Copyright 2007. Nielsen Business Media. Inc. All rights reserved. Boxscores should 13 (X) R E Concert Grosses bu submitted to Bob Allen. Nashville. 0\S Phoee 55- 32i -9'7' Far 615 321 -0878. For pncr,q 500 Allen. GROSS/ ARTISTAS) Attendance FOR MORE BOXSCORES GO TO: Venue, Date Capuoty promoter BILLBOARD.BIZ $5,389,571 VIRGIN FESTIVAL: THE POLICE, SMA:S -iING PUMPKINS & OTHERS Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, 55,536, 0 Md., Aug. 4 -5 100.000 t I.M.P $3,913,290 RCCK TEE SELLS: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE & OTHERS Hyundai Pavilion at Glen Helen, 47,243 Live Nation, Guerilla Union © Devote, Calif., Aug. 11 sellout $2,295,415 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, XAVIER ReDD Tweeter Center for the Performing 39,778 3.3,800 o Live Nation El Arts, Mansfield, Hass., Aug.1 -2 shov. ohE Ilou: $1,391,777 MICHAEL 3JBLÉ, JANN ARDENI i $45.25 Greek Theatre, L. os Angeles, 17,755 Nederlander Concerts, Beaver Productions Aug. 21 -23 thr s $1,346,129 KENNY CHESNEY, SUGARLAND, PAT GREEN LORDI at the 2017 Nissan Pavilion at Stone Ridge, 25,139 The Bristow, Va., Aug. 25 Live Nation, Messina Group/AEG Live Bamboozle Festival, in May sellout at Giants Stadium in East $1,336,470 RASCA_ FLATTS, JASON A_DEAN Rutherford, N.J. Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, 15,913 Live Nation E Conn., July 13 -14 16242 trnn shows I$1,169,069 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, TOOTS & TH? MAYTALS $íaifS36 Nissan Pavilion at Stone Ridge, 25,282 Live Nation Bristow, Va., Aug. 11 seilout 1:1 $1,152,710 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, TOOTS & THE MAYTALS $65,/$40.50 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, 25,238 Live Nation Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Aug. 14 sellout r$1,104,231 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, TOOTS & THE MAYTALS Post- Gazette Pavilion at Star 23,015 Live Nation RAY WADDELL rwaddell @ oard.com Lake, Burgettstown, Pa., Aug. 10 23,070 $1,025,321 KENNY CtIESNEY, SUGARLANIIa, PAT GREEN $ 75.50/$39 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 20,093 Live Nation, The Messina Group/AEG Live Virginia Beach, Va., Aug. 24 sellout $961,627 JOSH GROBAN '8 Xcell Energy Center, St. Paul, 12,307 Live Bamboozle Busts Out M'.nn., Aug. 10 '2.456 Nation Live Nation Buys Multiday Fest, Plans Expansion $955,810 KENNY CHESNEY, SUGARLANDI PAT GREEN ... ...'$40.75 Merriweather Post Pavilion, 19,309 Columbia, Md., Aug. 26 :.M.P., The Messina Group /AEG Live Live Nation's acquisition ofa majority stake in which already includes president Kevin Mor- gi$938,385 RASCA. FLATTS, JASON A_DEAN Bamboozle, a multiday music festival held each row and talent buyers Phil Ernst, Jason Miller, $65 Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn 15,305 Hills, Mich., July 20 '9195 Live Nation year in the New York metropolitan area, repre- Jason Stone and Sean Striegel. Joining JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, GOOD CHARLOTTE sents a critical U.S. property for the company. D'Esposito will be Bamboozle marketing direc- $854,260 $300'575 Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, 9,735 Live Nation, in -house Whether festivals continue to be a priority for tor Rob George and production manager Corm., Aug. 11 9.760 Live Nation remains to be seen. But whatthe move Anthony Baldwin. $845,021 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, TOOTS & TH? MAYTALS Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 18,401 Live Nation does mean is a bigger stage for the self-described In terms of what Live Nation brings to the Virginia Beach, Va., Aug. 15 20C'`_á "kids from Jersey" who founded Bamboozle five Bamboozle party, Morrow says most of the im- $780,966 RASCA_ FLATTS, JASON A_DEAN years ago, led by fest creator John D'Esposito. pact will be at the "back room" level, including $ïú /$43 Caláotnia Mid State Fair, Paso 11,674 Caitfornia Mid -State Fair Robles, Calif., Aug. 2 seo,. +ut D'Esposito started Bamboozle in 2003 at the production, marketing clout "and one of the $773,992 PROJEKT REVOLUTION TOJR: LINKIN DARK & OTHERS Stone Pony in Asbury Park, N.J. "The first year greatest sponsorship teams in the world." $76/$40 Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, 13,797 Live Nation Wantagh, N.Y., Aug. 15 13,429 we weren't very successful at the Stone Pony, But the brand will grow under Live Nation, m PROJEKT REVOLUTION TOJR: LINKIN DARK & OTHERS so we decided to change the philosophy and beginning with Bamboozle West in Los Ange- $693,697 $70/$24 50 Ford Amphitheatre, Tampa, Fla., 17,304 Live Nation move it to Convention Hall and basically incor- les in April at a venue TBA. "From there we will Aug. 17 19.433 porate the town of Asbury with multiple ven- tour across the country with a property called $691,159 RASCA- FLATTS, JASON A.-DEAN ues," D'Esposito says. We outgrew Asbury and the Bamboozle Road Show," D'Esposito says. $65/537 Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, 11,027 Live Nation m Y 16.2_ had to move to a new venue. We looked at a "We'll take the best young [acts], put them on a 20 $680,847 RASCA_ FLATTS, JASON A _DE A.N bunch of options and chose the Meadowlands." package and tour them from L.A. to New Jer- $65/$39.75 American Airlines Center, Dallas, 11,039 Live July 27 11.57 Nation The 2007 Bamboozle Festival last May at Gi- sey. We're also looking at a Bamboozle in Lon- oaf- LEPPARD, STYX, FOREIGNER ants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., featured don next October." $656,328 $96/$26 Nikon at Jbnes Beach Theater, 10,963 Live Nation 187 bands on eight stages, drawing more than D'Esposito seems stoked to be part of the Wantagh, N.Y., Aug. 14 13' :. 85,000 fans and grossing in excess of $2.6 mil- Live Nation Northeast team, and will split his $651,062 RASCA_ PLATTS, JASON A_DEA.N $65/339.75 Ford Center, Oklahoma City, 10,377 Live Nation lion. Among the acts were Linkin Park, My time between Jersey and New York. He'll con- July 26 11,94e Chemical Romance and Lordi. tinue to book the Stone Pony and also such Live $631,036 DE1FLEPPARD, STYX, FOREIGNER Tweeter Cent_, for the Performing $75/525 15,626 Live Nation Asked about the booking philosophy for Bam- Nation rooms as the Blender Theatre at Arts, Mansfield. Mass., Aug. 11 19.82' boozle, D'Esposito says it's all about artist de- Gramercy and other smaller venues. $605,172 AMERICAN IDOLS LIVE velopment. "We don't usually go out and get a Live Nation already produces successful fes- $7250/542.50 Allstate Arena, Rosemont, III., 10,034 AEG Live, Jam Productions Aug. 7 12,521 big headliner. We usually try to develop within tivals in the United Kingdom and Europe, in- $600,985 KEITH URBAN, THE WRECKERS as they grow," he says. "Fall Out Boy started cluding such prestigious multiday events as Resch Center, Green Bay, Wis., 11,284 Frank Productions, G.A.M.E. on the small stage and eventually headlined to Reading, Leeds and Download in the United Jul 31-Aug. 1 15,002 tw o shop+ over 30,000 people. Same thing with My Chem. Kingdom, Werchter in Belgium and Lowlands $598,130 AMERICAN IDOLS LIVE $72.5 $39 50 Jobiing.com Arena, Glendale, 9,701 AEG Live Hopefully this year we'll have another one like in Holland. So it's not surprising the company Ariz., July 18 10.412 Paramore or the Jonas Brothers." would look to strengthen its position in this $575,782 MICHAEL 3JBLE, JANN ARC'EN Bamboozle is also one of the more affordably space, given the boom market for festivals in $85/565 Oracle Arena, Oakland, Calif, 7,399 Beaver Productions Aug. 25 sellout priced multi-act festivals, which D'Esposito says the United States. $568,995 PROJEKT REVOLUTION TOJR: LINKIN DARK & OTHERS has a "as long Rival AEG Live been priority, as the bands are international promoter sub- $70/524 50 Sound Advice Amphitheatre, 17,154 Live Nation West Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 10 19.25' willing to work with us and we don't have to pay sidiary Goldenvoice produces Coachella in Indio, RASCA.. FLATTS, JASON A_DEAN extravagant guarantees. It's a philosophy: Bam- Calif., and has a producer's stake in the New Or- $568,642 $65 Van Ainde[ Arena, Grand Rapids, 8,498 - Live Nation boozlé s not your payday, it's your credibility." leans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which grossed an Mich., July 19 11.927 Live Nation has backed Bamboozle since it estimated $20 million this year, as well as Seat- 30 $564,014 BRAD PAISLEY, JACK INGRAM, NELLIE PICKLER, TAYLOR SWIFT $43/$33 M nnesota State Fair, St. Paul, 13,148 Minnesota State Fair moved out ofAsbury Park, but now it owns it out- tle's Bumbershoot. C3- produced Lollapalooza in Minn., Aug. 23 sel loLt right. Why sell a successful property? "They do Chicago took in nearly $10 million in tickets, and $563,864 NICKELBACK, PUDDLE OF MUDD, ANGER ELEVEN this every day, and we're just some kids from Point Bonnaroo last June in Manchester, Tenn., grossed $57.50/537.50 C.W. Mitchell Pavilion, The 12,559 Live Nation, in-house 111 Woodiandk, Texas, Aug. 16 15,7 39 Pleasant, N.J.," D'Esposito says. "We got over our an estimated $17 million in its sixth year. Newer $550,930 AMERICAN /DOLS LIVE heads. There was a point where as an entrepre- festivals like the Virgin Mobile Festival at Pim- $72.50/$39.50 Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn 9,24$ AE6 Live Hills, Mich, Aug 12 11,3`_9 neur you have to look at something and say, 'I can lico Race Course in Baltimore are also gaining ® AMERICAN IDOLS LIVE do it myselfand fail, or I can go and get somebody traction; V-Fest grossed $5.4 million from 55,636 1:1 $549,488 Xc:ei Energy Center, St.