Entertainment For Lively Minds
Sonisphere Festival
Posted by Mr Grimsdale on 10 August 2010 - 1:05pm.
When:
July 30th to August 1st
Where:
Knebworth Park
Comments:
A weekend of traditional entertainment and safer than almost any other event involving 55000 people together for 72 hours. The best acts spanned that dumb-smart divide (Alice Cooper, Iggy, Motley Crue), but youngsters like the shouty stuff. Coming over a bit tired, I managed to sleep through half of "Slayer" and all of "Alice in Chains", and "Take me to the Horizon" (ask your kids). Rammstein and Iron Maiden were worthy headliners, the latter being a national treasure.
The Audience:
The usual hearty and good-humoured rock-metal audience. More asian and black audience members than I would have expected, and quite a bit of diversity in the rock-metal variants on display.
Food & Drink:
Hobgoblin with the cup redeption scheme (10p a cup) could quickly reduce a £3.80 pint to £2.80. The dogfood pies were worth avoiding, but the Mediterreanan grill provided the only sun-dried tomatoes on site in a passable kebab.
It Made Me Think...:
Anyone who sneers at metal and metal fans needs to stop reading their 1982 copies of NME.
Kind of wish i'd gone on the sunday.........
.....as i'm a big Maiden fan (looking forward to the new album out next Monday.) I only live 5 miles away from Knebworth, I just didnt fancy doing another outdoor festival. My days of doing Reading every August are a distant memory. Couldn't hear Maiden from the back garden but certainly could for Rammstein.
The festival seemed really well organised. No probs with the local traffic. Had a chat with a local cabbie who was charging punters £10 to take them from the site to the Tesco's in Stevenage so they could buy beer a lot cheaper than at the site. Even he said what a good natured crowd. Apparently Rammstein were the best band.
Yep, will have to see who's playing next year and maybe get myself along for one of the nights.
Isn't it ...
Bring Me The Horizon?
T'was Thunder's valedictory gig as well...
Missed it in Stockholm last weekend
Due to shortage of cash. Would have loved to see Iron Maiden. Was literally grumpy the whole weekend.
It was raining like hell, but still. Would also have been nice to see The Stooges, Alice Cooper and Slayer. I really don´t want to admit having liked Mötley Crüe in my teens, so I won´t mention them.