Desert Trip, the classic rock version of Coachella, is coming to Indio, Calif. Oct. 7-9.
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Nearly since their inceptions in 1999 and 2007, respectively, the Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals at the Empire Polo Club in Indio have drawn 20 percent of their annual audiences from San Diego County. Over one weekend, revelers will have the chance to see The Rolling Stones, Roger Waters, Bob Dylan and his band, The Who, Paul McCartney and Neil Young with Promise of the Real.
Goldenvoice, a California concert promoter that is owned by the global concert giant AEG Live, organized the mega-concert, which will have two acts play full-scale shows – not abbreviated festival sets – per night.
The Who’s Roger Daltrey later confirmed to BBC 6 Music that the festival was likely to go ahead, describing it as a once-in-a-lifetime line-up.
The “Won’t Get Fooled Again” rocker said: “We have to face it, we are (at) the end of an era”.
Already dubbed “Oldchella.” a new festival is set to take place this fall that is sure to draw in a huge crop of intergenerational music fans.
It’s not every weekend that you get the opportunity to see six of the world’s most iconic and influential rock artists perform. Young and McCartney will follow on Saturday, with The Who and Roger Waters closing the event on Sunday.
Bob Dylan will join heritage rockers at the Desert Trip festival in the US.
Neil Young (who’s 70 now) can still pull this sort of thing off. Roger Waters, 72, and McCartney, 73, probably can, too. No single-day tickets are available. Tickets go on sale Monday, May 9th at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. A three day general admission pass will be $399, or $424 with a shuttle.
Desert Trip comes from the team behind Coachella and is indeed on the Coachella polo field site in Palm Springs, California.
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Visit www.DesertTrip.com for information about hotel packages, premium seating and RV and tent camping.
