Heard off a very reliable source (i really do mean reliable, and have actually seen proof) at work last night that both Metallica & Slipknot will both be playing at the Newcastle Arena at the very end of the year (Metallica was November i beleive, and these are two completely different shows, Slipknot arent the support). This indicates that both bands will be doing large scale tours at the end of the year in support of there new albums.
Sort of expected i know, but after the constant Metallica tour non-starts we have had, and the lack of news we have had about slipknot touring, it's welcome to here that both will be touring.
Beleive me if you want, but i can assure you the source i got this from is very reliable. It wasnt just these gig's he informed me of, but they were the only ones that were of any real excitement (the rest was stuff like dancing on ice etc).

i've seen them both twice before, and both times each at festivals... might still be tempted depending on line-ups for the shows, but i don't wanna imagine the prices!!!

that cud be cool
hopefully some arenas local to me too!! hehe

tho both together wud've been better, not sure slipknot are worth paying arena prices for...

thinking abt £40 for metallica and a bit less for slipknot?

grrr

that'll be good if they do infact come to newcastle - about f**king time we had a big gig

Arena shows are never usually more than £40 unless it's somebody like the police/stones. The who were only about £32 when they played Newcastle last year, even Dylan was only £40. Considering it will be a big, multi gig date i can see it being around 35quid, plus you will get a mammoth set (2 and half hours plus). I'm hoping they keep either Down or Machine head on as the support. As for slipknot, i think youll be looking at about £25-30 a ticket at a push. There audience doesnt have the money to splash out £40 on a gig.

But we had Brian Adams last summer!

was just going off how Korn was £30 for academy venues earlier this yr... (which was a fkn rip off)

heres hoping it aint too much tho!!

and are u implying that slipknots audience are a bunch of youngsters?? i'm 26!!! haha

if Metallica had down or Machine Head supporting i'd probably go no matter what the cost! or maybe both, plus the other european support (The Sword) - if those 4 bands played together i would honestly pay about £70. no joke. hella-line-up.

but no, it'll probably just be Metallica and someone shit eh?

twas fkn godsmack last time


so yeah...

but still, metallica + machine head + down would be phenomenal

metallica, down and machinehead??!!

hell 70 notes for 3 bands i'd easily pay 30 for seperately anyway is a bargain.. *crosses all areas of body in hope*

Big gigs always turn out shit. Last consistently good "big" gig was Taste Of chaos 2005.

not Black Crusade or Defenders of the Faith then?

tho i guess Black Crusade had Trivium who aren't half as good a prospect these days...

i dunno.. muse and 'tallica [seperately] at wembley were pretty huge..

Awesome

I'm going to Reading anyway but I'm 100% certain I'll be going to London dates for both of these

I'm 23 by the way

hell, in fact every Valhalla at liverpool zanzibar were the best big (little) gigs money could buy! £5 for a consistently great night...

R.I.P

No, i said i hope that Down OR Machine head will play. I dont know if they will, it's just wishful thinking.

it's not a dating column, u know

i'll be a-going to the manc ones as i'll be working finally! woop

and salt, what was valhalla all about?

it was night put on by the almight Laze, first of all monthly (then bi-monthly), that ran for bloody years. The Laze headlined every time and got various good local bands, or good bands from anywhere to play, you could smoke green easily in there (before the smoking ban...), after time it extended to two floors worth of line-up, and was, well, the best night out going in Liverpool.

but due to other commitments like actually recording albums and touring places other than merseyside, the laze have f**ked it off to a once every xmas event only.

shame. it was f**king AMAZING.

sounds aweome.. just checked out the laze, not heard of them before.. is that ignorant of me??

no, they ain't signed or famous, its only if you're from merseyside ya shoulda heard of them! anything on their various myspaces seriously does NOT compare to the live show... its something else!

Machine Head will be supporting Slipknot on this tour.

No proof, but like this poster, it's a good reliable source . I think I read it in an interview on the net too somewhere, albeit I forget nowadays.

nah i don't base myspace-style demo recordings on whether i like bands..

i have seen too many awesome bands who have shite demo recordings and too many shite [signed] live bands with excellently produced tracks..

Newcastle Arena, Metallica :D:D:D:D:D YES!!!

Stones were £60 for Hampden Park in 06...wel worth it

Guns N Roses were £37.50 before booking fee in 06 too.



I saw most of the SJP gig for free i worked at SJP in the exec boxes

Beleive it if you want. It's not like it's an earth shattering rumour anyway. Like i said, the source is very reliable and holds quite a prominent position at the venue, but i cant say anymore than that. She/He said that it should be announced very shortly, but i would imagine it would be after Leeds/Reading, although that might be quite late for Slipknot to sell there tickets.

My mate had an e mail from some ticket agency saying their would be a Disturbed / Slipknot tour in November. That is more likely considering Machine head have just played most arena's last year.

Co-headlining?! Surely not.

Surely Slipknot / Machine Head / Disturbed is a reasonable ordeR? I can see all of them together tbh, at least in Europe.

Hopefully it'll be announced soon anyway, hopefully off to Nottingham Uni in October, hope they drop it a visit.

Probably label it as another Unholy alliance tour.

No way I'm missing that though if it is the case

I would have thought that would go for most of us on here.

True, but my metal credentials were being criticised recently (not on the Download boards, think it was in General Discussion) so I felt the urge to point out my attendance will be guaranteed

wouldnt disturbed play their own dates cuz of new album? not that i'd be bothered if they all played though dont like mh. just money factor soon after reading and if soon, i got glasto already booked.

How dare they!

If that is true Slipknot/Disturbed/MH

Im going to that!

I think it will be Slipknot with Disturberd as very special guests (not co-headlining though).

agreed. MH have toured the blackening to death and i doubt they wana do the uk again

but in contrast, if they DID i wouldn't conplain

I don't think they have toured it to death really,
It only came out this time last year. Between then & now, They've done download, Opened for metallica & headlined that arena tour with trivium.
Tool toured 10,000 days from march 2006 to december 2007

yeah but that doesn't make it right

god i sound like my mother..

Somebody on the official forum found this link which is selling tickets for a Slipknot/Machine Head/Children of Bodom show in Paris in November, so hopefully its the first date of a full european tour with that line-up.

http://last.fnacspectacles.com/place-spect...IPKNOT-SLIP.htm

If thats what the UK is getting...Tour of the year.

Would be verging on the tour of ever

that is truly a sick f**king line-up. i hope it happens. tho i love Bodom and Machine Head far more than i love Slipknot, it'd peak too early for me!

still, i'd so f**king go.

hell, i might plan a holiday to Paris!

Seeing both at Leeds, but if the new album is good, I'll go and watch Metallica again.

Slipknot is a no-brainer

GOING

yeah i have had 2 sources tell me now

Slipknot / Machine Head/ Children of bodom are lining up a European tour.

apparently machine head organised it as they had to pull out of reading /leeds festival. and other european dates. sounds good to me im there

http://www2.kerrang.com/2008/05/slipknot_m...d_and_bodo.html

so there may be some truth in these rumours, its like, on Kerrang and all...

fingers f**king crossed.

i've got everything crossed.. otherwise i might wet myself in excitement!

its official.

get in!!!!!

i'll be at both, about time newcastle had 2 huge gigs

Anyone got estimations of how long the bands will be on for?

Though I kinda like Slipknot, I'd be going for CoB and Machine Head, and probably won't bother if there won't be around an hour for at least one of them.