Sonisphere festival cancelled!

False_Belief
False_Belief Cardiff Posts: 763
edited March 2012 in Other Music
Due to poor tickets sales apparently. Official announcement coming tomorrow....

http://www.gigwise.com/news/71815/Sonis ... 2012-event

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  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    Not surprised really. Poor lineup and the UK is just flooded with festivals these days. I hear about 3 new ones every year.
  • Evolutionary
    Evolutionary Posts: 880
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    Not surprised really. Poor lineup and the UK is just flooded with festivals these days. I hear about 3 new ones every year.

    FnM and Queen were quite good headliners though IMO.... I suspect a lot of people were put off by the price... 210 squids apparently :shock:
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  • Mikee J
    Mikee J Posts: 1,323
    Its says it was the "latest" UK fest to cancel.. what other ones have cancelled?
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  • stargirl69
    stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    Evolutionary wrote:
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    Not surprised really. Poor lineup and the UK is just flooded with festivals these days. I hear about 3 new ones every year.

    FnM and Queen were quite good headliners though IMO.... I suspect a lot of people were put off by the price... 210 squids apparently :shock:

    210! Really? Bloody hell :?
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,398
    stargirl69 wrote:
    Evolutionary wrote:
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    Not surprised really. Poor lineup and the UK is just flooded with festivals these days. I hear about 3 new ones every year.

    FnM and Queen were quite good headliners though IMO.... I suspect a lot of people were put off by the price... 210 squids apparently :shock:

    210! Really? Bloody hell :?

    what's a squid? (is that "slang" for dollar is america?)

    kinda sucks, I remember when Lollapallooza had to cancel their festival in '04 due to poor ticket sales.
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Mikee J wrote:
    Its says it was the "latest" UK fest to cancel.. what other ones have cancelled?

    Oxegen and the Big Chill apparently.
  • Evolutionary
    Evolutionary Posts: 880
    eeriepadave wrote:
    stargirl69 wrote:
    Evolutionary wrote:

    FnM and Queen were quite good headliners though IMO.... I suspect a lot of people were put off by the price... 210 squids apparently :shock:

    210! Really? Bloody hell :?

    what's a squid? (is that "slang" for dollar is america?)

    kinda sucks, I remember when Lollapallooza had to cancel their festival in '04 due to poor ticket sales.

    Squid = quid = pound.. Squids = quids = pounds...
    It's slang for slang :P
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  • veddertown
    veddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    It's not that surprising really. The UK is saturated with over-priced festivals now. It would be one thing if they all had great line-ups but they get weaker or more repetetive every year. Kiss would maybe attract an audience at the High Voltage festival but they've become pretty low profile in the UK for Knebworth sized venues. Faith No More should just do a proper tour in the UK and as for Queen? That horse has been flogged to death yet still Bryan May and Roger Taylor persevere with cheapening the name. It's almost as embarrasing as the current Axl Rose and friends guising as G N' R... :roll:
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    veddertown wrote:
    It's not that surprising really. The UK is saturated with over-priced festivals now. It would be one thing if they all had great line-ups but they get weaker or more repetetive every year. Kiss would maybe attract an audience at the High Voltage festival but they've become pretty low profile in the UK for Knebworth sized venues. Faith No More should just do a proper tour in the UK and as for Queen? That horse has been flogged to death yet still Bryan May and Roger Taylor persevere with cheapening the name. It's almost as embarrasing as the current Axl Rose and friends guising as G N' R... :roll:

    Ya FNM club shows, they aren't big enough to headline their own.

    Kiss pffft

    Ya what's with that Queen business, who'd ever wanna go see that..The dude has too much vibrato anyway.
  • Mikee J
    Mikee J Posts: 1,323
    facepollution wrote:
    Mikee J wrote:
    Its says it was the "latest" UK fest to cancel.. what other ones have cancelled?

    Oxegen and the Big Chill apparently.


    Big Chill said it was because of the Olympics...... not the same reason really.

    Was Oxygen because of tickets sales?
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Mikee J wrote:
    facepollution wrote:
    Mikee J wrote:
    Its says it was the "latest" UK fest to cancel.. what other ones have cancelled?

    Oxegen and the Big Chill apparently.


    Big Chill said it was because of the Olympics...... not the same reason really.

    Was Oxygen because of tickets sales?

    I dunno, I was just going by what the ever-reliable NME said :lol:

    I don't think there's any question that the UK festival scene has become completely oversaturated though, and because of that the lineups have become weaker.
  • Mikee J
    Mikee J Posts: 1,323
    facepollution wrote:
    I don't think there's any question that the UK festival scene has become completely oversaturated though, and because of that the lineups have become weaker.

    You are absolutely right, it's all become a big corporate mess too. Hop Farm have it right in my opinion....

    When I left the UK, 18 months ago I was totally over the whole festival scene there. 20 years of festivals and Glasto 2010 just tipped me over the edge. It was my 10th Glasto and I have to say I hated it. Then there is HRC and other big corporate "festivals" which sell awful beer for ridiculous prices and just seem to want to bleed you dry.... terrible.

    Here in Belgium there are a few festivals which are the complete opposite of this......Not Werchter but some of the smaller established fests like Dour and Cactus... always great line ups and the beer is the same price as the bars in town! :D:lol:
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  • facepollution
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    Mikee J wrote:
    You are absolutely right, it's all become a big corporate mess too. Hop Farm have it right in my opinion....

    When I left the UK, 18 months ago I was totally over the whole festival scene there. 20 years of festivals and Glasto 2010 just tipped me over the edge. It was my 10th Glasto and I have to say I hated it. Then there is HRC and other big corporate "festivals" which sell awful beer for ridiculous prices and just seem to want to bleed you dry.... terrible.

    Here in Belgium there are a few festivals which are the complete opposite of this......Not Werchter but some of the smaller established fests like Dour and Cactus... always great line ups and the beer is the same price as the bars in town! :D:lol:

    Nice!

    I don't mind HRC because it's not far from me, and I enjoy big outdoor shows in the summertime, even if the beer is overpriced and shit!
  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    Brisk. wrote:
    veddertown wrote:
    It's not that surprising really. The UK is saturated with over-priced festivals now. It would be one thing if they all had great line-ups but they get weaker or more repetetive every year. Kiss would maybe attract an audience at the High Voltage festival but they've become pretty low profile in the UK for Knebworth sized venues. Faith No More should just do a proper tour in the UK and as for Queen? That horse has been flogged to death yet still Bryan May and Roger Taylor persevere with cheapening the name. It's almost as embarrasing as the current Axl Rose and friends guising as G N' R... :roll:

    Ya FNM club shows, they aren't big enough to headline their own.

    They were big enough to headline Download in 2009 and were good doing it.
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  • Olivavu
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    facepollution wrote:
    Mikee J wrote:
    You are absolutely right, it's all become a big corporate mess too. Hop Farm have it right in my opinion....

    When I left the UK, 18 months ago I was totally over the whole festival scene there. 20 years of festivals and Glasto 2010 just tipped me over the edge. It was my 10th Glasto and I have to say I hated it. Then there is HRC and other big corporate "festivals" which sell awful beer for ridiculous prices and just seem to want to bleed you dry.... terrible.

    Here in Belgium there are a few festivals which are the complete opposite of this......Not Werchter but some of the smaller established fests like Dour and Cactus... always great line ups and the beer is the same price as the bars in town! :D:lol:

    Nice!

    I don't mind HRC because it's not far from me, and I enjoy big outdoor shows in the summertime, even if the beer is overpriced and shit!

    Would you be more critical of it if it wasn't so close?
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Olivavu wrote:
    Would you be more critical of it if it wasn't so close?

    Critical of what? Brixton Academy has shit overpriced beer, and the sound can be dodgy too. Like I said, I enjoy those big outdoor shows in the summertime, something about the sense of occasion, throw in some bands I love and it's a good day out to me.
  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    99% of music venues have overpriced crap beer.

    Brixton Academy's sound is far better than Hyde Park.

    Every other festival I have ever been to has far better sound than Hyde Park.
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  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    Anyway, that has gone off topic.



    With regards to Sonisphere, I went to the first one in 2009 and thought it was ok but wasn't required. Download Festival had already sucked most of the heavy music out of Reading Festival and another one wasn't required.

    It has only diluted the lineups of other festivals further and I would not be at all disappointed to see the back of Sonisphere.

    Back in the 90s, there was Reading, Glastonbury, V and Phoenix. V Festival turned up in the mid/late 90s and seemed to find a place as the 'softest' festival, which was fine. That meant Reading could maintain the heavier lineups along with the variety of Glastonbury.

    The Phoenix Festival wasn't really needed and just seemed a copy of Reading. The problem was, they didn't treat fans well and were far too strict with curfews etc.

    In the last ten years though, the number of festivals has gone ridiculously high and it just isn't needed. Festivals have become fashionable and trendy and it's a real shame that they have been removed from the alternative.
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Olivavu wrote:
    99% of music venues have overpriced crap beer.

    Brixton Academy's sound is far better than Hyde Park.

    Every other festival I have ever been to has far better sound than Hyde Park.

    It seems you are annoyed that people can possibly enjoy an event at Hyde Park? Obviously you place higher value on the sound quality than the overall experience of a show, and that's fair enough, but in my personal experience the sound was perfectly acceptable where I was standing.
  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    facepollution wrote:
    Olivavu wrote:
    99% of music venues have overpriced crap beer.

    Brixton Academy's sound is far better than Hyde Park.

    Every other festival I have ever been to has far better sound than Hyde Park.

    It seems you are annoyed that people can possibly enjoy an event at Hyde Park? Obviously you place higher value on the sound quality than the overall experience of a show, and that's fair enough, but in my personal experience the sound was perfectly acceptable where I was standing.

    What do you think the overall experience of a show comprises of?
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