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Coachella promoters launching New York festival

yahamitayahamita Posts: 1,514
edited January 2008 in Other Music
NASHVILLE (Billboard) - The promoters of the annual Coachella music festival in southern California are planning a New York-area version this summer, sources say.

The event, which will not carry the Coachella brand, will take place at Liberty State Park, just across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan in New Jersey. The park has hosted a handful of concerts in recent years, most notably a Radiohead show shortly before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The new event gives promoters AEG Live/Goldenvoice a major summer presence in the area, where it will compete with the new Vineland festival, which will be held August 8-10 on a 500-acre, farm in Vineland, N.J., about 40 minutes outside of Philadelphia.

Meanwhile, an announcement is expected in the coming days revealing the lineup for this year's Coachella festival, to be held April 25-27 in Indio, Calif.
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  • AiCPearlJamWeenAiCPearlJamWeen Posts: 785
    I will hopefully get to this festival. Seeing how Chicago is 13 hours away, Bonarroo is 20+ hours away. I might jsut take the 8 our drive and stay down there. It would be cool to be at the first annual festival of this.

    Unless it's all indie bands and stuff.....
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,488
    sweet

    lets hope its not sponsored by ANY of the local radio stations
    and that its not a top 40, hair band or hip hop festival
  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    The words "FUCK" and "YEAH" aranged as an expletive followed by the punctuation, "!" come to mind here.
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  • lalalalaaaaaaaalalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    bout friggin' time, jesus.
  • Blind3Blind3 Posts: 1,149
    Festivals are becoming as numerous as reality tv shows. Next up :Festival Survivor.
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  • Guitarhero27Guitarhero27 Posts: 2,146
    they did this once before, then a lot of plans got cancelled and I believe it turned into some crappy thing at Giants stadium where they couldn't give tix away! this was maybe 5 years or so ago?
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  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Thanks for that - good news I hope. (Depending on who plays at it)
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  • yahamitayahamita Posts: 1,514
    I heard the Bonnarroo PJ rumor floating around yesterday!
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,948
    If Radiohead headlined this, and there was no Pearl Jam opening at Bonnaroo, this would seal the deal for the festival I would attend in 2008.
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