Is anyone else Baffled at download having a headliner that headlined only 2 years ago

[cheeseisamazing]

Just wanted to see peoples thoughts on the fact that download have booekd def leppard Even though they headlined only 2 years ago, becuase to me it sounds like such a stupid idea and i wonder if anyone thinks its a good idea and that other festivals may do the same?

the only similar instance of this happening i know of is Block party Sub headlining 2 years in a row...

[moz4pm]

yeah its very strange. sonisphere have done it with metallica, but its metallica, they could book them every year and people would show up

[jump]

Vfestival use to do the same thing all the time and to a lesser extent TITP.

[jump]

yeah its very strange. sonisphere have done it with metallica, but its metallica, they could book them every year and people would show up

[rexclark]

Vfestival use to do the same thing all the time and to a lesser extent TITP.

[moz4pm]

Soni hasn't booked Metallica this year, they have booked the Big 4 which is a new headliner in it's self.

[jump]

So Metallica aren't playing? And they're not the last band on? Think you can call that headlining. I'm not bashing it, I'm going for them as i did in Poland last year and Lisbon the year before that. The other three bands are effectively metallica's support bands

[Joe-]

Download just confuses me.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Download just confuses me.

[cheeseisamazing]

Ow yhr i tottaly forgot about soni (hits head- hard) then again if i remember correctly don't metalica have some money invested in sonisphere and/or helped create it? and i do remeber around the time of the festival it was suggested mettalica would play again for the 3rd year...

tbh i also think soni is allowed to get away with it for the fact its a new festival and if billing metallica again is going to allow sell tickets and promote it so it can survive for the next 6 years (as its contract is only for 3 years) then its probbaly a good thing they are

Metallica is only apart of the equation, I doubt Soni would of booked Metallica on their own this year without the other 3.

I have said the same thing to my mate, he didn't want to go to the 1st Soni as he saw Metallica loads of times but now he wants to go for the Big 4 and I pointed out to him bitches about repeat headliners.

[Yellow_Fellow]

It's The Big 4. Not Metallica.

[Dan R]

A thing to remember about Soni as well is that last year they only had two proper headliners. This year they announced the Saturday and Sunday Headliners, then the Big 4, or Metallica as a separate headliner, whatever way you see it, was an extra bonus, to what everyone was expecting.

[adustlandfairytale]

Oxegen had KOL 2 years in a row.

And TITP had Snow Patrol and Killers headlining in 07 and 09, well co-headlining in 09 with Blur for Snow Patrol.

V festival had Killers in 07 and 09.

Yeah it happens.

[VCK]

The Killers headlined V both in 2007 and 2009.

Same at TITP for those years, and both times Razorlight subbed.

[jammy2211]

Did Foo's headline Reading / Leeds in 03 and 05?

It's a poor poor booking but it's happened to every festival now and then when no one else is around.

EDIT: 2002.

Well er, Bloc Party .

Edited February 22, 2011 by jammy2211

[moz4pm]

Its fairly common knowledge on the Metallica forums that Metallica signed a three year deal with Sonisphere. They were always gonna be back at Knebworth this year whether or not the whole Big 4 tour ever happened

[mrtourette]

This doesn't change anything, R&L has made a habit of repeating headliners with less frequency or with longer gaps inbetween than other festivals.

Edited February 23, 2011 by mrtourette

[jump]

Did Foo's headline Reading / Leeds in 03 and 05?

It's a poor poor booking but it's happened to every festival now and then when no one else is around.

EDIT: 2002.

Well er, Bloc Party .

[jump]

Its fairly common knowledge on the Metallica forums that Metallica signed a three year deal with Sonisphere. They were always gonna be back at Knebworth this year whether or not the whole Big 4 tour ever happened

[MJMilz14]

Festivals book what they believe to be the best bands avalible to them, within there budget and most likely to sell tickets at that given time. That's it.

There's no patern, no conspiracy, that's just what happens.

They'l try (and almost certainly succeed) to get headliners who haven't played in a while, but of course Reading would book K0L, Arctic Monkeys or Radiohead again this year if it was a choice of them or much smaller bands that wouldn't sell half as many tickets.

[mrtourette]

I'm afraid that I would disagree with that last point. R&L doesn't sruggle to sell out (yet) and until it does I don't think they would put on two headliners two years after they were poorly received.