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\n\t\u201cI didn\u2019t think this was really going to happen, did you?\u201d shouted Gwen Stefani midway via \u201cHella Good,\u201d<\/a> the opening music from No Doubt<\/a> throughout their reunion set at Coachella 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tIndeed, it\u2019s been 12 years because the SoCal quartet reunited for his or her final album \u201cPush and Shove,\u201d they usually final carried out collectively in 2015. (Stefani pointed this out quite a few occasions all through their Coachella set.) In the time since, Stefani has develop into one thing of a cult persona and evergreen TV presence as a decide on \u201cThe Voice,\u201d releasing a handful of one-off singles as a reminder that, sure, she remains to be a singer before everything, even when her glory days as No Doubt\u2019s frontwoman and a solo juggernaut within the 2000s are far behind her.<\/p>\n \n\tPerhaps, then, No Doubt\u2019s reunion at Coachella served as a worthy reassurance \u2014 or a colourful, energetic assertion \u2014 that there are not any indicators of rust greater than 30 years after they debuted with their 1992 eponymous album. The band, consisting of Stefani, bassist Tony Kanal, guitarist Tom Dumont and drummer Adrian Young, performed an 80-minute set crammed with vigor and spark, as in the event that they have been nonetheless the spunky youngsters that have been proven in classic footage on the screens behind them.<\/p>\n \n\tIt would have been a straightforward out for No Doubt to come back throughout as one of many de facto nostalgia acts of the weekend. And in some methods, on the lineup, they have been, gracing the identical fundamental stage that Sabrina Carpenter and Lil Uzi Vert had touched the day prior. But it\u2019s a testomony to the chemistry they\u2019ve had since their formation and subsequent mainstream ascent that they will nonetheless harness that very same vitality with conviction, particularly for a band whose members are all of their mid-50s.<\/p>\n \n\tOf course, it helps that Stefani is such a magnetic and charismatic frontwoman. Her tone was virtually solely excellent all through and he or she didn\u2019t waste a single breath, even when she was ska dancing throughout from Kanal or bounding throughout the stage to awaken the group. But it was the best way the band members have been so in tune with each other, virtually a decade after placing the group on ice, that gave the songs renewed life, whether or not it was with a callback to their early days on \u201cTotal Hate \u201995\u201d or the fiery \u201cHella Good,\u201d which opened the efficiency.<\/p>\n \n\tThe group, which fashioned in Anaheim, California in 1986, embraced its ska aesthetic, proper right down to the dance strikes, horns and vogue selections. Plaid was splashed all over the place throughout the stage, from Stefani\u2019s black-and-red boots to Young\u2019s kilt. They paraded via hits, together with \u201cEx-Girlfriend,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s My Life,\u201d \u201cHey Baby\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Speak,\u201d peppering in a couple of deeper cuts like \u201cDifferent People\u201d and \u201cHappy Now?\u201d (It was curious, although, that they didn\u2019t play a single music from \u201cPush and Shove\u201d).<\/p>\n