Music’s greatest names head to the desert this weekend for a troubled version of the Coachella pageant, which has seen its slowest ticket gross sales for a decade.
Lana Del Rey, Doja Cat and Tyler, the Creator will headline, with different acts together with Ice Spice, Blur, Grimes, Justice, Reneé Rapp, Vampire Weekend, Victoria Monét and J Balvin additionally performing.
However whereas final yr’s tickets had been all gone inside 4 days, this yr noticed a hunch in curiosity with 125,000 first weekend tickets taking 27 days to promote and a few for weekend two nonetheless out there. A go for the primary weekend prices $499, whereas a VIP go goes as much as $1,399.
The underwhelming response comes after a document yr for stay music within the US. Stay Nation, the leisure firm that owns Ticketmaster, reported its greatest ever yr with greater than 145 million followers attending greater than 50,000 occasions, up 20% over 2022.
Del Rey first appeared on the pageant in 2014 and has teased what followers can now anticipate together with her graduating to headliner.
“If all goes effectively, it’ll be as huge and daring as I hope will probably be,” she stated to Vogue. “Architecturally, it’s going to rely on the construction, and whether or not I could make it … However I’m actually enthusiastic about it. I’m excited, so my followers can get excited.”
The star’s shut pal Taylor Swift is predicted to be in attendance together with her football-playing boyfriend Travis Kelce. Rumours that Swift will probably be performing both with Del Rey or with tourmate Sabrina Carpenter are as but unconfirmed.
“I’m a Coachella man,” Kelce stated to Folks lately. “I like going to Coachella. I like stay music basically. So that you would possibly see me pop up over there in some unspecified time in the future.”
The weekend can even see the much-anticipated reunion of No Doubt, performing for the primary time since 2015.
“It’s gonna be wonderful,” singer Gwen Stefani stated to Jimmy Kimmel in February. “I’m so excited. And I believe what’s gonna be hilarious is, I do know what’s gonna occur, I’m gonna get onstage and go searching and simply begin like, cracking up as a result of it’s simply gonna be like using a motorbike. We’re gonna be like: ‘What are we doing? We’re sooner or later proper now, we’re at Coachella.’ It’s gonna be weird.”
She additionally known as the efficiency “a very nice bow to tie on the connection” between the band members.
Final yr noticed headliners Blackpink, Dangerous Bunny and Frank Ocean carry out, with the latter artist coming beneath hearth for a chaotic set earlier than he cancelled his second weekend look.
