Coachella line-up ripped to shreds after ‘nightmare’ headline act is ‘revealed’

Coachella Festival has been well and genuinely eviscerated online aft reports suggested the 2025 festival could see headliners Fred Again and Post Malone.

The California festival – which is 1 of the world’s biggest and astir celebrated – has not officially confirmed its lineup yet, but fans are already deflated at immoderate emerging news.

Post Malone, 29 – celebrated for hits including Sunflower and Circles – announced his Big Ass Stadium Tour connected Tuesday.

While helium didn’t explicitly accidental helium would beryllium heading to the festival, the tally begins successful Indio, wherever Coachella takes place.

Following Post Malone’s announcement, Rolling Stone claimed helium is so heading to the festival for the Sunday performances connected April 13 and 20, 2025.

After headlining Stage Coach earlier this year, a root told the work helium volition play a fig of his large hits and immoderate from his state euphony medium F-1 Trillion successful what is said to beryllium a ‘mind-blowing set’.

However, fans don’t look rather arsenic enthusiastic astatine the apt 2025 header news.

‘Your severely declining festival had the lowest summons income connected grounds this twelvemonth and your large comeback prevention for adjacent twelvemonth is…………………. station malone. Everyone needs to beryllium fired. apical to bottom. cipher is coming,’ wrote @dxckiii successful a viral post.

Others besides weren’t excessively impressed with the rumours I Adore You hitmaker Fred Again – also rumoured for Glastonbury – would beryllium taking a header slot.

Last period US manufacture publication HITS Daily Double claimed Fred Again is simply a ‘lock’ for the lineup.

‘Fred again and station malone arsenic COACHELLA headliners conscionable sounds similar my worst f**king nightmare this can’t beryllium real,’ added @sethh_sm.

‘They honestly should person conscionable ended the festival aft Beyoncé due to the fact that I’m conscionable not funny successful going aft that lol,’ said @tallyohhh.

‘They needed Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter,’ suggested @getlnlosers, arsenic @Sahra435 said: ‘Post Malone won’t prevention this.’

This twelvemonth Lana Del Rey, Tyler, The Creator and Doja Cat headlined the festival – livestreamed connected YouTube – portion Skepta, Sabrina Carpenter, Blur, Grimes and Renee Rapp besides performed.

Elsewhere Gwen Stefani deed up the stage for a immense reunion with her No Doubt bandmates.

However, contempt a packed docket the hype surrounding the California festival was earnestly dulled this year, arsenic tickets were inactive disposable conscionable a week earlier the 2nd weekend.

Previously, tickets disappeared wrong hours for the festival, but 2024 saw wide admittance passes going for $499 7 days up of festivities, portion the priciest VIP enactment outgo $1,269.

According to the LA Times, 2023 marked the archetypal twelvemonth successful implicit a decennary that some weekends didn’t merchantability retired and 2024 income were the slowest successful a decade.

While Glastonbury and Coachella person a akin footfall – with respective crowds of 200,000 and 125,000 radical – the erstwhile sold retired wrong 36 minutes past weekend.

This comes arsenic 2 of the world’s biggest artists – Kendrick Lamar and Rihanna – were reported to person declined an connection to header this year’s Coachella.

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