2012

[eFestivals]

efestivals sounds like what your hinting at is the same as what i was told today by a friend who works at kerrang radio, basically as it stands sonisphere only have 2 headliners is what i heard and that seems to be the stumbling block for an announcement due to the issues there having with the third headliner.

yep, that's exactly what we've heard from a very reliable source. However, the info we have on that is roughly a week old so it's possible that things have changed since then.

But we also know of another big festival which is having extreme difficulties securing headliners too, so there seems to be a shortage. It's starting to feel like festivals have eaten themselves because of their lack of creativity over the years in playing it safe by always going for the same bands.

[kipper64]

Likelyhood of an announcement today? Graspop seem to be announcing someone headlinerwise.

Scrap that actually - Graspop just announced and it was Machine head...which doesn't help anyone haha

Scrap that again - Graspop just announced GNR. If the soni announcement is indeed today and doesn't have them, then I guess that rules them out.

Edited February 3, 2012 by kipper64

[spitfireman]

I think quite a few of us have received strong reliable news on FNM and Queen for dome time now. My main hope is that we get Queen and friends instead of just X factor boy .... Queen will be excellent but i fear for Mr Lambert receiving a bottling!

I heard over a week ago that Sonisphere are still in negotiations with the third headliner .... but that any leaks could result in them just walking away. Hence all the secrecy

Fingers crossed for an announcement soon

[Andre91]

yep, that's exactly what we've heard from a very reliable source. However, the info we have on that is roughly a week old so it's possible that things have changed since then.

But we also know of another big festival which is having extreme difficulties securing headliners too, so there seems to be a shortage. It's starting to feel like festivals have eaten themselves because of their lack of creativity over the years in playing it safe by always going for the same bands.

[HoTWire]

But we also know of another big festival which is having extreme difficulties securing headliners too, so there seems to be a shortage. It's starting to feel like festivals have eaten themselves because of their lack of creativity over the years in playing it safe by always going for the same bands.

[eFestivals]

I assume this other festival that's having trouble is an English festival?

Yeah, Phoenix. I heard some stuff last night that said it's not got its headliners yet either - and probably won't be going ahead as a result.

I don't know for sure that's true, but it fits with other stuff I've been hearing along the same lines. I may or may not get some further info around that today.

[she bangs the drums]

The result of the crazy spiralling headliner wars and festival saturation. Looking at Reading now, the headliners are huge huge stars, and the second stage headliners are huge stars. Go back 10 years or so and the people headlining the size of act that headlines the second stage now would have been headline or second headline on the main stage, and the second stage would have been headlined by much smaller acts, bands with one album etc. ... however more festivals mean larger festivals had to book bigger and bigger acts, not they've all got themselves into a cul-de-sac of bands that just rotate around the festivals.

I can't see a way out for the large festivals now, and who will enter the festival market now to do an event of the size of the old Reading and Phoenix festivals (we all know how that ended up). Sonisphere has a problem because it is stuck fighting for headliners on two fronts, Download and Reading... but will have problems shifting its focus to expand its potential band pool, it'll alienate a part of its audience if it goes too far away from metal,.. but it almost can't afford not to do that if it wants to maintain a UK presence. It is surprising that it locked in the European legs with basically the same line up as Download, but failed to do so in the UK. It is like the UK festival isn't part of the Sonisphere Europe thing,..

Re; Queen and Adam Lambert... I don't care who is fronting 'Queen', after this much inactivity it isn't 'Queen' without all four of them, seeing as it is only two of them and a guest singer (no matter who it is), then it is 'a tribute to the songs of Queen'.

FNM put on a great show though, so looking forward to that.

3rd headliner... still hoping for Tool,.. but guessing it isn't. .... I heard At The Drive In were still very likely to be at Sonisphere too.

[she bangs the drums]

Strictly constantly troll people - I think they're getting wound up with being mistaken for an official site. As for Thrash Hits stuff, I'd say it's certainly Sonisphere related, Hugh who runs the site tweeted:

HughDoVoodoo Hugh Platt

Y'know that feeling you get when someone gives you a festival "rumour" and you're just not sure if they're fucking with you or not? THAT.

And then:

HughDoVoodoo Hugh Platt

@

@ScuzzBeez It's so mental that if I say it I'll look like King Chump if it's not legit. But it's *just* the right side of believable too!

Just a few hours ago, he also tweeted Dok saying it was good seeing him the other night there - Dok is the art director/media guy for Team Soni, and Thrash Hits historically have known quite a lot in regards to soni...

Edited February 3, 2012 by she bangs the drums

[Furious-Red]

I wouldnt mind seeing Queen with Lambert , Surely if GNR can go out with only their singer surely Queen can do the same with 2/4 members on bored

[gazza_20]

So Thrash Hits have confirmed that the OMG headliner was in fact Brian May, Roger Taylor and Adam Lambert so maybe there really is no third headliner right now. Maybe Iron Maiden will be getting a call at the last minute, or Linkin Park or even Def Leppard?

http://www.thrashhit...y-adam-lambert/

[spitfireman]

Well we all thought expected this line up and I for one am still hopeful of another good headliner to join them.

When will tickets go onsale?

[t8yman]

my concern still remains. what will happen to the sonisphere demographic, and what will the undercard be on queen day. the crowd that queen are gonna attract are not mastodon, parkway drive and bmth fans.

[gary1979666]

It's the undercard that I'm wanting to hear now too....all to often I get a bit bored/tired during the headliner sets, so only see about half of them. Need some of the good acts that have been rumoured like Offspring to be confirmed.

[HoTWire]

Even in their hayday with an original line up, I couldn't see Queen being a Sonisphere headliner? If Mercury was still alive I could see them playing Glastonbury but not Sonisphere. They are pop/rock music not rock/metal.

[dacbo]

If this ends up being the only worldwide show for Queen (and we’ve heard that rumour too), then tickets for that night at Sonisphere will be gone before we’ve had the time to type up a blog post announcing they’re on sale.

[she bangs the drums]

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If this ends up being the only worldwide show for Queen (and we’ve heard that rumour too), then tickets for that night at Sonisphere will be gone before we’ve had the time to type up a blog post announcing they’re on sale.

Yer right!

[HoTWire]

Yeah, Phoenix. I heard some stuff last night that said it's not got its headliners yet either - and probably won't be going ahead as a result.

[t8yman]

Fuck Queen and xfactor boy. Ive just bought my DL ticket.

[theramm]

lol at people saying Queen don't fit the 'Soni demographic' but those young whippernsappers Sisters of Mercy, Gary Numan, Iron Maiden & Alice Cooper all did.

[eFestivals]

lol at people saying Queen don't fit the 'Soni demographic' but those young whippernsappers Sisters of Mercy, Gary Numan, Iron Maiden & Alice Cooper all did.

Queen are at least ten years older than all of them except Alice, so they're not in the same age demographic.

And Alice (and all the rest) fit the rock/metal demographic far better than Queen.

[t8yman]

lol at people saying Queen don't fit the 'Soni demographic' but those young whippernsappers Sisters of Mercy, Gary Numan, Iron Maiden & Alice Cooper all did.

[hitmanhague]

I was always going to go to both Download and Sonisphere so the Faith No More thing pleases me greatly.

I think we're going to sit in the camp site listening to Queen's Greatest Hits while the Queen travesty is going on.

Edited February 3, 2012 by hitmanhague

[gazza_20]

Just to ask, which is the best campsite at Soni?

i'm looking for a good time but nothing too crazy. The reason that puts me off download is the trek to the arena whereas at Soni, it backs onto it

[dan666]

my concern still remains. what will happen to the sonisphere demographic, and what will the undercard be on queen day. the crowd that queen are gonna attract are not mastodon, parkway drive and bmth fans.

[gazza_20]

Please don't put Mastodon in with them bands plz!

Queen is not Queen without Freddie, but i still wouldnt mind rocking out to their songs. And im sure most people at Soni hopefully see that and give Brian and Rodger the respect they deserve.