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Governors Ball festival 2024: Coachella gets a strong, and cheaper, run for its money

The New York music festival saw a powerful set from the Killers for Hot Fuss’s 20th anniversary, the coronation of Chappell Roan and a triumph for SZA

Former Sex Lives of College Girls star Rapp, performing on the main stage just after Roan, made the case for a Broadway-to-pop pipeline – “don’t talk to me about a crossover!” she said when recalling a male peer who dismissed her songwriting as too “theatrical” – with such infectious, unshakeable insouciance that it was impossible not to be charmed. The Las Vegas-based rock band, celebrating 20 years of Hot Fuss and thus now a legacy act (sorry to elder millennials), reliably delivered a highlight of the weekend on Saturday night, with a classics-heavy set that did not lull once for 90 minutes and which made closer Mr Brightside seem genuinely extraneous. Note-perfect, casual, barely pausing between numbers amid her nautical set (and looking hot in her thematically unrelated rabbit furs), the 34-year-old performer appeared both seasoned and impossibly loose, powering through songs on a whole decade’s worth of mistakes, healing and growth.

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