The Hives
Whether or not we had been already awake at this early hour, The Hives wished to know simply earlier than 4 pm. As a result of there was an early peak: by the pageant, the nation, humanity and never within the least by the band.
The Swedes’ formulation has remained unchanged for 1 / 4 of a century and proved to be nonetheless a success at Rock Werchter. Frontman Pelle Almqvist continues to push the boundaries of the quantity of self-praise and crowd-pulling a pageant area can deal with with out affected by reflux, and he received away with it as soon as once more. The truth that he has spent extra time in entrance of, on or within the viewers has given him the mandatory sympathy buffer.
The comeback album The demise of Randy Fitzsimmons handed considerably unnoticed final 12 months, however stay the strikingly punky new songs might compete with indestructible sing-alongs like ‘Hate to say I instructed you so’ and ‘Stroll fool stroll’, of which even the riffs had been chanted. The closing observe ‘Tick tick increase’ was stretched out a bit too lengthy by incorporating the band introduction. That was made up for by Almqvist, who closed the track in the midst of a circle pit. Being introduced as the perfect group on this planet and getting away with it: The Hives can try this.
Eefje the Fisherman
“Enchanting”, is how presenter Fien Germijns introduced Eefje de Visser. Can we add “surging” to that? The songs of the Dutch singer have a tendency to maneuver like water: the synths sound like mist shrouded in mist, guitars and drums trigger rapids and De Visser’s voice all the time floats imperturbably over the floor. However it solely actually will get enjoyable when De Visser and her band trigger whirlpools, as in opener Bitterzoet or nearer Lange vinnen. Now, nonetheless a lot De Visser intrigues together with her hip-swaying electronics and lyrics stuffed with need, she was unable to carry the eye for the complete 50 minutes.
Eefje de Visser. — © Koan Bauters
Pack
A canopy band at Rock Werchter? Sure, however not simply any. Meute, an eleven-piece German brass band, brings techno classics in a giant band model. At Rock Werchter they had been prepared for his or her second go to. The Barn was packed. You possibly can take that about techno classics with a grain of salt. We acknowledged The person with the pink face by Laurent Garnier and Hey hey by Dennis Ferrer, however elsewhere it was guesswork as to the supply materials.
Bandleader Thomas Burhorn based his firm in 2015, as a result of he seen that there was little to see on stage at techno reveals. There’s some fact to that. However in that respect it was a disgrace that Meute left the stage midway via the live performance. On paper it’s true {that a} marching band will march among the many individuals, however in such a huge Barn the view was misplaced for 3 quarters of the spectators.
That Meute has gained self-confidence lately additionally turned clear on the finish: the breakthrough quantity You & me (by Disclosure within the Flume remix) was left at dwelling. As an alternative we received Gradual Loris, an personal creation, which took off like a Boeing 737 because of a piece of brass devices. The trumpeter then tickled a melody from his valves, after which the sousaphone bought the viewers an actual blow. Meute can do it completely nicely by itself.
