The news were leaked yesterday by "Queen" who was going to participate and headline the festival with Adam Lambert playing vocals.
Today, the organization has confirmed the sad news, there is not going to be "Sonisphere Knebworth" festival this year. There are lots of speculations about the reason why the festival won't take place, the main one, the poor ticket sales, which leads to an impossibility of handling a festival such as the Sonisphere.
The line-up included bands like "Kiss", "Faith no more", "Queen", "Refused", "Marylin Manson", "Evanescence" and so many bands that won't be playing any longer the festival.
This is the message from the organization:
It is with very heavy hearts and much regret that we announce the cancellation of Sonisphere Knebworth 2012.
Putting the festival together in what is proving to be a very challenging year was more difficult than we anticipated and we have spent the last few months fighting hard to keep Sonisphere in the calendar. Unfortunately circumstances have dictated that we would be unable to run the festival to a standard that both the artists and that Sonisphere’s audience would rightly expect.
We want to express our deepest regrets to the artists and to thank all the staff, suppliers and contractors who worked so hard with us to try and pull off what has proven to be an impossible task and we know how much they share in our disappointment. We also want to send a huge thanks to the Sonisphere fans who stuck by us and we are so sorry that we can’t fulfil what we set out to do.
Ticket holders will automatically receive a full refund direct from their ticket agents.
Team Sonisphere.
This cancellation adds up tho a list of cancelled festivals that gets bigger everyday, "Oxegen","The big chill" and even the iconic "Glastonbury".
We hope this list doesn't get any bigger.
@Nachorock
