The xx have played their first show at Coachella in nine years – check out the full setlist and footage from their performance below.
The trio have been playing live again for the first time since 2018 in recent weeks, with their return show going down in Mexico City’s Pepsi Center WTC on April 3.
On Friday night (April 10), they took to the Coachella Stage, just ahead of headliner Sabrina Carpenter, to play a set that one social media user said was “so cool it gave me chills”. As with their Mexico shows, the set drew from their three studio albums, and also included a medley of songs from their respective solo careers, including ‘Enjoy Your Life’, ‘GMT’ and ‘Wanna’.
“Coachella, night one – we couldn’t have imagined a return like this,” the band wrote on Instagram after the show. “Our first festival show in eight years, and to share it with you at sunset felt special. Thank you so much! See you next weekend.”
See footage from their set here:
The xxの最後めちゃ鳥肌立つぐらいかっこよかった🥰#Coachella pic.twitter.com/68WWuwv2d4
— なつき (@natsuki1618) April 11, 2026
No better platform than X to share my love for The XX.
Although I’ve seen them several times live, I wish I were there tonight in Coachella.
Thankfully they stream it on YT.
Main Stage. pic.twitter.com/SP35dib6ZU— The Portal (@ThePortalNewz) April 11, 2026
The xx at Coachella STAGE Day1
相変わらず凄かった
ソロでは観てたけどフジロック以来久々。
そして今年もフジロック出演予定、これはフジでも盛り上がりそう！@hiroooooomi62 #Coachella #Coachella2026 pic.twitter.com/haQOU6qUzQ— ロイ (@suberubar) April 11, 2026
9년 만에 코첼라로 돌아온 The xx의 마지막 곡은 Intro😭 pic.twitter.com/9r2HlTwklX
— 후우 (@hyu_97) April 11, 2026
The xx played:
‘Crystalised’
‘Say Something Loving’
‘Islands’
‘Angels’
‘Fiction’
‘I’ll Take Care Of You’
‘Shelter’
‘VCR’
‘Enjoy Your Life’
‘Wanna’
‘Treat Each Other Right’
‘GMT’
‘On Hold’
‘I Dare You’
‘Intro’
Last March, the band was spotted in the studio together, following Jamie xx saying in 2024 that they were “having a good time” working on new material. After the Coachella line-up announcement in September last year, they shared some further rehearsal footage.
At last year’s LIDO Festival, which Jamie xx headlined, he reunited onstage with bandmates Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim.
Since their most recent album, 2017’s ‘I See You‘, each of the three has focused on their solo projects. Romy released her debut album ‘Mid Air‘ in 2023, which she then followed with a run of singles, while Oliver Sim dropped his first solo LP, ‘Hideous Bastard‘, the previous year, before putting out two singles last year.
Jamie xx’s second solo album, ‘In Waves‘, came out in 2024, and featured his bandmates on the song ‘Waited All Night’.
Speaking to NME about new music from The xx at the BRIT Awards 2024, Romy revealed: “We’re just keeping it really open, and we’re up for trying new things, but it sounds like us. That’s all I can say right now.”
‘I See You’ was released in January 2017 and became their second Number One album in the UK, also hitting Number Two in the US.
NME gave the album a four-star review, writing: “the highlight is Romy’s pensive, vulnerable ballad ‘Performance’. “I’ll put on a performance/I’ll put on a brave face,” she confesses, accompanied by a single guitar and scurrying violins. ‘I See You’ is not simply an album then, but a moment of realisation. The moment when The xx stop glancing shyly at their reflection and confront themselves in the mirror. What they discover is “infectious.”
In November, meanwhile, they shared a deluxe version of their debut album, ‘xx’. They’re also involved in Rough Trade’s 50th anniversary celebrations, with the iconic record store and label sharing a series of 50 essential albums spanning the five decades, including one of The xx’s releases.
