Sonisphere Festival

The Sonisphere Festival is a series of summer music festivals to take place across Europe in June 2009 and summer 2010. The festival is owned and promoted by Kilimanjaro Live with financial backing from AEG.
The idea for Sonisphere was first conceived when Stuart Galbraith was working for now business rivals and organisers of Download Festival, Live Nation. The plan was to hold a series of events that would 'translate into other territories'. The event did not begin to materialize, however, until Galbraith left Live Nation for events company Kilamanjaro Live.
Galbraith gained the support of influential metal band Metallica who were claimed to help curate the festival in coming years; however, rumours were quickly denied of their signing a multi-million pound deal which would see them headline the festival for three years.[2] Galbraith's plans for future festivals are to increase the number of festivals, making the event global rather than local to Europe, expanding the UK event into a 3-day festival, and increasing the UK capacity from 40,000 to 60,000 attendees.