Following his efficiency final week, Frank Ocean has pulled out of his scheduled headlining set at Coachella 2023 this Sunday, April 23. On a health care provider’s recommendation, he won’t carry out as a consequence of two fractures and a sprain in his left leg. “It was chaotic,” Ocean mentioned in an announcement. “There’s some magnificence in chaos. It isn’t what I meant 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 tune “Night time 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 pageant’s YouTube stream. His set ended considerably abruptly. “Guys, I’m being informed it’s curfew, in order that’s the top of the present,” Ocean mentioned. “Thanks a lot.” Because the lights got here up, followers booed and chanted “we wish Frank.” The pageant was later fined by Indio, California metropolis officers for going over curfew.
Previous to at present’s cancellation, sources indicated that Ocean had not too long ago sustained an ankle damage and altered the set’s total manufacturing on the recommendation of docs. It was extensively rumored that the modifications included scrapped plans for an ice skating rink related to the stage. Two ice skaters mentioned their alleged expertise 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 introduced as one of many essential acts earlier than the pageant was canceled for 2 years in a row as a result of 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 Occasions.
This marks the second 12 months 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 pageant. His representatives didn’t give a motive for the withdrawal, nor did the pageant. He was changed 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–primarily based manufacturing and design agency Phantom Labs, which claimed the rapper owed them cash for work on his canceled Coachella efficiency.
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