Sublime’s surviving members — Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson — reunited for a set at Coachella with original lead singer Bradley Nowell’s son, Jakob.
The band’s first public performance with Jakob went down at Coachella’s main stage beginning around 6:05pm local time on Saturday. The trio ran through Sublime’s biggest hits, including “Santeria,” “Wrong Way,” “Garden Grove,” “What I Got,” and “Doin’ Time.” Watch video of their performance below.
Sublime’s Coachella set with Jakob Nowell occurred four months after the late singer’s son first joined Wilson and Gaugh for a private benefit show in Los Angeles. Guagh and Wilson had previously formed Sublime with Rome in 2009 with singer Rome Ramirez, but Guagh left the band two years later. After Gaugh and Wilson performed with Nowell in December 2023, Sublime with Rome disbanded.
Discussing his decision to reunite Sublime with his later father’s bandmates, Jakob told Rolling Stone, “I look at it as like a custodial role. I’m not Sublime. My uncles Bud and Eric are Sublime. My dad never got to step on that stage, man. My dad never got to sing those songs in front of an audience that big, at Coachella, of people who adore him and his sound and his message. If you were a father, what would you want? And I know what I would want to have happen in that situation. So I have to do what I have to do.”
The rebooted Sublime will play several festival shows this year, including Pomona, California’s No Values Fest, Ocean City, Maryland’s Oceans Calling, and more. Get tickets to see Sublime here.
Keep up with all the latest Coachella 2024 news here.
Watching Bradley Nowells son Jakob Nowell play Coachella with Sublime right now is some legendary shit. pic.twitter.com/nr8HrVT9fP
— The Brohioan (@TheBrohioan) April 14, 2024
Sublime is on and the lead singer is now Bradley Nowell’s son 😭😭😭 #Coachella pic.twitter.com/wCU3gIlpxK
— kari (@kariroxx) April 14, 2024
We’ll talk music festivals on an upcoming show….. Here’s a little bit of Sublime performing at Coachella (one of the first bands that 🦏 ever worked with forever ago) pic.twitter.com/lvlSUcu030
— Theplaylist (@Theplaylist100) April 14, 2024
Sublime’s Coachella Setlist:
April 29, 1992 (Miami)
Garden Grove
Wrong Way
Same in the End
STP
Pawn Shop
What I Got
Greatest-Hits
Date Rape
Badfish
Jailhouse (Bob Marley & The Wailers cover)
Romeo (First confirmed performance since 1988)
Doin’ Time
Santeria