B.C.’s Agricultural Land Commission confirmed earlier this week that it would allow Live Nation to use the farmland in Pemberton, B.C. as its festival site. But the promoter said the timing of the decision may be coming too late to plan such an event for 2009.

Live Nation’s Shane Bourbonnais, who’s also Pemberton’s head organizer, told The Globe And Mail newspaper that the chance of the three-day music event happening next year is “less than 50 per cent.”

“We are so late in the game in terms of sponsorships and suppliers,” he told The Vancouver Sun newspaper. “We’re obviously concerned about the timing.”

A decision is expected to be reached within the next few weeks.

About 40,000 people attended the inaugural three-day event this past July to see more than 120 artists, including Coldplay, Jay-Z, Nine Inch Nails and Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. While Bourbonnais saw the festival as an overall success, Pemberton wasn’t without traffic, garbage, recycling and security problems.

“We really want to improve on those things,” he told The Vancouver Sun. “It’s important that everybody who comes to the festival has a great experience.”

Tomorrow it’s the HSBC fireworks again. It’s the USAs turn to impress and downtown will be even more packed.

Last but not least for July 25th and 26th is free drinks at Starbucks.  Get their new Vivanno drink for free with your registered Starbucks card.  We’ll be getting ours after dinner as we watch the sunset… Ah, summer.  Enjoy!

There are two stages and a dance tent with more than 66 acts in all over the three day festival. Three-day festival tickets are $259.50. Pemberton, a two-hour drive from Vancouver, has long been a favorite winter vacation destination due to its close proximity to Whistler Resort. Complete with a festival village, camping facilities, an RV Park, tickets for the Pemberton Festival are still available through PembertonFestival.com.

With artists performing with majestic snow capped mountains as their backdrop, every effort is being made to produce the festival with as little impact on the environment as possible. Hydro-electric energy will be the main power source for the festival’s energy, and the festival will promote car pooling with the incentive that cars coming in with four or more people will be able to park for free. And local Pemberton Valley farm products, which the area is well known for, will be served throughout the 360 acre festival site. A farmer’s market – where local farmers can sell their goods directly to concert-goers - is even being planned for the site.

Concert-goers will be able to camp on site or sleep in accommodations ranging from motels to top notch luxury hotels in Whistler.

CONFIRMED LINEUP:

Coldplay
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Nine Inch Nails
Jay-Z
Flaming Lips
Interpol
Death Cab For Cutie
The Tragically Hip
Serj Tankian
My Morning Jacket
Metric
Sam Roberts Band
Vampire Weekend
Black Mountain
Minus The Bear
Wintersleep
Buck 65
Secret Machines
MGMT
Brazillian Girls
Shearwater
Fiery Furnaces
Mates of State
The Airborne Toxic Event
Carolina Liar
Grand Ole Party
Monte Negro
Low Vs Diamond
Annie Stela
The Crystal Method
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist
Junkie XL
David Seaman
Booka Shade
MSTRKRFT
M.A.N.D.Y.
Tommie Sunshine
Chromeo
Deadmau5
3 OH! 3
Kevin Shiu
Timeline
Tony Pantages
N.E.R.D
Matisyahu
Minus the Bear and Inward Eye

Pemperton video showing some sights…

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