A promoter from California-based Endless Summer proposed a massive music festival occuring over 2 weekends during Spring Break 2010.

The proposal included having the festival at Frank Brown park off Back Beach Road, features 60 performers and would draw a estimated 100,000 people.

The promoter, Ted Absher, said his clients include MTV, BET, CMT and the Grammy Awards.

But, city council members voted against the festival due to security concerns and a lack of resources to control the event.

Full story in the News Herald: Massive music fest in PCB? No way, council says | music, beach, panama - News - The News Herald

What do you guys think?

Proposed lineup:

1st Annual Beach Scene Music Festival "Potential Line-up":


Main stage (Approximately six or seven artists per day)

No Doubt
Green Day
Doughtry
My Chemical Romance
AFI
Def Leppard
Linkin Park
New Kids on the Block
Beyonce
Black Eyed Peas
Rhianna
*****cat Dolls
Pink
Kelly Clarkson
Kings of Leon
blink-182
Lady Gaga
Paul McCartney

First side stage (Approximately 12 per day)

Katie Perry
Bloc Party
MxPx
The Academy Is...
The Faint
We The Kings
Cobra Starship
Boys Like Girls
A Skylit Drive
Hey Monday
Forever The Sickest Kids
From First To Last
All Time Low
The Veronicas

Second side stage (Approximately nine per day)

Crystal Castle
Justice
The Presets
Deadmau5
Chromeo
Cascada
Benny Benassi
The Chemical Brothers
Bass Hunter

I have to wonder about this whole thing...it smells fishy to me. Endless Summer, best I can tell, has never promoted an event of any kind (thanks Google!) and Ted Absher is a career-long "audience coordinator" and "seat-filler coordinator" for award shows (thanks again Google!).

Then, all of a sudden, he's booking and promoting huge festivals (100,000+ people) with the likes of PAUL MCCARTNEY as headliners? That lineup is almost unheard of as far as festivals go...even established ones with guaranteed attendance.

I don't know...let's say you just started a promotion company and were looking for some legitimacy. Would drafting a proposal for a huge festival with 100,000 possible attendees and headliners like PAUL MCCARTNEY be a bad idea? Even if you knew the small town SB destination that's making an effort to move away from SB events was going to shoot you down? Wouldn't your name being associated with unattainable headliners and unattainable attendance figures be a good thing?

</tin foil hat>

You may be on to something SJS/

I found the full proposal in PDF format on the News Herald's website... see more details here:
http://video.onset.freedom.com/newsh...ndaconcert.pdf

P.C.B alrdy attracks 100,000 plus people in its 2 peak weeks, do we really need another 100k???? i say bring back mtvu if anything (not a big fan, but dont mind the free concerts)

New Kids on the Block........seriously?

If this even went down which it won't be happening because it sounds like a bunch of b.s. like sjs and swn5356 said. The line up is purposed which doesn't mean anybody is guaranteed....This just in. PCB's town council really voted it down because the line up had New KiDs on the Block and Kelly Clarkston lol. R they F'n serious with those 2 in a major line up like that anyway?

All he was missing was Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus!

Sounds like complete BS

A huge music festival is a great idea if you have the resources. PCB obviously doesn't have them, so I'm glad they're not putting on something of this caliber.. but is it possible for them to get a couple of decent bands/artists without MTV?

/facepalm those wacky confidence men!

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