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New touring rock fest confirmed
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 9 February 2009
As expected, it’s been confirmed Metallica and Linkin Park will headline a new festival at Knebworth this year, and that that festival will also tour around Europe.
Called SONISPSHERE (seemingly in capitals, just like I wrote it there), the new festival has been created by the people who originally set up the Monsters Of Rock and Download Festivals. The Knebworth dates will take place on 1 and 2 Aug, and will come at the end of a European tour that takes in Holland, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Finland.
Confirming the new festival, one of the promoters behind it, K2’s John Jackson, told CMU: “I am delighted that my vision of a truly global touring festival has become a reality. To launch at Knebworth, where I attended the first show there in 1974 headlined by US legends The Allman Brothers Band, is a dream come true. SONISPHERE has arrived and is coming soon to your world”.
Co-promoter Stuart Galbraith of Kilimanjaro Live added: “There have been many successful rock festivals around the world, but this will be the first time that one will tour internationally. Metallica’s involvement makes this THE event of 2009 and we can’t wait to get started and welcome fans to SONISPHERE. This is just the beginning, from 2010, we will extend the dates from Europe to the globe. It is a truly unique festival”.
