The best, worst and windiest moments of Stagecoach Day 2

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We went backmost for a 2nd time of Stagecoach and spent astir of the time holding connected to our hats. Before beardown winds resulted successful the short-lived nighttime postponement and evacuation of the festival, Day 2 had plentifulness of gusto that carried america done the day and evening, including sets from Bush and Teddy Swims on with immoderate high-octane cooking with Guy Fieri. When crowds were called backmost aft the wind-related fiasco that pushed everything backmost for headliner Lainey Wilson and caused Journey and Riley Green to cancel their performances, fans who returned inactive got to witnesser Wilson triumph implicit the elements and get down and soiled with Pitbull astatine Diplo’s Honky Tonk. Luckily the unexpected havoc didn’t stroke distant each the bully vibes. Here are the best, worst and windiest from Day 2.

Guy Fieri features his latest smokehouse crockery during the Stagecoach

Food lessons from the Guy Fieri fever dream

Stagecoach is known for unusual bedfellows (see: Emo Nite with Ashlee Simpson Friday) but Guy Fieri with Wynonna Judd, Billy Bob Thornton, Gavin Rossdale and Gavin Adcock is truthful unusual it seems similar an AI hallucination. I committedness you it happened Saturday afternoon.

“Everybody loves food. That’s the communal denominator,” Fieri told the crowd, which included a pistillate who impressively dressed up arsenic Fieri, fake mustache/goatee and a flame-covered bowling shirt.

“Flavortownnnnn!” Judd said arsenic she walked onto the objection signifier astatine Guy’s Stagecoach Smokehouse.

“Just truthful you know, we could bash our ain cooking show,” Fieri said arsenic helium introduced her.

Each of the stars was paired with a chef, which included Eric Greenspan, Mark Murphy, Aaron May and Hunter Fieri.

Thornton made salmon and fried okra with spicy hummus with Hunter Fieri. The “Landman” prima said the cardinal for bully fried okra is to usage cornmeal. He besides shared his favourite chili, which isn’t blistery for the involvement of being hot.

“Calabrian chili has a flavor,” Thornton said.

He besides told the assemblage of a caller delicacy helium discovered: achromatic grapes dipped successful spicy Dijon mustard.

“It blew my mind,” Thornton said.

Adcock, meantime made a elephantine premier rib sandwich and beer-battered bulb rings.

“I’m a large beef guy,” Adcock said.

Meanwhile, Bush frontman Rossdale was doing what Fieri said was a archetypal for Stagecoach — helium made an Asian crockery of smoked chickenhearted dredged and flash-fried and shared with 2 sauces: 1 a Japanese atom vino and the different a saccharine sauce.

“This feline is simply a existent foodie,” Fieri said astir Rossdale, who has his ain cooking show. “I’m gonna enactment a cook with him, but helium doesn’t request it.”

Speaking of unusual things, here’s my transportation for an “Odd Couple” reboot: Rossdale and Adcock with Fieri arsenic the wacky neighbor. Someone constituent maine to the Paramount+ structure truthful I tin transportation it. (Vanessa Franko)

Teddy Swims performs connected the Mane Stage during the 2nd time of the Stagecoach

Does Teddy Swims conscionable unrecorded present now?

Has anyone checked connected Teddy Swims’ location successful immoderate metropolis helium lives successful too Indio? The tattooed soul-rock vocalist played Stagecoach connected Saturday nighttime aft doing some weekends of Coachella, and erstwhile again helium brought retired David Lee Roth to sing Van Halen’s “Jump” — an indelible ‘80s staple these guys are double-handedly consenting into a Gen Z anthem. (Mikael Wood)

Diplo introduces Sydney Sweeney, who gave retired her Syrn lingerie to the assemblage astatine Diplo's Honkey Tonk

Theo Von assemblage surfs, Sydney Sweeney tosses retired lingerie and Shaboozey parties successful Diplo’s Honky Tonk

If the archetypal Stagecoach fever imagination of Saturday was the improbable formed of Billy Bob Thornton, Wynonna Judd, Gavin Rossdale and Gavin Adcock cooking and chopping it up with Guy Fieri astatine the Stagecoach Smokehouse, a adjacent 2nd was Diplo’s aboriginal evening acceptable successful the Honky Tonk.

Already billed arsenic Diplo with podcaster-comedian-Ella Langley duet spouse Theo Von and Barstool Sports media property Caleb Pressley, it besides attracted immoderate peculiar guests. Actor Sydney Sweeney showed up to flip panties from her Syrn lingerie marque into the crowd. (She has a pop-up Syrn saloon connected the festival grounds).

The “Euphoria” prima wasn’t the lone astonishment during the acceptable — “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” hitmaker Shaboozey besides made an appearance. Even though they played immoderate of his songs, helium didn’t perform. Like Sweeney, Shaboozey besides has a pop-up saloon astatine the festival, his promoting upcoming grounds “The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales.”

And erstwhile you deliberation things couldn’t get immoderate weirder, Von went crowd-surfing. Stay weird, Stagecoach. (VF)

Singer and guitarist Gavin Rossdale and drummer Nik Hughes, of Bush, execute connected the Mustang Stage astatine sunset

Catching up with Bush’s blustery Saturday evening set

Just earlier we were told to evacuate Friday night, I was astir to constitute astir Bush’s Stagecoach debut connected the Mustang Stage.

Even arsenic the upwind turned colder and the winds turned gnarlier, Gavin Rossdale seemed to beryllium having a large clip arsenic the set ripped done a 50-minute acceptable packed with hits including opener “Machinehead,” “Everything Zen,” “Swallowed,” “Glycerine” and set-closing sing-along “Comedown.”

Stagecoach festivalgoers evacuate the Mane Stage

The upwind advisory and short-lived postponement astir blew the fest away

Due to precocious winds, Stagecoach promoter Goldenvoice postponed the festival Saturday nighttime until further announcement and crowds were evacuated. An “emergency evacuation” connection showed up connected screens connected the festival’s Mane Stage saying “the festival has been postponed until further notice. Please determination rapidly and calmly to the nearest exit.”

At 8:42 p.m., the festival advised via its mobile app that Stagecoach would resume momentarily. “We are moving to unfastened doors and prep the tract for your safety,” the alert said. Just earlier 9 p.m. the gates were reopened. Stagecoach updated its docket for Saturday nighttime aft a impermanent evacuation owed to precocious winds. Journey, which had been scheduled to play the Mustang Stage, did not perform; Riley Green, acceptable to play the Mane Stage, besides didn’t perform. Lainey Wilson, who was acceptable to header the Mane Stage, played an hr aboriginal than primitively scheduled astatine 10:30 p.m. (VF/MW)

Lainey Wilson performs connected the Mane Stage

Lainey Wilson takes the signifier aft the wind
After an hourlong hold owed to precocious winds, Lainey Wilson kicked disconnected her headlining acceptable astatine Stagecoach connected Saturday nighttime with a one-two punch of “Can’t Sit Still” and “Wildflowers and Wild Horses” — each a coagulated illustration of the riff-heavy country-rock that’s made Wilson 1 of the biggest stars to travel retired of Nashville successful the past 10 years.

“Y’all acceptable to sing it large tonight?” she asked the crowd, which was possibly a spot thinner than it might’ve been acknowledgment to fans who near earlier the festival announced it was reopening. Those who stuck astir seemed plentifulness consenting to bellow along. (MW)

The 1 point connected Pitbull’s Stagecoach agenda

Pitbull deed the Mustang Stage an hr aboriginal than expected Saturday nighttime aft gusty winds forced Stagecoach to evacuate attendees for much than an hour, but Mr. Worldwide didn’t fto a hold halt the fun.

“We came present to bash 1 happening and 1 happening only,” helium said from the signifier aboriginal successful the set.

The 1 thing? Party.

After an intro featuring his DJ and afloat set that included Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” and Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!),” Mr. Worldwide appeared, flanked by a fractional twelve dancers successful revealing costumes, to unfastened the raucous acceptable with “Don’t Stop the Party.”

After the opus helium thanked everyone astatine Stagecoach for staying and besides name-checked immoderate Goldenvoice employees, including Stagecoach booker Stacy Vee, arsenic good arsenic Lainey Wilson, who had conscionable wrapped her headlining acceptable connected the Mane Stage.

He followed up the infinitesimal of gratitude with “Hey Baby (Drop It to the Floor)” and “Hotel Room Service.”

Later connected successful the set, Lil Jon joined Pitbull for “Jumpin” earlier being showered with much gratitude from Pitbull and the crowd. Then the brace performed “Damn I Love Miami.”

I’d similar to commencement a petition for Stagecoach to publication Pitbull each twelvemonth — and bring him to Coachella too! (VF)

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