LOS ANGELES — Two former hockey players have confirmed reports that a group of ice skaters were cut last minute from Frank Ocean‘s polarizing Coachella set on Sunday.
On Tuesday’s installment of their podcast, “Empty Netters,” brothers and former hockey players Chris and Dan Powers reflected on their experience preparing for Coachella before the ice-rink element was scrapped from Ocean’s headlining performance. What was supposed to be a dazzling ice-skating display featuring about 120 skaters suddenly turned into 30 skaters walking back and forth across the stage, according to the Powers brothers.
The approximately 90 skaters who didn’t end up participating in the show at all — including the Powers brothers — were alerted of the change Sunday afternoon after Ocean allegedly suffered an ankle injury, the podcast hosts said.
