Wind cancels DJ set

Strong winds forced Coachella organizers to cancel Anyma’s Friday night set about 15 minutes after its scheduled midnight start. (billboard.com) Festival organizers said the weather was affecting the stage build for Anyma’s show, and a notice posted after 12:15 a.m. said he was unable to perform. Anyma had been booked for the Coachella Stage from 12 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday, April 10, in Indio, California. (rollingstone.com) The set was supposed to be the world debut of “ÆDEN,” a new audiovisual production built around large-scale visuals and stage elements. Anyma said he and his team had spent a year building the show. (edm.com, rollingstone.com) Anyma, whose real name is Matteo Milleri, has become one of electronic music’s biggest live draws by pairing techno sets with screen-heavy visual worlds. Coachella had given that format one of the festival’s most visible slots, immediately after Sabrina Carpenter’s headlining performance on the main stage. (billboard.com, consequence.net) The cancellation stood out because the rest of opening night largely continued, even as wind hit the festival grounds. The Los Angeles Times reported high winds on Day 1, but described the festival’s first day as otherwise moving ahead with major performances intact. (latimes.com, variety.com) By Saturday, Anyma said the Weekend 1 performance would not be rescheduled because there were no available time slots left in the festival schedule. He remained set to perform on Weekend 2, which runs April 17 to April 19. (desertsun.com, billboard.com) That left Coachella’s first big operational disruption of 2026 tied to a single late-night main-stage production that depended on weather-safe rigging. The wind eased enough for most of the festival to keep going, but not enough for Anyma’s midnight premiere. (mixmag.net, variety.com)