realpoti Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/17536642 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 (edited) Should've booked GNR to be fair Edited March 29, 2012 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Bond Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Seriously? Wow. You'd think that'd be enough bands for it to sell well. How much were tickets going for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Seriously? Wow. You'd think that'd be enough bands for it to sell well. How much were tickets going for?Standard prices for a weekend festival. Around £170 I think.Anyway, I have always felt that since Sonisphere came along that the festival scene has been saturated. Student/indie types hit Reading/Leeds. Download has always been for the real metal types. Glastonbury is Glastonbury. Then you have IoW, V festival etc. It's hard to see what Sonisphere brought apart from being a lesser Download. And especially with Download having such a strong lineup this year it was always gonna be difficult.Anyway, Mr. Rose would've changed it all I'm sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Seriously? Wow. You'd think that'd be enough bands for it to sell well. How much were tickets going for?Standard prices for a weekend festival. Around £170 I think.Anyway, I have always felt that since Sonisphere came along that the festival scene has been saturated. Student/indie types hit Reading/Leeds. Download has always been for the real metal types. Glastonbury is Glastonbury. Then you have IoW, V festival etc. It's hard to see what Sonisphere brought apart from being a lesser Download. And especially with Download having such a strong lineup this year it was always gonna be difficult.Anyway, Mr. Rose would've changed it all I'm sure The fact that they had them all over Europe, on the same scale as Download. That being said, they had one great year of lineups (2010), and other than a couple one-off good ones last year (UK and Italy namely), they've been pretty shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Seriously? Wow. You'd think that'd be enough bands for it to sell well. How much were tickets going for?Standard prices for a weekend festival. Around £170 I think.Anyway, I have always felt that since Sonisphere came along that the festival scene has been saturated. Student/indie types hit Reading/Leeds. Download has always been for the real metal types. Glastonbury is Glastonbury. Then you have IoW, V festival etc. It's hard to see what Sonisphere brought apart from being a lesser Download. And especially with Download having such a strong lineup this year it was always gonna be difficult.Anyway, Mr. Rose would've changed it all I'm sure The fact that they had them all over Europe, on the same scale as Download. That being said, they had one great year of lineups (2010), and other than a couple one-off good ones last year (UK and Italy namely), they've been pretty shit.Download's been a tradition in the UK for far longer though, it's pretty much an institution... Sonisphere wasn't bringing competition of the calibre it took to topple Download (and that's with Download line-ups being significantly poorer in recent years than they once were, excepting this year.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Seriously? Wow. You'd think that'd be enough bands for it to sell well. How much were tickets going for?Standard prices for a weekend festival. Around £170 I think.Anyway, I have always felt that since Sonisphere came along that the festival scene has been saturated. Student/indie types hit Reading/Leeds. Download has always been for the real metal types. Glastonbury is Glastonbury. Then you have IoW, V festival etc. It's hard to see what Sonisphere brought apart from being a lesser Download. And especially with Download having such a strong lineup this year it was always gonna be difficult.Anyway, Mr. Rose would've changed it all I'm sure The fact that they had them all over Europe, on the same scale as Download. That being said, they had one great year of lineups (2010), and other than a couple one-off good ones last year (UK and Italy namely), they've been pretty shit.Download's been a tradition in the UK for far longer though, it's pretty much an institution... Sonisphere wasn't bringing competition of the calibre it took to topple Download (and that's with Download line-ups being significantly poorer in recent years than they once were, excepting this year.)I don't disagree. In fact, I never really saw the point in having a UK Sonisphere, because it really does seem like a second-rate Download. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevelle Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 People probably aren't interested in Queen with Adam Lambert and are just flat out sick of KISS. Only so much you can prostitute those classic rock bands in these festivals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sandman Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Kiss hasn't done that much here though recently?Queen + Paul Rodgers would have been better, but still not a festival headliner imho... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 I'm not fuckin suprised with headliners like that, Queen and KISS? No fucking wonder.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Kiss hasn't done that much here though recently?Queen + Paul Rodgers would have been better, but still not a festival headliner imho...Last festival Kiss did here was Download 2008. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sandman Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Isn't exactly ultra-regular anyway. Shame it was their only UK date Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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