Music & Art: All Shook Down - Radiohead, Tom Petty, and Jack Johnson To Play Golden Gate Park's Outside Lands Festival Aug. 22-24

Radiohead, Tom Petty, and Jack Johnson To Play Golden Gate Park's Outside Lands Festival Aug. 22-24

Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 01:55:58 AM

Today an industry source confirmed Radiohead, Tom Petty, and Jack Johnson will headline the first-ever "Outside Lands Festival" in Golden Gate Park August 22-24. The precise, nightly order of the headliners remains unknown. Tickets prices and on-sale dates remain unknown. The source, who operates outside the festival organization and who requested anonymity, says the 160,000-person, three-day inaugural Festival represents a huge coup for local promoting powerhouse Another Planet Entertainment (in conjunction with Superfly), as well as a major boost to San Francisco's festival profile. Outside Lands will come just weeks before the highly esteemed, 2nd Annual Treasure Island Music Festival.

The source's info corroborates circumstantial evidence relating to:

1) Size. According to government documents, APE expects up to 160,000 people over 8.22-24 in GG Park the week before Burning Man for a "major headliner".

2) Timing. The first two dates of the proposed event, Friday Aug. 22 and Sat. Aug. 23 come just a day before Radiohead is rumored to be playing L.A. on 8.24 and 8.25.

4) Location. Radiohead cares about carbon-neutral touring, and wants to site shows at places with transit; like GGP.

5) Experience. APE booked Radiohead before, and they've booked the Park before. They are among the best and the brightest in the Bay, and if anyone could do it, it's them.

We await a statement from the Outside Lands Festival organizers confirming or denying our source's information. They said they have no statement at this time. -David Downs (Oscar Medina contributed to this story.)

Tags: golden gate park, radiohead, san francisco music and art festival

14 Comments:

katie says:

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at: February 21, 2008 12:24 AM

Calculator says:

clearly the jj post is a joke.

Posted at: February 21, 2008 10:59 AM

Snapdragon says:

Why did you completely remove the original post? If it weren't for Bort, would this scoop have happened?

Posted at: February 21, 2008 4:27 PM

David Downs, Web Editor, SF Weekly says:

Snapdragon,

Oscar Medina, All Shook Down writer, called me yesterday afternoon to say Coachella message boards were talking about this. He provided me with the links to begin asking questions off-line, where I received confirmation from one my many sources.

I cited Bort as a one of many net rumor vectors.

When the story got confirmed, the post changed.

I cannot conjecture as to how the universe would be configured today, "if it weren't for Bort."

But I will say that bloggers, message boards, and government documents created a trail of bread crumbs that enabled me to ask the right questions to the right people.

So thanks to all for that.
Here's Bort's site:
http://avoision.blogspot.com/

You can find the Coachella message boards with google.

Posted at: February 21, 2008 5:30 PM

brains says:

the fact that I will probably be able to literally walk to see radiohead makes me so excited that I feel like peeing my pants from now until august.

YES!

let's hope this rumor is 100% true, and that the festival is not terribly over priced.

Posted at: February 21, 2008 9:23 PM

alternapop.com says:

jack johnson is not a joke. he's headlining coachella too.

Posted at: February 25, 2008 8:00 AM

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