AEG pulls plug on Mile High Music Festival
After three years, gigantic festival “announces hiatus”
Soren McCarty
You'll have to find someplace else to hang out with shirtless bros drinking bad beer this summer
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Time to make new plans if you were banking on the opportunity to stand in a parking lot and drink ridiculously overpriced bottles of water this summer: AEG Live announced it won’t host the Mile High Music Festival this year. Getting all 2008 on us, promoters cited general macroeconomic malaise as the reason they’re not going through with the fourth installment of the festival, which previously featured appearances by Dave Matthews Band, Tom Petty, and John Mayer.
“It was not an easy decision to put the festival on hold,” Chuck Morris, president and CEO of AEG Live Rocky Mountain Region, says in a statement. “We are really proud of the event, and we’re not ruling out the possibility of bringing it back in the future.”
Then again, it’s tough to envision a time in the near future when the Colorado economy’s so booming that concert-goers are cool with shelling out $150 a pop for a two-day pass. Remember last year’s “no single-day passes” policy that forced festival-goers to fork over a ton and suffer through The Steve Miller Band and Jack Johnson on Saturday if they wanted the opportunity to catch Dave Matthews and Weezer on Sunday? Hey, at least AEG didn’t have the arrogance to try to sweet talk a bunch of suckers into forking over donations to keep its failing festival afloat. That doesn’t go over so well, does it Monolith Festival?
