Hockey podcasters claim Frank Ocean axed plan to use over 100 ice skaters at Coachella

Blink-182 headlined the final day of Coachella 2023 yesterday (April 23) – check out the full setlist and footage from the moment below.The moment marked the punk rock veterans’ second set at this year’s Coachella – following their performance on Friday April 14, which was their first time playing live since reuniting with Tom DeLonge.Performing last night, the trio treated fans to renditions of some of their most popular hits, and brought back some old favourites which haven’t been played live in over five years. Initially, Frank Ocean was scheduled to perform the headline slot, however, he dropped out from the lineup following a leg injury.Opening with the iconic 1999 track, ‘Family Reunion’, Blink delivered back-to-back classics including ‘Anthem Pt.2’, ‘The Rock Show’ and ‘What’s My Age Again?’, as well as their more recent single, ‘Edging’, which was released in 2022.Although the 18-track setlist remained largely unchanged from that played at the performance held on weekend one, the headline set yesterday did see Travis Barker, Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus revive 2001’s ‘Stay Together For The Kids’, which hasn’t been performed live since 2018, and 2003’s ‘Always’, which hasn’t been included on a setlist since 2017.1. ‘Family Reunion’2. ‘Anthem Part Two’3. ‘The Rock Show’4. ‘Man Overboard’5. ‘Feeling This’6. ‘Reckless Abandon’7. ‘What’s My Age Again?’8. ‘Dumpweed’9. ‘EDGING’10. ‘Aliens Exist’11. ‘Stay Together for the Kids’12. ‘Happy Holidays, You Bastard’13. ‘Always’14. ‘Down’15. ‘I Miss You’16. ‘First Date’ (with Ramones ‘Pinhead’ intro)17. ‘All the Small Things’18. ‘Dammit’ (With Skee Lo ‘I Wish’ tease)Blink 182 – I Miss You @ Coachella I’ve never been more excited to be a Blink fan.

Coachella 2023 Weekend 2 kicks off today (April 21), with Blink-182 headlining in Frank Ocean’s stead, followed (confusingly) by a festival-closing DJ set from Skrillex, Four Tet, and Fred Again... The undercard filled with FADER favorites: Björk, Weyes Blood, Alex G, Kali Uchis, GloRilla, Sudan Archives, Christine and the Queens, and others.

Frank Ocean‘s headlining performance during the first weekend of Coachella was cut short and had a couple of bumps. It also reportedly featured at least three less songs than he rehearsed in soundchecks before taking the stage.

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Goldenvoice, the promoter behind Coachella, is actively trying to figure out how to use the ditched ice rink that was custom-built for Frank Ocean's headlining set, Billboard reports. They're reportedly hoping to incorporate it into the second weekend of the festival in some fashion in order to help mitigate the losses stemming from Ocean's cancellation of his performance on Sunday, which will reportedly cost the festival "several million dollars." The rink, constructed for an onstage performance of over 100 ice skaters and the most expensive element of the production, was nixed by Ocean the day of his performance after the singer was injured on the festival grounds.

It’s weekend two of the 2023 Coachella Music Festival and we have the set times for all of the performers set to take the stage.

Coachella 2023 Weekend 2 kicks off today (April 21), with Bad Bunny headlining and many more FADER favorites filling out the undercard: Gorillaz, Burna Boy, Kaytranada, Pusha T, Metro Boomin, Karol G, and others. Where last Friday’s schedule featured a short-notice set from a newly reunited Blink-182, Weekend 2 will see them taking the headlining role on Sunday, replacing Frank Ocean after he bowed out of Coachella 2023’s closing set following leg injuries he sustained on festival grounds before Weekend 1 (per his publicist).

Blink-182 will perform in the headline slot at Coachella this weekend with the band stepping in for the injured Frank Ocean. News of Ocean's decision to pull out of the second weekend of the California festival was announced earlier this week. Blink-182 appeared during the first weekend, playing a surprise set on the Friday.

Frank Ocean has pulled out of the second weekend of this year’s Coachella festival. He headlined the event last Sunday, but his performance was both praised and criticised, with many feeling that it was not up to standard.Later in the week it emerged that Ocean had sustained an injury prior to the festival set, which had meant he wasn’t able to proceed with the show as planned.

Skrillex, Fred Again.. and Four Tet are reportedly teaming up once again to close out weekend 2 of Coachella this Sunday (April 23).Coachella took to social media today (April 21) to break the news, confirming they will be taking the “TBA” slot after Blink-182 on the main stage on Sunday.See you Sunday @blink182Four Tet x Fred again..

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor The electronic-music dream team of Skrillex, Fred Again and Four Tet — which recently played a rapturously received five-hour set at Madison Square Garden — will close out the Coachella festival this weekend, sources tell Variety.

After a very chaotic and polarizing set at Coachella Weekend 1, many music fest fans are asking: who is replacing Frank Ocean at Coachella? 

Frank Ocean has cancelled his Coachella Weekend 2 headlining set, scheduled to close out the festival this coming Sunday (April 23), Pitchfork reports and The FADER has confirmed. Frank’s Weekend 1 performance — which some very vocal, extremely online fans felt was lackluster — was affected by a leg injury he had sustained earlier last week, according to his publicist.

Frank Ocean‘s Coachella set have spoken out about how their performance was axed.It was reported earlier this week that an on-stage ice rink for Ocean’s headlining set was scrapped after he injured his ankle during his on-ground rehearsals, causing several last-minute changes.Now, brothers Dan and Chris Powers have discussed their alleged involvement with Ocean’s scrapped stage production on the Empty Netters podcast.The Powers brothers spoke about auditioning for the performance on an elevated ice rink, and rehearsing for roughly a month leading up to Ocean’s set. They claimed that they were rehearsing with other hockey skaters and Olympic figure skaters up until April 11, and did not learn about the production changes until hours before Ocean’s set.“We get our call sheet, we have to go to this hotel to be picked up by a runner to be brought over to wardrobe and makeup,” said Dan Powers. “That moment is where the wheels started to fall off.

Frank Ocean has pulled out of his headline performance at Coachella's second weekend. 

Coachella this weekend after a controversial performance in the desert on Sunday, The Post can confirm. Blink-182 will reportedly take the 35-year-old “Lost” singer’s place this Sunday.The punk band’s original lineup, Mark Hoppus, 51, Travis Barker, 47, and Tom Delonge, 47, reunited at Coachella on Friday for the first time since Delonge left the band in 2015. “After suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1, Frank Ocean was unable to perform the intended show but was still intent on performing, and in 72 hours, the show was reworked out of necessity,” Ocean’s rep said in a statement to The Post on Wednesday.

Frank Ocean has pulled out of his headlining slot at Coachella weekend 2 this coming Sunday (April 23) and will reportedly be replaced by Blink-182.Frank Ocean’s withdrawal was announced via the singer’s agency, Huxley in a statement to press. Huxley’s statement reads: “Frank Ocean will not be performing at weekend 2 of Coachella.”“After suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1.

The show must go on. Frank Ocean will no longer headline the final weekend of Coachella after his polarizing first performance the week prior.

A major change is being made to the lineup for the second weekend of Coachella!

Following blistering reviews for his disastrous performance headlining the first weekend of Coachella, Frank Ocean has dropped out of the second weekend.

Frank Ocean has canceled his appearance at Coachella and will not return for the second week of the music festival, multiple media outlets report.

Frank Ocean is no longer set to headline the second weekend of Coachella after a divisive and poorly received performance last Sunday.A rep for the singer released a statement to ET confirming, «Frank Ocean will not be performing at weekend 2 of Coachella.»«After suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1, Frank Ocean was unable to perform the intended show but was still intent on performing, and in 72 hours, the show was reworked out of necessity.»The rep's statement said that, «on doctor’s advice,» Ocean will not perform again «due to two fractures and a sprain in his left leg.»The statement included remarks from Ocean himself, who commented on his first weekend set, sharing, «It was chaotic. There is some beauty in chaos.

Frank Ocean will not be performing his scheduled headlining slot at Coachella this Sunday, a rep for the singer confirms to Variety. A source close to the situation says his spot will be taken by Blink-182. The statement reads: “Frank Ocean will not be performing at weekend 2 of Coachella.  “After suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1. Frank Ocean was unable to perform the intended show but was still intent on performing, and in 72 hours, the show was reworked out of necessity.  “On doctor’s advice, [Ocean] is not able to perform weekend 2 due to two fractures and a sprain in his left leg.”

Frank Ocean originally had an epic ice-skating routine planned for his Coachella 2023 performance. After he was originally set to headline the music festival in 2020 — before the pandemic shut down the festival — Ocean returned to Indio, California, on Sunday to headline the first weekend of this year's star-studded music festival. The performance was the singer's first in six years since 2017's Flow Festival in Finland.When it came time for his performance, fans became irate when not only was it announced that his set would not be included in YouTube's livestream from the festival, but signs placed around the venue declared that no Frank Ocean merchandise would be available for purchase at the festival.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Two former hockey players who bailed on Frank Ocean’s Coachella performance after it seemingly became enveloped in chaos Sunday have spoken up about the experience in a podcast. Brothers Dan and Chris Powers say that they and more than a hundred other skaters had a positive experience through a good month of rehearsal in L.A., and even a successful dress rehearsal on the Coachella main stage — only to have Ocean render most of the skaters’ services unnecessary as he scrapped the entire epic ice-capades setup as the festival grounds were filling up. In the first segment of their “Empty Netters” podcast, released Tuesday, the Powers brothers said that there were about 120 skaters who’d been hired for the show and had been rehearsing on a makeshift ice rink at Paramount for weeks — including, they said, several Olympians well-known in the figure skating community, as well as hockey veterans like themselves. In the end, they said, the vast majority of these skating extras were left waiting on buses or in hot tents for hours on the perimeter of the festival grounds as Ocean made the last-minute call to dissemble the ice rink and ditch the planned skate choreography.

Justin Bieber praised Frank Ocean’s Coachella set over the weekend, but it looks like he might not remember all of it judging by a TikTok clip that’s been doing the rounds online.

Justin Bieber has defended Frank Ocean‘s controversial headline set at Coachella last weekend.Just hours he was set to take the stage on April 16 – which would mark his first live performance in six years – it was announced that his set (along with Björk’s) would not be streamed on Coachella’s official YouTube channels, causing an uproar online.His performance, which was then cut short after being informed that the festival had hit its curfew limi, received mix reactions from fans. Some praised Ocean and the set for its unexpected remixes and Ocean’s vocals, while others criticised the singer for being late and ending his set abruptly.One supporter was Justin Bieber – who took to Instagram to share his support Ocean by posting a photo from the set while declaring that he had been “blown away”.“His artistry is simply unmatched, his style, his taste, his voice, his attention to detail,” wrote Bieber. “I was deeply moved.

Unconditional brotherly love. Frank Ocean’s brother got a tribute at his headlining Coachella set. The “Pyramids” artist reminisced about the times that he spent with his deceased brother at the desert music festival when he headlined on April 16, 2023.

Frank Ocean made a highly-anticipated return to the stage at California's Coachella festival over the weekend, but the show ended up disastrous and fans have blasted his comeback performance as "terrible."

Liam Gallagher has said Coachella is a “pathetic festival”.He made the remark after a fan said the former Oasis frontman should headline the festival and show headliner Frank Ocean “how it’s done.”When one fan pointed out that he had previously performed at Coachella, he replied: “Never wouldn’t catch me at an establishment like that”.Pathetic festival— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) April 18, 2023babes you’ve played there—

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Despite the chaotic reception surrounding Frank Ocean’s Coachella performance, Justin Bieber remains steadfast that it was a great show.

Justin Bieber has weighed in on Frank Ocean‘s 2023 Coachella Music Festival performance.

Frank Ocean's Coachella 2023 performance was affected by a serious ankle injury he picked up during rehearsals, Pitchfork and Rolling Stone report. TMZ sources state that the injury was sustained in a bike accident on the Coachella grounds in the run-up to the festival.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Justin Bieber came to the defense of Frank Ocean in an Instagram post in which the “Peaches” singer praised Ocean’s controversial Coachella performance. Ocean headlined Coachella 2023 along with Bad Bunny and Blackpink, but his April 16 set proved to be a massive disappointment for fans after he started an hour late, skipped over many fan-favorite songs, performed mostly sitting down and with his back to the crowd and lip-synched to several tracks. He also ran past the Coachella curfew and abruptly ended his set after less than 90 minutes. While Ocean has received pans for his performance, Bieber had nothing but raves for his fellow musician. Bieber, who memorably surprised Coachella in 2019 by joining Ariana Granda’s headlining set, praised Ocean’s artistry and voice in a heartfelt note on social media.

Coachella has reportedly been fined $117,000 (£94,494) for breaking its curfew on all three days of weekend one.The fines come after the festival ran for over 20 minutes past its approved curfew on each day from April 14 to April 16, per Pitchfork. The festival ran 25 minutes past its curfew on Friday (April 14), 22 minutes on Saturday (April 15) and 25 minutes on Sunday (April 16).Pitchfork reports that the fines are part of an agreement between Coachella organiser Goldenvoice and the city of Indio, California dating back to 2013.