Former Oingo Boingo frontman and Oscar-nominated film composer Danny Elfman will make a rare concert appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April, appearing on a bill toppped by headliners Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean.
Elfman is scheduled to perform on the two-weekend festival’s second night — April 11 and 18 — and is listed in bold on the second line of Coachella’s poster, alongside Flume, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Disclosure, 21 Savage, DaBaby and Summer Walker. Other acts on the bill this year: Lana del Rey, Calvin Harris, Run the Jewels, FKA Twigs and Lil Uzi Vert.
Just what Elfman will be performing is not specified, though it’s safe to say it won’t be a set of Oingo Boingo music. He hasn’t performed with the band since its breakup in 1995, and hadn’t sung in public at all until he began performing occasional concerts of his Tim Burton film scores in 2013.
At those orchestral performances, which he has staged sporadically in recent years, Elfman sings some of the material from “A Nightmare Before Christmas.” In 2018, he also brought former Oingo Boingo guitarist Steve Bartek onstage to perform “Dead Man’s Party.”
Just what Elfman has in store for Coachella remains to be seen — though the festival’s page for Elfman does include an audio clip of the Elfman-sung “What’s This?” from “A Nightmare Before Christmas.”
UPDATE: Elfman tweeted that his performance will be titled “Danny Elfman… Past, Present and Future! From Boingo to Batman and Beyond!”
I guess the cat is out of the bag. @coachella 2020!
Danny Elfman… Past, Present and Future! From Boingo to Batman and Beyond!#coachella #coachella2020 pic.twitter.com/qVKk4Siq3z— Danny Elfman (@dannyelfman) January 3, 2020
Below, check out the full Coachella lineup.
Coachella lineup in alphabetical order:
(Sandy) Alex G
100 gecs
21 Savage
88rising’s Double Happiness
Adam Port
Alec Benjamin
Ali Gatie
Altın Gün
Amber Mark
Amyl and the Sniffers
Anitta
ANNA
Anna Calvi
Ari Lennox
Aya Nakamura
BADBADNOTGOOD
Banda MS
beabadoobee
Beach Bunny
Beach Goons
Bedouin
Big Sean
Big Wild
BIGBANG
Bishop Briggs
black midi
Black Pumas
Black Coffee
BROCKHAMPTON
Calvin Harris
Caribou
Cariño
Carly Rae Jepsen
Cashmere Cat
Channel Tres
Charli XCX
Chelsea Cutler
Chicano Batman
Chris Liebing
City Girls
Code Orange
Conan Gray
Crumb
Cuco
DaBaby
Damian Lazarus
Daniel Caesar
Danny Elfman
Daphni
Dave
Denzel Curry
Detlef
Disclosure
Dixon
DJ Koze
DJ Lord
Doja Cat
Dom Dolla
Duck Sauce
Duke Dumont
Ed Maverick
ela minus
Ellen Allien
Emo Nite
Emotional Oranges
Epik High
Erick Morillo
Ezra Collective
Fatboy Slim
FKA twigs
Floating Points
Flume
Fontaines D.C.
Frank Ocean
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
Friendly Fires
GG Magree
girl in red
Giselle Woo & The Night Owls
GRiZ
Guy Laliberté
Hatsune Miku
Hayden James
Hot Chip
IDLES
Inner Wave
J.I.D
Jai Wolf
Jayda G
Jessie Reyez
Joji
Kim Petras
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Koffee
Kruder & Dorfmeister
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
Kyle Watson
Kynda Black
L’Impératrice
Lana Del Rey
Lane 8
Lauren Daigle
Ленинград (Leningrad)
Lewis Capaldi
Lil Nas X
Lil Uzi Vert
Lost Kings
Louis The Child
Luttrell
Madeon
Malaa
Mannequin Pussy
Mariah the Scientist
Marina
Masego
Matoma
Megan Thee Stallion
Melé
MIKA
Monolink
Mura Masa
NIKI
Nilüfer Yanya
Noname
Olivia O’Brien
Omar Apollo
ONYVAA
Orville Peck
Pabllo Vittar
Paco Osuna
Peggy Gou
Pink Sweat$
Princess Nokia
PUP
Rage Against the Machine
Raveena
Rex Orange County
Rich Brian
Roddy Ricch
Run The Jewels
Sahar Z
Sama’
Sampa The Great
Sara Landry
Sasha Sloan
Satori
SebastiAn
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
Skegss
SLANDER
Sleaford Mods
slowthai
Snail Mail
Steve Lacy
Summer Walker
Swae Lee
Tchami
Testpilot
The Chats
The Comet Is Coming
The HU
The Martinez Brothers
The Murder Capital
The Regrettes
Thom Yorke | Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
Tiga
TNGHT
TOKiMONSTA
Travis Scott
Viagra Boys
VNSSA
Weyes Blood
Whipped Cream
Yaeji
YBN Cordae
YUNGBLUD
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Watch: Oingo Boingo’s Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek reunite to perform ‘Dead Man’s Party’
- Danny Elfman’s ‘So-Lo’ album reissued on CD after more than a decade out of print
- Danny Elfman brings Tim Burton-themed show back to Los Angeles this Halloween
- Video: Oingo Boingo’s Danny Elfman sings publicly for first time in 18 years
- Danny Elfman to sing publicly in U.S. for first time in 18 years this Halloween — tour in works
Will they understand it?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/11/kate-bush-denies-plan-coachella-festival
AWESOME
He should bring the boys from Boingo back for that portion for sure. They are still capable, could benefit a bit financially and fdeserve it, especially Bartek. Great news though.
I recognized a grand total of six names in that very long list of performers. Went to US Festival ’83 – first and third day. Kind of different in that every single act was getting some level of airplay, either on radio or MTV. Not sure I want to spend a hot weekend (hopefully) discovering my new favorite band.
Agree this may as well have been a list of random words from the dictionary.
I’ve seen an awful lot of amazing bands, arguably some of the greatest. But live, Oingo Boingo may have been the best. They didn’t need elaborate sets or planes crashing into the stage. They just got up there and tore through number after number.
I really hope if Danny is going to play *any* O.B. numbers he ropes the boys in to do them justice. Maybe, just maybe if his hearing is better and he has a good time, he might consider just one more for the road?