BIGBANG comeback set
BIGBANG staged a comeback set during Coachella Weekend 1, appearing on Sunday amid a photo-heavy festival roundup. Coverage placed the reunion alongside headliners and noted the group’s return as one of the weekend’s high-profile moments. Photo galleries captured the performance and crowd reaction across Indio. (desertsun.com)
BIGBANG returned to a major United States festival stage on Sunday, April 12, with a night set at Coachella’s Outdoor Theatre in Indio, California. (coachellavalley.com) The group was part of Coachella Weekend 1, which ran April 10 through April 12 at the Empire Polo Club, and festival coverage placed BIGBANG alongside Karol G, FKA twigs, Clipse and Suicidal Tendencies among Sunday’s major acts. (coachellavalley.com) (desertsun.com) Coachella had announced BIGBANG on its 2026 lineup months earlier, listing the group among top-billed names including Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, Karol G, Anyma, The xx, The Strokes and Young Thug. The festival also said YouTube was the exclusive livestream partner for both 2026 weekends. (coachellavalley.com) (coachella.com) The set stood out because BIGBANG has rarely performed as a group in recent years. Setlist records list the act’s previous group show before Coachella as a December 31, 2017 performance at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, with a later appearance at the 2024 MAMA Awards in Osaka before this Indio booking. (setlist.fm) Setlist records for April 12 show a career-spanning show built around “Bang Bang Bang,” “Fantastic Baby,” “Haru Haru,” “Lies,” “Bad Boy” and “We Like 2 Party.” The same record says the group also performed “Still Life” live as a group for the first time. (setlist.fm) The listed Coachella set also included solo and subunit sections from Taeyang, G-Dragon and Daesung, including “Ringa Linga,” “Power,” “Good Boy,” “Hando-Chogua” and “Look at Me, Gwisun.” That points to a reunion built around the three active performers rather than a full five-member return. (setlist.fm) Sunday’s broader Coachella story centered on Karol G closing the festival’s final night of Weekend 1, with the Los Angeles Times reporting that she became the first Latina headliner in the event’s history. BIGBANG’s appearance landed in that same final-day spotlight, which helped turn the reunion into one of the night’s most photographed moments. (latimes.com) (desertsun.com) Coachella’s second weekend is scheduled for April 17 through April 19, and setlist records already show BIGBANG booked again for April 19 in Indio. For now, the clearest fact from Weekend 1 is that one of K-pop’s biggest legacy groups is back on a Coachella stage. (coachellavalley.com) (setlist.fm)
