If you shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre you take responsibility for the consequences of your actions - even if that includes a court case that results from injuries incurred as a result. Absolutely, but you should have no responsibility in terms of not shouting it in the first place. Eve...

It's a myth that with free speech must come responsibility. Free speech means you can say whatever you want, whenever you want to. With reference to that old chestnut, if you want to shout 'Fire' in a crowded theatre where there is no fire, go right ahead. Free speech cannot exist if we curtail it b...

Imagine that, Van Halen headline Saturday, Kiss headline Sunday (and a day-off on Monday )

Get WASP and Cinderella on the undercard and I'd be literally throwing my money, debit card and property deeds at them!

Father Jack wrote:Think your getting confused between FIFA wanting Russia to develop further and FIFA wanting Russia to line their pockets further.

One and the same, dear fellow, one and the same.

What with this and the Download announcement, I can see myself saving a quite tidy sum of money next summer.

At Hard Rock Hell, the rumour was that Thrash Big Four will be announced for Sonisphere. Metallica are contracted exclusively to Sonisphere for the next two years - so they either play that festival or no festival. If they do it, the chance has to be that it'll be as part of the Big Four, it'd seem...

Yup...

System of a Down/Avenged Sevenfold

Linkin Park/Rob Zombie

are the acts confirmed so far. I'm seeing Zombie on his 2011 tour, so unless Van Halen (or Kiss!) are added to the final day's headline spot it'll have to be a seriously impressive undercard to tempt me along this year.

As long as a singer is actually singing the song, I don't really see the difference between backing tracks being mixed in to enhance choruses and a guitar playing using effects racks to enhance their guitar sound. If you listen to most WASP choruses you'll hear Blackie's voice treble/quadruple track...

Fifa are jealous of our Premier League It is the world's most lucrative football league in terms of revenue, no other country gets near it . Even our Championship gets better average gates than the Russian top league, what ever that is. Which is precisely why FIFA stand to gain nothing by having us...

Agreed. The big problem we have is that we're a comparatively tiny country which is already saturated with football. There's no new market to break here, there's literally nothing whatsoever for FIFA and football to gain by holding a WC here. In fact, it would likely be detrimental to FIFA in the ey...

Slipknot are doing Sonisphere, so that's another Download level headliner removed from the equation.

Russian football is worse than ours was in the 80s. Organised violence on a huge scale, endemic and overt racism plus the rather amusing fact that an estimated 40% of matches are fixed. But even the Russians look like a good bet compared to Qatar... where it's illegal to drink alcohol, be seen drunk...

It was very obvious at the Cardiff show that various production enhancements were being used. There's just no way that four blokes could make that kind of an overall sound without some additional processing/assistance. Personally, I have no issue with bands using the available technology to make the...

Absolutely nobody seems to be rumouring them, but Download 2011 would be three years since Kiss played arguably one of their best ever UK performances and went down an absolute storm. With so many big-name, suitable headliners already ruled out (Metallica are apparently contractually unable to play ...

Andy Copping Tweeted the following: More to come but to quash the rumours there's no Foos, Jovi, Ozzy, Zombie, Halen, Rush, MCR, Blink, Green Day this year.. that I can tell you (By 'Zombie', he apparently meant White Zombie rather than Rob Zombie). If it's true - it's a shame, I was hoping for Van ...