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Coachella Announces 2018 Lineup With Beyoncé, Eminem, The Weeknd Headlining

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7 years ago

January 3, 2018

Coachella Announces 2018 Lineup With Beyoncé, Eminem, The Weeknd Headlining

A year after disappointing scores of fans because she just had to go and have twins, Beyoncé is back in the Coachella fold. The zeitgeisty California festival announced its complete lineup on Tuesday night and the Queen Bey is among the headliners, along with The Weeknd and Eminem. As usual, Coachella will be staged on consecutive three-day weekends in April, with identical lineups each weekend.

The Weeknd, appropriately, will kick things off on April 13 with a lineup that includes SZA, The War on Drugs, St. Vincent, Vince Staples and Bleachers. On April 14, Beyoncé will lead a bill featuring HAIM, Tyler the Creator, David Byrne, Alt-J, Fleet Foxes, Angel Olsen and First Aid Kit. On April 15, Eminem will top a bill featuring ODESZA, Portugal. the Man, Migos, Miguel, King Krule and Kamasi Washington. Each of the lineups will be repeated the following weekend.

None of last year’s headliners—Radiohead, Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga, who replaced the pregnant Beyoncé—are appearing this year.

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Caitlin Cook’s Musical Bathroom Odyssey Hits the UK

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3 days ago

May 9, 2025

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What do cowboy dicks, milk pistols, and public toilet walls have in common? They all find a strange kind of poetry in The Writing on the Stall, the wildly inventive musical comedy from US performer Caitlin Cook, landing in the UK this summer. After sold-out runs Off-Broadway, at Edinburgh Fringe, and in London, the New York Times Critic’s Pick returns for a short UK tour—playing Brighton’s Komedia (31 May & 1 June) and Soho Theatre, London (4–7 June).

Set entirely in a public bathroom, The Writing on the Stall is anything but private. In this whip-smart and wickedly funny one-woman musical, Cook dives into the scrawled messages and mysterious wisdom etched on cubicle walls and turns them into something bold, bizarre, and unexpectedly moving. The songs are catchy, the jokes are razor-sharp, and the show isn’t afraid to get its hands dirty—literally.

Armed with a guitar and a knack for digging gold out of the obscene, Cook crafts a genre-defying hour that’s part stand-up, part cabaret, and all catharsis. This is confessional comedy with clever hooks, pitch-perfect melodies, and enough surprises to keep your eyebrows permanently raised. Expect satire, sincerity, and some surreal props—rumour has it a pair of slingshotted knickers makes a cameo.

Caitlin Cook isn’t your average musical comic. She’s Oxford-educated, New York-hardened, and streaming in the tens of millions. She’s also collaborated with some of comedy’s finest, directed offbeat hits, and performs as one-half of the musical duo 2/3rds of a Threesome. With this new UK run, she’s not just touring a show—she’s building a movement that blurs the lines between comedy, theatre, and performance art.

If you missed her during her Edinburgh frenzy, this is your chance to catch the musical everyone’s been whispering about in pub toilets and shouting about in five-star reviews. You might come for the laughs, but you’ll stay for the songs that (fair warning) may live rent-free in your head for months.