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Coachella bosses have revealed that Blur will be headlining the second festival weekend, replacing the Stone Roses.
The Stone Roses will be playing support to Blur, after their headline set did not bring many attendants. The news was announced subtlely on Wednesday afternoon (17 April), when the Coachella website updated to show that the Stone Roses will be starting their set at 9.55pm, and Blur will be performing at 11.35pm.
No official reason has been given for the switch, but many media outlets reported that the Stone Roses did not draw a large crowd, with many festival-goers leaving before or during their set.
Spin wrote, "By the time Ian Brown and crew took to the main stage, the crowd had thinned to an embarrassing level, one more befitting of 2 p.m. than 12 a.m.
"Blur had experienced the same phenomenon an hour earlier on the same stage after half of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' audience fled for other pastures, but attendees' rebuking of British legacy acts reached critical mass for the Roses. Once and for all, Coachella is not Glastonbury."
The Stone Roses didn't seem to appeal to an American crowd
However, some fans have pointed out that on the poster, the Stone Roses and Blur share top billing, suggesting that maybe the two were always intended to switch on the next weekend.
Still, there's no doubt that Blur's performance gained a much better reception than that of Stone Roses'.
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