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 Posted: 10:27 - 21 Feb 2012 Post subject: SONISPHERE 2012 |
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https://sonisphere.co.uk/
Tickets on sale from this Thursday !
Who is going?
I am going on the Sunday for Incubus & Faith No More 
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Ops - it seems I have gone back in time
How do I change that? |
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2008? Great Scott!
I have a lot of friends who speak highly of sonisphere, and last year bill bailey was there, so tempting stuff  ____________________ Fzr-600 1999 |
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Sorry not sure what happend there, but I have corrected it.
I am so excited.. don't even remeber the last gig I went too.
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Checked out the lineup, don't like any of the bands and the tickets will likely be overpriced
I used to like download, I went in like 05 and 06 and saw Black Sabbath regroup, it was sick
Last year I went to O2 wireless fest in london hyde park, which was also pretty sick, The Chemical Brothers ftw!
I do enjoy them, but mostly for the excessive drinking and meeting like minded people
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For sale. 1 slightly abused and battered soul.
Price: 1 ticket to Sonnisphere or one ticket to Sunday nights line up.
Contact Pinky for details.
Chances are I wont be at this one. Just like I wasnt at the last one, Or the one where Rammstein headlined but Faith No More I saw way back in the day when they were support for GnR in 92 and they were better than the headliners. First time I had ever heard of them and they were that good that no one cared that GnR were a couple of hours late getting on stage! ____________________ illuminateTHEmind wrote: I am just more evolved than most of you guys... this allows me to pick of things quickly which would have normally taken the common man years to master
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| BLUEX5 wrote: | Sonisphere is too expensive (although you can come to the same conclusion about most UK festivals).
I'd rather spend the money over the course of the year going specifically to see the bands I like rather than pay cunt money for a camping pass, stale beer and shit food to stand in a field hoping the weather holds out while waiting for a band I actually like. |
That's not just it though.
Like Download, I don't pay for my tickets but I happily would do. £200 for five days camping with your mates, most people are wrecked almost 24/7 on alcohol or drugs, loads of bands you like and a lot more.
You don't even need to buy anything there really, the people I camped next to last year brought a 25 litre drum full of vodka which lasted them all weekend and you eat stuff like pot noodles/sausage sandwiches if you eat at all because you ingest so many calories in alcohol and you are doing other things so you just forget to eat.
In my opinion, £200 is nothing for five days of absolute hilarity with your best friends and loads of people you don't know but are just as funny whilst seeing loads of bands that you really like and being introduced to some new bands you may like and loads more.
It's not just the bands, it's the experience. I understand it's not for everyone though. ____________________ "Four wheels move the body, two wheels move the soul."
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Would only go for I killed the prom queen... and since when were they back together
Ah well... doubtful I'll go this year, got very lucky last year and got a free ticket..but this year looks expensive for what it is. |
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I'd only be going for Faith No More and Mastodon.
Bet then I'd be going in the hope that Mastodon play most of their older stuff but, like most bands, they're only going to be plugging their latest album which I'm not really liking thus far.
On the flip side, seeing Faith No More would make my day, but I'm not paying all that money to see 2 bands that I like.
People do say that it's not just about the bands at the festival. This may be true, but thats what you're paying most of your money for.
Me and a few mates managed to grab some Saturday tickets for Reading a couple of years back. This was probably the worst festival experience I'd had so far as far as the music was concerned. I had to suffer Ian Brown and I'm not a big fan of The Killers. We al wished we'd managed to get tickets for the Sunday as Radiohead were headlining. This would have made up for the piss poor Saturday.
We did have some fun meeting random people, getting wasted and sleeping in the car for 3 hours and stopping for an obligatory Burger King on the way Home.
Of course, NOTHING has come even close to Download 2006, I managed to see loads of bands I'd been wanting to see for years, met some cool random people, had bacon every morning for breakfast had an epically huge tent to sleep in and, to top it all off, we had some fun with the riot police on the last night.
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was stuck between Soni and Download last year, went to Download in the end because most of us couldn't make Sonisphere, this year I've got my 5 day camping for Download on lineup alone, not saying Sonisphere has a bad one, just I would prefer to see the bands playing at Download. Plus its 15 minutes down the road to Download so perfect ferrying distance for alcohol/shower  ____________________ Ybr 125 > Bandit 650SA > GSXR 600 > Triumph Sprint St1050 > CB1300 > Z1000SX + FJ1200 (written off) > VFR750 >FJ1200 |
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Sonisphere has fucked it this year, the lineup is shite and they took the piss announcing it, I believe it was probably Downloads fault as they have pulled out all the stops for all the anniversaries that are being celebrated, it looks past immense, though I do love the Sonisphere general vibe and the location more! The only band I personally would see is Marilyn Manson because they (he?) are/is the only band thats anywhere true to the previous years in all honesty, though they were never going to beat last years lineup!
As for the money thing, it is very expensive but as I don't have holidays abroad and this is a common interest between friends I rarely see, I'd pay the money every time. Also getting the chance to meet bands is priceless, like remember that time I met Rammstein and stuff Blue, you remember that? Oh no, cos you weren't there I won't be able to make any festivals this year because I'll be doing my basic training for the Army at the same time as every UK festival ( ) but if I had the choice I would go with Download, and if they weren't on the same weekend, Rockness, just for something different!
Though I will admit this is all my (and a shitload of others on the FB page) opinion, it will still sell out, the headliners have massively dedicated fanbases and besides theres always a furor at first over the lineup (remember Biffy last year?) but people go anyway, silly people!
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| phantomtek wrote: | Sonisphere has fucked it this year, the lineup is shite and they took the piss announcing it, I believe it was probably Downloads fault as they have pulled out all the stops for all the anniversaries that are being celebrated, it looks past immense, |
I am inclined to disagree with this one. Friday night. Chase and Status? Prodigy?
At a rock festival?
Now I'm not the smartest peanut in the turd but even I know that dance acts have no business being in a rock festival. Its bad enough that Pendulum tend to fall into Download every couple of years but 2 dance acts back to back opening what at one time used to be Monsters of Rock, one of the biggest rock events in the world.
Saturday night, Metallica doing the black album from start to finish. At least they got a rock band for the night. But the Black album is not their greatest peice of work and they are only touring it because it was their biggest selling album and its their anniversary. Master of puppets was by far a better album. Kill em all was better. I'd even go as far to say that even Justice was a better album than the black one.
Biffy.... well dont get me started on them. Rock band they are not. Were, once, but not now.
Tenacious D I cant get on with but fair enough they are good live and funny. The best band on Saturday night by far is Trivium.
Sunday seems to be the better night. Sabbath, Soundgarden, Even Anthrax making the bill. Proper rock for the final night.
Sonisphere may not have the massive guns that they have had in the past years but their sunday night line up looks like it would be worth going to. ____________________ illuminateTHEmind wrote: I am just more evolved than most of you guys... this allows me to pick of things quickly which would have normally taken the common man years to master
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 13 years, 355 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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