Jack White surprise set

Jack White walked into Coachella on Saturday as a last-minute add and left with one of the festival’s most talked-about early sets. (rollingstone.com) Coachella’s set times added White on Tuesday, April 7, slotting him into the Mojave tent at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 11, for a 45-minute Weekend 1 performance in Indio, California. (rollingstone.com) Festival coverage and fan-setlist reports show he opened with “That’s How I’m Feeling” and played “Fell in Love With a Girl,” “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground,” “Old Scratch Blues,” and “G.O.D.” during the set. (setlist.fm) The surprise mattered because White was not part of Coachella’s original 2026 poster, which centered on headliners including Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G across the festival’s April 10-12 and April 17-19 weekends. (billboard.com) Coachella has used that early Mojave slot for unannounced or late-booked acts before, and Consequence noted that Weezer, blink-182, and Arcade Fire had taken similar surprise positions in recent years. (consequence.net) White arrived with fresh momentum from April 4, when he appeared on “Saturday Night Live” during host Jack Black’s episode and performed songs tied to his new “G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs / Derecho Demonico” release. (setlist.fm) His Coachella date appears to have been a one-weekend booking: Rolling Stone reported that White’s website listed only April 11, not the festival’s second Saturday on April 18. (rollingstone.com) By Saturday night, the story around White’s appearance was no longer the surprise booking itself, but that a 3 p.m. tent set had become one of Weekend 1’s reference points. (consequence.net)