Announcement before Wednesday 25th January

[5co77ie]

Imagine you're the rider and the motorbike is the line-up - you just can't get your hand on it:

[TYLER_4]

Imagine you're the rider and the motorbike is the line-up - you just can't get your hand on it:

[she bangs the drums]

Sonisphere Finland has been announced:

Sonisphere Sonisphere

Sonisphere Finland - Metallica Performing the Black Album, Machine Head, Amorphis, Gojira Ghost - On Sale 6th Feb

51 minutes ago

[eFestivals]

Seems there might be something to the Queen & Adam Lambert rumour.

[she bangs the drums]

Seems there might be something to the Queen & Adam Lambert rumour.

Edited January 27, 2012 by she bangs the drums

[5co77ie]

Wow this Sonisphere tour is going around Europe almost 2 months earlier this year, Sonisphere Spain's line-up is announced at 10am.

[eFestivals]

we also believe the UK announcement is due to happen in about 2 weeks.

[she bangs the drums]

we also believe the UK announcement is due to happen in about 2 weeks.

[jump]

Seems there might be something to the Queen & Adam Lambert rumour.

[thejimbola]

So Sonisphere's European dates are just stealing Download's lineup.

In 2 weeks time nobody will care any more! Especially if it is American Idol does Queen karaoke! I'm still going, but this is getting silly!

[jump]

The Spain line up is here...

Metallica, Soundgarden, Slayer, Within Temptation, Mastodon, Children Of Bodom, Kyuss Lives, Gojira, Clutch, Orange Goblin, Skindred, Ghost, Sister, VIta Imana.

[kipper64]

I'm almost certain the headliners will be Faith No More, Guns N Roses, and Queen. And it just so happens GNR dates in France have started leaking (5 dates in total apparently, 1 so far on the 18th of June), as well as the leaked Polish date on the 30th of June from aaaages ago. GNR and Queen would explain the delay too. Slash is also going to be playing too, most likely...which could be interesting

Edited January 27, 2012 by kipper64

[jump]

I'm almost certain the headliners will be Faith No More, Guns N Roses, and Queen. And it just so happens GNR dates in France have started leaking (5 dates in total apparently, 1 so far on the 18th of June), as well as the leaked Polish date on the 30th of June from aaaages ago. GNR and Queen would explain the delay too. Slash is also going to be playing too, most likely...which could be interesting

Edited January 27, 2012 by jump

[kipper64]

You'll probably be in for disappointment then Can't see them NOT doing the UK in some form on this tour, and they generally do a festival whenever touring over here.

[HoTWire]

Lets hope some of that line up are coming to the UK! .. Soundgarden, Mastodon, Kyuss, Clutch, Orange Goblin... that'll do me.

[5co77ie]

Faith No More, Guns N Roses, and Queen.

[jump]

Lets hope some of that line up are coming to the UK! .. Soundgarden, Mastodon, Kyuss, Clutch, Orange Goblin... that'll do me.

[kipper64]

A lot of them are around Download, so hard to tell...Soundgarden will be DL exclusive I imagine. Would absolutely love the rest, I also reckon Gojira will be back.

[jump]

If that's right then Zimmer Frame lanes down the front at the ready - they're going to need a very much bigger campervan field for the old folks!

Can there be an older line-up of headliners on the festival circuit this year?

[spitfireman]

Total agreement from me as well. I know that Soni's strength is usually in its breadth of great bands but i'd be a bit pissed off with FNM, G'n'R (if they ever eventually appear onstage) and Adam Lambert supported by Queen.

Fingers crossed that this line up doesn't come about .... but there are still many other potential headliners out there so i remain hopeful.

I'm intrigued why they won't be making any announcements for another 2 weeks - on the face of it that might appear to be poor organisation/communications but surely there is a good reason for this. Maybe the announcement will actually be, in the words of Kerrang, unbelievable?

Who knows

[thejimbola]

If that's right then Zimmer Frame lanes down the front at the ready - they're going to need a very much bigger campervan field for the old folks!

Can there be an older line-up of headliners on the festival circuit this year?

[kipper64]

Yeah Queen, GNR and Faith No More isn't going to attract that much older an audience than the festival usually does surely? Faith No More aren't that old, GNR and Queen are, but both are bands loved by young people too...

They'll be a lot of hype for GNR this year though, considering the whole possible reunion at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. And like I said, I've heard Slash is booked (Which would make sense, going by the leaks that started the Queen rumours, he's headlining one of the nights at soni france).

Edited January 27, 2012 by kipper64

[eFestivals]

Maybe the announcement will actually be, in the words of Kerrang, unbelievable?

if it's rumoured acts then it will be - unbelievably bad i reckon. I can't see how it'll do very well at shifting tix with those bands.

The types who might be attracted by that version of Queen aren't likely to be the sorts who'd normally attend a festival, and FMN are not the draw that some people assume them to be (as shown by their Download & R/L apperarances a few years back).

If those are the headliners then I wouldn't be hugely surprised if this turned out to be the last Sonisphere in the UK.

[TYLER_4]

so is GnR FNM and Queen the likely line up?

[kipper64]

Absolute Bollocks. Almost everyone loves queen, seriously I don't know anyone who doesn't like Queen. Of course they'd shift tickets, you know, being one of the biggest bands in the world. Faith No More aren't the biggest headliner, agreed, but the year they played Download they were coupled with 2 not so big headliners either and yet Download still sold, what? 90,000 tickets. And to say GNR won't sell tickets is just laughable, like I said, going by the Hall of Fame rumours, they'll be a lot of hype over them.

If you think those bands, with a good undercard can't sell out or near enough sell out a 60,000 festival, to the point "it'll possibly be the last sonisphere UK", then you clearly know nothing. Seriously, it's comments like that, that make people think you guys know nothing about festivals...

Edited January 27, 2012 by kipper64