Anyma to close Do LaB

Anyma returned to Coachella by closing the Do LaB on Sunday night, two days after wind forced the cancellation of his planned Friday set. (ocregister.com) The new booking was a back-to-back set with Berlin producer Marlon Hoffstadt, scheduled for 10:45 p.m. Pacific time on April 12 at the Do LaB stage in Indio. Variety and Beatportal both reported the revised set time and pairing on Sunday. (variety.com) (beatportal.com) Anyma, the solo project of Matteo Milleri, had been scheduled to play around midnight on Friday, April 10, after Sabrina Carpenter’s headlining set on the main Coachella stage. Organizers canceled that performance shortly before showtime, saying strong wind conditions were affecting the stage build. (consequence.net) (billboard.com) The Friday cancellation hit one of the weekend’s most heavily promoted electronic performances. Time Out Los Angeles had previewed Anyma’s Coachella appearance as the desert debut of his new audiovisual project, “ÆDEN,” before updating the story to note that Weekend 1’s set had been called off. (timeout.com) Anyma said after the cancellation that he and his team had spent a year building the show and that there was no way to safely operate it in the wind. He later told fans the full production would not be restaged during Weekend 1 because there was not enough time to rebuild it in another slot. (billboard.com) (aol.com) The Do LaB set gave Coachella a smaller-scale workaround instead of a full replacement. Beatportal described it as a surprise closing set, and festival coverage from Southern California News Group framed it as the final performance of Weekend 1 at that stage. (beatportal.com) (presstelegram.com) By Sunday night, the appearance had shifted from a canceled main-stage spectacle to a club-style collaboration in one of Coachella’s side venues. Early post-show coverage said the crowd spilled beyond the immediate Do LaB area while Anyma and Hoffstadt played without dwelling on the Friday shutdown. (bluewaterhealthyliving.com) Weekend 2 still remains on the calendar for Coachella from April 17 to April 19, and Billboard reported after Friday’s cancellation that Anyma was still scheduled to play the following weekend. For fans who missed the original production on April 10, that leaves the full-scale set pointed toward the festival’s second round. (billboard.com)