Sunday, August 29, 2010

Sonisphere Festival: In Knebworth rock history


Rammstein on the Apollo stage at SonisphereHenry Lytton Cobbold judgment that who lives in the gothic stately home. The Sonisphere 2010 will enter Knebworth folklore. The German industrial metallers unleashed an astonishing 22 tonnes of pyrotechnics into the Knebworth sky on the Saturday night.

Henry said: “We like records to latest report at Knebworth and that was a record amount of pyrotechnics.”

Despite singing in German almost entirely further fans 50,000 was seemed transfixed as Till Lindemann’s Teutonic rockers for the first time took to the UK festival stage.

At a Sonisphere press conference speaking before Iron Maiden had taken to the stage, he said: “From Knebworth’s perspective it’s been another classic weekend.

“It has been an greatest weekend and we are thrilled that it’s going to become part of the Knebworth story.”

He added: “I can’t wait for next year!”

Sonisphere Festival mastermind Stuart Galbraith also hailed Rammstein’s display of fire, flames and special effects.

The veteran rock promoter said: “Rammstein are a phenomenon. They are absolutely unique, aren’t they? The scale of their show, the presentation of their show... and the fact I actually like about them is that they don’t take themselves too seriously.”

Alice Cooper headlined the first night of this year’s festival, with heavy metal legends Iron Maiden bringing proceedings to an epic conclusion on the Sunday.

Sonisphere show on the back, new album to the Iron Maiden The Final Frontier entered the UK charts at number one last weekend.

Sonisphere will return to Knebworth next July.