Sonisphere have announced that due to phenomenal demand, day tickets for the 2014 Sonisphere Festival, headlined by THE PRODIGY, IRON MAIDEN and METALLICA are now on sale. Friday tickets priced at £55 and the Saturday and Sunday at £75 per day & Weekend tickets start at £180. In addition, camping add-ons are available to day ticket holders for £35 and for those looking to really treat themselves, a ‘King For A Day’ plus more Tickets on sale here. 

With no clashes across the two main stages and sensitively timed sets across the tented stages, Sonisphere ensures ticket holders get the most for their money, negating the need for any painful decisions on who to watch. The full list of bands so far and their respective performance days are outlined below, but not before a further fourteen names who join the stellar line up are revealed.

Band Of Skulls make their Knebworth debut at SONISPHERE this summer. The Southampton rock’n’roll trio come armed with bluesy and ballsy slabs of rock that have seen them making waves far beyond the shores of their coastal hometown. Support slots with the likes of Muse, Queens Of The Stone Age and The Dead Weather, an Independent Music Award for “Sweet Sour”, a feature documentary on Channel 4 and huge support from Radio One has seen them become a household name in the UK, with the rest of the world standing to attention and taking notice.

Gary Numan returns to Knebworth in support of his acclaimed new album “Splinter”. Highly regarded and massively influential, Numan is undoubtedly one of Electronic music’s pioneers, with megastars such as Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson and Dave Grohl citing him as an inspiration. 

It’s rare for a band to wait 14 years between albums, and even rarer for the subsequent album to be unanimously declared a masterpiece by both fans and critics alike, yet legendary British metallers Carcass managed to do just that with last year’s “Surgical Steel”. Just as angry and hungry as they were on their 1988 debut “Reek Of Putrefaction”, Bill Steer and Jeff Walker show none of the fatigue or complacency common in bands over a quarter century old, and their set at Sonisphere will be total and utter aural annihilation.

"A chance to play on the same day as Iron Maiden at Sonisphere? Please sign us up!” exclaims bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker. “Nevermind the fact that Bill Steer (guitar) is a Big Chas & Dave fan- as if that wasn’t enough to cement the deal already!”

New Model Army released their acclaimed "Between Dog and Wolf" album in 2013, their highest charting album in 20 years, and following the success of this, will release a live album taken from the accompanying European tour later this year.  Said Justin Sullivan, lead singer/songwriter and founder of the band; "We are very much looking forward to playing Sonisphere, and in particular playing at the legendary Knebworth House. This will be the first time we have played both."

Said Justin Sullivan, lead singer/songwriter and founder of the band; "We are very much looking forward to playing Sonisphere, and in particular playing at the legendary Knebworth House. This will be the first time we have played both."

It would be easy to call The Winery Dogs a supergroup: vocalist and guitarist Richie Kotzen made his mark with Poison and Mr. Big, where he met TWD bassist Billy Sheehan, who in turn has been rocking for decades with Steve Vai, David Lee Roth and others, and drummer Mike Portnoy was the co-founder of progressive metal superstars Dream Theater. But THE WINERY DOGS are so much more than a supergroup, and their cohesive, well rounded, classic sounding rock, interspersed with jaw dropping moments that only musicians of this caliber can create, will prove why at SONISPHERE’s Saturn stage. Drummer Mike Portnoy states:

“So excited to be playing Sonisphere at the legendary Knebworth! This will be The Winery Dogs' premiere festival performance and it couldn't have been at a better one than this!”

With more acts to be announced in the coming weeks, the list of bands so far by day and stage order, is here