{"id":59559,"date":"2012-03-31T10:36:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T08:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/?p=59559"},"modified":"2012-03-31T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T14:20:00","slug":"sonisphere-uk-abgesagt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/2012\/03\/31\/sonisphere-uk-abgesagt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonisphere UK abgesagt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sonisphere-uk-2012-abgesagt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-59560\" title=\"sonisphere-uk-2012-abgesagt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sonisphere-uk-2012-abgesagt-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sonisphere-uk-2012-abgesagt-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sonisphere-uk-2012-abgesagt.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Auch wir berichteten \u00fcber das f\u00fcr den <strong>06.-08.Juli 2012<\/strong> in <strong>Old Knebworth<\/strong> (England) geplante <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/festival\/sonisphere-festival-2012\">Sonisphere Festival<\/a> &#8211; das &#8218;Mutterfestival&#8216; der <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/festivals\/suche\/?suchwort=sonisphere\">Sonisphere-Festivals<\/a>. Nun sagen die Veranstalter eines der <strong>vielversprechendsten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/festivals-2012.php\">Events 2012<\/a><\/strong> ab.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8222;It is <strong>with very heavy hearts<\/strong> and much regret that we announce the <strong>cancellation of Sonisphere Knebworth 2012<\/strong>.&#8220;<\/em>, so die Veranstalter in ihrer Mitteilung.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kiss-tour-2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18001\" title=\"kiss tour 2010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kiss-tour-2010-300x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kiss-tour-2010-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kiss-tour-2010.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Es waren wohl v.a. die <strong>zu schwachen Ticket-Vorverk\u00e4ufe<\/strong>, die die Veranstalter zu diesem Schritt bewegten. Kaum vorstellbar, stachen die <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/2012\/02\/20\/sonisphere-festival-2012-kiss-queen-faith-no-more\/\">Headliner Kiss, Faith No More und Queen<\/a> in der Festivallandschaft 2012 doch schon etwas heraus. Aber warum soll es gro\u00dfen Festivals anders gehen als so manchen kleineren Kollegen? Vielleicht ist hier aber auch der Ruf etwas schuld, die <strong>Sonisphere Festivals<\/strong> bekamen nicht immer die besten Kritiken <em>(bspw. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/2009\/07\/05\/metallica-family-das-sonisphere-ein-bericht\/\">in den Kommentaren zu Festivalberichten<\/a>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8222;<em>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\u2019s audience would rightly expect.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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\u2019t fulfil what we set out to do.<\/em>&#8220; &#8211; die Sonisphere Veranstalter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Besonders <strong>Queen<\/strong> sind entt\u00e4uscht. F\u00fcr ihre Festivalshow mit <strong>Adam Lambert<\/strong> als S\u00e4nger, suchen sie nun nach einer <strong>Ersatzb\u00fchne<\/strong>! Dabei schien die Location in <strong>Knebworth <\/strong>doch am besten geeignet, dort spielten sie das letzte Konzert mit <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Allen Ticketinhabern wird der Ticketpreis in voller H\u00f6he erstattet. Hier gibt es weiteres zum urspr\u00fcnglich geplanten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/festival\/sonisphere-festival-2012\">Sonisphere Knebworth<\/a>, sowie auf sonisphere.co.uk.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auch wir berichteten \u00fcber das f\u00fcr den 06.-08.Juli 2012 in Old Knebworth (England) geplante Sonisphere Festival &#8211; das &#8218;Mutterfestival&#8216; der Sonisphere-Festivals. Nun sagen die Veranstalter eines der vielversprechendsten Events 2012 ab. &#8222;It is with very heavy hearts and much regret that we announce the cancellation of Sonisphere Knebworth 2012.&#8220;, so die Veranstalter in ihrer Mitteilung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,516,27,40,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivalnews","category-festivals-2012","category-festivals-abgesagt","category-festivals-in-europa","category-rock-festivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139922,"href":"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59559\/revisions\/139922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.festivalhopper.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}