What are your expansion plans for Sonisphere at Knebworth?

Well we've got a capacity of up to 60,000. This year we've gone for two days which is deliberate. I'm thinking that we'll probably do 40,000 tickets over the two days, and we'll see how we go on. If we think we've got the strength and depth of talent available, I'd love to run it for three days. We ran Download for two days in the first couple of years before we expanded it to three when the line-up warranted it. Would you consider having a twin site for it in the UK? I don't think we'll actually need a twin site in the Uk and, having explored that with Download, I don't think the rock market is strong enough to support two rock festivals the same weekend. But what we do have, obviously, is a number of other European locations - in this case, six Sonispheres that are all on different weekends but on years going forward, I can see no reason why we couldn't run England and Holland on the same weekend, for instance, which is infinitely do-able. Any plans to expand the European ones to ...  more