets signed to fueled by ramen and decaydance records, which is the same 2 labels as TAI. while gabe's working on the music, tai's bassist, sisky finds out about snakes on a plane and suggested submitting their song to be on the soundtrack. Then william beckett the singer of TAI suggested to gabe that this would be perfect for cobras and he should put a song forward, which he does. Gabe makes some changes to the lyrics, adds william, travie and maja and Bring it (snakes on a plane) was born. (source) Sometime around 2006-2005 gabe briefly featured in the music video for 'the phrase that pays'

2007- things ramp up and they start touring together. Both bands are supporting acts on the honda civic 2007 tour and are featured at 3 separate Decaydance fest shows in Paris, Kohn and London. They also do a series of international festivals together like reading and leeds, pukkelpop, summer sonic, ect AND they do an australia tour just the 2 of them, this was all through summer. At the end of the year cobras jump on TAI's headliner tour, they weren't supposed to butviva la cobra came out earlier than planned so they had no tour to promote it so tai let them open for the last month or so. Both were also apart of the MTVu campus takeover this year. TAI had a webshow and cobra are featured multiple times from 2007-2008, this is actually where they got the idea for cobra cam and even stole TAI's camera man to film it. also somewhere someone released official merch that included cobra, TAI and fob that said 'gabe is not a ynonym for sisky' and they promoted it together.

2008- Both bands are part of the lineup for warped tour this year, snakes was played a lot and when suarez had to leave the tour for a couple days, sisky and the butcher (TAI's drummer) covered for him. TAI's album was released in august and featured backing vocals from Ryland, Alex and Gabe, and every member of cobra is mentioned in the thank yous. Right after warped both bands go to australia and opened for panic at the disco (bonus info: victoria, sisky and ryan went bar hopping for ryans 22nd), then right after they go and do a japan tour with the hush sound and the cab. For welcome to the new administration, suarez remixed TAI's song 'automatic eyes'

2009 onwards- Things slowed down after this. The butcher is briefly featured in the good girls go bad music video. in 2011 both band play at the 15th anniversary of fueled by ramen, this ended up being TAI's last show before they split. After they split, butcher was the drum tech for cobra from 2011-2012. When TAI had a reunion in 2015, suarez played bass for sisky with carly rae jepsen so he could play on their reunion tour. Also around 2015 Gabe and Mike started TAG music together, i think mike has left since then though.

Extras: at every TAI show since their 2022 reunion they have played snakes on a plane, with gabe or without. Gabe also always does backing vocals for the song 'classifieds' if he's there. Sisky used to do travies rap during snakes if he wasn't there, he did it a bunch on warped 2008.

Sisky commented this during cobrakkah in 2021 and i think about it a lot tbh. I think they were just best friends who got to tour the world together in their youth and are still friends and still hold a lot of love for eachother :,)

hope that wasn't too much, i'm pretty sure i covered everything that i know about. Decaydance is my favourite thing so i have a google doc of all their connections so i remember them all :D

something to add would be that TAI are opening for fob on the 3rd in LA and a few cobras live there, so i wouldn't be suprised if they show up for snakes on a plane!

EDIT: if you want photos of any of these things I mentioned I probably have some so please ask! and if you don't want to, search my tag #thepolycule and there's a bunch of photos of decaydance bands hanging out together, including TAI and cobra

[sophaeros]

put on am live at pukkelpop 2022 on the tv and my mom went oh wow who's that fully unironically when alex appeared despite having seen his photo multiple times

and then she said he's much hotter now than when he was younger and i agreed so enthusiastically i accidentally smacked her too hard

[musicandotherstuff]

Arctic Monkeys - Pukkelpop Festival, Belgium

21/08/2022

📸: andrewnester

[album-a-day-project]

6/14/22

Nina Kraviz

Pukkelpop 2022

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Live Set. Pukkelpop is a massive multi-genre music festival in Hasselt, Belgium. The second largest in the country. Slipknot even performed at this festival. The set is pretty hard dance all the way though. Got some good mix of techno and light mix/ups that make it classic Nina. It's exactly what I expected.

6/10

[thelensofyashunews]

CHANNEL TRES RELEASES DEBUT ALBUM HEAD RUSH OUT NOW VIA RCA RECORDS

Channel Tres releases his debut album Head Rush via RCA Records. The album, which features the previously-released singles "Berghain" featuring Barney Bones and "Cactus Water" is the culmination of Channel's steady ascent since he first broke through to public consciousness with his cult-classic debut single "Controller." Head Rush features all of the sounds that have come to be hallmarks of Channel Tres songs, but finds him incorporating musical influences not heard in his prior catalog, as evidenced by "Berghain" and other songs from the album including the Ty Dolla $ign-featuring “Holy Moly,” a visualizer for which is out now. The album arrives on the heels of two recent head-turning Channel Tres collaborations as well -- his contribution to KAYTRANADA's "Drip Sweat" and Jay Worthy, DāM FunK & A-Trak's "105 West" alongside fellow LA legends Ty Dolla $ign and DJ Quik exemplify his versatility. 

Head Rush is a richly layered record, but one that feels totally intuitive, without a trace of doubt or self-consciousness. The way “I’m Him” shimmers is balanced by the Estelle-featuring “We Hungry,” which nearly growls; the spare, percussion-forward Ravyn Lenae duet “Need U 2 Know” (the stylization of its title a nod to Prince, one of Tres’s major influences) at delightful odds with the easy ride of “Gold Daytonas.” Head Rush shows the staggering array of styles Channel Tres can evoke. But that versatility is not the point in and of itself—the point is that all these component parts can be reassembled into something that feels uniquely personal, and honest.

  Through his career, Tres has blended recognizable genres, textures, and points of view into a truly singular form all his own. Longtime listeners will recognize in Head Rush the hallmarks of a Channel Tres record: a mastery of rhythm, the rare ability to make songs sinister and fluorescent at once. But this LP also opens a new sonic world, one rife with unexpected terrain and hairpin turns—see the way “Type” takes what sounds at first to be a simple romantic boundary and stretches it out into an alien landscape. Or take “Berghain,” a song that nods to the kinetic live shows that became must-see events—a crescendo of interest that included his momentous Coachella 2022 performance and culminated, at least symbolically, with his early 2023 set at Berghain, the legendary Berlin club that has long been a musical hub of the Western world. “Berghain” is delirious but thumps almost impossibly hard, in line with the album as a whole—always molting, always ready to turn from the claustrophobic to the communal, as the pivot on “Joyful Noise” accomplishes so seamlessly. Head Rush also features some of Tres’s most deeply felt vocals to date, like the veritable bloodletting on “Two Ways.”   

And so the record, which also features Ty Dolla $ign, Thundercat, Teezo Touchdown, Watr, Barney Bones and Toro y Moi, marks a new era for Channel Tres, personally as well as artistically. “I’m older now, and the things that I’ve accomplished tell me I’m ready to do this,” he says. “You’ve worked your whole life for this, you’ve been able to do these shows and walk into these rooms and make these songs. There’s no reason you have to live by the same insecurity that you had to use in years past.” Shedding that baggage accomplished exactly what it was meant to—lightening the load so we’re free to get heavier than ever.  

Upcoming Live Dates  

7/12 - Calgary, AB @ Badlands 2024  

8/3 - Inglewood, CA @ HARD Summer Music Festival  

8/9 - San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands Festival  

8/16 - London, UK @ All Points East 2024  

8/18 - Hasselt, BEL @ Pukkelpop 2024  

9/13 - Victoria, BC @ Rifflandia 2024  

10/18 - Miami, FL @ III Points 2024  

[explosive-aircooled]

Psycosocial, live at Pukkelpop, in Hasset, Belgium. 2022

[talesofaboardingschool]

MY SHOWS

My tracklist of shows (and festivals) I have attended including: artists, venues, and ticket prices. If you seen any of your favourite artists in this list, my DM's are always open to fangirl together :)

2014 - One Direction + 5 Seconds Of Summer - ArenA Amsterdam - €85

2015 - De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig + Passenger + Christine & The Queens + Ellie Goulding + Black Box Revelation + Bastille + Major Lazer - Pukkelpop (1 day) - €90

2015 - Fall Out Boy + Charley Marley - Forest National - €37

2015 - Oscar and the Wolf + Raving George - Sportpaleis - €45

2016 - Daan + Emma Bale + Zornik + K's Choice - Genk On Stage (1 day) - free

2016 - The Van Jets + Bring Me The Horizon + Black Box Revelation + The Offspring + Rammstein - Rock Werchter (1 day) - €100

2016 - Panic! At The Disco + Tigertown - Ancienne Belgique - €29

2017 - Green Day - Forest National - €55

2017 - Coldplay + AlunaGeorge - King Baudouin Stadium - €81

2017 - Het Zesde Metaal + Mark Lanegan + Prophets Of Rage + Imagine Dragons + Arcade Fire + Kings Of Leon - Rock Werchter (1 day) - €100

2018 - Harry Styles - Sportpaleis - €71

2018 - Fall Out Boy + Against the Current - Forest National - €39

2018 - Tom Walker + The Kooks + Air Traffic + Snow Patrol + Franz Ferdinand + The Killers - Rock Werchter (1 day) - €105

2018 - Triggerfinger + Mark Lanegan + Faces On TV + Portland - Rock Herk (1 day) - €40

2019 - Twenty One Pilots + The Regrettes - Palais 12 - €54

2019 - Panic! At The Disco - Lotto Arena - €39

2019 - Airways + The Maine - Kavka Zappa - €19

2019 - Set It Off + Vukovi - Kavka Oudaan - €17

2019 - Kurt Vile + Weezer + Bring Me The Horizon + Our Last Night + The Cure - Rock Werchter (1 day) - €110

2019 - Gruppo Di Pawlowski + dEUS + Warhola + Novastar + The Van Jets - Rock Herk (1 day) - €40

2019 - I Don't Know How But They Found Me + Billie Eilish + A Day To Remember + Anderson. Paak + Prophets Of Rage + Twenty One Pilots - Pukkelpop (1 day) - €100

2020 - The Maine + Stand Atlantic - Kavka Oudaan - €20

2020 - Melanie Martinez - Ancienne Belgique - €42

2022 - Franz Ferdinand + Pip Blom - Cirque Royal - €43

2022 - 5 Seconds Of Summer + Hinds (VIP) - Palais 12 - €152

2022 - dEUS + Rhea + The Sore Losers + Mogwai + The Vaccines + De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig + Ramkot + School is Cool + Portland + Noordkaap - Rock Herk (2 days) - €66

2022 - Rammstein + Duo Abélard - Park De Nieuwe Koers - €89

2022 - Whispering Sons + The Vaccines + Kings Of Leon - Lokerse Feesten (1 day) - €60

2022 - Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - De Roma - €24 (free)

2022 - Set It Off + Weathers (VIP) - Kavka Zappa - €94

2023 - Maneskin - Forest National - €65

2023 - Core Festival (1 day) - €80 (free)

2023 - Pretenders - De Roma - €35 (free)

PLANNED SHOWS

2023 - Harry Styles - Werchter - €95

2023 - Rock Werchter (4 days) - €292

2023 - The Vaccines - Cactusfestival (1 day) - €68

2023 - Blur - Lokerse Feesten (1 day) - €70

[alexturner]

[partynthem]

arctic monkeys @ pukkelpop (21 august 2022)

[kagamiwalker13]

Cornerstone Pukkelpop 2022

[alexturner2005]

Arctic Monkeys @ Pukkelpop Festival 21 August 2022, By ralpheusdj

[philodendron-hederaceum]

cavetown's Pukkelpop 2022 bio. robert?? lmao

[theageoftheunderstatement]

Arctic Monkeys at Pukkelpop Festival, 21/08/2022. (Photos by Alexey Sekachov)

[i-m-a-leaf-on-the-wind]

Dancing Alex 😎

Pretty Visitors - Pukkelpop [21-08-2022] By JuleFranzz on Twitter