Foals’ Yannis Philippakis performing at Wembley Arena, Feb 2016 (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)
Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis has said Coachella ‘isn’t his idea of a good festival’.
Speaking to Shortlist, he compared its reputation as a celebrity magnet to that of Glastonbury, but described it as far more ‘sanitised’ than its British rival.
“Coachella is not my idea of a good festival,” he revealed. “You get celebrities at Glastonbury, sure, but people don’t go for that. If anything, what’s great about Glastonbury is that they’re made to trudge through the mud like anybody else. Whereas at Coachella it’s like, ‘Where’s my private buggy?'”
“It attracts people who want to live this aspirational lifestyle and to take a similar selfie that [fill in the blank space with celeb] also took there with their flower crown on.”
“People don’t rock out, and you can’t drink in the actual festival. I don’t hate it; I just think it’s a bit sanitised. It’s like L.A.”
Foals will be headlining the very different surroundings of Reading and Leeds at the end of this month.