No Desert Trip 2017, says Goldenvoice’s Tollett

Quashing speculation AEG would attempt a repeat of the success of 2016's 'Oldchella', festival founder Paul Tollett has said there will be no Desert Trip this year

The Who at Desert Trip 2016 © Al Case

Despite grossing in excess of US$150 million and spawning an imitator in the form of Live Nation’s The Classic, Goldenvoice’s Desert Trip megafestival will not return this summer, Goldenvoice’s Paul Tollett has confirmed.

“We’re not doing Desert Trip this year,” Tollett, the CEO of the AEG-owned promoter and co-founder of Coachella, tells Billboard. “We loved [the] 2016 Desert Trip; that was a special moment in time. Maybe someday in the future we’ll do something similar.”

“Maybe…

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