The BIG 4 at SONISPHERE!!!

scudzilla

As it says guys, The BIG 4 will be playing the Friday at SONISPHERE :D:D

hellyeah

just on the soni site. nothing up yet. presume this is for soni uk?
where you hear about this?

scudzilla

hellyeah wrote: »

just on the soni site. nothing up yet. presume this is for soni uk?
where you hear about this?

Just called my mate, he said it's on an embargo till 8pm, 100% accurate though

srfc1928

Confirmed on Twitter

hellyeah

up on the soni site. confirmned.:Dthere is a metal god!!!!!!!!!!!!

Knifey Spoony

I think I know what my big gig for the summer is going to be . Now, to try and convince my friends to come along.

scudzilla

Luton Airport is 10miles away, gonna fly in on the fri morning, and fly back out Sat morning :-)

hellyeah

flying into luton myself. doing the whole weekend. staying in stevenage.
took a gamble and booked flights and accomodation couple of weeks back.
glad i did with this announement. was at the download festivel last year which was amazing. think this is going to top it.!!!:eek:
3 day ticket with no camping £150.

Motley Crue

scudzilla wrote: »

Luton Airport is 10miles away, gonna fly in on the fri morning, and fly back out Sat morning :-)

Just emailed the press office, there's a good chance they're not doing day tickets, as they believe it will be a sell out before Christmas based on this news. That remains to be seen, but I can't see any other reason to go other then this day and then maybe fly to Dublin for a second Big Four gig....come on, could happen!

deathrider

Motley Crue wrote: »

Just emailed the press office, there's a good chance they're not doing day tickets, as they believe it will be a sell out before Christmas based on this news. That remains to be seen, but I can't see any other reason to go other then this day and then maybe fly to Dublin for a second Big Four gig....come on, could happen!

I reckon the chances of it happening on Irish soil are fairly low, but I'd love to see it happen. No way in hell I'm going to be able to a afford tickets for this before xmas. This show wouldn't just make my day, it would make my life!

Het-Field

I HAVE to go to this. However, I dont think I could convince any of my buddies to go.

Would there be any interest amongst boardsies to create a group of those who are likely to have to go on their tobler, but it could be prevented by clubbing together with other boardsies in the same position ?

yahurespuestas

ooohh s****!! thats so great!!!

but im in the same position of you Het-field...

i will be interested in join into a group...


one question... do you know if its posibble to buy just the ticket for that gig i mean not the 3 days... just the friday ?????????

funnyname

scudzilla wrote: »

Luton Airport is 10miles away, gonna fly in on the fri morning, and fly back out Sat morning :-)

Will there be day tickets?

Those flights are currently €65, I'd be very interested in going for the one night even if it meant buying a weekend ticket.

lord lucan

I'll only go if there's day tickets tbh,there's nothing on the weekends bill that really interests me at all other than the Big 4.

yahurespuestas

does somebody knows when will it be the starting day to buy the tickets???

funnyname

yahurespuestas wrote: »

does somebody knows when will it be the starting day to buy the tickets???

Tickets currently on sale

http://www2.seetickets.com/sonisphere/super_pgroup.asp?code=527629&userid={02E9462A-1812-48EE-9161-B8FFBF5A8A8C}&filler1=id1sonisphere&filler2=multiid1sonisphere

scudzilla

Just heard from the same guy who tipped me off on The Big 4, It's highly doubtful that they will be selling ANY day tickets at all, they expect to Sell Out after the Big 4 announcement

Furious-Red

I might get shot but the big 4 is kinda meh since Metallica played 2 years ago (i no they have a connection with Soni) , Slayer and Anthrax played last year. Would only really go for Biffy and Slipknot at this stage

Knifey Spoony

Motley Crue wrote: »

Just emailed the press office, there's a good chance they're not doing day tickets, as they believe it will be a sell out before Christmas based on this news. That remains to be seen, but I can't see any other reason to go other then this day and then maybe fly to Dublin for a second Big Four gig....come on, could happen!

I would say that we have a some hope of a Big Four gig here, just going on the passed two years alone. Sonisphere is only two years old, and for the passed two years we have had a gig from the big headliners the day before the headlined ie. Metallica in Marley Park in 2009 and this year Iron Maiden in the O2. So just going on that alone, there should be some hope for the Big Four in Ireland.

I hope we get one anyway 'cause I'm not liking the fact that there is no day tickets. Just don't think I could spend the weekend there or even get a group of friends together for that. One day would have been perfect, but I can see why they are not doing it this year.

lord lucan

They may well be saying that there's no day tickets to bump up the sales of weekend tickets(yes,i'm that cynical!). Give it a months time and magically we'll see day tickets on sale.

NIBBS

lord lucan wrote: »

They may well be saying that there's no day tickets to bump up the sales of weekend tickets(yes,i'm that cynical!). Give it a months time and magically we'll see day tickets on sale.

it's not being cynical Lucan - well ok it is, be we all know this is what they do.......it's limited to 60k - so really depends on how big this announcement is, to be honest a lot of people are put off by Biffy Clyro being a headliner.....
I'd have very little interest at the moment in going to anything but Friday - and I don't fancy shelling out so much on the back of one day of interest at a Fest.....were they to fill in some of the blanks for the rest of the fest I think I'd chance it - for now I'm waiting on other Big4 dates - Ireland/Europe.......

yahurespuestas

im almost buying the ticket... but i need some help... because im only interested on friday but its too expensive

do you think that the big4 will have another dates before 15 of agoust any where in Europe?

that day i will be back to my country and i hve no chance to come again...

what do you think i should do?

lord lucan

Just realised i'm off that weekend from work so i think i'll head over for this. Gonna hold fire for the moment on tickets and see if day tickets come up as i haven't the money for a weekend ticket right now.

scudzilla

If anybody wants to join me i'll be going on me own and meeting people there.

Leaving Dublin at 08:15am on Friday to Luton

Leaving Luton at 06:40 on the Sat back to Dublin

This is of course dependant on no Irish date being announced, i'll deal wit tickets later, have a good few friends who worked security the past 2 years at Soni so may be able to 'sneak' in

Motley Crue

This is from the Sonisphere Forum, it is an official response to address the question of Day Tickets in 2011

So, the single day ticket thing. This is how it works. We have a capacity that we can't go over. We sell our tickets. We are a weekend festival so we make those tickets available first to people who want to come for the whole weekend. If we have enough capacity left when we get close to the date then we open the event up for people who just want to come for one day. We have done that for the last two years.

We know that we have got a particularly cool line-up this year and thereore are likely to sell a lot of tickets. We just wanted to mention up front that people shouldn't assume that day tickets will be available just because they have been previously. They are not something that we put aside from the start. If the capacity gets used up on weekend tickets then they will never exist.

We just didn't want you hanging on till mid May assuming they will go on sale when there is a good chance they won't. It's a choice you make and a risk you take but as usual we thought it can't hurt to tell you like it is.

scudzilla

Motley Crue wrote: »

This is from the Sonisphere Forum, it is an official response to address the question of Day Tickets in 2011

Not bothered in the slightest about this, if i go for the day then i'll get in for the day, no worries at all. Know quite a few guys working security and they told me last year they took the odd bung to let people in.

slavetothegrind

ok ,so i'm old and don't get a lot of things but what the **** has biffy clyro got to do with a metal fest?
you get the big 4 day one, amazing, slipknot day three, and biffy ****ing clyro in the middle?????????
i'd rather a bus tour of luton with a bag of tinnies than living through a biffy clyro gig.

scudzilla

slavetothegrind wrote: »

ok ,so i'm old and don't get a lot of things but what the **** has biffy clyro got to do with a metal fest?
you get the big 4 day one, amazing, slipknot day three, and biffy ****ing clyro in the middle?????????
i'd rather a bus tour of luton with a bag of tinnies than living through a biffy clyro gig.

I think the Promoters have put them on to try and appeal to the wider 'Indie' audience, a bit like Reading/Leeds do, they'll normally have a metal day.

Suppose it's there way of trying to get ahead of Download

slavetothegrind

Yeah i suppose they have to make money but i would see this year as an almost guaranteed sellout with the big 4 and slipknot even if day two was all metal.
Still as you say if they get a diverse crowd it will help with a broader appeal for next year and so on....

still.....BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

i say get manowar on before biffy, at least then we won't hear the fcukers with all that ringing in our ears!!!

hellyeah

slavetothegrind wrote: »

ok ,so i'm old and don't get a lot of things but what the **** has biffy clyro got to do with a metal fest?
you get the big 4 day one, amazing, slipknot day three, and biffy ****ing clyro in the middle?????????
i'd rather a bus tour of luton with a bag of tinnies than living through a biffy clyro gig.

agree completly. dont see where they are going to fit. can you imagine what a bunch of SLAYER fans will do to these guys.:D
hope there is someone noisy on stage 2 when there on. drown out there
whinning.
im up for the bus tour of Luton if you bring the cans!!!!

scudzilla

hellyeah wrote: »

agree completly. dont see where they are going to fit. can you imagine what a bunch of SLAYER fans will do to these guys.:D
hope there is someone noisy on stage 2 when there on. drown out there
whinning.
im up for the bus tour of Luton if you bring the cans!!!!

I'll always remember Reading festival in 2000.

Main stage was headlined by Stereophonics, but others on that stage that day were RATM, Slipknot, Blink 182, A, My Vitriol

Sandwiched in between all this metal was.........Daphne & Celeste!!!!

Lots of rumours before that they were gonna pull out, they didn't

Fair fcuks to them though, they played a full set, about 25 mins, were bottled to shiit, but still kept smiling. Hate to say it but they totaly earned my respect that day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnxies4Wtk

slavetothegrind

that was a bit surreal!

All you could hear from the crowd was the constant chant of bollox, bollox...

Those two wimmin are off their biccies, and not in a good way!

Still noone was hurt!

unlike an irish support band in the sfx on year, Assasin i think it was supporting wasp maybe? gig was on around halloween and apart from the coins and bottles thrown at them some complete scumbags threw lit bangers onstage.

NOBODY deserves that treatment. Verbal abuse is fine, violence no.

Unless some ****er puts Jedward on stage in front of me then i think any court in the land would pardon what i'd do to them....:D

Beekay

Date announced for Sonisphere France for Saturday 9th of July.

yahurespuestas

OH!

that sounds so great... is just 2 days.. for sure it will be cheaper than england...


the tickets are not on sale now... are they???

yahurespuestas

i want to buy the ticket and the bus for the gig in france but everything is in french.. is there any other way to buy the tickets?

or.. any way to change the sonisphera page (the french one) in english???

Herb Powell

"billets" are tickets
there will more than likely be a big button saying "achetez" or "a vendre"
acheter is the verb to buy, and "a vendre" means for sale.
That is all you need to know
ah wait look, it says it at the bottom of the poster too-"billets disponible sur avosbillets.com"="tickets available on avosbillets.com"

yizorselves

I just wanna go to the Friday night. Couldnt give a shoight about the other nights

Mushy

Tickets bought. £13 for delivery is way too steep though...box office it is.

liamdebleine

Right , There's bus and admission tickets on sale around £240 , only thing is no buses from Ireland. Nearest is swansea , but you have to get to fishguard first , around €30 as a walk on passenger with Stena Line.
Aer lingus don't fly to Luton or Stansted and Ryanair would crease ya with the cost for a Rucksack and a tent.Anyway never renewed me passport so thats out.
Car hire in Holyhead just to drive to Luton is around £30. To keep the car the whole weekend is around £100 - £200 depending on who ya get.Hertz are in the Terminal in Holyhead but they're a bit dear.
Buses and trains are all over the place - there's no direct link from Holyhead / Fishguard to Stevenage. And you'd probably need to go a day earlier if you're camping , to get there by Thursday to set up.
So I'm thinking of the bus and ticket option , drive to Rosslare ,leave the car there , ferry , get to Swansea , Cardiff or wherever and we're off!
{NO to bring the car would be too expensive unless we filled it!}
But if enough of you rivetheads could group together maybe we could all go as walk on passengers to Holyhead , hire something there and drive straight to de Gates of Knebworth.
We were there last year , meself and the missus.............Fukin Savage. No hassle , no grief.
Everybody is so chilled out , even the police. They told us not to walk to the gig from Stevenage , about 1.5 mile , as you have to cross over the Motorway slip road.
There were so many people going {around 60,000 per day} that they closed off one lane on the roundabout and a bit of the slip road if I remember just to let the fans get through.
Could you imagine them doing that at AC/DC in Punchestown!!!

I'm up for it , I'm going anyway , fuk it , camping for the weekend it'll be savage craic , any like minded individuals want to join me all the better

Mushy

liamdebleine wrote: »

Right , There's bus and admission tickets on sale around £240 , only thing is no buses from Ireland. Nearest is swansea , but you have to get to fishguard first , around €30 as a walk on passenger with Stena Line.
Aer lingus don't fly to Luton or Stansted and Ryanair would crease ya with the cost for a Rucksack and a tent.Anyway never renewed me passport so thats out.
Car hire in Holyhead just to drive to Luton is around £30. To keep the car the whole weekend is around £100 - £200 depending on who ya get.Hertz are in the Terminal in Holyhead but they're a bit dear.
Buses and trains are all over the place - there's no direct link from Holyhead / Fishguard to Stevenage. And you'd probably need to go a day earlier if you're camping , to get there by Thursday to set up.
So I'm thinking of the bus and ticket option , drive to Rosslare ,leave the car there , ferry , get to Swansea , Cardiff or wherever and we're off!
{NO to bring the car would be too expensive unless we filled it!}
But if enough of you rivetheads could group together maybe we could all go as walk on passengers to Holyhead , hire something there and drive straight to de Gates of Knebworth.
We were there last year , meself and the missus.............Fukin Savage. No hassle , no grief.
Everybody is so chilled out , even the police. They told us not to walk to the gig from Stevenage , about 1.5 mile , as you have to cross over the Motorway slip road.
There were so many people going {around 60,000 per day} that they closed off one lane on the roundabout and a bit of the slip road if I remember just to let the fans get through.
Could you imagine them doing that at AC/DC in Punchestown!!!

I'm up for it , I'm going anyway , fuk it , camping for the weekend it'll be savage craic , any like minded individuals want to join me all the better

I'm going the boat way. Tis called SailRail, its like €85 return from Dublin Port to Stevenage, then have free shuttle bus to festival. Heading out at like 8.45 the Thursday morning, should be set up by 6. When you get to Holyhead, just hop on the next train to London, switch to Tube in Euston towards Kings Cross, then hop on next train to Stevenage.

It also allows unlimited baggage allowance, so its fairly win-win....relaxing, no financial raping along every step, no ridiculous security. Only negative is you can't book online, but check out all the ferry times and train times. I can safely say the Virgin train you get is so comfortable...its better than Irish Rails 1st class. It may also require a DART type train to either Bangor (which you should aim for) or Chester (which is a long journey on a slow carriage). Definitely a bonus though in that its relaxing though.

scudzilla

Mushy wrote: »

I'm going the boat way. Tis called SailRail, its like €85 return from Dublin Port to Stevenage, then have free shuttle bus to festival. Heading out at like 8.45 the Thursday morning, should be set up by 6. When you get to Holyhead, just hop on the next train to London, switch to Tube in Euston towards Kings Cross, then hop on next train to Stevenage.

It also allows unlimited baggage allowance, so its fairly win-win....relaxing, no financial raping along every step, no ridiculous security. Only negative is you can't book online, but check out all the ferry times and train times. I can safely say the Virgin train you get is so comfortable...its better than Irish Rails 1st class. It may also require a DART type train to either Bangor (which you should aim for) or Chester (which is a long journey on a slow carriage). Definitely a bonus though in that its relaxing though.

I do this trip a lot as i'm from Llandudno (15 miles from Bangor)

Here's a tip for ya, if you don't get on the direct London train from Holyhead, check yer train time tables and if right GET OFF AT BANGOR.

There 'Should' be a fast direct train to London leaving about 20 minutes later, it doesn't go to Holyhead, terminates at Bangor ;)

Mushy

scudzilla wrote: »

I do this trip a lot as i'm from Llandudno (15 miles from Bangor)

Here's a tip for ya, if you don't get on the direct London train from Holyhead, check yer train time tables and if right GET OFF AT BANGOR.

There 'Should' be a fast direct train to London leaving about 20 minutes later, it doesn't go to Holyhead, terminates at Bangor ;)

Yeah I'm looking for one that, at worst, means only have to go to Bangor on the worse train section. Think train I want to get leaves at 11.25, so connection at Bangor.

Zero-Cool

Mushy wrote: »

I'm going the boat way. Tis called SailRail, its like €85 return from Dublin Port to Stevenage, then have free shuttle bus to festival.

I'm on that website, are they doing a package deal for the gig or do you just have to book the boat and bus manually on the site? Seems like the handiest way to travel. Checked a hotel in Stevenage, usuall 200 euro for the 4 nights on a weekend but that weekend is 1,100 euro :mad: should be a law aginst things like that!

baldshin

Got flights from Dublin to Luton from Thurs-Mon for E60 so happy enough. Get a taxi from Luton airport to Knebworth for less than £30, probably the easiest and most pain free metal/rock festival to get to from Ireland.

Fi H

I'm doing the same thing!

Download is proably slightly easier though

Furious-Red

Mushy

sheehy83 wrote: »

I'm on that website, are they doing a package deal for the gig or do you just have to book the boat and bus manually on the site? Seems like the handiest way to travel. Checked a hotel in Stevenage, usuall 200 euro for the 4 nights on a weekend but that weekend is 1,100 euro :mad: should be a law aginst things like that!

No, SailRail is seperate. That incorporates the boat to Stevenage, and then the festival put on shuttle buses from the train station to the festival.

Baldshin, while that is more direct, I'd have to check in 2 bags on a plane so it makes it lot more expensive (more than E60 anyway).

mark86

whats with the 3D effect on the m*******a logo not previously imposing enough? lame..

the better thrash outfits don't get enough time on in the shadow of. you just know im gonna be hugging the barrier come saturday :pac:
highlights appear to be Sean Hughes, Steve-O n Howard Marks tbh.. big 3 for me anyhow. enjoy whoever's going

scudzilla

mark86 wrote: »

whats with the 3D effect on the m*******a logo not previously imposing enough? lame..

the better thrash outfits don't get enough time on in the shadow of. you just know im gonna be hugging the barrier come saturday :pac:
highlights appear to be Sean Hughes, Steve-O n Howard Marks tbh.. big 3 for me anyhow. enjoy whoever's going

It's the logo from Early Metallica stuff, but being a huge closet fan i thought you'd have known that

mark86

seems exaggerated, fatter than i have seen before. reflection of their bloated heads?

gives the illusion of more depth.

scudzilla

mark86 wrote: »

seems exaggerated, fatter than i have seen before. reflection of their bloated heads?

gives the illusion of more depth.

Same size as before i think, maybe the depth is a bit deeper but i'm sure a guy like yourself likes it that way