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The
Sonisphere Festival is a touring
music festival which takes place
across Europe between June and
August. The festival is owned and
promoted by Kilimanjaro Live with
financial backing from AEG. It has
hosted heavy metal bands such as
Iron Maiden, Metallica, Mötley Crüe,
and Slayer. Sonisphere is set to
return in with new venues in
India, France and Italy but will not
return this year to Romania. It also
marks the first time that Metallica
play in India. There is also
speculation of an event in Portugal.
The first headliner announced for
Knebworth, England is Slipknot.
Sonisphere Knebworth will take place
from July 8 to July 10, . On
December 3, 2010, it was announced
that the American band Slipknot will
headline Sonisphere . Soon
afterward, on December 6, it was
announced that Scottish rock band
Biffy Clyro would be headlining the
Saturday night, in the band's first
major festival headlining
performance. On December 13, 2010,
it was announced that Metallica,
Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax would
headline the Friday of the Knebworth
event. This will be the first time
that The Big Four perform together
in the UK. On January 17, , it
was announced that Motorhead,
Mastodon, In Flames and Parkway
Drive will be playing the UK leg of
Sonisphere. On January 31, , it
was announced that Weezer, Airbourne,
Architects and Diamond Head will be
playing Sonisphere. On February 28,
You Me at Six, All Time Low, Sum 41,
House of Pain, Arch Enemy, Grinspoon,
Fozzy and Periphery were added to
the lineup. On March 28, Bill
Bailey, Jarred Christmas, Jason John
Whitehead, Jim Breuer, and Steve-O
were added to the lineup.
Knebworth House is a country house
in the civil parish of Knebworth in
Hertfordshire, England. The home of
the Lytton family since 1490, when
Thomas Bourchier sold the reversion
of the manor to Sir Robert Lytton,
Knebworth House was originally a
genuine red-brick Late Gothic manor
house, built round a central court
as an open square. In 1813-16 the
house was reduced to its west wing
which was remodelled in a Tudor
Gothic style by John Biagio Rebecca
for Mrs Bulwer-Lytton, and then was
transformed in 1843-45 by Henry
Edward Kendall, Jr. into the present
Tudor Gothic structure. Its most
famous resident was Edward
Bulwer-Lytton, the Victorian author,
dramatist and statesman, who
embellished the gardens in a formal
Italianate fashion. Much of the
interior was redesigned by Sir Edwin
Lutyens, who simplified the main
parterre. A herb garden in an
interlaced quincunx design was drawn
by Gertrude Jekyll in 1907 but not
planted until 1982. The house is
open to the public together with its
surrounding gardens and grounds. The
grounds include an adventure
playground, mini railway and
dinosaur park and host various
events including classic car
rallies, the annual Salvo Fair of
architectural salvage and, since
1974, major open air rock and pop
concerts.
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