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.