Coachella 2025 kicked off to a rocky begin, with attendees reportedly caught in 12-hour visitors jams earlier than coming into the competition.
This 12 months’s version of the Californian competition is effectively underway, with Friday’s headliner Woman Gaga wrapping up her headline set within the early hours this morning (April 12). Regardless of being hailed by followers because the “finest Coachella present of all time”, many have been beset by journey points earlier than getting by means of the gates.
Followers in attendance have taken to social media to complain about hours-long traces to get to the automobile tenting space on competition grounds, with some evaluating it to the disastrous Fyre Pageant.
Although some visitors is anticipated as revellers pile into the occasion, native media have reported some campers have been caught of their automobiles for hours on finish, with out entry to bogs, water or fuel, with one Palm Springs-based station dubbing the gridlock “carmageddon”.
Coachella descends into chaos, and it hasn’t even began but. These are automobiles lined as much as get by means of safety to enter the automobile tenting space. Attendees are reporting a 12 hour wait, and no porta potties, with some saying it’s “worse than Fyre Pageant”. pic.twitter.com/ztjACmd70u
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) April 11, 2025
Present scenario for some individuals at @coachella. Occurring 9 hours on this line, fortunately we nonetheless half a tank of fuel. pic.twitter.com/1396I35zpZ
— Martin (@martindtx108) April 10, 2025
coachella borderline turning into fyre fest this 12 months…… oh i’m sat, individuals ready 12-18+ hours to get in for automobile tenting, individuals shitting & pissing on the edges of the road in bushes, coachella not giving anybody water whereas they bake of their automobile in line …. phew omfg?
— caymi𓆩♡𓆪 INDY N2
(@cowboylikecaymi) April 11, 2025
Shouts out Coachella for having no clue tips on how to direct tenting visitors and handle safety, having individuals ready since earlier than 3am to STILL not even be close to the safety checkpoint is ridiculous
— Lefton Learn (@LammaJoe) April 10, 2025
Listening to a lot of reviews of Coachella getting off to a tough begin for campers immediately — some have waited so long as 12+ hours to succeed in a campsite, together with one one who despatched the DM beneath. pic.twitter.com/i19KcDgjeA
— Festive Owl (@TheFestiveOwl) April 10, 2025
Pageant information account FestiveOwl shared a textual content from one attendee, who described circumstances as “horrendous”, and went on to say there had been “no steerage or instructions” from any Coachella organisers.
One TikTok consumer additionally shared her expertise of a ten hour wait, calling the large backlog of automobiles “an entire shit present.” “We nonetheless haven’t even gone by means of safety. It’s 100 levels outdoors. Folks’s automobiles are overheating,” she mentioned within the video.
“They’re working out of fuel. There aren’t any bogs wherever. Persons are actually utilizing the toilet behind bushes like animals, they usually paid over $600 to be right here. This complete expertise has been so disappointing, and it’s been extraordinarily dehumanizing. Persons are pissed.”
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Billboard reported that sources near the competition have pointed to 2 seemingly culprits for the in depth queues, the primary being that the campgrounds started letting individuals in on Thursday (April 10) at 9 am this 12 months, which is later than in earlier years and should have contributed to the backlog.
The second was the competition have launched a most popular campsite program for the campground closest to the competition entrance. Sources claimed the brand new system, which changed the standard first-come, first-served one took extra time per camper to handle than initially anticipated.
The first wave of artists confirmed for this 12 months’s version was shared again in November, when it was revealed that Gaga, Inexperienced Day, Publish Malone and Travis Scott could be headlining. Different artists on the invoice embody Missy Elliott, Charli XCX, Megan Thee Stallion, solo performances from BLACKPINK‘s Lisa and Jennie, Benson Boone, the unique Misfits, Zedd, The Prodigy, Beabadoobee, Clairo, Enhypen and extra.
Since then, extra acts have been step by step added to the line-up, with the latest of which being Ed Sheeran and Weezer – whereas FKA Twigs was compelled to drag out because of US visa points.
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