Chris Schulz: Coachella

One of the most well-known music festivals in the world is currently taking place. 

Coachella is a ten-day festival that takes place in the California desert, with dozens of the biggest musical acts performing on its stages. The festival is also livestreamed, free to watch on YouTube. 

Chris Schulz isn’t at the festival physically, but in his opinion, watching the streams is the TV event of the year. He joined Jack Tame for a chat about Coachella. 

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of the headliners at Coachella this weekend. That music review
Chris Schultz isn't there in person, but he's there in
spirit and he will certainly be there on the live straight.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
One hundred percent. This to me is the TV event
of the year. You can forget about Game of Thrones
or the White Loaders or whatever it is stranger things.
This every year, to me is just that this is
where I am.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Okay, this is going to upset you. I've never never
watched the Coachella live stream. I've never done it. No, okay,
so sell it to me. Give us the cells.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I cannot believe they're not charging for this thing. If
you've got an Internet connection and a YouTube account. You
can watch the seven stages. There's seven channels all streaming
this festival live. It is a chance to see where
all of the biggest artists in the world are at,
and artists are made or broken on that stage. Sublime
played Auckland last night with their new singer who debuted

(01:49):
at Coachella last year. Like they booked based on these performances,
and so many have gone down in a history box
Outcasts reunited there, Raging into the Machine, reunited there. They
had an easy hologram play with NWA one year.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
I remember that.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah. Yeah, there's so much happening and here's always he
surprises this. The big thing this year is justin Bieber Right.
He hasn't played live on the scale four I want
to say seven or eight years. He canceled in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Towards health problems.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, there were rumors of mental health issues. He's he's back,
He's headlining. Everyone expects him to be showing up in
a very different way. He played one song at the Grammys.
It was spectacular. His shirtless he came out almost like
an edge sharing with a Luke Peter and guitar and
it was kind of it was stunning. It was so raw.
It was like Justin Bieber, We've never seen him before.

(02:43):
The rumors are that he's going to do the whole
set like that.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Whether he can do that for ninety minutes, I don't know,
but I'm definitely going to be watching to find out.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, that'd be amazing. So how does it work? Like
when you're watching it at home? Do you You just
like set up in the lounge and.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
No one's bumping into you. There's no smelly dude with
a shirt off next to you. The drenks are cold, always.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Two hours for a portalo or anything.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
The snacks are great, and you don't have that pomo
where you've got to run, Like my legs are still
sore from the summer festival season. You don't have to
run from stage to stage. You just flick the channel
and there are ads. Look, if you don't have a
YouTube premium account, there'll be an.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
SHLL two pop up.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
But this is so many good acts like today right
you can see the x X, the Strokes are playing,
Turnstyle are playing. I mean, these are some of the
biggest acts in the world right now. Yeah, it's all
happening over three days. And it's all happening again next weekend,
which is also live streams.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
So that's amazing how they do that day, how they
do it. They have it over a weekend, then have
a bit of a cleanup and then have another go again.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's wild. Yeah. The only festival on that scale in
New Zealand is Electric Avenue. That may sort of get
to that at one point, but in terms of live
stream being, no one does it like Coachella and all
eyes are on this festival. You know, there are bigger
festivals around the world. This is Glastonberry's and all those
big European festivals. I think Coachella is about one hundred
and twenty five thousand each weekend. But but it's the one.

(04:08):
It's the one everyone watches. This is this is where
artists you find out where they are and where they're
at and who really is running this game.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, so I mean there are dozens and dozens of artists,
But who would be standing out for you this weekend
if you were there in person or I guess who
will we be prioritizing on your stream with your seven
different stages.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
The x X are back after eight years. They're that
the cure gentle indie.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Rock music or that was that the first couple of
albums were very stripped back, Like the whole kind of
thing was they were very insular that locked themselves in
a room and have these kind of quiet but.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Almost like on the phone conversations to each other. It's
so intimate. I think that will really work in a
large scale setting now, Like we've seen that intimacy on
a grand scale work with artists like Freda Yin and Lord,
and I think they have time there run back. I
saw some live footage from a warm up show they did,
and they just look in magnificent form. I really want
to see the nine inch Noise Dance mash up, which

(05:05):
is Trent Resner's industrial rock act turned into a rave
as you Do, as You Do Aggy Pops, Yeah, playing
which is he must be.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Here seventh birthday.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, on the bill he still takes his shirt off.
He was he just recently doing it? Yeah yeah, I
mean there's just so much clips on the final day
of playing Sabrina Carpenter. I mean, my daughter's going to
be sitting there watching that for sure.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
So yeah, Geese, they're playing here, having you've seen them recently,
I know, but yeah, okay, yeah, massive weekend at coach all.
Do you know what time it starts? New Zealand time?

Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's all right now, oh literally getting in my car
for this, heading straight home and getting some snacks go.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's so good.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
I love the I love the thought of your family
coming up to you across the weekend and you're just
like parking up in front of the TV and getting
the different streams going. Does sound amazing? Okay, we're going
to play. I reckon play, but to Justin Bieber in
a couple of minutes, I was very mean to Justin
Bieber a few minutes ago. But actually, you know what,
I like some of his music. I'm not embarrassed to
say it.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
I think after this weekend, everyone's opinions of him are
going to be changed. If he can us off, it's
going to be a very different who emerges from it.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, very good. Okay, Well, look enjoy coach Hello weekend,
and we will catch you again very soon. That is
Chris Schultz. Of course you can hear more from Chris
on his substack. His substack is boiler Room. We're back
with the Beebes in a couple of minutes.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
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