Coachella: high-energy hedonism, surprise stars and Covid concerns

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The first weekend of the returning California mega-festival brought with it a host of big names, albeit a lack of heritage acts, and a crowd of fans eager for fun

delivered an absolutely blinding Tron-styled hip-pop confection on Saturday, all shimmering bodysuits, booty anthems for “hot girls and boys” and bass you could almost certainly hear from within the mainframe. On Friday night, Phoebe Bridgers graduated to second from headline act, on the second-biggest outdoor stage, with her gothic pop-up book set; despite her musical bummers it won’t be long before she’s in pole position.

It’s always fun to see artists trying to outdo each other, especially when it comes to who they can convince to get on a golf cart round the backstage buggy circuit and join them onstage. Styles aside, on Friday night, Canadian future-soul dude Daniel Caesar brought out a shirtless Justin Bieber to perform their song Peaches. Snoop Dogg helped Brazilian pop star Anitta open her main stage set.

Beyond the ever-important issues of inclusion and diversity, however, you might not have remembered that there’s a war still raging on the other side of the world, unless you’d briefly glimpsed the colours of the Ukrainian flag on the screen behind Styles, or caught Arcade Fire’s surprise set. The Canadian band debuted a darker, leather-clad synth show that pulled both from AllSaints look books and 80s electronic goths Depeche Mode, and dedicated The Suburbs to Ukrainian punk rockers.

The people want hedonism and abandon. So it makes sense then that dance music producers like Australian beatsmith Flume, and the UK’s Disclosure, Jamie XX and – a clean-cut young guy who seems to have become immediately massive – Fred Again, were among the big draws this year, as was seasoned raver Fatboy Slim.

Some things never change, though, and the spirit-crushing queues for a cab home, or to get out of the car park at the end of the night, were all you needed to bring you crashing back down to earth. You swear you’ll never do it again – until next year, that is. Or how about next weekend?

 

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