There weren't many acts that we knew in the morning, so we decided to enjoy some time in the sun relaxing around the pool and having a couple of drinks at the camp before heading in. The first act of the day was MØ, and I was super excited to see her. I only knew of one of her songs before hand, but Danny assured me she was great on stage and really performed, and he wasn't wrong - I loved her set. It was made all the better that it was inside one of the tents so I could shelter from the afternoon sun and just enjoy the music.
I won't lie, out of the acts listed above, the next I knew was Florence and the Machine, so I just spent the rest of the afternoon following the others around, having some food & drink, and bobbing along to the music. It's actually quite fun listening to artists and bands that you have never heard of before, I've discovered music I enjoy that I would've never listened to if it was not for this festival so that's pretty cool. I've made myself a nice little list of albums to download when I get home.
So Florence. Well we all know she's got a belter of a voice so I knew I was going to love every moment of her set. Unfortunately at Coachella weekend one, Florence got a little bit too into her performance, jumped off the stage and broke her foot so for this weeks performance we were treated to an acoustic show. It was slightly disappointing that we didn't get to see her in all her jumping about/crazy glory, but her voice is so incredible there is no way you couldn't have thought her acoustic show was brilliant. I really enjoyed it, AND I knew the music so I could sing along which was even better.
David Guetta slightly overlapped Florence's set, so we dipped out a bit early to go and catch the end of his show. His music is usually pretty fun to have a dance to, and last week he brought out The Black Eyed Peas as his special guests, so we had high hopes of someone fantastic. Oh how wrong we were. David Guetta decided to bring out Nicki Minaj, which obviously excited the crowd a fair bit. However, she walked on staged, danced a little bit, lip synced along to a verse and waltzed back off again. We stood there until the end of his set, thinking she must be coming back on, but no, that was it. So yeah, definitely disappointed by that one. But that was nothing compared to what was coming up next.
The headliner of the night, and in my opinion, by far the worst act I saw over the entire weekend, the biggest disappointment was Drake. My God that man loves himself, and boy will he tell you about it. For a start he came out half an hour late for his set and left 15 minutes early, so we got 45 minutes instead of 90, and at least 15 minutes of that was spent telling us how incredible he was and how much we should love him and respect him. God he didn't half go on. And then when he did sing, it was just one verse and chorus of a song and then he would go onto the next - no full songs. We were just hoping the saving grace would be an awesome guest. Last week was Madonna, he was the closing headliner for the weekend, surely it was going to be good... Oh no. It was Nicki Minaj again. And again she did a silent cameo, walked on stage, gave Drake a hug and walked back off again. Everyone in the crowd stood there for a good 20 minutes after his set was done, thinking that surely there must be more, but alas there was not. It was a very crappy end to an otherwise awesome weekend, I certainly won't be looking up Drake tickets anytime soon that's for sure.
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