This year’s Sonisphere Festival is off

There has been a big casualty in the 2015 festival calendar, with organisers of Sonisphere confirming that this year’s event will not take place. The organisers have stated that there was a concern over clashes with other events and the quality of the line-up. The festival was set to take play between 4-6th July at Knebworth Park.

In a statement released on Friday evening, the organisers confirmed the following:

“Team Sonisphere reluctantly confirm that Sonisphere will not take place in the UK in 2015. We’ve been working hard to get a line-up that we felt was good enough but also on a weekend which would avoid other events that we know rock fans would want to support. Unfortunately our last irons in the fire have just been extinguished and it’s clear that we won’t be in a position to run the event this year. We’ve said in the past that Sonisphere will only go ahead if we feel it is going to be good enough and that hasn’t changed.

We hope all rock fans have a great summer with all the festivals and concerts already in the calendar and we plan to see you all in 2016.”

Last year’s headliners arrived in the shape of The Prodigy, Iron Maiden and Metallica.