June 22nd, 2004, 02:50 PM
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Lollapalooza Canceled
Lollapalooza Canceled Due to Poor Sales
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Jun 22, 11:36 AM (ET)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Lollapalooza music festival tour has been canceled because of poor ticket sales, according to its Web site.
The tour, featuring Morrissey, Sonic Youth and The Flaming Lips, had been set to begin July 14 in Auburn, Wash., and continue through August, including stops in Toronto, New York, Atlanta and Dallas.
Tour organizers and concert promoters "faced with several million dollars of losses, made the very tough decision to pull the tour," the Web site said Tuesday.
The Web site said there had been "poor ticket sales across the board."
"My heart aches along with the bands, and all of our employees, whose hard work developed one of the most exciting and important tours that this nation was to see," festival co-founder Perry Farrell said in a statement. "My heart is broken."
The two-day, traveling hippielike music festival that began in 1991 took a hiatus in 1997 and returned last year.
"In real terms, it's been a tough summer," said Alex Hodges, executive vice president of HOB Concerts. "Ticket sales have been mixed and often inexplicably soft. There are a number of contributing factors, and, as a result, many tours have been cut back, rerouted or canceled."
Ticket holders will be given full refunds, the Web site said.
Does this mean No Gomez for KingLouieLouie?
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Last edited by Beaver; June 22nd, 2004 at 02:58 PM.
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June 22nd, 2004, 02:54 PM
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Roamin' Gnome
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possibly if the billing of headlining bands wasn't so horribly crappy and 'indie rock' some people would turn out. I saw KoRn, Tool, and the Prodigy (and Snoop Dogg too) one year at Lollapalooza. now they have the freeking Flaming Lips? come ON man. 
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June 28th, 2004, 09:23 PM
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Going Old School!
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Originally Posted by BendCardfan
Does this mean No Gomez for KingLouieLouie?
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Actually...Lollapalooza wasnt scheduled to come out to Phoenix this year since the sales were horrible last year, however, Gomez will be performing at the Venue of Scottsdale (formerly the Cajun House) in Scottsdale, AZ, on 7/25 at 7:30 p.m..... I wont purchase tickets until at least the week before the concert since there's a chance I might be out-of-town around the time.... |
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June 28th, 2004, 09:34 PM
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Like a boss
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That sucks for all the bands involved. I know a bunch of them are already planning tours in place of Lollapalooza. The only tour I've been looking forward to anyway is Warped tour.
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June 28th, 2004, 11:15 PM
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Banned
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Originally Posted by BendCardfan
The tour, featuring Morrissey...
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Geeze, wonder why nobody wanted to show up?? Was George Michael booked? |
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March 30th, 2005, 07:13 AM
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Going Old School!
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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/149...headlines=true
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Lollapalooza Scaled Back To Two-Day Chicago Festival
03.30.2005 7:47 AM EST
After last year's cancellation, touring summer concert grows roots.
After scrapping an entire tour last year because of poor ticket sales, Lollapalooza is plotting a comeback this summer as a "destination" festival on a par with Coachella and Bonnaroo.
Instead of hitting amphitheaters as it has in summers past, the pioneering touring festival of the 1990s will grow roots and scale back to a two-day event in Chicago's Grant Park on July 23 and 24, according to an event spokesperson.
Organizers have not yet announced the lineup for the festival, which they expect to reveal near the end of April.
Following five years off, Lollapalooza returned to amphitheaters in 2003 with a lineup that featured Queens of the Stone Age and Incubus. Last summer, organizers scrapped the entire tour due to slow ticket sales for a roster that included Morrissey, PJ Harvey, Modest Mouse, the String Cheese Incident, the Flaming Lips and Sonic Youth (see "Lollapalooza Canceled; Organizers City Poor Ticket Sales").
Festival co-founder, former Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, is once again on board as a creative consultant for the Chicago dates.
— Gil Kaufman
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March 30th, 2005, 07:17 AM
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Several years and brain cells ago, I saw Pearl Jam, Soundgarten, White Zombie, Ice Cube, and Red Hot Chili Peppers in Phoenix, At least I think that was one show. hard to say. I also saw Rage against the Machine and Primas another year.
Good times...maybe, I can't remember much of them.
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