It’ll be a week after Metallica have brought hard rock to the tip of Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage that they’ll have joined Iron Maiden at Knebworth as Sonisphere headliners – but Maiden’s frontman Bruce Dickinson doesn’t seem to be in the mood for the two bands to share a bill at Worthy Farm any time soon.
“In the days when Glasto was an alternative festival it was quite interesting,” he is quoted as saying in the Telegraph on Glastonbury. “Now it’s the most bourgeois thing on the planet. Anywhere Gwyneth Paltrow goes and you can live in an air-conditioned yurt is not for me.”
“We’ll leave the middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink lot of beer and have fun.”
Sonisphere has returned from a period of financial strife to celebrate four decades of rock concerts at Knebworth Park. The Prodigy are on the bill with Iron Maiden and Metallica as headliners over the weekend of July 4th-6th.