New poster

[deceasednine]

There is a new line-up poster and it says that there is a special guest on the sunday wonder who it will be

[jackthebassist]

Machine Head

[kipper64]

Machine Head

[deceasednine]

I dunno if it will be them (machine head) as they dropped out cause of limp bizkit sharing a slot with them so why would they take a slot lower than before

[shrimpy53]

Pleeeeease let it be MH. I'm amazed no one's said Slipknot yet!

[beLIEveR]

Seems strange that MH would agree to play in that slot after everything, but fair play all around if that does happen.

[shrimpy53]

Thrash Hits are saying it is MH. This is more than likely true, as the editer of Thrash Hits is someone that works for Soni!

http://www.thrashhits.com/2009/07/and-the-...sonisphere-are/

[MM Punk]

Has to be Slipknot or Machine Head for sure.

I actually hope it's Slipknot because I was gutted when they pulled out of Reading last year.

[KeithUK]

Interesting....

[the_frame]

THIS.

After yesterday, peopel were specualting MH's return due to things said by Sonisphere and the band...

Now there just so happens to be an extra slot reappeared on the lineup poster...MH sized n all.

If Soni do get MH back, you gotta hand it to them, despite bad luck in the pullout department, theyve done a great job at replacing and such. I mean Anthrax with John Bush as a special one off performance = awesome! (and makes up for FF), Saxon>TL...Paradise Lost>The Sword and soil or Buckcherry are better than Frank Turner.

[MM Punk]

I have to say, I wouldn't have gone if it wasn't for getting a free ticket. The lineup is a bit odd.

[kipper64]

you might wanna try not kissing team sonisphere's arse 24/7, its quite unhealthy.

they've lost numerous bands for various reasons, and are making NIN play below a7x and in the light.

I have heard rumours that ticket sales are below the 11,000 mark, that would be amazingly bad.

yay team sonisphere, and thats without mention of them booking an ABBA tribute band on the bill.

quality not quantity eh? - well they certainly dont have the quantity bit, cos half the acts have pulled out.

[tommyramone666]

you might wanna try not kissing team sonisphere's arse 24/7, its quite unhealthy.

they've lost numerous bands for various reasons, and are making NIN play below a7x and in the light.

I have heard rumours that ticket sales are below the 11,000 mark, that would be amazingly bad.

yay team sonisphere, and thats without mention of them booking an ABBA tribute band on the bill.

quality not quantity eh? - well they certainly dont have the quantity bit, cos half the acts have pulled out.

Edited July 26, 2009 by tommyramone666

[edgar]

I have heard rumours that ticket sales are below the 11,000 mark, that would be amazingly bad.

[shrimpy53]

the number on my ticket is 11928

[jackthebassist]

to be fair to the guy that said it i have also heard a rumour about the ticket sales being at around 15,000

[Spiral_Low]

That will be weekend tickets, I reckon they would have shifted a fair few Sunday day tickets as well mind.

edit - Oh and I bet you see a million competitiosn this week giving away tickets!

Edited July 27, 2009 by Spiral_Low

[biffoire]

Someone on the official boards said their ticket was in the 30000s and had ordered a few weeks before. Also a mate of mine got a sunday ticket a few weeks back and was in the 1800's.

i reckon it'll be 40000 crowd.

[Mamba]

In any case, the waiting is now over, the warm-up complete. The Sonisphere noise juggernaut is set to steamroller south and crash land at Knebworth. It’s time to make history, with two days, three stages and 61 bands. Metallica are headlining the Sunday with their only UK appearance of the summer, while Linkin Park do the honours the day before.

What else do we have for you on the Apollo Stage? Nine Inch Nails‘ last-ever live gig? Perhaps, it’s certainly Thunder’s. The warm-up for Linkin Park looks like Black Sabbath, sounds like Black Sabbath…hell…they even smell like Black Sabbath: the Heaven & Hell performance looks set to be very special indeed.

The Saturn stage is headlined by Bullet For My Valentine and Avenged Sevenfold with Airbourne, Alice in Chains and what Q magazine calls one of the “hottest things in music” in support. Oh, and did we mention Lamb of God? And Killing Joke? And Anthrax? And Limp Bizkit? We’ve also got some very special guests jetting in and there’re bound to be a few other surprises.

[tomisnothere]

I think Machine Head is quite likely, though I'm personally not interested in them so I'm hoping it's someone else.

Could it be a band from the Transformers soundtrack? Did any songs from the 1st or 2nd film get much hype and recognition because of it? Excluding Linkin Park of course.

[gary1979666]

I think Machine Head is quite likely, though I'm personally not interested in them so I'm hoping it's someone else.

Could it be a band from the Transformers soundtrack? Did any songs from the 1st or 2nd film get much hype and recognition because of it? Excluding Linkin Park of course.

Edited July 27, 2009 by gary1979666

[harrisonmuse16]

Yeah, because saying they've done a good job at replacing bands is kissing their arse...it isnt.

Frank Turner pulled out to play R&L's = not TS fault, adn he got repalced with Buckcherry

The sword pulled out due to being tired of touring for so long = not TS fault, got replaced by paradise lost who are great

Thin Lizzy pulled out due to the band breaking up = not TS's fault replaced by Saxon (who i feel are better)

MH pullout not 100% Sonis fault, and they may have got them back

FF didnt get replaced but their pullout was due to legal reasons which wasnt sonispheres fault

Anthrax looked set to pullout due to a band split - but Sonisphere managed to get them to play a special one-off show with one of their best, longer term vocalists John Bush, thats also bloody good.

I mean when Slipknot pulled out of Reading/Leeds the other year they werent they replaced by Bring me the Horizon And the fact is, with a week to go, they could have easily left it, but they didnt, and the replacements have been really good - and the majority of pullouts have been completely out of their hands. This is fact, so Im not arsekissing to say I felt its worked out quite well, of course on here it seems you have to criticise everything because thats the cool thing to do, and to show even some positivity towards the fest makes you a arsekisser...whatever Its just childish in my opinion.

Also I laugh at your ticket sales estimate, where'd you get that info...lemme guess you pulled it out of thin air... In before "I Know someone who works at ticketmaster" or whatever...

As for your hilarious pun at the end there about not having quantity, actually they do, as of today theres going to be 25 bands on the main stages, thats more than the 24 originally stated. So yeah, your joke fails.

And for Bjorn again, I aint happy about that, but thats 1 band for me I dont wanna see, Ill go check out Bohemia(because thats why its there), rumours point to Sylosis playing when BA do, and Sylosis are bloody fantastic

[tomisnothere]

True, to be fair to Sonisphere they've only got part of the blame in Machine Head dropping out, the rest isn't their fault.

[edgar]

Could it be eluding to a Slipknot mask....gimme a straw and I'll clutch at it!

[tomisnothere]

you mean billy corgan?