Festival: Justice at Coachella

Another look back to the weekend's Coachella festival, with the set by Justice emerging online.

Justice played on the main stage on the Sunday evening, although Calvin Harris was playing at the same time, giving dance fans a difficult choice. Rihanna played with Calvin Harris, on their collaboration We Found Love, giving the Scottish DJ the headlines, but from the strength of this video the thousands who went to see Justice were not disappointed.

Justice played an absolutely storming set, one critic on idolator.com describing one moment as the 'most meta' of the festival, saying they: "slipped in a sample of Jay-Z's On To The Next One...which happens to sample Justice’s D.A.N.C.E. Well done, French dudes."

Credit to festival organisers for making such footage available. For all big events like Coachella attract tens of thousands of people, there must be thousands more who would want to be there. I can remember the days when the best you could hope for was an audio tape with several-generations of analogue hiss. The band gets poorly represented, the actual event forgotten and the fans usually ripped off.

This way we get to hear and see the acts in professional quality and the event gets an international audience who, while they might not actually have been there, will certainly wish that they had been. Who knows, they might get along at some point in the future. Everyone wins.


Justice Coachella-2012 by CatrachoEDDB