Bamboozle crowd estimate lowered to 90,000
Saturday night headliner Blink-182 cancels due to drummer's emergency tonsillectomy
Bamboozle organizers have lowered crowd estimates for the three-day music festival to be held on the Asbury Park waterfront to 90,000. The event will take place May 18 through May 20.
The Sun has previously reported initial estimates for the festival at 100,000 while the Coaster weekly newspaper reported initial estimates at 110,000 to 120,000.
Based on ticket sales, the lowered estimate of 90,000 has been issued by festival organizer LiveNation, with 20,000 expected on Friday, 40,000 on Saturday and 30,000 on Sunday. LiveNation’s Scott O’Donnell informed the public of those figures in a community awareness meeting on Monday. (Click here for a previous Sun story on that meeting.)
Meanwhile, the Coaster’s Don Stine reports that O’Donnell said ticket sales will probably end up “below estimates” due to unforeseen competition, such as the Electric Daisy Carnival, which caters to a similar demographic and will be held in East Rutherford’s MetLife stadium on May 19 and 20. While O’Donnell said he expects ticket sales to be good, he declined to say how many tickets have been sold, the Coaster reported in its May 10 edition.
In other Bamboozle news, Saturday night headliner Blink-182 has cancelled due to drummer Travis Barker’s emergency tonsillectomy, according to a post on the Hollywood Reporter website. My Chemical Romance will step in for the band. From the Hollywood Reporter:
Due to drummer Travis Barker’s emergency tonsillectomy, Blink-182 has canceled multiple tour dates, including a headlining appearance at Asbury Park’s Bamboozle Festival. Filling the void, local New Jersey heroes My Chemical Romance will perform May 19, the second night of the festival.
“Blink-182 will be greatly missed, and all of us here wish Travis a speedy recovery,” said concert promoters in an official statement.
My Chemical Romance has appeared on the Bamboozle stage as headliners in 2005 and 2007, when the festival took place in the Meadowlands parking lot in East Rutherford, N.J. at Giants Stadium. The emo group is still touring in support of its 2010 release, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.
No stranger to unfortunate incidents, Barker survived a 2008 plane crash that claimed the lives of four other passengers, also sparing the life of the late DJ AM who died of a 2009 drug overdose. Barker suffered severe third-degree burns when the Learjet 60 crashed outside Columbia, S.C.
Click here for the full Hollywood Reporter post.
