Hard Rock Calling Live On Sky....

Sky are broadcasting many UK festivals this year and will air them on Sky Arts 1 (Also available in HD) also 3D!!!

"We're live at the Isle of Wight Festival, Latitude and Bestival, and will bring you highlights from a further nine festivals on Sky Arts 1 HD. And if you're all kitted out with the latest technology, you can also catch Isle of Wight and Bestival in 3D as we bring you the world's first 3D festival coverage on the Sky 3D channel."

Broadcasting starts on the 10th June and will be on every Saturday at 10pm (GMT) until september...

Headlining at the festivals

1. Isle of Wight - Kings of Leon, Kasbian, Foo Fighters, Plan B, Pulp
2. Download - Def Leppard, Linkin Park and System of a Down
3. Hard Rock Calling - Bon Jovi, Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks
4. Latitude - The National, Paulo Nutini, Suede
5. Lovebox - Snoop Dogg,, Scissor Sisters, Katy B
6. High Voltage - Judas Priest, Jethro Tull, Dream Theatre
7. Co-operative Cambridge Folk Festival - Chris Wood, Newton Faulkner, Bellowhead, Kate Rusby
8. Camp Bestival - Primal Scream, Blondie, Mark Ronson & The Business International, Laura Marling
9. Sonisphere - Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Biffy Clyro
10. Cropredy - Seasick Steve, Badly Drawn Boy, UB40, The Coral
11. Rewind - Village People, Bananarama, The Human League, Earth Wind and Fire
12. Bestival - The Cure, Pendulum, Brian Wilson, Primal Scream, Robyn

Source = Sky

Sky Arts have shown HRC for a while now, but they only usually show 30-40 highlights of the main set.

Bruce made a DVD out of his performance in 2009.

I dont have sky myself and noticed it on an advert of my other half house. would be interesting to watch as im going to Manchester the night before...is a festival a better show?

This is great news. Thanks.

I suppose this means that whether Bon Jovi do a Bruce and release a DVD of it or not we'll at least have some proshot footage to go at. Hopefully they'll show all the concert and not just a 30 minute segment of Prayer, Wanted etc.

Also, I don't have sky so if anyone here is planning to record the Bon Jovi one would they also get the Def Leppard show? I wanted to go to Download but have exams :/

Im hoping someone will stream this for us .... pleeeeeeeeessssssseeee

Dawn

HRC is NOT, I repeat, NOT being shown "live" on Sky Arts.
Isle of White, Latitude and Bestival are all being broadcast live, but the other festivals/concerts are being broadcast as recordings of live performances.

They will probably have the BJ show as a 60 min slot so, allowing for adverts, that's a 45 min show. I'd therefore wager that it's going to be the usual songs that they broadcast too (Prayer, Wanted, Bad Medicine, Bad Name....). Should there be anything like These Days or Dry County you can guarantee it won't be shown on tv.

The Isle Of Wight festival isn't being shown live either, they're just showing two hours of highlights at 10pm each night.

The Hard Rock calling footage will be packaged together into a two hour show. The headliners usually get 30 mins each. It won't be on until a few weeks after the shows too.

Isle of Wight IS live from 10pm each night, thus ensuring they get the full performance from the headline acts (just like BBC do with Glastonbury).

Most of the festivals tend to have their headline come on stage around 10pm as they will be in locations where they don't have to adhere to the various noise regulations.

We'll see, but I have a feeling it'll be either delayed or partial footage, which the BBC are fond of doing.