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This article is about the annual music and arts festival. For other uses of "Coachella", see Coachella (disambiguation).
Coachella
File:Coachella Sunset 2011 Jamey M Photo.jpg
The sun sets over the main stage at Coachella 2011.
GenreMusic
DatesThird Weekend or Last Week of April
Location(s)Indio, California, United States
Years active1999
2001–present
Websitewww.coachella.com

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly known as Coachella, Coachellafest, or Coachella Festival) is an annual three-day music and arts festival, founded by Paul Tollett, organized by Goldenvoice (a subsidiary of AEG Live), and held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley. The event features many genres of music, including rock, indie, hip hop, and electronic music, as well as large sculptural art. The event has several stages that have been constructed throughout the grounds, with each playing live music continuously for the duration of the festival. The main stages are: Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Gobi Tent, Mojave Tent, and the Sahara Tent (2006 and 2011 also saw the addition of a smaller Oasis Dome).

The festival is renowned for showcasing many of the popular and emerging acts in music, as well as established artists and reunion performances. Notable appearances include: Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, Prince, Paul McCartney, Arcade Fire, The Killers, Duran Duran, Radiohead, Oasis, Daft Punk, Roger Waters, Madonna, The Cure, Florence and the Machine, Kanye West, The Black Keys, Rage Against The Machine, At the Drive-In, Beck, Gorillaz, Björk, Nine Inch Nails, The Strokes, The Chemical Brothers, Pavement, Blur, MGMT, The White Stripes, Jay-Z, Tool, The Prodigy, Beastie Boys, Swedish House Mafia, Kaskade, Justice, Avicii, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Bon Iver.

The Coachella Music Festival takes place within a desert setting (the city of Indio is a part of the California Desert), with daytime temperatures frequently rising to over 110 °F (43 °C).

History

On November 5, 1993, Pearl Jam, performed before almost 25,000 fans on the lawns of Indio's Empire Polo Club, which had previously never hosted a music festival.[1] Although the band's management had chosen this untested and under-developed site as part of a boycott of Ticketmaster, as well as the Southern California auditoriums Ticketmaster controlled, the event established the new venue's suitability for large-scale rock events. However, such suitability was not a given: the grounds, essentially one vast irrigated desert lawn, sit in one of America's hottest and driest locations, and the region's small towns, whilst having a history as resort centers, are several hours' in driving time from regional population centers such as San Diego, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Phoenix. The show itself was notable for an avalanche of shoes thrown from audience members, prompting several stoppages during the set.

Inaugural event: 1999

Six years later, on October 9 and 10, 1999 (three months after the Woodstock 99 festival) the first actual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (usually abbreviated simply as "Coachella Fest") was held. Due to Woodstock 99's fires and riots, Coachella promoters were not allowed to offer on-site camping, a ban that continued until the 2002 festival.

About 10,000 people attended the two-day inaugural event, supporting headlining acts Beck, The Chemical Brothers, Tool, Morrissey, and Rage Against the Machine. Other acts included Jurassic 5, DJ Mike Hawk, and Underworld. Originally, promoters had hoped to make the event three days (Friday-Sunday) and even considered the UK band Massive Attack to be the third day headliner - but those plans never came to fruition. The event went smoothly, with the biggest complaint being the blistering heat. It is reported[by whom?], however, that the event failed to generate any profit, which nearly put an end to the festival.

2001

No festival took place in 2000, likely due to the financial troubles of the inaugural festival. In 2001, however, festival organizers decided to give it another try. They decided to move the event to April (to avoid the intense heat of the late summer), and it was only scheduled for one day, most likely due to a tighter budget. However, the 2001 organizers once again ran into some trouble organizing the festival. Just months before the event was to occur, promoters still did not have a big headliner, and the festival was once again at risk of turning a net loss. In a surprise move, promoters turned to friend Perry Farrell, and were able to bring a reunited Jane's Addiction to the main stage as the event's headlining act.

Madonna performing at Coachella, 2006

2002

In 2002, the event once again returned to the two-day format, and saw a reunited Siouxsie and the Banshees, as well as headlining acts Björk and Oasis. The strong supporting acts helped prove to the community of Indio, California that the event was capable of bringing in money and ending without conflict.

2003

Following the 2002 festival, Coachella began to generate large-scale interest, and the 2003 festival featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers and Beastie Boys (as well as a reunited Iggy Pop and The Stooges) drew the largest crowd yet. (This record, however, was broken by Rage Against the Machine's 2007 reunion performance which drew nearly 100,000 attendees.) Around this time, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival began to develop worldwide interest.

2004

The 2004 event, featuring a reunion of the Pixies, as well as Radiohead, Kraftwerk, The Cure and a number of other major bands, was the event's first sellout, with 50,000 tickets sold for each Saturday and Sunday. Since then, the festival has continued to generate large draws due to strong lineups from top to bottom, including such bands as Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Tool, Daft Punk, and Massive Attack.

2007

The 2007 show was extended to three days and included headliners Red Hot Chili Peppers, a reunited Rage Against the Machine, and Björk, with all three headlining for their second time. Other notable performers included Arcade Fire, which had made a memorable 2005 Coachella appearance, LCD Soundsystem, Manu Chao, a rare American performance by former Pulp-frontman Jarvis Cocker, and Scarlett Johansson singing with a reunited the Jesus and Mary Chain.

2008

The 2008 event did not sell out, for the first time since 2003, while featuring headliners Prince, Roger Waters, and Jack Johnson, along with notable rare appearances from Portishead, a reunited The Verve, M.I.A., Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, a reunited Love and Rockets, and a reunited Swervedriver. Another noteworthy performance during the 2008 Coachella festival was that of singer/songwriter Adele.

2009

The 2009 event was hosted a week earlier than normal. The new dates were April 17, 18 and 19 with the third annual edition of the country-music Stagecoach Festival, to start the week after. The event featured notable performances such as Paul McCartney, The Cure, The Killers, My Bloody Valentine, Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, M.I.A., who made a memorable appearance in 2005 with the first encore the festival had seen in a tent, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and rare appearances from artists Leonard Cohen and Throbbing Gristle.

2010

Met with mixed reviews,[2] organizers did away with single-day ticket sales in 2010, offering instead only three day tickets to the festival.[3] From April 16–18, 2010 the festival drew a reported 75,000 spectators or more each day for an estimated average aggregate of 225,000 attendees, which surpassed previous attendance records.[4] Headliners included Jay-Z, Muse and Gorillaz, along with LCD Soundsystem, a reunited Faith No More, a reunited Pavement, Thom Yorke of Radiohead and his live band Atoms for Peace, Tiesto, and supergroup Them Crooked Vultures. Other notable acts were Fever Ray, Porcupine Tree, deadmau5, La Roux, MGMT, Florence and the Machine, Spoon, Bassnectar, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, CéU, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Specials, a reunited Public Image Ltd., a reunited Orbital, a rare Plastikman live set from Richie Hawtin, Sly Stone and David Guetta.

2011

Kanye West at Coachella on April 17, 2011

The headlining act in 2011 was Kanye West and included performances by Duran Duran, Mumford & Sons, a reunited Big Audio Dynamite, Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon and the Black Keys among the 190 acts.[5]

On May 31, 2011, Goldenvoice announced that the festival will be held over two weekends starting in 2012.[6]

2012

Coachella 2012 tickets went on sale at on January 13, 2012 at 10am and were sold out by 1pm PST. During Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's performance in the 2012 show, a projection of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur came up from under the stage and began performing "Hail Mary" and "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted".[7] Although often referred to by the media as a 'hologram', the projection was in fact created using the Musion Eyeliner system, which employs a version of Pepper's ghost.[8] Following the performance, the projection disappeared. Dr. Dre had asked the permission of Shakur's mother Afeni, who said the next day that she was thrilled with the performance.[9] A projection of deceased singer Nate Dogg was also planned but Dr. Dre decided against it. The 2012 edition also featured Porter Robinson, Pulp, Refused, At the Drive-In, Radiohead, The Black Keys, The Hives, Jeff Mangum, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Arctic Monkeys, Kaskade, Miike Snow, Afrojack, Gotye, Justice, Frank Ocean, Flying Lotus, St. Vincent, M83, Bon Iver, Kaiser Chiefs, The Shins, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Squeeze, Zedd, Madness, AWOLNATION, Fitz and the Tantrums, Santigold, Band of Skulls, Azealia Banks, A$AP Rocky, Childish Gambino, and The Weeknd,[10] as well as unscheduled guest appearances by Eminem, 50 Cent, Tony Yayo, Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa, Warren G, Kurupt, Rihanna, Usher and Zach de la Rocha.

Installation Art

In addition to "Music", the other half of the festival is dedicated to "Arts". Every year, the festival features interesting installation art and sculptures. Most of the pieces are interactive, providing a visual treat to the attendees walking throughout the Polo grounds. Some of the works have also been featured at Burning Man, Art Basel, and involve participants from architecture schools, both local and abroad. In contrast to the largely non-repeating roster of musical artists represented at the festival, a few of the visual artists, such as Hotshot the Robot, Robochrist Industries, the Tesla Coil (Cauac), Cyclecide, and The Do LaB, along side avant-garde performance troupe Lucent Dossier Experience, have appeared during several consecutive years at Coachella. Another aspect to the art of Coachella includes the limited edition posters produced by poster artist Emek. Emek started designing posters for the festival in 2007 and has continued to do so every year since.

2003

Cauac-Syd Klinge, Corndog and the Chaplain of Sparceland, Join Chunks, Nair B & Lovely, Magic Glasses, Facility 3 Artists and Joe Mangrum, Space Cowboys, Madgascar, 1Sky's HypKnowTron, Howard Hollis+Max Miceli, Christian Ristow, Bio-Fuel Bus, Joe Bard & Danya Parkinson, Finley Fryer, Buckethead, Mutaytor, String Theory, Arcadian Circle.

2004

The installation artists were Syd Klinge (Cauac Tesla Coil), Nairb (Deus Ex Machina), Laura Crosta and Funn Roberts (Lanternaria), LT Mustardseed (The Journey of the Dragonfly, Finley Fryer ("Stan" - The Diver), Rosanna Scimecca (Cleavage in Space+Red Widow Spider), Christian Ristow (Robochrist Industries), David Wharton + Scott Mattison (Diffraction Light Tunnel), Howard Hollis (Linticular 3-D Art), Scott Gasparian (gaspo) (HypKnowTron), D-light (Helix IV), Gabi Tuschak, Juli Gudmundson and Melody Byrd (Chitlin'n Grits), Mass Ensemble (Earth Harp), Jerico Woggon (Year of the Snake) and Cyclecide (Bike Rodeo).

2006

The installation artists were Syd Klinge (Cauac), Brian Corndog (Metron Transformer), Michael Christian (Flock and Hypha), Rosanna Scimecca (Zephyrus' Disgolmerate), Jerico Woggon, Orion Fredricks (Harmonizer Water Sculpture), Doyle (The Spider), Cyclecide/Bike Rodeo, O2 Creative (Gnome Dome), The Do LaB (Lucent Misting Oasis featuring Lucent Dossier) and Keith Greco (Leaf Rake Tree+Snow Globe Domes).

2007

Portishead , The Do LaB, Lucent Dossier, Johnny America, Syd Klinge: Tesla Coil, Brian Corndog: KA Labyrinth, Mark Lottor: Cubatron, Cyclecide Bike Rodeo, Kinetic Steam Works, Jamie Vaida: Goes Around Comes Around Carousel, Stronghold Productions: FirePod, Michael Christian: I.T., and Babel, Sean Sobczak: Love and Dragons, Domes Guys: 90' Dome, Jason Hackenworth: Megamite Army, Dorothy Trojanowski: Rubber Horses, Perpetual Art Machine, NON Designs, Mark Esper: It's in the Air and Enlightenment, Brose Partington: Tide, Greg de Gouveia: Cubed []3, Jim Bowers: Terrasphere, Hotshot the Robot, LT Mustardseed: Aquatic Temple of Chill, Stefano Corazza: Field of Sunflower Robots, Sasstown Crew (Portland): Threemove, Rosanna Scimeca: St. Taudry's, manIC. Art curation for 2007 by Philip Blaine

2008

Gerard Minakawa: (Bamboo Waves), The Do Lab: (Oasis), Sean Orlando: (The Steampunk Treehouse), Mike Ross: (BigRigJig), Mark Lottor: (The Quad Cubatron), Ball-Nogues Studio: (Copper Droopscape), Martii Kalliala and Jenna Sutela: (Super Ball), Aaron Koblin: (Flight Patterns), Michael Christian: (Beyond the Garden), Christopher Janney: (Sonic Forest), Syd Klinge: (Cauac Twins), Corndog: (Parabola), James Nick Sears: (The Orb), Orion Fredericks: (Fata Morgana), Darren Barnes: (HotShot the Robot), SWARM, Slick

2009

Gerard Minakawa: (Bamboo Starscraper), Flaming Lotus Girls: (Serpent Mother), Rob Bucholz: (Perhaps), Robotronia: (hotShot the Robot), Professor Munz + d6: (Spectralcodec Interactive Video), CalPoly Pomona Architectural students+Michael Fox: (Flockwall), Shine+Spears family: (La Familia Divina-Shrine), Flase Profits Labs: (Pyrocardium), Michael Christian: (Sphae), SCI Arc Students+Benjamin Ball+Gaston Nogues+Andrew Lyon and Philip Blaine: (Elastic Plastic Sponge), Rimski: (Rimski’s Bicycle Piano), Christian Ristow: (Hand of Man), Mark Lottor: (The Quad Cubatron), Alex Nolan and Justin Grant: (SOL), Syd Klinge: (Cauac Twins), The Do Lab Oasis, and Lucent Dossier Experience.

2011

The Creators Project: Coachella Stage Enhanced, Sarah Tent Installation, Long March, Punch, Nidhogg, The Do Lab, The Do Lab's Pagoda, Winwin Creative: Joy, Michael Christian: Candelaphytes, Cyclecide Bike Rodeo, reel-Mobile, Coachella Art Studios, Rob Buchholz: Wish, Todd Williams: Land Sharks, Syd Klinge: (CauacTwins), Fledgling, Balloon Chain, A Physical Manifestation of Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space: Jonathan Glazer + J. Spaceman with Undisclosable and One of Us

2012

The Do LaB: (Oasis) + (Triad), Coachella Art Studios, Charles Gadeken: (WAVE), Todd Williams: (Land Shark), Gerard Minakawa: (Starry Bamboo), Darren Barnes: (Hotshot the Robot), Susan Robb: (Warmth, Giant Black Tubes), Christian Ristow: (Garaplata), Shrine: (Shacks), Robert Bose: (Balloon Chain), Sensory Sync: (Gateway), Poetic Kinetic: (Solitary Inflorescence), Cyclecide, Makeover Mechanix

Camping

In 2003, Coachella started to include tent camping as an option for staying at the festival. The campground site is on an adjacent polo field next to the venue grounds. The campground has its own separate festival entrance on the south side of the venue. For the 2010 festival, it was reported that camping attendance was in upwards of 17,000. At the 2012 event, the on-site facilities included recycling, general store, showers, mobile phone charging stations, and an internet cafe with free WiFi.[11]

Stagecoach Festival camping, which is usually the weekend succeeding Coachella. 2010 introduced many new features to camping such as re-entry from the campsite to the festival grounds, parking your car next to your tent and a limited number of recreational vehicle camping spots.

Sustainability

The Coachella festival tries to reduce its carbon footprint on the environment every year by involving not just employees but also the attendees. The festival highly promotes carpooling for its attendees and rewards people who participate. Attendees who choose to carpool with four or more people in one car and have the word "carpoolchella" displayed somewhere on their car have a chance to be selected by a secret spotter to win VIP tickets/pass for life for everyone in the car. In 2007, Coachella teamed up with Global Inheritance to start a 10 for 1 recycling program, in which anyone who brings ten empty water bottles will be given a fresh new water bottle for free. In 2009, the festival introduced ten dollar refillable water bottles of which purchasers would get free refills at a number of refill stations inside the festival and within the campgrounds.

List of Coachella lineups by year

Further information: Coachella Festival line-ups

See also

Notes

  1. ^ alex reisner (2008–2012). "Empire Polo". Classic Rock Concerts. alex reisner. Retrieved 9 June 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  2. ^ "Coachella's 2010 ticket policy inspires online petition". LATimes.com.
  3. ^ "Coachella 2010: Say goodbye to single-day tickets". LATimes.com.
  4. ^ "Coachella Festival Sets Attendance Record". Billboard.com.
  5. ^ Vozick-Levinson, Simon (May 12, 2011). "Kanye, Mumford, Arcade Fire Light Up the Desert". Rolling Stone (1130): 13, 16.
  6. ^ CBS (31 May 2011). "Coachella Expanding To 2 Weekends In 2012". CBS Los Angeles. CBS Radio Inc. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  7. ^ "Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur hologram create amazing performance at Coachella". MercuryNews.com.
  8. ^ "How Does the Coachella Tupac 'Hologram' Work?". IBITimes.com.
  9. ^ "TUPAC'S MOM Coachella Hologram Was Frickin' AMAZING". TMZ.
  10. ^ http://www.edmlounge.com/blog/tag/coachella
  11. ^ Staff (2012). "On-Site Camping". Coachella. Coachella. Retrieved 9 June 2012.

Bibliography

  • Alexander, Donnell. "Big Things". Los Angeles City Beat. April 26, 2007. Accessed May 15, 2007.
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