Coachella fined US$40,000 due to Anyma and Justin Bieber sets running over curfew

Coachella has been fined US$40,000 by local authorities due to headline sets from Anyma and Justin Beiber running over the festival's 1:AM curfew.

According to Billboard, officials from the City of Indio confirmed that the fines were incurred due to the festival breaking its curfew across its second weekend, on Friday (April 17) and Saturday (April 18).

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Italian-American EDM star Anyma's live/AV ÆDEN debut, which had started at midnight on Friday, ran over by nine minutes to 1:09AM, costing the festival US$24,000 in fines; Justin Bieber's headline set, which ran over by just two minutes, incurred a fine of US$20,000.

The City of Indio issues a fine of US$20,000 for the first five minutes of the festival running over, Billboard reports, with the figure rising for every consecutive minute Coachella continues to play music past that time.

In 2023, Coachella was issued a massive US$168,000 after The Weeknd, Skrillex, Fred again.. and Four Tet, Bad Bunny, Frank Ocean and Lana Del Rey all ran over their allotted set times.

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Anyma had been forced to cancel his set during Coachella's first weekend after gale force winds hit the desert site at speeds of up to 45 mph, and with no other available slots for the set, his show during weekend two was the only ÆDEN performance of this year's festival.

"It’s incredibly painful, especially after working day and night for the past year, not just me, but my team and the Coachella crew, who poured everything into this," Anyma wrote via X following the cancellation.

[Via: Billboard]

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