Coachella kicked off its first weekend on a excessive observe … managing to rack up a grand whole of $0 in curfew fines, which appears to line up with what number of tickets have been nonetheless up for grabs.
A rep for the Metropolis of Indio — the place Coachella takes place — tells TMZ … no curfew guidelines have been damaged through the first installment of the pageant, and everybody caught to the 1 AM curfew for Friday and Saturday … whereas shutting issues down by midnight on Sunday.
In different phrases … there was no motive to tremendous anybody for going over on time — and contemplating the lackluster response to this year’s lineup … we suppose that is smart.
Truth is … there have been TONS of Coachella passes that have been readily available for this yr’s occasion — regardless of having offered out in years previous — and now that we all know all of the music acts have been in a position to begin and cease on time kinda speaks to that.
Looks as if it was fairly boring and all by the e book, which we’re certain Metropolis officers are glad about on their finish. The extra individuals there are … the more durable it’s to settle everybody down.
It was the other final yr … as we reported, curfew violations in 2023 (for Weekend 1) resulted in a total of $117,000 in fines — with a day by day tremendous of $20,000 being issued for the primary 5 minutes previous curfew, and one other $1,000 being added on for each minute thereafter.
Clearly, classes have been discovered for organizers to fine-tune their scheduling to keep away from pricey overruns this time round. In 2022, the curfew fines racked as much as $61K whole for the three weekends of music (2 weekends of Coachella, and a weekend of Stagecoach).
That wasn’t the case in 2024, no less than thus far anyway … this is hoping they maintain it that means!
