Coachella 2022 live: Billie Eilish brings out Paramore’s Hayley Williams as special guest
California festival is in full swing, with headline sets from Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia
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After a two-year absence, Coachella has made its highly anticipated return.
Located in Indio, California, the desert festival has gained popularity over the years for its glitzy Instagram-worthy dress code and major celebrity guest sightings.
The festival began its second weekend on Friday (22 April), following a lively first three days a week ago.
Harry Styles headlined on Friday night, delighting fans as he brought out Lizzo for his special guest (after duetting with Shania Twain last week). The singer and rapper joined him for a rendition of the One Direction song “What Makes You Beautiful”, as well as Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”.
Saturday’s (23 April) show was all about Billie Eilish, who teamed up with Hayley Williams for an acoustic version of Paramore’s “Misery Business”. However, soon after Williams left the stage, Eilish tripped over and fell flat on her face. “You guys, I seriously ate s***,” she told the crowd. “Seriously. It was pitch black.”
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Find all the updates from this year’s festival below
Coachella weekend one - in pictures and videos
A recap of all the action from Coachella’s star-studded first weekend – in bright pictures and technicolour-soaked video clips:
Megan Thee Stallion spotted at The Weeknd x Swedish House Mafia show
The Weeknd’s set list includes singer’s greatest hits
The Weeknd – real name Abel Tesfaye – has the Coachella crowd grooving to “Can’t Feel My Face” and “Blinding Lights”, as seen in fan clips from his headliner set with Swedish House Mafia.
Drake’s also tuning in for The Weeknd’s headliner set with Swedish House Mafia
The Canadian rap megastar posted pictures from The Weeknd’s Day 3 headliner set with Swedish House Mafia on Instagram on Sunday, as excitement over the performance builds on social media.
The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia replaced Kanye West, who pulled out of the festival last-minute.
‘Crowd is chanting Abel’: Excitement over The Weeknd’s headliner set builds
‘Doja Cat is so iconic’: Fans ‘amazed’ over singer’s performance
Doja Cat’s fans are celebrating the singer’s “impact” after she delivered an “iconic” Coachella show Sunday.
“She f****** devoured it. Ate and left no crumbs,” one tweet read, posted shortly after Doja Cat performed the weekend’s flashiest rock set, ahead of
Doja Cat’s Coachella set proves singer’s as much rock’n’roll sensation as TikTok triumph
The Independent’s Leonie Cooper watched Doja Cat live at Coachella, and is convinced that retiring from the music industry is the last thing the Grammy winner needs to do.
Here’s why:
Doja Cat delivers flashiest rock show of Coachella weekend - f
Doja Cat’s majestic Coachella show is proof positive that getting out of music is the last thing this genre-skipping, near-perfect pop star should be doing
Foals at Coachella?
We almost think there’s a secret Foals show happening at the Outdoor Theatre after we hear the disembodied voice of Yannis Philippakis singing 2013 single “Last Night” floating across the site.
Turns out it’s just Bosnian-German DJ Solomun dropping some indie bangers into his set of deep, pulsing house.
After ‘Alex from Glasto’, Dave introduces internet to ‘Spike from London’ during blistering set – review
Anyone remember Alex from Glasto – the guy who absolutely destroyed AJ Tracey’s bars when Dave pulled him onstage at Glastonbury 2019 to perform the pair’s 2016 single “Thiago Silva"? Video footage of the moment went viral on social media at the time, with the original BBC YouTube view count now comfortably over 30 million.
Well, it doesn’t matter if you don’t, because there’s a new Alex from Glasto in town.
Say hello to Spike from London, who Dave picks from the crowd to join him during his blistering Mojave stage set on Sunday (17 April). “Oh my god, speak to the people, brother,” gasps an impressed Dave after the backpack-wearing Spike delivers Tracey’s lines (almost) without putting a foot wrong.
It’s a highlight in a set that’s packed full of them, with the south London MC turning rockstar halfway through the show, bringing out an electric guitar and doing his best Dave Gilmour impression on a Pink Floyd-esque rendering of his and James Blake’s 2021 collaboration “Both Sides of A Smile”.
“So I just thought I’d learn it on the guitar and show it to you here at Coachella,” the Brixton-born artist says casually.
A final flourish of “Location” proves to be another absolute belter, as a beaming Dave shouts out his mum in the audience and yells “South London stand up!” It’s surely not possible that the 10,000 people who cheer back are actually all from Streatham, but we’ll let that side when a show’s quite this special.
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