radiohead coming to mission valley?

the reader speculates that radiohead may play the new aeg facility near qualcomm stadium, since the venue's promoters are going after acts that played at the embarcadero. the band has already announced that they're playing san diego on their upcoming tour, and the 2006 show i saw at the embarcadero on a beautiful bayside san diego night was pretty incredible.

i'm kind of excited about this new venue - i've always enjoyed outdoor concerts, which began in my youth with several fence jumps each summer at the saratoga performing arts center in upstate new york - and san diego could definitely use another one now that the embarcadero's been shut down by the fussy coronadians. the other outdoor venues are either nostalgia-act heavy (humphreys), far from the city and traffic-overwhelmed (coors amphitheater), or book about 3 acts a year (sdsu's open air arena). plus this location, to be made of portable structures, is just down the hill from us in kensington. if they land radiohead, that would be a very positive sign regarding the quality of acts that we'll be enjoying on cool san diego summer evenings - we don't get warm ones here.