"Coachella East"

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Coachella Promoters Launching NYC-Area Fest
 January 15, 2008, 1:40 PM ET
 Ray Waddell, Nashville
 
 Sources say Coachella producers AEG Live/Goldenvoice will stage a summer festival with major headliners at Liberty State Park, just across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan. The event will not carry the Coachella brand.
 
 Liberty State Park has hosted a handful of concerts in recent years, most notably a Radiohead show shortly before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
 
 The new event gives AEG/Goldenvoice a major summer presence in the area, where it will compete with the new Vineland festival. That event, promoted by C3 Presents and Melvin Benn's Festival Republic, will be held Aug. 8-10 at a 500-acre, privately-owned 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.

[sweetcell]

coolness.  so we get this, vineland, and virgin fest.  might be starting to get a tad crowded, no?
 
 i hope they're not all on the same weekend.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

sicknasty

[Staralfur25]

that would be a dream come true.
 

[ggw]

East coast festivals have a pitiful history.

[kosmo vinyl]

What ever happened to the east coast version of All Tomorrows Parties?

[nkotb]

Wasn't there also rumored to be an East Coast Reading Festival a few years back, curated by Stephen Malkmus?
 
 

Originally posted by kosmo:
  What ever happened to the east coast version of All Tomorrows Parties?

[azaghal1981]

Let us not forget the debacle that was the northeast bonnaroo.

[kosmo vinyl]

I thought the ATP festival was the one to be curated by Malkmus...
 
 Personally, I'd like to see a ATP or London Meltdown style festival.... Primarily indoor venues with lots of "faggy" indie bands to keep the meatheads away

[Relaxer]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
 
 i hope they're not all on the same weekend.

I hope they are on the same weekend. In fact, I hope they're all in the same park, on the same stage, at exactly the same time. That would be awesome.

[kosmo vinyl]

they can all be on different weekends, i just hope they all have essential the same lineups so people can bitch about the lack of variety between them.
 
 lets recap
 
 Vfest
 Coachella East
 Reading USA
 Bonnarroo
 Radiohead takes a dump festival
 
 plus the possibility of Led Zep, AC/DC, Pearl Jam on tour

[Vas Deferens]

Radiohead and Jack Johnson are headlining this.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

OH I WOULD NOT DREAM OF IT.   :roll:  
 
 

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
  Let us not forget the debacle that was the northeast bonnaroo.

[you be betty]

and don't forget about Siren Fest.  fo' free.  much smaller, but still...solid bands every year.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Yes, but will Radiohead and Jack Johnson be headlining?
 
 

Originally posted by you be betty:
  and don't forget about Siren Fest.  fo' free.  much smaller, but still...solid bands every year.