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[Rancidpunk_76]

Yup, i saw Thunder!  Actually quite surprised by the amount people (on the Sonisphere forums too) who watched Linkin Park then bogged off back to their tents??  I made sure i made a b-line straight for Bohemia when LP finished specifically for Thunder and The Wildhearts - both kick arse!

Someone mentioned the sound in Bohemia being a little dodgy, still was when the Wildhearts walked on at half midnight.  Shame, cos their set was gggrrrrreat!

All in all, i thought the entire festival was a great success.  Loads of great performances (apart from NIN's   ) and a really great vibe.  No trouble that i know of, just loads of great people enjoying loads of great music.

Bring on next year!

[Rancidpunk_76]

Yup, i saw Thunder!  Actually quite surprised by the amount people (on the Sonisphere forums too) who watched Linkin Park then bogged off back to their tents??  I made sure i made a b-line straight for Bohemia when LP finished specifically for Thunder and The Wildhearts - both kick arse!

Someone mentioned the sound in Bohemia being a little dodgy, still was when the Wildhearts walked on at half midnight.  Shame, cos their set was gggrrrrreat!

All in all, i thought the entire festival was a great success.  Loads of great performances (apart from NIN's   ) and a really great vibe.  No trouble that i know of, just loads of great people enjoying loads of great music.

Bring on next year!

[Rancidpunk_76]

Yup, i saw Thunder!  Actually quite surprised by the amount people (on the Sonisphere forums too) who watched Linkin Park then bogged off back to their tents??  I made sure i made a b-line straight for Bohemia when LP finished specifically for Thunder and The Wildhearts - both kick arse!

Someone mentioned the sound in Bohemia being a little dodgy, still was when the Wildhearts walked on at half midnight.  Shame, cos their set was gggrrrrreat!

All in all, i thought the entire festival was a great success.  Loads of great performances (apart from NIN's   ) and a really great vibe.  No trouble that i know of, just loads of great people enjoying loads of great music.

Bring on next year!

[Rancidpunk_76]

Yup, i saw Thunder!  Actually quite surprised by the amount people (on the Sonisphere forums too) who watched Linkin Park then bogged off back to their tents??  I made sure i made a b-line straight for Bohemia when LP finished specifically for Thunder and The Wildhearts - both kick arse!

Someone mentioned the sound in Bohemia being a little dodgy, still was when the Wildhearts walked on at half midnight.  Shame, cos their set was gggrrrrreat!

All in all, i thought the entire festival was a great success.  Loads of great performances (apart from NIN's   ) and a really great vibe.  No trouble that i know of, just loads of great people enjoying loads of great music.

Bring on next year!

[thegremlin_1999]

Highlights : The MOTHERf**kING WILDHEARTS!!

ahem.  see also Coheed, Corey, A7X, Airbourne, Skindred and Metallica

Lows :

The fact Taking back Sunday exist, crap sound on second stage unless u were super close, missing half of AIC

all in all, a decent fest, not sure how well it'd work with more people mind... (as others have said also)

Edited by thegremlin_1999, 05 August 2009 - 02:40 PM.

[beLIEveR]

I wanted to see Thunder. I brought 16 Magners with me, thinking that if I was being sensible that would last me a weekend. Drunk 13 on the first night, and got all of an hour's sleep. Felt fine all day on Saturday but I just could not handle the heat in Bohemia, and left Thunder after all of half a song.

For what it's worth I do regret it.

[Px.]

Lovely chilled festival.

MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS

Sylosis , Corey Taylor. NIN were a complete surprise, never having heard them before.

The first hour of LINKIN PARK was great, the reason tickets had been bought and the family loved them in the festival atmosphere. The OTHER band should have been billed earlier on one of the other stages, thought it was pretty arrogant to put a newly formed band on main stage never mind headlining it!

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

The Crowd. Sitting on the hill most of Sunday between the two stages watching great band after band. Everyone seemed so relaxed and just out to enjoy what was on offer. Quite a few bantered with the boys (they were sitting in their army helmets and gas masks), very friendly.

Extras. Liked the free bus, went into town on Sat for dinner just as it poured down and used it to get    to/from fest each day. Bike show was good.

If the line up is as good and a coupla alternative entertainments during the day could be tempted next year.

[she bangs the drums]

Rancidpunk_76, on Aug 5 2009, 01:21 PM, said:

Yup, i saw Thunder!  Actually quite surprised by the amount people (on the Sonisphere forums too) who watched Linkin Park then bogged off back to their tents??  I made sure i made a b-line straight for Bohemia when LP finished specifically for Thunder and The Wildhearts - both kick arse!

Someone mentioned the sound in Bohemia being a little dodgy, still was when the Wildhearts walked on at half midnight.  Shame, cos their set was gggrrrrreat!

All in all, i thought the entire festival was a great success.  Loads of great performances (apart from NIN's   ) and a really great vibe.  No trouble that i know of, just loads of great people enjoying loads of great music.

Bring on next year!

I thought the best performance of the weekend was going to be at the metal karaoke when your name was called out to sing Tenacious D on the Friday night.....

Edited by she bangs the drums, 06 August 2009 - 08:33 PM.

[MetalliKris]

Had the best fest ever, Sonisphere rules over all the other UK fests!!!!!!!!

Pro's

Camping. - we got there on friday afternoon and the spot we got was fecking ace, really close to the main arena entrance and close to all the facilities. Felt a bit for the early pass campers, but that soon wore off, ha f**kin ha.

Bands - saw some mega bands, lamb of god, flood of red, lincoln pork, mastodon, bullet, alice, machine head, etc. All rocked!!!!!!!!!!!


Con's - Missed Anthrax due to extremely drunken trip to tesco's. Felt like crap for all the bands on Sunday due to extremely drunken fri and sat.

Over all, was the best fest I've been too, even the excessive police pressence didn't bother me, can't wait for the next one, just hope that biffoirre and longdrop feel the same..

Rock out with your c#ck out sonisphere, bring on 2010.

[Karen2]

We had an absolute ball but as I have never been to a festival that far down south I thought it was all a bit tame, don't get me wrong I loved it but was really weird to walk around in a clean campsite and there was no noise at night do they not do the campsite roar ?  found it all a bit nice and respectable for a weekend of heavy metal very Stepford.
Have to give credit to them cos being in the campervan  site next to the main entrance was ace I spent all my hubbys money on useless festival tat and was able to go back to van for tea while it rained on Saturday. My highlights for the weekend Machinehead, Anthrax, Limp Bizkit totally rubbed it into my son that I saw them and he did'nt what a cruel Mum, Linkin Park where too quiet was dissapointed but Metallica rocked loved them.
Had a brill weekend then a million mile drive back to Glasgow for work on the Monday now that was hell but I would do it all again every weekend if I could

[Lithium05]

Karen2, on Aug 11 2009, 02:29 PM, said:

We had an absolute ball but as I have never been to a festival that far down south I thought it was all a bit tame, don't get me wrong I loved it but was really weird to walk around in a clean campsite and there was no noise at night do they not do the campsite roar ?  found it all a bit nice and respectable for a weekend of heavy metal very Stepford.
Have to give credit to them cos being in the campervan  site next to the main entrance was ace I spent all my hubbys money on useless festival tat and was able to go back to van for tea while it rained on Saturday. My highlights for the weekend Machinehead, Anthrax, Limp Bizkit totally rubbed it into my son that I saw them and he did'nt what a cruel Mum, Linkin Park where too quiet was dissapointed but Metallica rocked loved them.
Had a brill weekend then a million mile drive back to Glasgow for work on the Monday now that was hell but I would do it all again every weekend if I could

Glad someone else though LP were too quiet, thought it was just me!

As for the quietness I found that a little strange too, I'm fairly sure it had nothing to do with the fest's location as others in the south enjoy a good old fashioned roar. Might have been the lower number of attendees, can't have been much more than 20,000 campers (I may be wrong there, I'm shit at estimates) as opposed to the larger fests where you usually get 50,000+.  I quite enjoyed the relative silence, was nice to get some kip

[tomisnothere]

also noticed linkin park seemed quiet - odd.

[biffoire]

thegremlin_1999, on Aug 5 2009, 03:39 PM, said:

Highlights : The MOTHERf**kING WILDHEARTS!!

Wildhearts and AIC were definately the best bands of the weekend man! The wildhearts for the pit and AIC as it was such a rarity!! It was great seeing the boys again!!  

[thegremlin_1999]

I urge people to check out my Sonisphere review here



comments are appreciated

[Lithium05]

thegremlin_1999, on Aug 11 2009, 08:30 PM, said:

I urge people to check out my Sonisphere review here



comments are appreciated

You whoring out your review again?

Nice work though. Sorry I missed you at the fest, though did you happen to wander past a circle of tents near where I said I was on the friday night that were playing The Offspring? That was us

[biffoire]

thegremlin_1999, on Aug 11 2009, 08:30 PM, said:

I urge people to check out my Sonisphere review here



comments are appreciated

That was machine head!! I thought it was slipknot!!  

Great review

[thegremlin_1999]

Lithium05, on Aug 11 2009, 09:06 PM, said:

You whoring out your review again?

Nice work though. Sorry I missed you at the fest, though did you happen to wander past a circle of tents near where I said I was on the friday night that were playing The Offspring? That was us

Totally whoring it dude

pretty sure u stumbled thru our camp at least twice dude. Heh

[Lithium05]

thegremlin_1999, on Aug 12 2009, 10:13 AM, said:

Totally whoring it dude

pretty sure u stumbled thru our camp at least twice dude. Heh

You should've said something!

If it was the Friday I probably wouldn't have noticed. I was so I hammered I destroyed my new camping chair by standing up to go for a piss, realising that in the state I was in I had no business standing up, started to fall, tried to grab the chair and just went straight through the arm snapping it

[thegremlin_1999]

Lithium05, on Aug 12 2009, 11:06 AM, said:

You should've said something!

If it was the Friday I probably wouldn't have noticed. I was so I hammered I destroyed my new camping chair by standing up to go for a piss, realising that in the state I was in I had no business standing up, started to fall, tried to grab the chair and just went straight through the arm snapping it

By the time I realised I'd gone and fallen thru the next lot of tents heh

[-pogo-]

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