Sonisphere Festival Traffic measures

DRIVERS are being made aware of traffic measures set to be introduced for the forthcoming Sonsiphere festival in Knebworth.
A Highways Agency spokesman said there will be closures of northbound entry slip road and southbound exit slip road at junction 7 of the A1 (M) during the event.
These closures will come into effect from 12pm on Friday July 30 and be in place until 12pm on Monday August 2. A clearly signed diversion will be in place.
These measures are meant to assist pedestrian access across the bridge at junction 7 for those attending the festival.
Traffic seeking to join the A1 (M) northbound at junction 7 will be diverted to junction 8 via the A602 Broadhall Way, A1072 Gunnels Wood Road and A602 Hitchin Road.
Southbound road users wishing to exit at junction 7 should follow the same route in reverse .

The Big Four together for the first time in History and you can go free!

The first several thousand tickets purchased for the UK Sonisphere at Knebworth on 30th July – 1st August – headlined by Iron Maiden and Rammstein – came with a free ticket for Sonisphere Poland. With the BIG FOUR news, this has just become the offer of the decade! To make sure as many people as possible can witness this historic event, the offer has been extended so that you are GUARANTEED to get a Poland ticket if you Sonisphere tickets before 31ST DECEMBER 2009 (midnight).
If you already have a Sonisphere Knebworth weekend ticket, you will need to fill out this form for your Sonisphere Poland ticket

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

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.