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Metallica's 30% stake

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QUOTE (she bangs the drums @ Feb 27 2009, 11:38 AM)

I'm not saying I like all of these! but maybe bands such as Placebo, Weezer, Lostprophets, The Hives, Stereophonics, Pendulum, Rancid, Innerpartysystem will be added to the Linkin Park day?

*bangs head against the wall*

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Surely the whole point of this festival is to do a quality metal/rock festival seeing that Download seem to be having an identity crisis. The last thing Sonisphere needs are bands like the Hives or...christ...Lost Prophets. This is totally missing the point. Looks like your missus needs to flog her ticket and go somewhere less heavy

Even having Linkin Park on there is a huge mistake. Why they are headliners is utterly beyond me - what is the relevance of this band in 2009? Even the kids who liked them at their peak would have grown out of them by now surely?

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Surely the whole point of this festival is to do a quality metal/rock festival seeing that Download seem to be having an identity crisis. The last thing Sonisphere needs are bands like the Hives or...christ...Lost Prophets. This is totally missing the point. Looks like your missus needs to flog her ticket and go somewhere less heavy

Even having Linkin Park on there is a huge mistake. Why they are headliners is utterly beyond me - what is the relevance of this band in 2009? Even the kids who liked them at their peak would have grown out of them by now surely?

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Ah sorry, She bangs the drum, got you mixed up.

t8yman - don't you think that we need a proper metal festival? I'm all for choice and diversity, but that's what Reading is all about. We need Sonisphere to be a continuation of Monsters of Rock, metal fans need this! Sticking Weezer or QOTSA (both of whom I love) or whoever on there would just create a festival without an identity - bands like this belong at Reading. Europe get loads of metal festivals - Wacken, Hellfest etc etc, but all we have here is Bloodstock and, until recently, Download. About time Sonisphere stepped up as a replacement if you ask me. Shame about the crap name...

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I bought tickets for my missus and me when the bill was metallica, LP, mastodon and LoG.

which suggested to me there would be a broad spectrum of rock and metal, something the wife would be quite happy with - she likes the foos, metallica, LP, AiC, Pearl Jam and a few other bands, the announcements since havent been too inspirational IMHO.

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Lol! I know how that sounds - I'm really not that resigned to old age yet!

ya know, it only really dawned on me when I watched Judas Priest live 2 weeks ago - I had to leave it was so crushingly cliched. There isnt a place for that shite in my life any more - the whole studs, leather, long hair thing.

what has replaced it (for me) is the same kind of brash, heavy, angry music - but without the pantomime.

metal is dead.

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Metal is in a very healthy state at current. If you don't like it then it might be dead to you, but it doesn't mean it's dead full stop.

I saw Judas Priest the other day and I really enjoyed it. Week before saw Lamb Of God and the week before that Soulfly. All good metal bands who played good gigs and are still releasing good albums of late.

Metal is in a healthy way.

As Linkin park and line up wise...

well so far i'd pretty much say all the bands announced will be playing on Metallica's day. NIN, Janes Addiction and Placebo will probably all be on Linkin Parks day.

I'd expect (with the staggered stages meaning you can see every band) something like...

Day 1

Metallica

Special guests (?)

Bullet For My Valentine

Avenged Sevenfold

Machine Head

Alice In Chains

Lamb Of God

Thin Lizzy

Mastodon

The Sword

Day 2

Linkin Park

Nine Inch Nails

Janes Addiction

Placebo

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?

?

?

?

So 20 bands in total with the top 2 on each day doing full headline sets and the next 2 on each day doing 90 min sub-headliner sets.

I don't know who'd be special guests to Metallica with that line up though. Someone like Judas Priest would be awesome but no idea really.

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Lol! I know how that sounds - I'm really not that resigned to old age yet!

ya know, it only really dawned on me when I watched Judas Priest live 2 weeks ago - I had to leave it was so crushingly cliched. There isnt a place for that shite in my life any more - the whole studs, leather, long hair thing.

what has replaced it (for me) is the same kind of brash, heavy, angry music - but without the pantomime.

metal is dead.

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from what i heard both bands ( LINKIN PARK AND METALLICA) both have a say in what bands play like at some festival alice played so did linkin park and chester got up and sang man in the box with them plus chester is good friend's with avenged sevenfold they live by eachother

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Ah sorry, She bangs the drum, got you mixed up.

t8yman - don't you think that we need a proper metal festival? I'm all for choice and diversity, but that's what Reading is all about. We need Sonisphere to be a continuation of Monsters of Rock, metal fans need this! Sticking Weezer or QOTSA (both of whom I love) or whoever on there would just create a festival without an identity - bands like this belong at Reading. Europe get loads of metal festivals - Wacken, Hellfest etc etc, but all we have here is Bloodstock and, until recently, Download. About time Sonisphere stepped up as a replacement if you ask me. Shame about the crap name...

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