[7] Tollett and Van Santen were "inseparable" from 1988 to the time of Van Santen's death. BETA. On the heels of Coachella's 2019 lineup announcement, Goldenvoice head Paul Tollett sat down with the Los Angeles Times for a wide-ranging interviews. I don't remember John being like that. Its all these things together, like death by a thousand cuts. Concert promoter Paul Tollett, the longtime president of Goldenvoice Productions, is photographed in front of a mosaic of the Coachella landscape, at his headquarters in DTLA. I respect him. The London outfit was birthed by friends Ned Franc and Jon Moody in the early 2010s, when they were living together and throwing parties in North London's warehouse scene. Aftab Dada, longtime Hilton Palm Springs general manager and local business leader, was another mentor who encouraged Tollett to bring his talents to the valley. On the final evening of Desert Trip, a classic-rock extravaganza Paul Tollett staged on two weekends last October, the impresario was sitting in the Whos friends-and-family area, an acre-size V.I.P. Join Facebook to connect with Paul Tollet and others you may know. You want to do things that are true to you, and you don't just want to try and do things that you're seeing there in the charts today. As David Cheal eloquently explains, playing on the one "left space for phrases and riffs, often syncopated around the beat, creating an intricate, interlocking grid which could go on and on." The film is a Goldenvoice. He's a fantastic person, and it's a shame that he's struggling so much with his addictions. But d.j.s dont do concerts. Paul Tollett at site of Coachella in 2004 With someone like Steve Stevens, and then back in the day Keith Forsey producing [Before that] Generation X actually did move around inside punk rock. The title track is a classic Billy Idol banger expressing the desire to free himself from personal constraints and live a better life. It never went [as] mega in America. (Makes him feel alive, Marc Geiger, a top booking agent with the William Morris Endeavor, or W.M.E., agency, told me.) Even so, the decision to expand did not come without a lot of hand-wringing and second-guessing by Tollett and fellow Goldenvoice honchos Skip Paige and Bill Fold. . Devo had a No. Maybe someone will go a lot deeper into it and it won't be so surface. He was stopped by security personnel, who correctly identified him as an overzealous fan. So it crossed our minds: Is anyone going to come back?. I respect him. Hes got a wacky sense of humor. Dont come to a community and ignore its leadership and residents. It was, like, We cant own an arena, but there are fields everywhere.. ), The pandemic impacted the festival in other ways. Did he own that car? [. ] Shaver, an outlaw country pioneer who passed in 2020 at 81 years old, never had any hits of his own during his lifetime. In the end, Tolletts Coachella 17 poster could not compete with Beyoncs growing family. "In His Arms" originally surfaced on 2021's. 2021 single "Be Kind" is sweet, mellow and groovy, perfect chic lounge funk. Dressed in his usual jeans and black Dodgers cap, he sat beneath a ceiling fan and was becoming increasingly horizontal by the moment, as if the weight of the last two years of coronavirus delays, cancellations and controversies hadnt yet lifted. Today is the day Im telling all the agents what line their band is going to be on, Tollett explained. When the 2022 edition was finally announced in January, both weekends sold out their daily capacity of 125,000 at prices ranging from $449 for general admission to $1,119 for VIP but the long disruption led to abrupt changes at the top of the bill. I feel like when the band is playing it should be you and the band, and its a sacred moment. (Plenty of profane branding goes on offstage, however. After Jagger, Tollett asked Paul McCartney, who likes playing festivals. Everyone was laughing.. Their music manages to be both nostalgic and futuristic and impossible to sit still to. As she looks back to her Texas beginnings and the life she left for Nashville, Morris' voice soars over anthemic, yet easygoing production. Weve learned the Stagecoach crowd likes its music as much as the Coachella crowd likes its music, he said. Musically, what is the synergy like with you guys during the past 10 years, doing Kings and Queens of the Underground and this new stuff? Or you buy them at their peak and their numbers are dropping off each day. Hed better say, No fucking way. Anything short of that. Coachella co-founders Paul Tollett and Rick Van Santen's net worth went for a ride in 2001 when they sold Goldenvoice, their concert promotion company, to Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG),. She wasnt Beyoncno mortal isbut she was the first woman to headline Coachella since Bjrk, in 2007. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which takes place at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, was first launched back in 1999 by Paul Tollett and, after a short hiatus, it returned to the scene in 2001.Although it was an uphill battle to get the fest off the ground, Coachella has managed to solidify itself as one of the biggest live music events in the world. delivered a soulful performance on the rootsy ballad "In His Arms," an arrangement as sparing as the windswept west Texas highlands where she co-wrote the song. You had to go through a lot to become successful, it wasn't like you just kind of got up there and did a couple of gigs. There's nu-disco and boogie funk, nodding back to disco bands with soaring vocals and dance floor-designed instrumentation. Those are all things that happened along the way.". Id go over there, Tovar told me, buy it, have them package it, put it on a freighter, then, eight hundred miles out of Hawaii, switch it from the freighter to a fishing boat, go to Alaska, then sail down the coast and have a crew with Zodiacs pick it up offshore. Tollett had no role in Tovars other business. In March, Irving Azoff upped the ante, booking his management clients the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac to play the new Classic East festival at Citi Field, the Mets stadium, at the end of July, on the same day as Panorama. From crossover pop hooks to red-dirt outlaw roots, the genre's most celebrated elements are on full display thanks to rising stars, leading ladies and country icons. Despite all the craziness going on throughout the world, it seems like a lot of modern rock bands are afraid to do what you guys were doing. Then a friend gave Tollett a ticket to the Feb. 13 Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. Geiger, of W.M.E., described their working method: Ill say, Kate Bush! And hell go, No!, and well talk through it. Get our L.A. I wouldnt mind doing three weekends (of music) at some point, and weve talked about it for some time. Miranda Lambert is the rare, chart-topping contemporary country artist who does more than pay lip service to the genre's rural American roots. We always had a bit of R&B really, so it was actually fun to revisit that. shows in Sahara and Mojave, the big tents. Tolletts latest acts of derring-do include expanding the 2012 edition of Coachella from one three-day weekend, starting today, to two consecutive weekends (with the same talent lineup for both). We really believed that was the right decision, he says. 2023 Cond Nast. d.j. Was that a rental? He caught the show and flew home. Its like gambling. At the end, he handed me a box of flyers for a Big Audio Dynamite show, Mick Joness post-Clash band. We actually did a seven-minute song. Theyve heard one or two songs, not enough to hire a babysitter and go see the band, but enough to walk a couple hundred feet to see them at a festival and become a huge fan.. In time, the 2021 festival was also canceled. 's bio fittingly describes their music as "a soul funk and cosmic disco sound." Actually, Devo was as big as or bigger than the Pistols. When the 2022 festival was announced, Goldenvoice mandated that attendees would be required to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative test. Gaugu emphasizes the thick funky bass, and Benguigui jumps around the stage while sounding like an angel. City officials in Indio regard Goldenvoices land purchase with considerable optimism. I love Jonesys book, I thought his book was incredible. Now, we have to get through it and make sure we do it properly.. In many ways, Coachella is a different festival than when it began in 1999, but Tollett says complaints that its become overly fixated on pop music ignore a deepening commitment to international sounds, from the norteo band Grupo Firme from Mexico to the darkwave pop of Molchat Doma from Belarus. "Up until Jan. 1, we were making a poster with Kanye on it. All of that enables us to carry on working together. Because then, Tollett explained, Live Nation could say to its artists, Heres forty of our festivals, including New Yorkskip Coachella. We cant let that happen.. We're not stopping each other doing things outside of what were working on together. In 2017, the group grew to six members, including singer and multi-instrumentalist Amber-Simone. It's not easy. A black L.A. Kings cap, the hockey team owned by A.E.G., had seasonally replaced the Dodgers cap on Tolletts head. Harry Styles performs at Coachella on April 15. The better-known festivals started out as scrappy, independent enterprises. Paul Tollett has been working as a President at Goldenvoice for 31 years. The show was in October. There are also acts making dreamy, atmospheric music with a solid dose of funk, such as, There are many bands that play heavily with funk, creating lush grooves designed to get you moving. "Were challenging staff and attendees to be an integral part of this culture shift. in England. He will play a five-show Vegas residency in November, and filmmaker Jonas Akerlund is working on a documentary about Idols life. In creating Coachella, Tollett took the best aspects of the indie-rock, jam-band, and SoCal rave/dance nineties festivals, added the large art installations of Burning Man, and grafted this new festival hybrid onto the original hippie rootstockthe sixties-era longing for a new world which three days in the desert helps satisfy. d.j., that he was driving over from his Beverly Hills office. Marshmello?a third-line masked E.D.M. Two Coachellas.) About three-quarters of the tickets for this years shows were sold in advance, to allow fans to pay in installments. One night, they drove to a Goldenvoice show in Long Beach, Tollett told me. (they jointly bought two hundred and eighty acres in 2012) and partly by Tolletts unlikely Max Yasgurthe Empire Polo Clubs Alexander Haagen III, a white-mustachioed polo-playing mall developer based in L.A., who installed the classical statuary and erected the whitewashed stone walls lined with bougainvillea that give the grounds its Hotel California character. The statement was out. So a lot of things like that were wake up calls. It was a risk to go two weekends, but there were too many people who wanted to go and we had to do something. The Zombies arent invited.. In a 2011 interview, he said: "We couldn't have done it without each other."[2]. The big enclosed tents are air-conditioned, and there are misting stations outside, as well as tanks of free water. Considering the lineup of hot bands and the venue, festivalgoers find three-day passes a bargain at $375, and they sell out in hours. Alex Haagen, who owns the polo fields, has been a friend and mentor for 20 years. parking area. (Van Santen died in 2004.). The third line is the hardest, Tollett went on, adjusting his Kings cap. The new initiative was announced the same day, Jan. 3, as the lineup for 2019, let by headliners Childish Gambino,Tame Impala andAriana Grande, and an extended live-stream partnership with YouTube. Its really becoming as solid as Coachella. is a Mexico City-based duo, consisting of Pammela Rojas and Rafael Marfil, who helped establish a modern funk scene in the richly creative Mexican metropolis. He soon decided to announce that things at Coachella and Stagecoach would be back to normal.. A.E.G. Perri was a big part of my life, a big part of being Billy Idol. The international lineup has meant soaring streaming numbers for Coachella on YouTube in Latin America and in Asia for artists from Indonesia, Japan and South Korea. Both Collins and Clinton remain active and funkin', and have offered their timeless grooves to collabs with younger artists, including Kali Uchis, Silk Sonic, and Omar Apollo; and Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus, and Thundercat, respectively. We had this pamphlet I was giving out, showing sunny Coachella. Theres no point in carrying on doing it. Reggaeton, dancehall, hip hop, and funk coalesce in the nominated works for Best Msica Urbana Album: Rauw Alejandro's Trap Cake, Vol. Outside, it was still very hot, but the tent was air-conditioned, and there was soft grass underfoot, partly covered with throw rugs; in the winter months, polo is played on the turf. the Weeknd] and Sal called and said, What do you need? recalls Tollett. And they spat at you if they liked you. Tollett was happy but clearly tired, more soft-spoken than ever. For sure, we thought it was a gamble to go to two weekends, and we discussed it at length. Tickets were fifty dollars for each of two daysshould have been fifty-five. What is your working relationship like now in this more sober, older, mature version of you two as opposed to what it was like back in the '80s? But at the same time, I enjoyed doing it. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. . Their union remains one of the strongest collaborations in rock 'n roll history. That was the year Goldenvoice, the Los Angeles-based company he started working for in 1986, launched Coachella and nearly went under when low attendance led to a loss of more than $800,000 and the decision to not stage the festival in 2000. Their music feels at home with other electro-pop bands like fellow Londoners Jungle and Aussie act Parcels. I could see whatever we needed to do, we could nail it. Flore Benguigui's vocals are light and dreamy, yet commanding of your attention, while lyrics have a feminist touch. People are aware of a lot more artists these days, Tom Windish, a partner in the agency Paradigm, told me. The Latin GRAMMYs may have just honored the genre's trailblazers in Las Vegas on Nov. 17, but the celebration will continue at the upcoming 65th GRAMMY Awards ceremony in February. I can do that now. That is a big reason why you open up and express yourself more because you feel comfortable with what's around you. In all, Live Nation currently has forty-four music festivals in North America and thirty-nine in Europe; A.E.G. (The Panorama Festival is proactively named for the celebrated model inside, which depicts the cityscape.) We waited a year, Generation X. Paul Tollett Current Workplace. The world was my oyster musically. It went. Yeah, that's right. Calvin Harris used as a superlative before. The town of Coachella was supposed to be called Conchilla, Spanish for the tiny shells left behind by a prehistoric inland sea, but the printer of the towns prospectus misspelled the word, and the citizenry rolled with it. While much of it is upbeat and euphoric, Franc Moody also dips into the more chilled, dreamy realm, such as the vibey, sultry title track from their recently released Into the Ether. You never know who's gonna do [it]. This one was harder on me than usual, says Tollett, following two years of lineup switches, cancellations and an unprecedented tidal wave of refunds. More than 70,000 people attended. Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival mastermind Paul Tollett doesnt have a magic wand. Goldenvoice is part of the Hospitality industry, and located in California, United States. COVID-19-related deaths in the state have continued to drop sharply, according data from the California Department of Public Health, leading to the removal of many local and statewide safety measures. Was that a rental? ] Living Legends is a series that spotlights icons in music still going strong today. One night, I remember I saw blood on my T-shirt, and I think Joe Strummer got meningitis when spit went in his mouth. And, with Queen Bey set to headline in 2018, Tollett had an early shot at finally coming up with the immaculate lineup he had always dreamed of. Usually, if youre starting a festival you go to a food-and-beverage company and say, Give me half a million in advance, and you can run the concessions. You go to the ticket people, same. I never saw him do something like jump up in the room and run around going crazy. Just as the indoor-rock-concert industry and the record business grew up togetherconcerts were like albums, in which you got to see the musicians playing the songs liveso modern festivals have created a live version of the streaming-music experience: instead of listening to one artist, you catch ten. It was decided to pool their efforts into a special performance. Weve had three years to prep for this show and doors opened 20 minutes late, he says with a laugh. He began promoting college and garage bands with flyers as a chemical engineering major at Cal Poly Pomona. That just shows you how hard it is to get things together.. Learning to fib with the New York congressman. The lowest three lines were all the same size. A.E.G. Posted on March 3, 2014. 1 song [in England] with "Satisfaction" in '77. As the opening weekend unfolded at the most famous music festival in the world, the pressure on promoter Paul Tollett could still be felt backstage in Indio, Calif. And I knew Marsha Vlasic, Neil Youngs longtime booking agent. They didnt want to play buildings where Ticketmaster had the deal, he said. It's probably one of the best bio books really. I know what it's like. In a U-T San Diego interview last year, Tollett sounded intrigued by the idea of expanding the musical menu in Indio. Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. In 1991, Perry Farrell, of Janes Addiction, and Marc Geiger, inspired in part by a Pixies set at the Reading Festival, launched a hugely influential urban alternative-rock festivalLollapalooza. I mean, just standing there on stage with him is always a treat. They needed money.. There are enough steel guitar licks to let you know you're listening to a country song, but the story and melody are universal. The Stones area included a forty-yard-long air-conditioned running track on which Jagger could sprint back and forth to warm up. A steep flight of stairs led up to the back of the stage. The title track is a classic Billy Idol banger expressing the desire to free himself from personal constraints and live a better life. and you can hear all of the nominees in one playlist. Channeling their lively Latin roots while traversing pop landscapes, these albums all magnetically merge tradition and modernity. Things were slow. "Something In The Orange" marks Bryan's first-ever GRAMMY nomination. It was all about how relationships can free you and add a lot to your life. But maybe you needed this just to get people back in the flow. and that's what had happened, a revolt that turned into style which then they were able to duplicate in their own way. So it went really mega in England, and it affected the whole country the style, the fashions, everything. The band name is a nod to funk legend Nile Rodgers, from the "Le freak, c'est chi" exclamation in Chic's legendary tune "Le Freak.". When I got to America I told the group I was putting it together, "No one spits at the audience.". We're not stopping each other doing things outside of what were working on together. In this proper studio version recorded for her 2022 album, Palomino Lambert retains the structure and organic feel of the mostly acoustic song; light percussion and soothing atmospherics keep her emotive vocals front and center. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. "Bitter Taste," from his last EP, The Roadside, reflects on surviving the accident.). I remember when you went on "Viva La Bam"back in 2005 and decided to give Bam Margeras Lamborghini a new sunroof by taking a power saw to it. (the empress in French) are a six-piece Parisian group serving an infectiously joyful blend of French pop, nu-disco, funk and psychedelia. Their 2022 debut single "Forget Me Not" is an ode to ground-breaking New York art collective Guerilla Girls, and ", " is their protest anthem in response to the news that Roe vs. Wade could be (and was) overturned. Anschutz would supposedly be releasing a statement soon, Tollett said, explaining that his charitable organization, which has given out more than a billion dollars in a decade, had unwittingly supported the groups, without knowing of their anti-L.G.B.T. I just let it sit there for a second. No one wants to wake up to see a headline that says, Coachella owner anti-gay, Tollett declared several hours after having that unpleasant experience himself, on the morning after the tickets went on sale. Their iconic posters featured the same D.I.Y.-style Chinese transfer letters that are now used in the Goldenvoice and Coachella logos; the imagery bounced from goth to punk to mod, depending on the bandJanes Addiction, Black Flag, Social Distortion, Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion. Going short, going long. Its a weekend party. It had become a style. Tollett may be the great impresario of our time, but he looks as if hes there to pack up the gear. Then he had to sell his car. Really, most people don't get to this place. Brown's 1965 classic, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," became one of the first funk hits, and has been endlessly sampled and covered over the years, along with his other groovy tracks. It exploded when the Pistols did that interview with [TV host Bill] Grundy, that lorry truck driver put his boot through his own TV, and all the national papers had "the filth and the fury" [headlines]. But in addition to that, we want to have something specific to this. After two years of COVID-related cancellations, It crossed our minds: Is anyone going to come back? said Paul Tollett, president and chief executive of Coachella promoter Goldenvoice. That's the fun of music really, trying out these things and seeing if you can make them stick. You can work your dreams into reality in a way and, look, a million years later, still be enjoying it. We just hadn't done anything really quite like that for a long time. We were rocking with Flea and those guys. The problem was that those bands grew faster than we did. Nirvana was soon doing arenas, but Goldenvoice couldnt afford the deposits to secure the buildings. We had been so into the grunge thing that I never noticed how beautiful the mountains were., In 1997, Tollett had some photographs of Haagens club taken, and made up a pamphlet touting a possible festival. All of that enables us to carry on working together. The last one was pure art. He pointed to the cushioned V.I.P. Woodstock had effectively crushed the budding enterprise just as it was getting under way. A prototype of the poster was on the table. Every record company wanted their own punk rock group. She was born on November 12, 1927 in Carrizo Springs, Texas to Stanley and Annie (Beck) Mills I think it shows you where Andrew Watt was. There is even support for the corporate team and staff from Tolletts father, daughter, and old friends who often help out. We want a fresh lineup of brand new bands (iconic) bands that havent played in a longtime, big current bands a balance. All rights reserved. Tollett was happy but clearly tired, more soft-spoken than ever. Paul Tollett Tollett met Tovar in the mid-1980s, after booking his first show with his brother, Perry, who had a local band, in Pomona in 1982. Not surprisingly, tickets sold poorly. Nelson was a longtime friend and frequent collaborator of Shaver's and now has a GRAMMY nom to show for it. 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That's the fun of music really, trying out these things and seeing if you can make them stick. d.j.s, in particular, placement on the poster can determine their future asking price, not only in the United States but internationally. It could easily hold seventy-five thousand people, he pointed out. I run the festival, but its rude to say that when youre a partner with someone.. We went from being unknown to being known overnight. Artistically and financially, we think its going to be great on both levels. Im good with Kanye, Tollett says of Yes exit. Live Nation bought Founders, a local company started by Tom Russell and Jordan Wolowitz, two friends from prep school who launched the Governors Ball, in 2011. No one. I literally have gone to the mat over one point size.. In 2004, A.E.G. He was so successful that he dropped out in his senior year to promote music events from Long Beach and Orange County to the Inland Empire. But just after celebrating 20 years as an essential music event in the desert, Coachella was forced to cancel its 2020 edition due to the coronavirus. Dont argue with the building owner. Never thought about a Desert Trip. [6][7] Tollett said in 2011 that Tovar taught him "everything". His latest release is Cage, the second in a trilogy of annual four-song EPs. You have so much going on, I dont know how you do it, Armstrong said, leaning forward. "It spurred a lot of discussion internally, said Tollett. We didn't stay doing just the Ramones two-minute music. and this new stuff? Here's how its leader copes with its challenges and keeps Coachella growing Nate Hertweck | GRAMMYs / Jan 14, 2019 - 05:10 pm Music festivals are king in 2019. We had five years of being spat on [in the UK], and it was revolting. Nelson was a longtime friend and frequent collaborator of Shaver's and now has a GRAMMY nom to show for it. , details a 1990 motorcycle accident that nearly claimed a leg, and how becoming a father steered him to reject hard drugs. Salvation for Goldenvoice, and the festival, came when music industry visionary Marc Geiger -- a UC San Diego alum and the co-creator of the Lollapalooza festival -- stepped up with a three-year, $500,000 deal for his then-new company, ArtistDirect, to sponsor Coachella. On the day after New Years, Tollett was in an A.E.G. In 1996, the Organic festival, in Californias San Bernardino National Forest, showed promoters the potential for outdoor raves. But then I watched interviews with some of the actors about coming to grips with the parts they were playing. The London outfit was birthed by friends Ned Franc and Jon Moody in the early 2010s, when they were living together and throwing parties in North London's warehouse scene. Be sure to press play on the, above, and check out GRAMMY.com's playlist on, Aptly self-described as "discodelic soul," Brooklyn-based seven-piece. We also reserved tickets for sale to the locals to involve the community. To longtime music biz insiders, Golenvoices decision to acquire the property that abuts the festival site is a savvy move. "We have security, of course, and all the normal things that you have at public assemblage events. Theres a generation thats used to flawless, and when they dont hear flawless it may suck to them.. I didnt want someone thinking that it was going to be on lockdown and then be caught short. Moniquea released her first boogie funk track at 20 and, in 2011, met local producer, a bonafide purveyor of funk. dbuted Panorama, a festival similar to the Governors Ball, on the same East River island, a month ahead of its competitor. SchoolBoy Q, were all together, along with the alternative-rock star Bon Iver and the Atlanta rappers Gucci Mane and Future. Nonetheless, in recent years both Live Nation and A.E.G. Jagger, for one, wasnt concerned with demographic distinctions. How do you think her fans have responded to you, and your fans have responded to her? Today, funk lives on in many forms, including these exciting bands from across the world. You may opt-out by clicking here. Well, I suppose, if anything, is that you can come to terms with your life, you can keep a hold of it. of Goldenvoice and the founder of Coachella, at Desert Trip music festival in Indio, California. This year's nominees are Cimafunk's. On the poster were the headliners for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: Radiohead, Beyonc, and Kendrick Lamar, respectively, each of whom would receive between three and four million dollars for playing. To this day, I can kind of remember everything he said. Theres just something about Coachella that just caught on, he said. Their music feels at home with other electro-pop bands like fellow Londoners Jungle and Aussie act Parcels. 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