Starting to think that sonisphere may end up being cancelled this year.

[lharris92]

http://www2.seetickets.com/sonisphere/price.asp?code=613754&userid={34591597-BA1E-49D8-B717-71693EAD037D}&pgroup=4&filler1=id1sonisphere&filler2=multiid1sonisphere&filler3=presale&dpts=|4|11|12|13|

yep, no longer selling. via the official soni site

[squeellss]

Ticketmaster will also not let you buy them if you click through

[dip]

You can't buy tickets from the Sonisphere website. You just get 'Sorry, no ticket types are available'

[jump]

You can't buy tickets from the Sonisphere website. You just get 'Sorry, no ticket types are available'

[Justiceforcedave]

And the statement appears in searches on Queens website. Soni def cancelled then!

[dip]

'I'm Sorry, did you mean Download?'

[lharris92]

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Please do not expect me to wallow in someone else's misfortune. That is not cool. I feel sorry for the fans more than anything.

[Babyquack]

Yeah, any has more or less confirmed that he knows it's sonisphere

[zahidf]

Bbc website has confirmed that its cancelled

[AcademicPistol]

It didn't for me, I got 'Sorry, you actually wanty to go? HA HA HA HA HA'

[ScottishMetalHead]

Bbc website has confirmed that its cancelled

[2rare2die]

BBC more hedging their bets, notice the wording they chose to use - "Rock festival Sonisphere has been cancelled according to the official Queen website." So they can write the story, but also backtrack if needs be as they are not confirming that it is true themselves, merely telling you what Queen are saying.I don't want it to be true, but the evidence against them seems to be stacking up, and they are not rebutting anything which they would surely do as it would harm ticket sales even more. Either way hope they tell us one way of the other very soon!!!

[lightning1000]

They harmed ticket sales themselves by taking forever to announce a line up not attractive to their regular attendees demographic.

The fact that they've sold under 5000 tickets proves this.

Most of those were sold in the presale before the line up was even announced.

From what I understand, in the time since the line up was announced to now, they've sold under 2000 tickets.

That's a failure of epic proportions, I doubt they'll try resurrect in the uk again any time soon.

[biffoire]

Waiting for the Olympics to get the blame for this. And the recession.

[lightning1000]

Waiting for the Olympics to get the blame for this. And the recession.

[devilman]

Soni cannot die in the UK. I want to go instead of T in the Park next year. Also, competition is healthy, Download needs a competitor. I'm really hoping this is a one off blip.

[gjammer]

I think they could come back from this..... last year was awesome (second day later on not so good for me but I was down at the smaller stages and really enjoyed). The problem with this year personally is that I already go to other festivals where I just wander around not caring who I see! Sonisphere was going to be the one where I actually wanted to see the headliners but the line up was so different to what I was expecting. I would happily go back next year with a return to bands like Download this year and I'm sure many others would too.

Edited March 28, 2012 by gjammer

[lightning1000]

Competition is only healthy if theres enough demand to sustain it. Obviously there isn't.

[devilman]

The line ups the last couple of years have been comparable. This year's isn't and they paid for it. There's plenty of festivals going ahead in Europe with very decent line ups so why wasn't soni attractive?

[she bangs the drums]

What a shame, the writing has been on for a while, the delay in the announcement, struggling to get a 3rd headliner etc and the poor line up with for many a novelty/x-factor headliner.

Sadly I don't think it will be last big festival to fail in the UK.

[jump]

The line ups the last couple of years have been comparable. This year's isn't and they paid for it. There's plenty of festivals going ahead in Europe with very decent line ups so why wasn't soni attractive?

[lightning1000]

It's not that it's failed, it's how badly it's failed. The amount of tickets sold wouldn't even half fill ally pally.

The uk leg of sonisphere is dead and buried for a few years at least.

Maybe when a few more fests inevitably go bust there will be a place in the market for them again.

[luckysalt]

Whats interesting me is Neil in Download forum talking about this saying the biggest surprise is yet to come.

[jump]

It's not that it's failed, it's how badly it's failed. The amount of tickets sold wouldn't even half fill ally pally.

The uk leg of sonisphere is dead and buried for a few years at least.

Maybe when a few more fests inevitably go bust there will be a place in the market for them again.

[lightning1000]

The event polls are just advertising jargon for sales figure updates for a list of events. I've seen them, they're dire.