Frank Ocean Cancels Coachella 2023 Weekend 2 Headlining Set
Following his performance last week, Frank Ocean has pulled out of his scheduled headlining set at Coachella 2023 this Sunday, April 23. On a physician’s recommendation, he is not going to carry out as a result of two fractures and a sprain in his left leg. “It was chaotic,” Ocean stated in a press release. “There’s some magnificence in chaos. It isn’t what I supposed to indicate however I did take pleasure in being on the market and I’ll see you quickly.” Pitchfork has reached out to Coachella for additional remark.
Ocean’s set on Sunday, April 16, featured reworked model of songs from throughout his discography, together with “Novacane,” “Pink + White,” “White Ferrari,” “Crack Rock,” and extra. There was a brand new punk model of the Django Unchained outtake “Wiseman” and a canopy of the Willie Nelson-penned Aretha Franklin music “Evening Life.” He addressed the gang, hinting {that a} new album was within the works and paid tribute to his late brother Ryan Breaux.
There was some controversy surrounding the set, when followers on-line expressed their frustration that Ocean’s set was certainly one of only a few that wouldn’t seem on the festival’s YouTube stream. His set ended considerably abruptly. “Guys, I’m being informed it’s curfew, in order that’s the tip of the present,” Ocean stated. “Thanks a lot.” Because the lights got here up, followers booed and chanted “we wish Frank.” The festival was later fined by Indio, California metropolis officers for going over curfew.
Previous to right now’s cancellation, sources indicated that Ocean had not too long ago sustained an ankle injury and altered the set’s total manufacturing on the recommendation of medical doctors. It was extensively rumored that the adjustments included scrapped plans for an ice skating rink linked to the stage. Two ice skaters discussed their alleged experience working with Ocean within the week main as much as Sunday’s efficiency in a podcast.
Followers had been anticipating Ocean’s headlining performances at Coachella since 2020, when he was announced as one of many important acts earlier than the pageant was canceled for 2 years in a row as a result of the pandemic. In August 2021, the occasion’s co-founder Paul Tollett revealed the information that Ocean would headline the 2023 version in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
This marks the second yr in a row a Coachella headliner has dropped out. In April 2022, lower than two weeks earlier than he was meant to carry out, Kanye West pulled out of the festival. His representatives didn’t give a purpose for the withdrawal, nor did the pageant. He was replaced by Swedish Home Mafia and the Weeknd, who carried out collectively on Sundays, April 17 and 24. West was later sued for $7.1 million by the Los Angeles–based mostly manufacturing and design agency Phantom Labs, which claimed the rapper owed them cash for work on his canceled Coachella efficiency.
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