Coachella 2024 day two: Tyler the Creator joined by A$AP Rocky and Donald Glover for headline set

Whether you’re at the festival or tuning in from home, be sure not to miss The Last Dinner Party at 5:30pm PST on the Gobi stage. The British indie darlings have been one of the breakout success stories of the year - and their debut album Prelude to Ecstacy is well worth getting acquainted with. Here’s our five-star review:

English singer-songwriter Raye recently swept the board at the 2024 Brit Awards, so stop whatever you’re doing at 4:10pm PST and make sure your eyes are glued to the Mojave stage. As The Independent’s Nicole Vassell learned at a recent O2 Arena show, she’s adept at making “a sold-out arena feel like an intimate gig”. Read more here:

Multiple Brit-winner Raye is onstage in the Mojave tent, dressed in what she describes as “office chic”, backed by a brass section and delivering vocal dramatics. “I’m a dramatic person,” she notes during opening song “The Thrill is Gone”, “So I’m gonna give this song a dramatic ending.”

Saturday is usually the busiest day at Coachella, but two people who don’t seem to have made the trip out to the desert this year are Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. My colleague Brittany Miller has the scoop, at the link below, but I can’t help wondering if the power couple were just put off by reports of ridiculous traffic jams and overpriced burritos?

The Independent’s Matthew Cooper has been dispatched to find out whether food prices at Coachella are really as exorbitant as has been previously claimed. He reports he paid $40 (£32) for this vegetarian quesadilla and a beer. Did he feel ripped off? “Just par for the course,” he says. “Not sure if that’s worse. Food was fine.”

Vampire Weekend are onstage at the festival’s Outdoor Theatre, fresh from the release of their well-received new album Only God Was Above Us. Frontman Ezra Koenig notes that they were a late addition to the line-up, but that they’re “so, so happy to be here”. Sartorially he’s paying tribute to the late, great Pogues singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan, who died last November at the age of 65.

No Doubt’s first show together in over a decade is one of the big draws on today’s lineup - and singer Gwen Stefani is getting into the mood in ripped tights and a vest that reads ‘Anaheim’, the Los Angeles suburb where the band formed all the way back in 1986.

Who had this on their Coachella bingo card? Vampire Weekend just brought out hotel heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton to play cornhole live on stage during their set. If you predicted that one coming, well, I’d love to know your thoughts on this weekend’s lottery numbers.

Also nice to see Paris getting onboard with this year’s Cowboy Carter-influenced fashion trend.

The Last Dinner Party provided an indie rock masterclass on the Gobi stage earlier this afternoon, rocketing through 11 songs including a triumphant, closing “Nothing Matters”. Here’s Abigail Morris, Emily Roberts, a mystery guest, Aurora Nishevci, Georgia Davies and Lizzie Mayland backstage looking deservedly pleased with themselves:

If Lana Del Rey’s bike motorcade last night was meant to evoke classic Americana, Grimes’ arrival on the Sahara Stage atop a sort of gigantic off-road tarantula robot looked more like something out of a terrifying futuristic sci-fi dystopia. As Grimes - born Claire Boucher - kicks off her DJ set, the robo-car sticks around to “dance” on its metal legs. You don’t get that with a Harley.