http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/ ... 10955.htmlOrganizers are close to announcing a four-day music festival slated to become an annual event in Las Vegas around Halloween, with the inaugural headliners probably including the Dave Matthews Band and Pearl Jam.
The festival, dubbed Vegoose, is expected to draw 50,000 music lovers, placing it on a scale similar to premier U.S. rock festivals such as Southern California's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
Sam Boyd Stadium will serve as the main site for the Oct. 28-31 event, but organizers plan to stage Vegoose as a citywide event.
"Daytime shows will be at the main site, but there's also going to be nighttime shows in the clubs," said Ken Weinstein, a spokesman for Superfly Productions, the New York City-based promoter behind Vegoose.
Sam Boyd Stadium director Daren Libonati said performances could unfold in area arenas such as UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center and in Strip hotels such as Mandalay Bay and MGM Grand.
"This is going to be an event that Las Vegas can call its own," said Las Vegas Events President Pat Christensen. "There's going to be a lot of bands."
Superfly and festival co-organizer Las Vegas Events stayed mum Tuesday on confirmed bands or ticket prices and said an official announcement is scheduled for August.
But addressing Internet rumors, officials involved with Vegoose said Matthews, Pearl Jam and former Phish frontman Trey Anastasio are under consideration.
They would not address Internet speculation that places many other acts at Vegoose, including The Allman Brothers Band, the Black Crowes, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Gov't Mule, The John Mayer Trio, Wilco, Ryan Adams, MOE, String Cheese Incident, Mike Gordon and Leo Kottke, 311, Keller Williams, Umphrey's McGee and Galactic.
Superfly released the dates for the festival on Vegoose.com Tuesday. But the Web site offered little other information.
New York City-based Superfly is the promoter behind Bonnaroo, a big festival each June in Manchester, Tenn.
Bonnaroo typically boasts guitar-noodling, jam bands such as Widespread Panic and String Cheese Incident in headlining slots, while other stages offer eclectic artists from indie rock and jazz to singer-songwriters and bluegrass.
Christensen said Vegoose probably will attract a couple of major acts.
"Vegas would be taking the lead in creating something that is a destination event," he said. "It has to be a certain level of talent, maybe some bigger names than what you have at Bonnaroo."
But unlike Bonnaroo and the alternative-rock focused Coachella festival in Indio, Calif., Vegoose organizers are not providing concertgoers with acres of camping space.
Las Vegas Events, a nonprofit, taxpayer-supported group charged with bringing tourists to town, hopes to fill more hotel rooms during a holiday weekend when sales are typically soft.
"Halloween is slow in Vegas. It's not one of our stronger weekends," Christensen said. "Yet for us from a weather perspective, it's perfect."
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It's now official that Dave Mathews Band will headline this event....here's the news from the DMB website....
http://www.davematthewsband.com/index.aspDave Matthews and Friends to play VEGOOSE
We are excited to announce that Dave Matthews and Friends will headline the Las Vegas Halloween festival extravaganza, VEGOOSE, scheduled to take place Saturday and Sunday, October 29 and 30, at Sam Boyd Stadium and on the surrounding grounds. Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment are presenting VEGOOSE.
In addition to Dave Matthews and Friends, Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio, Jack Johnson, North Mississippi Allstars, Flaming Lips and Gov't Mule will perform along with many others. For the 2005 VEGOOSE confirmed artist line-up, please visit www.vegoose.com. Tickets will go on sale through www.vegoose.com on Saturday, August 13, 2005 at 10 a.m. PST. Please visit the official VEGOOSE website for complete ticketing information and check back often for updates, including more additions to the line up.
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Maybe Dave will sit in with Jimmy for Tripping Billies...
...a boy can dream.
Maybe Dave will sit in with Jimmy for Tripping Billies...
...a boy can dream.
From RollingStone.com:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... on=single1
Beck, Dave Do Vegoose
Jack Johnson, Shins, Arcade Fire, Flaming Lips also play Vegas for Halloween
Troop Leader
Jack Johnson wanted to crank up the wave pool at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Hotel and Resort Casino so he could catch some surf. Dave Matthews joked about checking out Excalibur's all-male revue, Thunder from Down Under. Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools came to see his buddies get hitched. Underground hip-hop artist Beans hit the strip clubs, while the Digable Planets' Cee Knowledge lost money on the slots. City of Sin vices aside, all these musicians and more were in Las Vegas this past Halloween weekend for another reason: Vegoose, baby, Vegoose.
A total of 40,000 people turned up each day to see thirty-six acts across four stages on the University of Nevada at Las Vegas' Sam Boyd Stadium grounds -- about seven miles from the Vegas strip -- for the first annual Vegoose Music Festival this past Halloween weekend. Superfly Entertainment, the promoters of Tennessee's annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival, had been planning Vegoose since 2000. The line-up, like that of Bonnaroo, brought together musical acts across genres, from jam bands to indie rock to hip-hop. In addition to Dave Matthews, Beck, the Flaming Lips and the Shins, the Arcade Fire, Talib Kweli, Ween, North Mississippi Allstars, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, Primus and Gov't Mule rounded out the bill.
Most revelers came dressed up in costumes: a Napoleon Dynamite look alike here, a guy dressed as a Hooters waitress there. And even musicians got into the holiday spirit: Beck came as a Cub Scout, Jack Johnson channeled Jimi Hendrix and the Shins dressed up as nuns.
The Vegoose experience started with Dave Mathews and Tim Reynolds at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino on Friday night, in one of a dozen late-night shows held at various casino venues in addition to the two-day stadium binge. Matthews kept an intimate feeling inside the 7,000-capacity theater, sharing family stories and chatting between songs throughout his set, which included classics like "Satellite," "Warehouse" and "Two Step."
On Saturday, not long after a rousing set by Portland indie rockers the Decemberists, who played most of their recent, lyrical album Picaresque, the Shins took the stage in nun cloaks for a set that drew heavily on their 2003 breakthrough album, Chutes Too Narrow. And with Beck and Jack Johnson at side stage, they performed their Garden State soundtrack staple, "New Slang."
Atmosphere's set in the hip-hop tent drew masses, causing the LVPD to threaten to shut down the venue. With the air reeking of weed and fists pumping, people spilled out from beneath the tent's dome. Talib Kweli followed, energizing the crowd with help from Sacramento breakdancers Flexible Flav, who flipped and spun across the stage. Kweli's DJ Chops delivered a solo with behind-the-back and through-the-leg scratch maneuvers. Announcing "I don't know if I know all the words yet," Kweli even treated the fans to a new track, "Off Beat," from his as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2004's The Beautiful Struggle.
During the Primus set, bassist Les Claypool -- who chose to play in front of two giant, inflated rubber ducks -- announced to his audience, "I feel bad for all of you out there, because you're missing Beck!" Across the grounds, with a tent and deer onstage and his entire band dressed in Cub Scout uniforms, troop leader Beck serenaded the crowd with songs off every one of his albums: "Lost Cause," "Loser," "Devil's Haircut," "Sexx Laws" and the encores "E-Pro" and "Get Real Paid."
On Sunday, Vegoose was at its most diverse, with acts ranging from veteran indie trio Sleater-Kinney to jam-rockers Umphrey's McGee to the original line-up of New Orleans' funk legends the Meters. Although Ween and moe. drew bigger crowds during Spoon's set time, the Austin-based indie outfit seemed to win over new fans, as the crowd danced along to songs like "The Way We Get By" from 2002's Kill the Moonlight and "I Summon You," off their latest album, Gimme Fiction.
But it was the high energy of both the Flaming Lips and the Arcade Fire sets that topped the evening. Wayne Coyne and Co. threw a party onstage with their usual confetti, balloons and crew of people dressed as furry animals. The band covered Queens' "Bohemian Rhapsody," and Coyne lectured the youth on taking a bigger stand against the war before going into Black Sabbath's "War Pigs."
The festival closed with an electrifying three-hour Widespread Panic performance that included long percussion and drum solos, as well as another appearance by Trey Anastasio and eclectic southern rocker Col. Bruce Hampton. The band mixed up the set with old classics and new songs like the encore "None of Us Are Free."
With the festival over, fans wandered out, looking for another hard-to-find late-night cab and talking about which hotel on the strip they would stay at next year.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... on=single1
Beck, Dave Do Vegoose
Jack Johnson, Shins, Arcade Fire, Flaming Lips also play Vegas for Halloween
Troop Leader
Jack Johnson wanted to crank up the wave pool at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Hotel and Resort Casino so he could catch some surf. Dave Matthews joked about checking out Excalibur's all-male revue, Thunder from Down Under. Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools came to see his buddies get hitched. Underground hip-hop artist Beans hit the strip clubs, while the Digable Planets' Cee Knowledge lost money on the slots. City of Sin vices aside, all these musicians and more were in Las Vegas this past Halloween weekend for another reason: Vegoose, baby, Vegoose.
A total of 40,000 people turned up each day to see thirty-six acts across four stages on the University of Nevada at Las Vegas' Sam Boyd Stadium grounds -- about seven miles from the Vegas strip -- for the first annual Vegoose Music Festival this past Halloween weekend. Superfly Entertainment, the promoters of Tennessee's annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival, had been planning Vegoose since 2000. The line-up, like that of Bonnaroo, brought together musical acts across genres, from jam bands to indie rock to hip-hop. In addition to Dave Matthews, Beck, the Flaming Lips and the Shins, the Arcade Fire, Talib Kweli, Ween, North Mississippi Allstars, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, Primus and Gov't Mule rounded out the bill.
Most revelers came dressed up in costumes: a Napoleon Dynamite look alike here, a guy dressed as a Hooters waitress there. And even musicians got into the holiday spirit: Beck came as a Cub Scout, Jack Johnson channeled Jimi Hendrix and the Shins dressed up as nuns.
The Vegoose experience started with Dave Mathews and Tim Reynolds at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino on Friday night, in one of a dozen late-night shows held at various casino venues in addition to the two-day stadium binge. Matthews kept an intimate feeling inside the 7,000-capacity theater, sharing family stories and chatting between songs throughout his set, which included classics like "Satellite," "Warehouse" and "Two Step."
On Saturday, not long after a rousing set by Portland indie rockers the Decemberists, who played most of their recent, lyrical album Picaresque, the Shins took the stage in nun cloaks for a set that drew heavily on their 2003 breakthrough album, Chutes Too Narrow. And with Beck and Jack Johnson at side stage, they performed their Garden State soundtrack staple, "New Slang."
Atmosphere's set in the hip-hop tent drew masses, causing the LVPD to threaten to shut down the venue. With the air reeking of weed and fists pumping, people spilled out from beneath the tent's dome. Talib Kweli followed, energizing the crowd with help from Sacramento breakdancers Flexible Flav, who flipped and spun across the stage. Kweli's DJ Chops delivered a solo with behind-the-back and through-the-leg scratch maneuvers. Announcing "I don't know if I know all the words yet," Kweli even treated the fans to a new track, "Off Beat," from his as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2004's The Beautiful Struggle.
During the Primus set, bassist Les Claypool -- who chose to play in front of two giant, inflated rubber ducks -- announced to his audience, "I feel bad for all of you out there, because you're missing Beck!" Across the grounds, with a tent and deer onstage and his entire band dressed in Cub Scout uniforms, troop leader Beck serenaded the crowd with songs off every one of his albums: "Lost Cause," "Loser," "Devil's Haircut," "Sexx Laws" and the encores "E-Pro" and "Get Real Paid."
On Sunday, Vegoose was at its most diverse, with acts ranging from veteran indie trio Sleater-Kinney to jam-rockers Umphrey's McGee to the original line-up of New Orleans' funk legends the Meters. Although Ween and moe. drew bigger crowds during Spoon's set time, the Austin-based indie outfit seemed to win over new fans, as the crowd danced along to songs like "The Way We Get By" from 2002's Kill the Moonlight and "I Summon You," off their latest album, Gimme Fiction.
But it was the high energy of both the Flaming Lips and the Arcade Fire sets that topped the evening. Wayne Coyne and Co. threw a party onstage with their usual confetti, balloons and crew of people dressed as furry animals. The band covered Queens' "Bohemian Rhapsody," and Coyne lectured the youth on taking a bigger stand against the war before going into Black Sabbath's "War Pigs."
The festival closed with an electrifying three-hour Widespread Panic performance that included long percussion and drum solos, as well as another appearance by Trey Anastasio and eclectic southern rocker Col. Bruce Hampton. The band mixed up the set with old classics and new songs like the encore "None of Us Are Free."
With the festival over, fans wandered out, looking for another hard-to-find late-night cab and talking about which hotel on the strip they would stay at next year.