New Announcement...

[kipper64]

I think 2 day tickets would be a bit pointless though, at that point you may as well just do the whole weekend as there's bound to be something for you

Turbonegro have some festival news coming up - seems likely they'll be in tonight's announcement, ex label mates with Hives and Refused, so can see it happening

[luckysalt]

R1 just announced Glassjaw, playing an album in full

[Furious-Red]

Yea Glassjaw performing Worship and Tribute in full

[moz4pm]

thats a very good start to the announcement, they were great at leeds last year

[Furious-Red]

From Trash Hits

Sonisphere Festival adds Kvelertak, Crowbar, Electric Wizard, Skindred, Glassjaw, Hundred Reasons, Black Stone Cherry, New Model Army, Alestorm, Seether and The Getaway Plan to UK line-up

Edited March 6, 2012 by Furious-Red

[luckysalt]

[Smally]

DARYL FUCKING PALUMBO.

My favourite band and pretty much favourite album.

[luckysalt]

R1 announed Black Stone Cherry as exclusive.

Fucks sake they're at IOW, stop with these fake exclusives please!

[moz4pm]

anyone know what day crowbar are playing?

[Justiceforcedave]

hmmm underwhelming for me personally.

[kipper64]

Saturday, buddy!

Electric Wizard, Kevelertak, Glassjaw and HR playing albums in full, are all big yes's from myself. The rest is alright, not too much grabbing my attention, Skindred and BSC should be fun, though to be fair a lot of the bands are smaller stages in this one it seems, Alestorm opening Saturn should be great fun as well after their reception last year. Overall pretty solid announcement, a few nice surprises, but nothing massive other than GJ, HR and Electric Wizard for me!

[moz4pm]

Thats a shame, I'm only going for the Sunday but I'm happy with Glassjaw being added

[Justiceforcedave]

Wonder who the special guests are Sat on the Saturn? Lost Prophets probably.

[pryce]

are the Hives band from the uk ... havent played since i last saw them in 08ish

anyway happy with Glassjaw added on the sunday ... loving the top 3 on the saturn stage

[lightning1000]

Meh.

Only bands I'm interested in I've already seen loads due to the fact they never fuck off for 5 mins

I'm looking at you skindred.

[Furious-Red]

Legendary post-punk heroes NEW MODEL ARMY join the SONISPHERE cast for a very special late night set on Friday night in BOHEMIA after headliners KISS wrap up the APOLLO stage.

CROWBAR:their exclusive festival appearance will test BOHEMIA’s structural integrity to its limits.

[Justiceforcedave]

*sigh* I'll keep my fingers crossed for Frank Turner.

[gazza_20]

Saturday, buddy!

Electric Wizard, Kevelertak, Glassjaw and HR playing albums in full, are all big yes's from myself. The rest is alright, not too much grabbing my attention, Skindred and BSC should be fun, though to be fair a lot of the bands are smaller stages in this one it seems, Alestorm opening Saturn should be great fun as well after their reception last year. Overall pretty solid announcement, a few nice surprises, but nothing massive other than GJ, HR and Electric Wizard for me!

[t8yman]

well that aint gonna sell any more tickets is it?

Ive got 13 mates who were waiting for the initial announcement, none of them are going now, and this wont change that. and whats with the "playing x in full" trend? its pointless, unless you are metallica sized. even mastodon doing the hunter is a bad idea imho, and I love that album.

[biffoire]

well that aint gonna sell any more tickets is it?

and whats with the "playing x in full" trend? its pointless, unless you are metallica sized. even mastodon doing the hunter is a bad idea imho, and I love that album.

[thejimbola]

Very happy with BSC, Seether, Skindred and Hundred Reasons. Glassjaw have never really done it for me live but I will give it another try!

[Justiceforcedave]

I think I was one of the few people who were really happy with the first announcement....but this one is just so "Meh".

Would have thought that the Soni crew would have wanted to announce at least one other big big band to shift some more tickets. This feels like it should have been a third of forth announcement.

[jump]

Meh, to be honest I've given up on Soni now and just checking to see what bands are announced to rule out of other fests and hopefully the ones that are announced will help keep tix prices cheap so I can go on Sunday for Refused.

[gary1979666]

Still some decent spaces to fill - only one act for Apollo in the last announcement - so a couple to go for Sat and Sun, plus the special guests on the Fri. Prob another 3 or so on Saturn too.

But agree, the announcement largely was a bit of a let down. Some good acts there, and fills out the fest nicely for me, but was hoping for some of the bigger names.

[she bangs the drums]

I can't say I am that arsed with the latest announcement, I finally saw Glassjaw at Leeds Festival last year and have to say I was really disappointed as they just played new material and b-sides and the crowd was one of the smallest in the NME tent for the whole weekend, hopefully they will be much better here.

Anyone think they will be giving away tickets this year like they did in the early years?