Friday, April 17
Paul McCartney (wow), Morrissey (both Smiths reunion with;), Franz Ferdinand (one hit wonder;), Leonard Cohen (love songs, when other people do), Conor Oberst, the Black Keys and Girl talk
The killers , Amy Winehouse (if living), thievery Corporation, the Radio Television (Nice), band Horses, foxes Fleet, MSTRKRFT
Sunday, April 19
The Cure (most of it is Robert Smith, the more there is to love), My Bloody Valentine, Yes Yes Yes, Lupe fiasco, Public Enemy, Jenny Lewis and I have great hard to find the names here because there are not many such day.
Coachella music fest to feature Paul McCartney
Booking former Beatles, which is listed in the minutes book as the most successful musical in the history of pop, will be the safest choice to think for most music festivals.
But the respected international festival Coachella, the April 17-19, draws in many more than 140,000 fans from taking a trip with edgier alt-rock heroes will listen to a college town of pirate radio stations.
Brought to you with the opportunity to use music history and veteran star power, the contractors have signed the 66-year-old icon, who personifies the mature mainstream pop. The move may help the festival to compete in a dismal economy and a number of imitators who have sprung up across the country, the news in the presence of McCartney – for better or worse – will immediately Coachella a hot topic with country music fans have been anxiously awaiting the list of the head liners .
What remains to be seen is whether the option would cost the festival’s credibility with key customers: young fans who are more likely to listen to the White Stripes from the “White Album” and are more familiar with from Rage Against the Machine ‘Band on Run “.
From Paris, McCartney sent word Thursday that he was pleased with the idea of playing in a new world. “I have heard that Coachella is one of the largest festivals in the world,” he said in a statement sent to The Times. “I am really excited to go out and rock!”
McCartney is one of the 120 acts at festivals. Most of them, including murderers, Franz Ferdinand and the Yeah Yeah Yeah, fits perfectly aware delivery of alt-rock.
It will also be blocks from the Cure, Morrissey and My Bloody Valentine, the three holy operations since the 1980s and 1990s, British stage and a result of neo-soul singer Amy Winehouse, whose trains – tabloid wreck has made life in a digital version of Janis Joplin.
But despite these exciting reservations, Paul Tollett, the festival in the head architect, who knows his decision to seek a living legend from the 1960s, will dominate discussions between now and Sir Paul main steps of the festival first night.
A quarter of the Fab Four big news is not a question of time.
“This is the Beatles. This is huge,” said Tollett, who has shown Flair for surprises in recent years. He and his partner in the concert promotion company AEG booked Madonna in 2006, but the setting – a stage and dancing is not the most important stage – has an isolated, exciting experiment.
The group also brought Coachella to Willie Nelson, Pink Floyd alum Roger Waters and Prince, and this year has ELEGIAC folk songwriter Leonard Cohen, who has not been implemented in the U.S. since 1993.
But each of these performances have MAVERICK sensitivity curve ball that connects the Coachella indie-rock film. McCartney is still the man who sang “Silly Love Songs”.
There are many people in the music industry say it is foolish to doubt the Coachella leadership – or the Beatles Song Book.
“If you can bring in outside Madonna Coachella, they can do anything,” says Gary Bongiovanni, editor of Poll Star, the concert trade publication and industry. “Coachella is the king. McCartney, I want to play Coachella as make it possible to reach a different audience.”
“I am not sure what it takes from Coachella, however,” Bongiovanni said. “They can pull in some older fans, but for Coachella usual audience, I do not know that you will be really happy to see – even if it could have the show when it is there.”
The legacy of the Beatles echoes in every corner of contemporary music, and Coachella fans have heard this from our own experience of past performance from Oasis, Coldplay, The Verve and many other stars prepared for the Fab Four. To win over the crowd, McCartney will probably avoid “Say Say Say” and lean to edgier material “Helter MAIN” and “Live and Let Die.”
McCartney, whose romantic life has been the subject of intense interest in the British press, was a rejuvenated band in recent years. Critics praised last year’s “Electric Arguments”, was released on the third album by the name of a firefighter, McCartney minded electronic collaboration with producer Youth.
The most classic solo work in recent years, “Chaos and Creation in the yard,” was released in 2005 was nominated for three Grammy prizes, including album of the year.
It is safe to say that many fans will Coachella shrug when they see McCartney’s name on the list of performers. Tollett said there is a significant percentage of the premium customers who ignore the main stage altogether.
“Many people will see the band who do not know much about yet,” said Tollett.
This year, some of the up and coming acts include TV radio, tape Horses, Fleet Αλεπούδες, Glass Vegas, white lies, the Knux, Ting settings and Beirut. Veterans as X, Paul Weller and Public Enemy and attracted many fans.
Despite the accumulated interest, the festival at Empire Polo Club is bleak economic reality.
Tickets go on sale today at 9 is a three days will go for $ 281 and single day admission of $ 103. This is too small for the fans and European visitors, who also might consider rival summer festivals like Bonnaroo in Tennessee (which reportedly will headed by Bruce Springsteen and phish) and LOLLAPALOOZA in Chicago.
Coachella candidates have announced a plan layaway payment for the first time and will greatly promote the $ 55 per person on-site camping options.
Tollett Stagecoach also organizes the festival, at the end of April a country music version of Coachella in Indio, and 24% of the tickets sold so far have been such a layaway program.
“These are difficult times for the people”, said, “and we will do what it takes to get them to come to the show.