Frank Ocean will not be headlining Coachella until 2023
The R&B artist was initially set to perform at the cancelled 2020 festival
With the return of music festivals, Frank Ocean is up to his old tricks of cancelling and rescheduling festival appearances, starting with Coachella. Come on, you really thought he was just going to show up and perform just like that? We gotta work for it!
In a rare interview with Los Angeles Times, Coachella co-founder Paul Tollett revealed the R&B musician’s performance has been pushed back one year to 2023. Ocean was first slated to perform at the 2020 iteration of Coachella, which was outright cancelled due to the pandemic. After a 3-year hiatus, the festival will make its grand return in 2022, sans Ocean due to scheduling conflicts. Original co-headliners Travis Scott and Rage Against the Machine will still perform, with one more artist filling Ocean’s now-empty slot. Tollett made the unusual announcement to avoid a frenzy from fans who were looking forward to Ocean’s set after so many changes over the last couple of years.