Prince, proposals and pigs - some notes from Coachella 2008

This weekend saw Coachella take place in the deserts of California. Now deemed the unofficial start of the American festival season, there were many highlights to be had if you were a punter and some odd goings on. A summary:

Prince, who headlined on the Saturday night, arrived late but won back the support of the punters with an unexpected cover of Radiohead's Creep:



YouTube has been updated rapidly with videos from the festival. This was one of the better ones - The Raconteurs performing Consoler Of The Lonely, amidst a beautiful sunset:



There was even a wedding proposal at the festival this year! Of all bands to choose their soundtrack, they chose Spiritualized. Odd. And finally, Roger Waters chose to use his slot on Sunday night to back Barack Obama. With an inflatable pig. Again, odd.

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Prince for Coachella

Prince seems to have a knack of making surprise announcements. There was the revelation that he would play the Brit Awards in 2006 to perform a medley of hits (yes, for no obvious reason, but who cares?) and the release of his last album with the Daily Mail for free. Now he has announced that he will headline the Saturday of US festival Coachella, along with Portishead and Kraftwerk. Why oh why have the US festivals seemingly got the best line ups this year. Coachella and Lollapalooza have managed to secure easily two of the best looking festival line ups for 2008.

More interestingly, does this mean that Prince could play a few more festivals this year?

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