Portishead Slam Prince Over Coachella Festival Addition

Portishead have attacked pop star Prince just a day before both acts are due to perform at the Coachella Festival in Los Angeles.

As previously reported, Prince was a late addition to the festival – which runs from April 25th-27th – following poor ticket sales.

But his introduction has angered Portishead, who are due to play just before him on Saturday (April 26th).

“It was gonna be us and Kraftwerk, which was amazing for us to play with Kraftwerk,” Geoff Barrow told BBC 6 Music.

”Then I knew the tickets hadn't been selling well for the concert, so they put Prince in.

"Prince is gonna turn up with a forty person entourage. With the sound men not allowing us to soundcheck, then you end up with this horrible situation where you're playing to a shed load of Americans without a sound check” he said.

Barrow added that for Portishead, a studio band, the eventual situation could be “awful”.

"We've actually hired another two people just to make sure the sounds good... just to fight in our corner,” he added.