Coachella faces $28,000 fine due to Lana Del Rey’s set

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Coachella is facing a fine of around $28,000 (£22,585), due to Lana Del Rey’s set running over the scheduled time.The fine has been put forward to the festival organisers following the singer’s headline set at the Indio event last Friday (April 19), where she finished the performance 13 minutes over the allotted time.The news was first reported by TMZ on Monday (April 22), and a representative for the city later confirmed to the publication that the organisers of the event would have to pay up because of the missed cut-off point.This isn’t the first time that those behind the iconic California festival have faced fines.

As highlighted by US Weekly, the fines gathered for curfew violations over the first weekend of the 2024 edition (April 12-14) totalled an estimated $117,000 (£94,367).

These were encountered due to the number of sets that misused the curfew deadline over the weekend – 1am on Friday and Saturday, and midnight on Sunday.Coachella missed the curfew time on all three nights.

On Friday, it ran over by 25 minutes, on Saturday it missed the deadline by 22 minutes, and on Sunday it finished just before 12:30am.Last June, the ‘Video Games’ singer-songwriter ran into a similar problem with her performance at Glastonbury, where she arrived on stage late and was subsequently cut off due to hitting the curfew.Aside from Del Rey, Coachella 2024 was headlined by Tyler, The Creator and Doja Cat, and featured two special reunion sets from No Doubt.