The fallout from Frank Ocean’s Coachella fiasco continues. Ocean’s feverishly anticipated Coachella headlining set Sunday — his first reside efficiency in six years — went awry when he suffered an ankle harm on the competition web site and scrapped plans for a deliberate onstage ice-rink, which was to function about 120 skaters who’d been rehearsing for weeks. He in the end canceled his look on the competition’s second weekend and shall be changed this Sunday by new headliners blink-182 and a closing set from Skrillex, Four Tet, and Fred once more..
About that big ice pad: Billboard studies that Coachella promoter Goldenvoice spent a number of million {dollars} constructing it and is in search of a strategy to incorporate it into another upcoming efficiency to offset their losses. Typically, festivals cowl fundamental manufacturing prices however ask artists to pay for manufacturing parts distinctive to their efficiency. According to the report, in an exception to that customary process, Goldenvoice paid to construct and keep Ocean’s ice pad and was planning to deduct its value from his Coachella payday.
Ocean reportedly was scheduled to make $4 million per efficiency for a complete of $8 million. He solely shall be paid for the primary weekend, together with his second $4 million going to blink-182 as a substitute. Construction and vitality prices associated to the ice pad reportedly surpassed $4 million, so Goldenvoice misplaced cash on Ocean’s efficiency, even earlier than factoring in the price of including Skrillex, Four Tet, and Fred once more.. to the invoice. The competition reportedly is unlikely to ask Ocean to recoup the expense.