http://sz.sonispherefestivals.com/

Anyone been in the past or planning to go? It's going to be June 24, 2011 in Basel.

Bands include: Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Alice Cooper, Bring Me the Horizon, In Flames, Architects, Skindred, and Hatebreed.

I mostly want to go to see Iron Maiden, but wouldn't mind seeing some of the others. Of course it will depend on how beastly the ticket price is!

Several members went last year
Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, Motorhead... playing in Zurich!

i was on concerts like deep purple, metallica, bon jovi, iron maiden and some other which im proud ofi think ill be going to this concert here just for iron maiden because i know that they will ROCK the stage

I will visit the greenfield open air (there are : Foo Fighters , System of a Down
and many more)

I'm glad to see others will be there!!! Greenfield Open Air looks pretty good too, I may have to try out that one

I'm in! Especially for Slipknot.

Still not sure if I should go to the UK Sonisphere to see the big 4 again, it was great last year (apart from all the mud, obviously).
Deffo going to Greenfield, Foo Fighters, Volbeat and Flogging Molly - get in!

I went to last year's Sonishere In Jonschwil and almost drowned in mud but I finally got to see all 4 founding fathers of Thrash metal!

This year looks good too, especially cos of Maiden - I've not seen them live yet.

I'm definitely going.

Tickets pre-sale starts Jan 26th on www.ticketcorner.ch.

http://sz.sonispherefestivals.com/

I may be up for the sonisphere when the tickets go on sale
Would love to see the Foo Fighters as well

dumb question from someone new to Zurich - is there a site where I can find out about upcoming festivals in the area?
Thanks
Sue

There is a forum for the metal/rock venue near Basel called Z-7 at http://www.z-7.ch/Z7Forum/

They discuss most intensively gigs at Z-7, but also tend to mention festivals, concerts etc. around Switzerland, particularly related to all forms of the world's most goodest musical style... metal.

If you can read German, you can follow the discussions. If you can't look for the forum section "Konzerte anderswo" - http://www.z-7.ch/Z7Forum/viewforum....60386ea5b4b45c - and you can see the band names and locations there.

There might be a better site for Zurich locals, but not being one myself, I don't know.

On another note, if you're into less commercial stuff than Sonisphere, Basel will host a 4-day festival at the end of May at Z-7. I went in 2009 and it was good. 2011 lineup looks decent to date and I'll be there with a couple of beer-bingeing Aussies. http://www.ch.metalfest.eu/bands.html

http://www.volkshaus.ch/veranstaltun...kuenftige.html

www.ticketcorner.ch

There is the Moon and Stars concert in Locarno or head to Montreux..

Openairguide is great, only in German though.

or you can check ticketcorner.ch, then go on to festivals/openairs or citys and then go to music sytle(alternative for example).
Another open air festival is near belfort/france(around 1,5 hours by train from basel ), there is a 3 day festival from the 1st to the 3rd of july 2011(last year http://festival.eurockeennes.fr/inde...id=300&lang=de
line up and a few more like Janelle Monae)
This festival is at a lake near belfort(train service between belfort and the festival during the whole day for free when you got a ticket for it )

first acts are published for 2011 at eurocknees belfort:
http://www.eurockeennes.fr/
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Motörhead
Tiken Jah Fakoly
House of Pain
Boys Noize
tickets for 3 days (incl.camping ) are 95 euros, day tickets will be around 42 euros, weekend ticket is 74 euros

News for the Greenfield Open Air:
New Confirmed Acts from Jan 26 2011:
Disturbed, Bullet for my Valentine, The Gaslight Anthem, Social Distortion ,Apocaliptica, Framing Hanley, Suicide Silence, Converge, Alesana

I'd like to be in attendance. I'm hoping to have fun...

Gah all these sound great...I'm really leaning towards going to Greenfield but IRON MAIDEN is making this a very tough decision. If anyone's looking for anyone to go, I'm pretty new to Zurich and want to buy a ticket but really don't want to go alone!

The line up for this years Summer Days Festival has just been announced:

The highlights are:

Eric Burdon and The Animals
Roger Hodgson & Band (Supertramp)
Manfred Manns Earthband
Texas
Jimmy Cliff

St. Gallen Tagblatt

Nothing outstanding but it could be worth a visit if you are in the area. I had a great time there last year, despite the wet weather. The great time was due to the company, and the alcohol.

Understatement of the year !!