The Heavily Rumoured Coachella 2020 Line-Up Is Massive (And Looks Pretty Plausible)
Well, consider us interested.
Mysterious industry ~sources~ have told Consequence of Sound that My Chemical Romance and Frank Ocean are likely to headline 2020’s Coachella.
The rumours check out in the case of MCR, who have dates in New Zealand and Japan scheduled up until the end of March. My Chemical Romance meanwhile reunited for their first shows since 2012 earlier this month, ahead of March dates at Download Festival in Australia.
Ocean hasn’t played a set since a couple of European summer festival dates in 2017. He released his last album Blonde in 2016, and has dropped a handful of singles this year. Getting him back on the live circuit would be quite the coup for Coachella, but if anyone can do it, it’s the two-weekend Californian mega-festival.
i really hope this frank at coachella shit is just a rumor cuz then why did i buy my stupid family christmas presents
— Albert (@alburrtito) December 24, 2019
MCR and Frank Ocean will reportedly be joined by the recently reunited Rage Against The Machine, Travis Scott, Lana Del Rey, Thom Yorke and our very own Flume.
Rage Against The Machine posted what are believed to be tour dates, including two Coachella headline spots, to Instagram at the start of November, sparking reunion chatter. Their last live shows were in 2011.
Scott has tour dates lined up for Chile in March and Brazil in the first weekend of April, which leaves him wide open for Coachella.
Del Rey is scheduled to tour the UK and Europe, with this year’s excellent Norman Fucking Rockwell!, through February and March, with a convenient April gap in her schedule.
Yorke then tours the US from late March to early April off the back of this year’s Anima, with a convenient, Coachella-sized gap, between his US and Mexico dates.
Flume has US festival dates set for March and June.
Coachella 2020 is scheduled for two weekends in April, the 10th to the 12th, and 17th to 19th. With no line-up announced yet, the festival is already sold out.
The 2019 line-up featured Ariana Grande, Tame Impala and Childish Gambino. A 2020 line-up announcement is expected in just days.