Arctic Monkeys, Best Coast booked for new Metallica festival


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Arctic Monkeys are among the bands who will appear at a new Metallica-curated festival in New Jersey later this year.

The Orion Music + More festival will take place on June 23rd and 24th at Bader Field in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and will also feature performances from The Gaslight Anthem and Best Coast amongst others, with Metallica headlining both nights.

“We’ve had the idea of doing our own lifestyle festival with lots of diverse music and fun and games for years,” drummer Lars Ulrich has said. “Finally this year all the practical ducks lined up in a row, and we are beyond psyched to bring Orion to our fans, friends and the curious.”

“After the most incredible of weeks ever in December 2011 celebrating our 30th anniversary at the Fillmore in San Francisco, CA, bringing the spirit of that week, the looseness of that week, the possibilities of that week, the fan interactive elements of that week, and the (fill in your own blank here) of that week to a festival setting is so exciting we can hardly contain ourselves.”


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