Gwenchella! No Doubt, Gwen Stefani’s band shines at Coachella 2024

He Coachella Stage was bursting at the seams, the aerial shot of the YouTube broadcast attested that there was not one more soul in the Empire Polo where the second day of the 20th edition of the Coachella festival took place, and there were thousands of people, girls and grown ups, they sang the songs of No Doubtwho returned to the desert stage—and to live concerts in general—after nine years of absence.

The screens lit up with the figures of the four members of the band who appeared on stage in a very particular way: they emerged from the lower part of the stage on the catwalk to meet again with that generation that grew up with them… and the who followed him.

Gwen Stefani, with a wardrobe that only she could wear and alluding to the sports pants she wore in the 90s, and a double bun hairstyle, which combined perfectly with Tony Kanal’s checkered pants, Adrian’s punk image Young and the sobriety of Tom Dumont, made it resonate Hella Goodthe song with which they opened the trunk of memories.

Good night, Coachella, I want to see every damn person here dance,” Gwen launched. At 54 years old, the Californian does not ask anything of any of today’s trending singers, she has more energy than two of them combined and she made that clear when she gave voice, in the midst of jumping and dancing, to Sunday Morning.

That mix between ska and punk with pop, rock and reggae gives such a particular touch to the music of Californians that it is almost impossible not to recognize who is playing and even more so when songs like Ex-Girlfriend They are presented with their first chords.

Coachella 2024, this is our life,” the singer launched after introducing her bandmates and making the audience sing with the classic that combines that melodic part of ballads and that explosion of rock: It’s My Lifewhich is worth mentioning is a cover of the British eighties band Talk Talk.

Fashion and style icon then & nowGwen Stefani’s outfit honored the years that saw her born as a music star fronting No Doubt and as one of the first women to front a band in the ’90s.

“This is pure old school,” said the blonde while the trumpets of Different Peoplesong from the album Tragic Kingdom, from 1995, resonated and made only the most knowledgeable sing.

And suddenly the band took a quantum leap until 2001 when the screens lit up with the typography of their fifth album, Rock Steadyof which they did not hesitate for a moment to interpret the successful single Hey Babywith which the public did not stop dancing and singing.

Are you really here, Saturday night 2024 at Coachella to see No Doubt for the first time in nine years? They are crazy! If in some way I could explain the love I feel for you tonight,” Stefani told her audience before performing Total Hate ’95.

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And then the Californians gave one more gift to their audience, they invited Olivia Rodrigo to the stage so that together, with choreography and everything, they would give life to Bathwatera song that was followed by an instrumental cover of One Step Beyond from the British Madness.

Just enough time for everyone to reach the edge of the stage catwalk and Gwen change her outfit—a white shorts and jacket set with crystals that formed the phrase No Doubt on the back and an asymmetrical plaid half skirt that matched her high red boots—and so, close to the people, No Doubt presented a video of the beginnings of their career while they gave life to Simple Kind Of Life.

Back on the main stage, Gwen did not hesitate to take out her most sensual steps and start singing. Underneath It All, a song that had a choir of thousands of people who sang it; they also arrived Happy Now?, Don’t Speak, Just A Girl y Spiderwebswhich could not be missing in this nostalgic return of No Doubt.

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