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Festival line-up update: Sonisphere UK, Field Day, Primavera Sound and more

By | Published on Tuesday 3 December 2013

Sonisphere

So, the resurgent UK edition of Sonisphere – which as previously reported will return in 2014 post a two year hiatus – has named Iron Maiden and Metallica as its first pair of headliners. Metallica, who’ll play one of their fan-voted ‘by request’ sets, played the first ever Sonisphere UK back in 2009, so that’s a nice symmetrical fact.

In other festival news, over at London’s now-weekend-long Field Day, it’s now public information that Metronomy will headline the event’s first day festivities. They and closing day dons Pixies lead a bill also featuring Sky Ferreira, Warpaint, Jon Hopkins, Jessy Lanza and The Temper Trap. Cool.

And speaking of Pixies, they’ve just been booked to ‘do’ Primavera Sound, as you’ll note as you scan down this list of the latest acts added to the following fests…

FIELD DAY, Victoria Park, London, 7-8 Jun 2014: Metronomy, Daniel Avery, Danny Brown, Dusky, George Fitzgerald, Dixon b2b Ame, James Holden, Jessy Lanza, John Wizards, Jon Hopkins, Money, Omar Souleyman, Oneohtrix Point Never, Sean Kuti & Fela’s Egypt 80, Sky Ferreira, The Temper Trap, Warpaint. www.fielddayfestivals.com

PRIMAVERA SOUND, Parc Del Forum, Barcelona, Spain, 29-31 May 2014: Pixies. www.primaverasound.com

RADSTOCK, Liverpool Academy, 29 Mar 2014/Newcastle Academy, 30 Mar 2014: Bleed From Within, Canterbury, Hacktivist, Brutality. radstockfest.tumblr.com

ROCK WERCHTER, Leaven, Rotselaar, Belgium, 3-6 Jul: Metallica. www.rockwerchter.be

ROSKILDE, Denmark, 29 Jun – 6 Jul 2014: Deerhunter, Haim, MØ. roskilde-festival.co.uk

SONISPHERE UK, Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, 4-6 ul 2014: Metallica, Iron Maiden. sonispherefestivals.com

STOCKTON CALLING, various venues, Stockton-on-Tees, 19 Apr 2014: Public Service Broadcasting. www.stocktoncalling.co.uk



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