Friday = "new names for Rock Werchter" day. Today we have 6 more acts to add to the already well-filled Rock Werchter 2015 line-up. New for Thursday 25 June: Patti Smith and her band perform Horses. On Friday 26 June Ibeyi is expected on stage in Werchter. Other Lives are added to the programme of Saturday 27 June and Gabriel Rios, The Vaccines and Jessie J will be performing at the festival on Sunday 28 June. There is one change to the programme: ILoveMakonnen will be present on Saturday 27 June and not on Sunday 28 June as previously announced. More news will follow next week.
The acts announced so far for Rock Werchter 2015 are:
- Thursday 25 June: Caribou, Chet Faker, Elbow, First Aid Kit, Florence + the Machine, Foo Fighters, Hot Chip, James Bay, Jungle, Oscar and The Wolf, Patti Smith and her band perform Horses, Rise Against, The Chemical Brothers, Years & Years
- Friday 26 June: alt-J, Archive, BADBADNOTGOOD, Balthazar, Ben Howard, Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, Death Cab For Cutie, FKA twigs, Gavin James, Ibeyi, Kwabs, Mumford & Sons, Of Monsters and Men, Pharrell Williams, Róisín Murphy, The Cat Empire
- Saturday 27 June: Angus and Julia Stone, Damien Rice, Dotan, Hozier, ILoveMakonnen, Kid Ink, Lenny Kravitz, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Other Lives, Royal Blood, Sam Smith, Seinabo Sey, The Prodigy, The War On Drugs
- Sunday 28 June: Alabama Shakes, Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, Christine and the Queens, Counting Crows, Die Antwoord, Enter Shikari, Fink, Gabriel Rios, Jessie J, Kasabian, Muse, The Script, The Vaccines
Rock Werchter 2015 runs from Thursday 25 June to Sunday 28 June. Tickets are on sale via ticketmaster.be. There are no more one day tickets available for Thursday 25 June. Other festivaltickets (combi and one day tickets for Friday, Saturday or Sunday) are still on sale. Detailed ticket information is available at rockwerchter.be.