Guns N’ Roses at Coachella
Axl Rose and Slash will play together for the first time since 1993
Guns N’ Roses and LCD Soundsystem, two of the most influential bands in recent decades, will both get back together for the Coachella music festival in April.
Coachella, which takes place over two consecutive weekends in the California desert, confirmed the long-rumoured reunions as it announced its line-up late on Monday.
The concerts are expected to mark the first time that the original line-up of Guns N’ Roses — including singer Axl Rose and guitarist Slash — have performed together since July 1993 in Buenos Aires.
The Los Angeles-based hard rockers confirmed the dates on their website with a video of a giant concert reminiscent of the band’s heyday. Rose is heard — Axl Rose and Slash perform in Britain in April 1992. with a profanity added — singing one of the most famous lines from the band’s repertoire: “You know where you are? You’re in the jungle, baby.” Guns N’ Roses have kept playing in name in recent years but without Slash, who has long said it was too difficult to work with Rose.
LCD Soundsystem, a younger band from New York, was influential in developing the hard-edged electronica scene of the 2000s that brought a new alternative aura to dance music.
The band — best known perhaps for the track Daft Punk Is Playing at My House, a tonguein-cheek homage to the prominent French electronic duo
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The Sunday headliner of the three-day festival — whose line-ups for the two weekends are generally identical — will be Calvin Harris, one of the biggest names in dance music.
Other acts confirmed for Coachella include Ice Cube, the often camera-shy Australian experimental artist Sia, English singer Ellie Goulding, psychedelic folk rocker Sufjan Stevens and electronic act Major Lazer.