Are you able to shock your head on the Energy Journey Competition in October? The day has come to purchase tickets for the Autumn Competition.
The pageant, which includes a lineup of laborious rock legends Weapons N’ Roses, AC/DC and Metallica, will happen Oct. 6-8 on the Empire Polo Membership in Indio, dwelling of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition.
Here is what you might want to know.
When and the place can I purchase tickets?
Competition tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday at powertrip.reside. Lodge and VIP packages are already accessible. Followers can now register on this web site to “entry tickets” afterwards. The web site says tickets will initially solely be accessible to those that register.
Who’re the introduced artists?
Friday sixth of October
Weapons not flowers
iron maiden
Saturday 7 October
AC/DC
Ozzy Osbourne
Sunday 8 October
metallica
a software
It was not instantly clear if the introduced ranges made up the complete line-up or if different additions would nonetheless need to be introduced. Nevertheless, a two-band lineup every night time would mirror what occurred at Desert Journey, the 2016 traditional rock pageant held on the Empire Polo Membership in 2016 that the identify Energy Journey clearly appears to seek advice from.
Will this break the financial institution?
As anybody who’s been to Coachella or Stagecoach has certainly guessed, attending the pageant will not come low cost and would require the acquisition of a wristband that covers all three days. The truth is, it’ll value extra to get into the occasion than to go to Coachella, in response to ticket costs posted on-line.
The most cost effective common admission wristbands, which embody pageant and parking entry, are $649. For comparability, that is $21 greater than an identical Weekend 2 Coachella common admission wristband at present on sale on the pageant’s web site.
In contrast to the Empire Polo Membership’s annual festivals, Energy Journey may have particular floor, grandstand and pit areas. Wristbands with reserved ground seats begin at round $875 whereas pit ones begin at $1,750. These passes additionally permit entry to 2 “lounge areas” of the pageant, though the web site states that the lounge won’t have a view of the stage.
The pageant additionally sells a number of VIP packages that embody entry to the lounge areas, in addition to VIP merchandise. The value of those packages begins from 1749 USD to 2999 USD. Coachella VIP packages at present begin at $1,199.
As with different festivals, tenting will probably be accessible on web site. A automobile campground begins at $234.87 for the weekend, whereas the most affordable RV campground goes for $1404.87.
Have any of the Energy Journey artists ever performed Coachella?
Though the line-up options steel, most bands have carried out at Coachella in earlier years.
Device carried out on the first Coachella pageant in 1999 and once more as the primary lead in 2006. Frontman Maynard James Keenan has additionally carried out on the pageant along with his facet tasks Puscifer in 2013 and A Excellent Circle in 2018.
AC/DC’s 2015 headline reveals got here with some baggage. Co-founder and guitarist Malcolm Younger formally left the band as a consequence of him receiving therapy for dementia, which was the reason for his demise two years later. Drummer Phil Rudd was charged with possession of methamphetamine and hashish a number of months earlier and was changed by Chris Slade.
Nevertheless, the Australian rock band gained over the followers. Palms have been thrown within the air, heads have been banged, and the gang shouted in any respect the correct occasions.
When Weapons N’ Roses headlined in 2016, it was the primary time the reunited group that includes frontman Axl Rose had carried out with guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan at an out of doors pageant collectively in 23 years.
The band performed a two-and-a-half-hour epic on each weekends, and Rose needed to carry out whereas sitting on a throne loaned to him by Dave Grohl due to a damaged foot.
Axl Rose additionally appeared as a particular visitor throughout Carrie Underwood’s 2022 Stagecoach headlining set.
extra:Stagecoach 2022: Carrie Underwood rocks the Manny stage with Axl Rose of Weapons N’ Roses
This text incorporates earlier reporting by Desert Solar and USA TODAY employees.
Desert Solar reporter Brian Bluesky covers arts and leisure. He will be reached at brian.blueskye@desertsu.com or on Twitter at @bblueskye.
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