Werchter

• Name — Werchter • Flag Size — 120x100px • Shield Size — 100x100px • Pushpin Map — Belgium • Pushpin Label — Werchter • Pushpin Map Caption — Location in Belgium • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Belgium • Subdivision Type1 — Region • Subdivision Name1 — Flemish Region • Subdivision Type2 — Community • Subdivision Name2 — Flemish Community • Subdivision Type3 — Province • Subdivision Name3 — Flemish Brabant • Subdivision Type5 — Municipality • Subdivision Name5 — Rotselaar • Population Total — 3443 • Population As Of — 1 January 2013 • Population Density Km2 — auto • Area Code Type — Area codes Werchter is a small village in Belgium which has been part of the municipality of Rotselaar since 1 January 1977. It is the site of Rock Werchter and the birthplace of the painters Cornelius Van Leemputten and Frans Van Leemputten. The origin of the Werchter's name is unknown, but is thought to be related to water.

• Illustration — Rock Werchter main stage in 2024 Rock Werchter is a music festival held annually during the first weekend of the summer holidays in Werchter. It was first organised in 1974. Originally it was a double-festival, called "Rock Torhout-Werchter", with two festival areas on different places in Belgium: one in Torhout and one in Werchter, where the same artists performed the next day. Since 2003 the festival lasts four days. 6 times (between 2003 and 2014), the festival won the Arthur award for the best festival in the world of the International Live Music Conference. It's the largest music festival in Belgium and one of the largest festivals in Europe. Famous over the Belgian borders, each year many renowned groups and artists perform at Rock Werchter, and over 320,000 people come to the festival. There is also a "Rock Werchterroute", a cycling route, around Werchter and Leuven, which also organises an annual music festival, Marktrock.

The next concerts were organized on the festival grounds outside the concept of Rock Werchter, or its satellite festivals T/W Classic and Werchter Boutique. • Date — Headliner — Support act — Headliner tour • 9 August 1980 — The Police — XTC, Skafish — Zenyatta Mondatta Tour • 10 June 1983 — Supertramp — Chris De Burgh, Nena — Famous Last Tour • 2 June 1987 — David Bowie — Nona Hendryx — Glass Spider Tour • 23 August 1988 — Michael Jackson — Taylor Dayne — Bad World Tour • 13 May 1989 — Pink Floyd — A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour • 4 August 1990 — Prince — Loïs Lane — Nude Tour • 27 May 1992 — Dire Straits — On Every Street Tour • 28 June 1992 — Genesis — We Can't Dance Tour • 22 July 1992 — Michael Jackson — Kriss Kross — Dangerous World Tour • 29 May 1993 — U2 — Stereo MC’s, Urban Dance Squad — Zoo TV Tour • 11 July 1993 — Guns N’ Roses — The Brian May Band, Suicidal Tendencies — Use Your Illusion Tour • 2 September 1994 — Pink Floyd — The Division Bell Tour • 17 June 1995 — Bon Jovi — Van Halen, Ugly Kid Joe — These Days Tour • 14 June 1996 — Bryan Adams — Melissa Etheridge — 18 Til I Die Tour • 25 July 1997 — U2 — Popmart Tour • 20 and 21 June 1998 — The Rolling Stones — Simple Minds — Bridges to Babylon Tour • 25 July 2000 — Tina Turner — John Fogerty, Taxiride — Twenty Four Seven Tour • 11 and 12 September 2000 — Radiohead — Sigur Rós — Kid A/Amnesiac Tour • 3 June 2001 — Bon Jovi — Melanie C, Fred & the Healers — One Wild Night Tour • 5 June 2007 — The Rolling Stones — Van Halen, Ugly Kid Joe — A Bigger Bang Tour • 20 July 2013 — Roger Waters — The Wall Live • 16 May 2016 — AC/DC — Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown, Black Box Revelation — Rock or Bust World Tour • 1 July 2018 — Ed Sheeran — Anne-Marie, Jamie Lawson — ÷ Tour • 24 June 2023 — Harry Styles — Wet Leg — Love on Tour • 2 July 2024 — Bruce Springsteen — Seasick Steve, Black Box Revelation — Springsteen and E Street Band 2023–2025 Tour