Fans await Nick Cave at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (Rodrigo Pena/Freelance Photographer)
As the days get shorter, the 2014 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival prediction list gets longer. Last week we had a really fun chat with Coachella fans about who they think will be at the fest in 2014. Many thanks to Nate Hutchinson, Dave Brooks and Jason Bowen and my colleagues David Olson, Imran Ghori and Eric Paul Johnson for adding their knowledge.
To everyone who watched and commented and asked questions of the “Coachella Magic 8 Ball,” thank you, although I’ll admit that I’m still a little bit grumpy about the Coachella Magic 8 Ball’s completely unscientific answers. The chat was so much fun that we’ll be doing it again in December. Stay tuned for details. If you want to see what we talked about and what our wish list is, you can still watch our first Coachella 2014 prediction chat. Fair warning, it runs for about an hour.
Ellie Goulding (AP photo)
One of the names that kept coming up in the chat and beyond was Ellie Goulding. Both Bowen and Twitter mate RJThomps pointed out her San Francisco tour date set for April 19. Coachella 2014 will run April 11-13 and April 18-20 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio and performing artists typically book San Francisco dates around the festival dates.
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The other thing that pointed to Goulding’s Coachella return (she performed in 2011) was the lack of SoCal dates on her tour and the magic Coachella window.
And because the Coachella fans are the best, Bowen alerted me to an interview with Goulding he was reading in Q magazine.
“I’m preparing myself to start touring next year, ending at Coachella,” Goulding told Q. Thank you for sharing, Jason!
Here’s Goulding’s latest hit, “Burn.”
Another one of our guests on last week’s video chat, Nate Hutchinson, thinks Broken Bells is a lock. I am in complete agreement.
Will Broken Bells play Coachella 2014? (James Minchin/Contributed Image)
The group includes The Shins’ James Mercer and musician and producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse.
I’m honestly surprised they didn’t do Coachella after their first album was released, but with new disc “After the Disco” due out Jan. 14, I would be shocked if Broken Bells’ name isn’t on the Coachella poster when the lineup comes out.
Plus, Broken Bells has announced a whole bunch of tour dates through March and none of them are on the West Coast.
What do you think about Ellie Goulding and Broken Bells heading to Coachella 2014?
Sound off in the comments below. You can flip through the interactive timeline or click the links below to read my other predictions for the next edition of the fest.
I’ve covered the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival since 2007. All of the Coachella prediction posts here are tagged with Coachellaology. For more Coachella news, photos, interviews and information, visit the iGuide Coachella page.
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