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Friday, July 24, 2009
C3 hitches hopes on 2016 Olympics
While they’re watching Kings of Leon onstage, Austin City Limits Festival organizers C3 Presents hope they’ll soon be Lords of Lycra.
The day the 8th annual ACL Fest kicks off at Zilker Park, C3 will also have its mind in Chicago, which is one of the finalists to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Oct. 2 is when the International Olympics Committee will announce the lucky city that will host the event and C3 has been lobbying hard for the Windy City, where it’s built a stronghold after turning Lollapalooza into a destination fest at Grant Park and taken over co-management of Soldier Field. Grant Park is also where “Charlie Company,” co-owned by Charlie Jones, Charlie Walker and Charles Attal, staged Barack Obama’s Election Night celebration in November.
At this year’s Lollapalooza, which runs Aug. 7- 9, the main stage will have a big banner that says “Chicago 2016.” After AT&T dropped out as a sponsor this year, C3 donated naming rights to the group trying to bring the Olympics to Chicago.
Chicago is one of four candiadates, going up against Tokyo, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro, for the 2016 games.
C3 has made no secret of its desire to help stage the Olympics, even executive-producing the official dinner when the IOC visited Chicago. “They’ve been helpful to us, and they do very good work, but we haven’t considered anything past Oct. 2,” Chicago 2016 spokesman Patrick Sandusky recently told Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times. “It would be presumptive of us” to name C3 as a prospective producer.
C3 Presents grew out of sporting events. Originally named Capital Sports & Entertainment, with Lance Armstrong as its cash cow on wheels, the concert promoters began their winning streak with a free concert at Auditorium Shores to celebrate Armstrong’s first Tour de France victory in 1999.
Capital Sports started working with booker Charles Attal Presents in 2002, when ACL Fest was launched. Walker left competing promoter Live Nation in 2007, merging with CSE and Charles Attal Presents to form C3 Presents.
This weekend C3 is co-producing the Wanderlust “music and yoga” festival near Lake Tahoe, Nev.
AT&T’s contract with Lollapalooza ended last year and they decided not to renew, a spokesman told the Sun-Times, “based on a variety of business goals and objectives.” AT&T is also no longer a sponsor at ACL Fest.
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John Dawson of New Riders of the Purple Sage dies
John Dawson, aka Marmaduke, died Tuesday of stomach cancer in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He was 64. Dawson, along with David Nelson and Jerry Garcia, was a founding member of New Riders of the Purple Sage. Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh and drummer Mickey Hart were also part of the band’s early incarnation. In 2005, the band released a recording of their 1975 performance at the Armadillo World Headquarters. (from the New York Times)
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Five nights of Wilco interviews on Sirus XM’s Outlaw Country Channel
This is will probably still not be enough for some Wilco fans, who can hear Wilco in the SIRIUS XM studios July 27 through July 31 at 9:00 pm ET on Sirius channel 63 and XM channel 12.”
Singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt (a.k.a, the two remaining founding members) will chat with Outlaw Country host Meredith Ochs. Expect a lot of chatter about the creation of their latest release, “Wilco (The Album).” The band also premiers Tweedy’s new duet with Roseanne Cash, “Long Black Veil,” from her upcoming album “The List.”
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Cedar Park High alum on charts with Love & Theft
Brian Bandas of Cedar Park moved to Nashville a couple years ago to pursue a musical career that’s quickly paying off. “Runaway,” the debut single from Bandas’ band Love and Theft, is racing up the Billboard country single charts, currently at no. 22. The trio’s full length debut comes out on Disney-owned Lyric Street Records on Aug. 25.
L&T got their big break opening a tour for Taylor Swift, who wrote “Hey, Stephen” after she developed a crush on Bandas bandmate Stephen Barker Liles.
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Friday-at-your-desk entertainment: The only video that matters right now.
New York rockers Obits, who killed at SXSW this year, and the, um, let’s-call-it-budget-conscious video for “Pine On”
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Guest list giveaway: Will Hoge at Stubb’s (indoors)
We’re giving away tickets to see Will Hoge at Stubb’s (inside) on Friday, July 31.
Email us at events@statesman.com before midnight to enter. You MUST include your full name, email address and daytime phone number in the email to win. Winners will be drawn randomly and notified tomorrow. For complete contest rules email events@statesman.com.
