Extra particulars about Frank Ocean’s controversial Coachella set are coming to mild.
Former hockey gamers Dan and Chris Powers claimed on their “Empty Netters” podcast Tuesday that they have been a part of a large ice skating routine that Ocean scrapped on the final minute — leaving 120 performers in sizzling tents and buses.
“These determine skaters received minimize not as a result of there was an ice difficulty, not as a result of there was one thing fallacious,” Dan Powers mentioned on the podcast. “There was no malfunction. He simply straight-up was like, ‘Fuck this. I’m not doing this anymore.’ And these 120 folks had bused out right here.”
“He was identical to, ‘You guys aren’t doing shit now,’” he added. “So it was identical to a wild flip.”
The set marked a controversial return for Ocean, who final carried out in 2017. The present was delayed by an hour and ended early ― and lots of followers couldn’t really see him.
On Wednesday, Ocean introduced he gained’t return to Coachella this weekend attributable to a leg harm he suffered earlier than Sunday’s present.
Representatives for Ocean advised The New York Instances his harm spurred modifications to the stage 72 hours earlier than the present. The Powers brothers, in the meantime, prompt the cancellation of the ice-skating routine was responsible.
Ocean’s representatives didn't instantly reply to a request for touch upon the Powers’ statements.
The brothers mentioned they have been “uncertain” why Ocean’s leg harm brought on the cancellation. Chris Powers mentioned “the skating portion was enormous” and included “120 skaters” however that the ultimate model of the present noticed “solely 30 or no matter” stroll round onstage in face paint.
The remainder of the skaters couldn’t even get into Coachella, the brothers mentioned.
“And that implies that these folks bused to Coachella with out a cross can’t go into the competition,” Chris Powers. “They're actually sitting in a tent within the baking solar. It is a group of individuals ... about to carry out onstage with the headliner and weren't given passes.”
Chris Powers mentioned that Ocean “actually cares” and “had a really clear imaginative and prescient” for the present. He added that Ocean “was at all times on us, serving to us” in the course of the monthlong rehearsal and had “clearly put a ton of weight on this efficiency” after the loss of life of his brother in 2020.
“To begin with, he’s popping out of hiding, seven years not performing, doing this for the reminiscence of his brother, and he simply wished it to be this huge factor,” Chris Powers mentioned. “After which every part was gone and it was minimize quick.”
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