Observatory North Park has also done some co-bookings with two of San Diego’s top independent promoters and venue operators, the Casbah and the Belly Up, both of which continued to do periodic co-bookings after Live Nation’s booking deal with Observatory North Park went through five months ago. After undergoing more than $8 million in repairs and improvements, it will re-open this fall as the Magnolia Performing Arts Center.īoth the San Diego and Santa Ana venues had previously done the majority of their booking in-house, before signing a deal with Live Nation in December. That venue has been shuttered since 2009. In late 2017, Live Nation signed a five-year deal to manage El Cajon’s 1,142-seat East County Performing Arts Center. Live Nation also has exclusive concert booking agreements with San Diego State University’s Viejas Arena at Aztec Bowl and SDSU’s Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre. The company owns and operates the area’s largest concert venue, the nearly 20,000-capacity North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre (formerly Mattress Firm Amphitheatre), which last year celebrated its 20th anniversary. Whatever the price, the acquisition of Observatory North Park will further increase Live Nation’s already formidable footprint in San Diego County. No price has been disclosed for the purchase of the Santa Ana venue and pending purchase of Observatory North Park. Observatory Orange County contains both a 1,000-capacity main venue and a smaller, 300-capacity club called the Constellation Room.
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In 2018, the San Diego and Santa Ana venues presented a combined 740 concerts, 200 of which were held at the North Park location. It has presented such established acts as Queens of the Stone Age, Los Lobos and Arctic Monkeys, along with such rising talents as Phoebe Bridgers, dvsn and Greta Van Fleet, whose sold-out 2018 show there grossed $43,450 in ticket sales. The North Park Observatory covers 32,000 square feet. The move comes less than five months after Live Nation signed a deal to exclusively book performers at the two venues.īoth venues were owned and operated by the same parent company, the Orange County-based Observatory LLC, which formed SD Observatory LLC in 2015 when it bought what is now Observatory North Park from its previous owners. The post Beabadoobee announces North American ‘Beatopia’ tour dates appeared first on NME.Live Nation, the world’s largest concert and live events production company, has purchased one of Southern California’s largest independently owned music venues - the 1,000-capacity Observatory Orange County in Santa Ana - and is finalizing its acquisition of San Diego’s 1,100-capacity Observatory North Park. Saturday 26 – Denver CO, Summit Music Hall Wednesday 23 – Portland OR, Roseland Theater Tuesday 22 – Vancouver BC, Commodore Ballroom Saturday 19 – Mexico City, Corona Capital Tuesday 15 – San Francisco CA, Regency Ballroom Monday 14 – Santa Ana CA, The Observatory Thursday 10 – Albuquerque NM, Sunshine Theater Sunday 6 – Houston TX, White Oak Music Hall Monday 31 – Atlanta Ga, Variety Playhouse Saturday 29 – Philadelphia PA, Union Transfer Then I just realised that I could finally accept it now and I could make a whole album about it and find myself within it.” Beabadoobee’s ‘Beatopia’ US tour dates are: “I thought I could literally be in this world – I think it was just a way of escaping everything that was happening in life at that time, and then I forgot about it because shit happened. “It was much more of a physical thing when I was seven,” she said. Speaking to NME during a backstage interview at Glastonbury 2022 last month, the singer-songwriter elaborated on the childhood “dream world” behind the album’s concept. In a four-star review of ‘Beatopia’, NME said that the album saw “the seeds that were planted in ‘Fake It Flowers’ not only blossom, but inhabit an entirely different world”.
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Four singles were released prior to the album coming out: ‘Talk’, ‘See You Soon’, ‘Lovesong’ and ’10:36′.
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‘Beatopia’, the follow-up to Beabadoobee’s 2020 debut LP ‘Fake It Flowers’, was released last Friday (July 15).
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See a full list of tour dates below – tickets are on sale this Friday (July 22), at 10am local time. The duo released their latest EP, ‘The Gaping Mouth’, last year. Support on the tour will come from Beabadoobee’s Dirty Hit labelmates, Lowertown.