Rock Werchter: Terror, rain fail to dampen spirits
145,000 people descended on Rotselaar last weekend, brushing off the threat of terror to (to quote Macklemore) come together and celebrate the music
News By | 5 July 2016
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis captured the mood of Rock Werchter during their Sunday night slot at the long-running Belgian festival, delivering a defiant ‘up yours’ to both the terrorists who bombed Brussels in March and those who would seek to capitalise on the tragedy.
Following Iggy Pop and Beck and preceding headliner Florence + the Machine, the US hip hop duo’s actual set drew a mixed reaction (Belgian magazine Knack called Macklemore a “white MC Hammer”), but a speech by the rapper, in which he denounced the attacks in Brussels, Paris and Orlando and those who would “provoke and disturb the natural state of peace the Earth should be in”, struck a chord with the crowd.
“I want to say right now, more than ever:…
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