May 28, 2003

OFF THE FIELD: The long-troubled

OFF THE FIELD: The long-troubled Field Day Music Festival, scheduled for next weekend on the North Fork of Long Island, appears to be in doubt after Suffolk County officials denied a permit to the concert organizers.
While the organizers of the festival managed to put together an impossibly strong lineup of cool, of-the-moment acts (Radiohead, Beck, the Beastie Boys, Interpol, Bright Eyes, Sigur Ros, Liz Phair, The Roots, N.E.R.D., The Streets, Ben Kweller, etc.), according to a recent New York Press story the show looked in every way like a recipe for disaster: the town of Riverhead, LI was utterly unprepared, security-wise and other-wise, for the influx of 100,000 people- and nobody in town seemed to want it to want them there anyway. Had the show gone ahead it looked a lot like it could've resulted in Woodstock '99 all over again.
Meanwhile, I personally have other plans to see Radiohead next week. For $2, no less.

Posted by Stephen Silver at May 28, 2003 05:22 PM
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