March 8th announcement

[jammy2211]

Panic Cell have self confirmed I thinks.

[jammy2211]

Sylosis have too ^.

[luckysalt]

As theres no news im guessing theres no announcement today. Download is nxt week then reading. We aint gotta wait until april have we?

[micwebb]

Maybe there planning to pull a really bad move or awesome move by announcing at the same time as download to try and out do them but it all depends on who got who but even tho i like soni better then DL i think it might be a bad move for soni if that is wht there planning :S

[kipper64]

Converge have a TBA tour date for 1st of August, pretty likely for Sonisphere methinks.

[t8yman]

Maybe there planning to pull a really bad move or awesome move by announcing at the same time as download to try and out do them but it all depends on who got who but even tho i like soni better then DL i think it might be a bad move for soni if that is wht there planning :S

[micwebb]

yer would be a bad idea but just cause he has 19 bands they might be as good or bad as Sonisphere last announcement

[luckysalt]

Sonisphere have again said no announcement this week.

[Azzy G]

Sonisphere have again said no announcement this week.

[t8yman]

booking bands is hard you know.

oh, wait - copping has secured 22 this week ready for an announcement he confirmed for Monday a couple of weeks ago. (To be fair, he did originally say it would be on the 15th)

Sonisphail indeed......

[luckysalt]

To be fair I think he has a lot more than that booked it was just getting their permission to announce them, I think Sonisphere may have the acts booked but for some reason aren't allowed to announce them due to other dates they're playing.

A lot of people are saying Airbourne will get announced for Download on Monday but with a UK coming up in April, I can't imagine they would get announced until after this, but who knows...

[Rancidpunk_76]

I don't know why the announcement has to be on a monday like other festivals seem to be doing. Didn't Sonisphere make announcements at various times during the week last year?

Maybe they'll wait for Download and then do their announcement a couple of days later maybe?

[micwebb]

i don't think it really a fail considering Download has to name a lot of bands at once cause a. it took them soo long to announce the first wave so late on and b. download is only like 3 months away where sonisphere don't have to worry about naming so many bands in a hurry cause the have nearly 5 months to get a full line up if anything Download is more of a fail cause there leaving soo late to get more bands in plus it all depends on who they announce tommrow so stop bashing on Sonisphere tht there failing

[Saveuk]

Well I was at the Dommin gig tonight and they said they are playing Sonisphere!... so there ya go

[oscar]

Black label society, Down and Venom are playing High voltage festival the week before any chance of these being added?

[she bangs the drums]

I don't know why the announcement has to be on a monday like other festivals seem to be doing. Didn't Sonisphere make announcements at various times during the week last year?

Maybe they'll wait for Download and then do their announcement a couple of days later maybe?

[Sparticus]

If I was in charge of Sonisphere then thats exactly what I would do after the shite Download are going to announce at midnight. Its a definite case of quantity and not quality.

Faith No More, Slash and Alice in Chains please.

As I've said before, Sonisphere will have a better line up than Download

[r0w]

definately, hell i thought the internet was going to explode when lost ends and inevitably, everyone will be pissed, but this may just come first. Everyone on efests has said what a load of w*nk, and the download community seems pretty dismayed (or rather, very f**ked off), fair enough if they could argue more big bands to come, but that looks like main stage and second stage pretty much done. This has actually gone down worse than mcr headlining a couple of years back.

Seems sonisphere do have another roll of the dice after all.

[t8yman]

that download announcement was dogshit. if it turns out placebo and R+ are deffo on the same day and FNM get announced, then I will deffo be getting at least a day ticket.

[kipper64]

Courtesy of Shazz on the official soni boards (dunno if the pic is real - but looks legit)

So slash looks pretty certain to me, and with Alice cooper's drummer there to drum for him, and Ian Astbury/Alice Cooper/Iggy Pop there at the fest to do their collabs with him off his new album, it will be pretty damn awesome. However I seriously doubt he is the special guest, at the Japanese fest he is playing the week after Sonisphere he isn't very high up at all, lower than Coheed & Cambria I think so I'm guessing AiC slot/ Coheed slot at highest.

Also day-tickets aren't planned for the fest yet, it all depends on weekend ticket sales, tickets are apparently a fair bit better this year, but I still don't see it selling out so day tickets may well appear closer to the time, however the poster is not indicative to day splits, but the special guests are Maiden's sub, so Placebo may very well be Rammstein's.

[r0w]

mmm yeah fort that would be the case after he wasnt announced yesterday for Download. No way the special guest, but if he's announced with say Faith No More and AIC......i would actually have to buy a ticket. at the moment tho its just Download for me

[kipper64]

mmm yeah fort that would be the case after he wasnt announced yesterday for Download. No way the special guest, but if he's announced with say Faith No More and AIC......i would actually have to buy a ticket. at the moment tho its just Download for me