The Brockhampton Coachella merch got me feeling some kinda way 🥹😭 /iSik82JLW6- josh April 17, 2022 The vast video backdrop is just as impressive, a constantly shifting psychedelic desert skyline, which sees Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon rendered in shocking pink as if it were a copy of National Geographic magazine as redesigned by the cast of Zendaya-led Euphoria. Tonight’s penultimate show – they’re also appearing at the second weekend of the festival – sees them airing the very best of Brockhampton on an ambitious set that features a giant inflatable gorilla and a massive man-made mountain. Most importantly though, they had some serious bangers. A refreshing alternative to the whitewashed likes of NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys in the decades before, and a fabulous foil to the UK’s sanitised One Direction, Brockhampton were a DIY effort that spanned multicultural members with African, South Asian, Irish, and Latin heritage, as well as having an openly gay frontman in Abstract. Looks like BROCKHAMPTON have teased another album 👀 #Coachella /OMUDkAFG03- Pigeons & Planes April 17, 2022įor much of their young fanbase, Brockhampton were pivotal. It’s not a solo thing it’s a group album. It’s not hard to see why Brockhampton’s fans adore them so. 2022.” If the crowd hadn’t been going bonkers enough during the set, this is enough to make them totally lose it. The screens then go dark, leaving nothing but the words: “Brockhampton. After the band leave the stage a pre-recorded clip of de facto frontman Kevin Abstract talking to his bandmates flashes up. However, after tonight’s hour-long spectacular, video screens reveal that they’re not quite done yet.

Well, at least that was what fans were told in January of this year, when they revealed via social media that they would be taking an “indefinite hiatus” following Coachella, while thanking fans for their support over the past eight years. Taking over the huge aircraft hangar that is the Sahara stage at Coachella music festival on Saturday (16 April), sprawling Texan collective Brockhampton have decided to hang up their bucket hats for good. Brockhampton’s Kevin Abstract (L) and Russell Boring perform at Coachella in 2018 - Getty Images for CoachellaĪfter almost a decade of boundary shifting and rule breaking, the most innovative boy band of the 21st century have decided to call it a day.

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