Sonisphere Fsetival: Dates At Knebworth Confirmed

Its official! The sonisphere festival at knebworth park next year will take place on July 31 and August 1.

Band rumoured to be making an appearance at the two-day extravaganza include Slipknot, Muse and the Chemical Brothers.

This Weekend Metallica TV

(antiMusic) Sonisphere Festival 2009 will be aired on MTV's high def channel Pallaidia this weekend and will feature performances from Metallica, Linkin Park, Anthrax, Alice in Chains, Machine Head and more: The special airs Saturday, 9/5 at 9pm and Sunday, 9/6 at 9pm.
Metallica.com had this info on the specials: The Sonisphere Festival is a series of rockin' summer music festivals taking place across Europe and features some of the longest and great bands in Hard Rock and Metal.
Part 1 of the 2009 festival premieres Saturday, 9/5 and features performances by artists such as Metallica, Linkin Park, and Anthrax.
Part 2 of the 2009 festival premieres Sunday, 9/6 and features performances by artists such as Machine Head, Limp Bizkit, and Alice in Chains.
Please check your local listings. Pallaidia tv can be found here: http://www.palladia.tv
Final artists featured are as follows: (schedule subject to change)

Prog 1 (Saturday 9pm EST)

Linkin Park - New Divide

Dead By Sunrise - Crawl Back In

Heaven & Hell - Bible Black

Taking Back Sunday - New Again

Taking Back Sunday - Sink Into Me

The Used - Hospital

Alient Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal

Anthrax - Safe Home

Anthrax - Anti Social

Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire

Metallica - Fuel

Prog 2 (Sunday 9pm EST)

Metallica - Hit The Lights

Alice In Chains - Dam That River

Machine Head - Struck a Nerve

Machine Head - Halo

Limp Bizkit - My Generation

Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff

Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong

Linkin Park - In The End

Metallica - Fade To Black

We're taking a short break now, but you can hold three songs from the last summer show at Knebworth airing in the UK on Channel 4/Blink TV on this Friday night just after midnight, (guess that's technically Saturday, August 15) at 12:10 AM. Check out the Sonisphere special airing then . . . there will be other cool bands too.
See you in a month from North America!

Appear to Scheduled – 08/27

If you’re one of the people who wasn’t able to gas up the jet and make the rounds of the European summer festival circuit, MTV Networks has your back.
Palladia, MTV’s high-def music channel, is launching a week of shows covering the E.U.’s biggest musical parties.
“Outdoor Week 2009” kicks off Sept. 1 at 9 p.m. EST/PST with the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival.
Other accidents featured include Spain’s Benicassim Music Festival and Denmark’s Roskilde Festival, as well as two other U.K. gatherings: the Isle of Wight Festival and the British edition of Sonisphere Festival.

Thursday, August 27

Raphael Saadiq – “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” – rerun

Kevin Nealon, Brad Wollack – “Chelsea Lately”

Mute Math – “Late Show with David Letterman”

Matisyahu – “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” – rerun

Jordin Sparks – “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” – rerun Selena Gomez,

Darius Rucker – “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Jeff Foxworthy, Gavin DeGraw – “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” – rerun

Glasvegas – “Last Call with Carson Daly” – rerun

Friday, August 28

Taylor Hicks – “Live with Regis and Kelly” – rerun

TJ Miller, George Wallace, Natasha Leggero – “Chelsea Lately” – rerun

Artie Lange, Imogen Heap – “Late Show with David Letterman”

Colbie Caillat – “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien”

Diddy – “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” – rerun

Common, Doves – “Last Call with Carson Daly” – rerun

Saturday, August 29

Will Hoge – CBS Early Show

R.E.M. – "Austin City Limits" – rerun

David Cook – “Saturday Night Live” – rerun

I AM STAYING IN LONDON, AMY WINEHOUSE SAID

Amy Winehouse has revealed she’ll be living in London for at least the next few months — she has to get busy in recording for her new album.
The World newspaper to Speaking in Britain’s, the Rehab singer said the album the follow-up to her hugely successful second record Black to Black will be sung in English, rather than the Caribbean island’s native language as she had planned.
I am going to be in London for a while now, said Amy that I am not going to go to home (to St Lucia) for a while. This is a new chapter for me that I’ve got a lot of stuff with my record company to sort out. i’ve got some thing we’re very glad about ,definitely. I like being back.
Amy who recently divorced husband Blake Fielder-Civil – also insisted she is not looking to have a man in her life she said “I’m really NOT looking for a boyfriend,”
Amy then spoke about her best friend her 13-year-old goddaughter Dionne Bromfield who she has made the first signing to her new record
Amy said. “I’ve missed Dionne since I’ve been in St Lucia. Very much,”

Sonisphere August 2009 get ready

The Knebworth rock saga continues with the infamous venue hosting the very first UK Sonisphere Festival. Ex-Download Festival guru Stuart Galbraith has provided a line-up sure to whet the appetites of any heavy rock fan. Organisers have downplayed the idea of Sonisphere being a direct rival to Download, although the line-up paints a different picture with metal, nu-metal and hard rock festival regulars, who wouldn't look out of place under the Donnington tyre, lining up. Aside from the comparisons, Sonisphere promises to be a raucous event with seriously hard hitting headliners in the form of Metallica and Linkin Park. This is one weekend unlikely to disappoint those ready to “rock!”

It’s all happening from 1-2 August in the grounds of Knebworth House, Hertfordshire.

Nine Inch Nails rock Manchester and London

This week, Trent Reznor and co have been busy banging out 20+ song sets at Manchester MEN Arena (July 14th) and London O2 Arena (July 15th) with a very special guest in London.

After covering Gary Numan’s classic track, ‘Metal’ in Manchester on Tuesday, the ‘Cars’ star joined the Apollo Stage stars in London for a couple of songs. Needless to say, the crowd went mental for it.

the setlists from the two shows are:

Manchester

Burn
Gave Up

Somewhat Damaged
Terrible Lie
Heresy
March of the Pigs
Piggy
Metal (Gary Numan cover)
The Becoming Play Video
I’m Afraid Of Americans (David Bowie cover)
La Mer
The Fragile
Gone, Still
The Way Out Is Through
Wish
Survivalism
Suck (Pigface cover)
The Day The World Went Away
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole

London

Now I’m Nothing
Terrible Lie
1,000,000
Heresy
March of the Pigs
Reptile
The Becoming
I’m Afraid Of Americans (David Bowie cover)
Burn
Gave Up
La Mer
The Fragile
Non-Entity
The Big Come Down
The Downward Spiral
Wish
Survivalism
Down In It
Metal (w/ Gary Numan)
Cars (w/ Gary Numan)
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole

Machine Head are not going to perform in Sonisphere Festival 2009

The California rockers, whose appearance would have been the only outdoor show they would have played in the UK this year, have stated that,
"It is with the utmost disappointment that we must announce that Machine Head will not be playing the Sonisphere date at Knebworth in the U.K. on August 2nd.

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Limp Bizkit is also going to jain Sonisphere Festival 2009

Nu Metal pioneers Limp Bizkit are the latest band to be confirmed for the British leg of the Sonisphere Festival which will be taking place during the weekend of August 1st and 2nd at Knebworth. Limp Bizkit will be performingon the sunday which is the day Metallica will be headlining the show. Sunday also boasts performances from Nine Inch Nails, Machine Head and Alice In Chains amongst others.

Sonisphere Festival UK Line Up 2009

The British edition of the Sonisphere Festival will take place over two days on Saturday August 1 and Sunday August 2, 2009 at Knebworth House, Knebworth with headliners Linkin Park (Saturday) and Metallica (Sunday). The festival will have four stages of music during the weekend, with the main two being staggered staging, the others being within the Bohemia village. The Bohemia stage (the third of four stages) is an undercover stage and as such will be able to continue past the sound curfews placed upon the main stages.

Apollo Stage
Saturday	Sunday
Linkin Park Heaven and Hell Coheed and Cambria Anthrax Taking Back Sunday	Metallica Nine Inch Nails Limp Bizkit Lamb of God Killing Joke

Saturn Stage
Saturday	Sunday
Bullet for my Valentine Airbourne The Used Skindred	Avenged Sevenfold Alice in Chains Feeder Mastodon

Bohemia
Saturday	Sunday
Thunder The Wildhearts Blakfish Failsafe FACT Fighting With Wire Flood of Red Fucked Up Glamour of the Kill Oceansize Rolo Tomassi Sylosis Telegraphs Twin Atlantic	The Ataris Hundred Reasons Architects Attack! Attack! Cancer Bats Corey Taylor (solo) Dead by April Dirty Little Rabbits Lauren Harris Rise to Remain Pepper Zebrahead

Jagermeister Stage
Saturday	Sunday
Blackhole Exit Ten Fin Me Vs Hero The Dead Formats	Heaven’s Basement Dear Superstar The Crave The Defiled Young Guns

• Frank Turner was also originally confirmed for the main stage, but was forced to pull out for undisclosed reasons.
• The Sword have also withdrawn from the lineup because they were tired.
• Fear Factory were also scheduled to play but cancelled all tour dates.
• Thin Lizzy were also scheduled to play on the Sunday, but as the band has parted ways with guitarist/vocalist John Sykes they have been forced to pull out.
• Machine Head were originally billed to play the third spot on the Sunday. However they pulled out after Stuart Galbraith, the festival organiser, had moved Limp above them without informing the band. As the third spot was a part of Machine Heads contract to play, the band decided to withdraw themselves from the festival completely.

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Sonisphere Festival Camping

The space in Sonisphere festival has more than enough for everyone on site. That makes it as big as Donington Park or the sites for Reading and Leeds Festivals. particulars about the special Campsites will be coming here soon.

Family Camping

We will have a Family and Quiet Camping areas to allow those attending Sonisphere to find some respite from the excited partying going on somewhere else. However, you will need to book a divide pass for the Family Camping area.

Gas Canisters

We have determined to ban Gas Canisters from the outset, the extensive abuse of Gas Canisters at almost every major rock festival means we have decided to start Sonisphere without them. As an alternative you can use mini, disposable, or hexi BBQs or we will have a BBQ area with some big solid BBQs so everyone can cook up together.

Tents

You should actually only bring a Tent the size of the people camping in it. Ie not 2 people in a 8 person tent.

How to Get Sonisphere Festival

SHUTTLES

A free of charge shuttle bus service will run during the listed train timings from Stevenage Train Station to the Sonisphere site beginning at 2pm on the Thursday and finishing once you have all gone on Monday. It will be a nonstop service instead of at set times. Additional buses will be available during active periods but you may need to wait for a little while to get the next obtainable bus. Please DO NOT walk to the festival site. It is a 2 mile walk and involves crossing a motorway junction where you will be stopped for safety reasons. The shuttle bus is not kept for just rail users. It can be used by local festival goers and people continuing or parking in Stevenage. The shuttle bus will leave from the Leisure Park at the foot of the railway station bridge.

BY AIR

Knebworth is in close up approximate to all of the major London airports: Heathrow (30 miles), Stansted (25 miles), Gatwick (75 miles) and Luton (12 miles)

BY RAIL

The closest rail station is Stevenage, two miles away. There is a taxi rank at the station. Non stop Inter-City and local services sprint to Stevenage from London Kings Cross Station around every 30 minutes. Plus, there are everyday Inter-City connections on the East Coast main line to Cambridge, York, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and a lot of other destinations.

BY COACH

National Express coaches take you right to into the coach park at Knebworth and back from main towns and cities all over the UK. We’ve prearranged a suitable schedule for arrival and departure, to give you time to arrangement camp and to get you home afterwards, without you having to miss a thing.

BY ROAD

The public access to the Park is straight off Junction 7 of the A1(M) motorway (exit Stevenage South), 10 miles north of the M25. Sat Nav systems should use the post code SG1 2AX. To locate the A1(M) please see the Motorway Map. Ample parking is obtainable.

Sonisphere Festival Line Up 2009

• Metallica
• Linkin Park
• NIN
• Heaven & Hell
• Bullet For My Valentine
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Machine Head
• Feeder
• Coheed & Cambria
• Anthrax
• Taking Back Sunday
• Alice In Chains
• Lamb Of God
• Airbourne
• Killing Joke
  Thin Lizzy
  The Used
  Mastodon

Sonisphere Festival 2009

The 2009 Sonisphere festival tour will be made up of 7 one day festivals across Europe with an 8th festival in England spanning two days. The festival will have a core group of bands that will play each of the 7 dates with numerous extra bands added to each date individually. The locations for the 2009 festivals include Goffert Park, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Hockenheimring, Germany; The Forum, Barcelona, Spain; Folkets Park, Hultsfred, Sweden; Kirjurinluoto, Pori, Finland, Marlay Park, Dublin, Ireland, and Knebworth House, Knebworth, England. Metallica have been announced as the main headliners for each of the 2009 Sonisphere Festivals.

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Introduction To Sonisphere Festival

The Sonisphere Festival is a series of summer music festivals which will held across Europe from June 2009. The festival is owned and promoted by Kilimanjaro Live with financial backing from AEG.
The thought for Sonisphere was first pictured when Stuart Galbraith, was working for now business competitors and managers of Download Festival, Live Nation. The plan was to grasp a sequence of events that would 'translate into other lands. The event did not begin to materialise however, until Galbraith left Live Nation for events company Kilamanjaro Live. Galbraith gained the support of influential metal band Metallica who will help curate the festival in coming years, however, rumours were rapidly left without of them being signed to a multi million pound deal which would see them headline the festival for 3 years. Galbraiths tactics for future festivals are to enlarge the number of festivals making the event global rather than local to europe, increasing the UK event to a 3 day festival and rising the UK capacity from 40,000 to 60,000.