Watch Katseye on Sahara

Indie act Katseye is scheduled to play the Sahara stage on Friday at Coachella, and Time Out highlighted their start time, likely setlist and the chance of special guests. If you’re streaming the free live feed and want non‑headline discoveries, their Sahara slot is one to watch. (timeout.com) (goodmorningamerica.com)

Katseye’s Coachella set is one of those early-night bookings that can turn into a “why wasn’t this on the main stage” moment fast: they’re on the Sahara stage on Friday, April 10, from 8:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m., and the whole festival is streaming free on YouTube. (timeout.com) (goodmorningamerica.com) That slot matters because Sahara is Coachella’s big-screen, high-impact tent, the place built for short sets that hit like a trailer reel instead of a slow burn. Time Out says Katseye gets 45 minutes there, which usually means no filler and almost no talking between songs. (timeout.com) Katseye is still a new group by festival standards, but their catalog is already built for a set like this. Their official site lists recent releases including “Internet Girl” and “PINKY UP,” which arrived on April 9 at 9 a.m. Pacific time, one day before Coachella weekend one. (katseye.world) The songs most likely to anchor the set are the ones fans already know by reflex: “Touch” from the 2024 extended play “SIS (Soft Is Strong),” then “Gnarly” and “Gabriela” from the 2025 extended play “Beautiful Chaos.” Time Out specifically points to those tracks as the expected spine of the performance. (timeout.com) (kprofiles.com) “Gnarly” is the song that changed the scale of the group in public. The official music video on HYBE LABELS has more than 171 million views on YouTube, which is the kind of number that can make a 45-minute festival set feel less like a debut and more like a test of how big the next booking should be. (youtube.com) There is also a real special-guest angle here, not just festival wish-casting. Time Out notes that “Touch” has a version featuring Yeonjun of Tomorrow X Together, and “Gabriela” has a remix with Young Miko, so those are the names fans are watching if Coachella turns the set into a cameo machine. (timeout.com) (kprofiles.com) If you’re watching from home, Coachella’s 2026 stream starts Friday, April 10, at 4 p.m. Pacific time, and YouTube is again carrying separate stage feeds instead of forcing everyone into one highlight channel. That setup makes a Sahara set easier to catch live without waiting for clips to hit social media 20 minutes later. (goodmorningamerica.com) (yahoo.com) The bigger clue is what comes after this weekend. Katseye’s official tour page already has Governors Ball in New York in June, Hinterland in Iowa in late July and early August, and 88rising’s Head In The Clouds in Los Angeles in August, so Coachella is landing at the front of a much larger 2026 festival run. (katseye.world) So the practical reason to tune in is simple: this is a group with a brand-new single, a 45-minute prime evening slot, a stage designed for spectacle, and at least two plausible guest pathways baked into the song list. If Coachella still works as a star-making machine in 2026, 8:00 p.m. on Sahara is exactly where you’d expect it to happen. (timeout.com) (katseye.world)

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