Well, well, well. My babies are back. Måneskin are on the Coachella 2027 line-up — all four of them, together, on the same stage, for the first time since the summer of 2024. Allefuckinluia.
The poster dropped yesterday, and there they are: Saturday 10 and Saturday 17 April, Empire Polo Club, Indio, on the same day as Tame Impala at the top of the bill, with Phoebe Bridgers and Weezer somewhere underneath. Not a bad place to come home to, familiar grounds as they already played Coachella in 2022, a year after Eurovision blew every door open for them.
Like a lot of you, that’s where I found them: the Eurovision buzz, that performance, and my very first thought — holy shit, rock isn’t dead — and they’ve done nothing but prove it ever since. A striking performance, a song that hits hard, in a language I (almost) don’t speak. Then I dove straight into Teatro d’ira: Vol. I, a flawless record, no skips, and I adore their debut Il ballo della vita just as much. My favourites? Coraline, an absolute masterpiece, Torna a casa, and In nome del padre, which hits SO hard live. I’d know. I made the trip to Rome to see them play the Stadio Olimpico at home in the summer of 2023, and caught them again from the front row in Nancy that September.
Quick recap for those who blinked. The last time Damiano, Victoria, Thomas and Ethan shared a stage was Rock en Seine, just outside Paris, in August 2024. Then — nothing. No farewell show, no big statement, no it’s not you, it’s us. Just four people quietly walking off in four different directions, and a band that never once said the word split. Damiano went solo with Funny Little Fears. Victoria went behind the decks as a DJ and producer. Thomas — one of the best guitarists of his generation, and I will die on that hill — made Masquerade, a proper rock record produced by Tom Morello (yes, THAT Tom Morello). Ethan kept his cards very close to his chest. And the band’s socials? Silent. For two years.
Honestly, that overnight vanishing act was unsettling. And at the same time, I completely get it. Everything happened so fast and so intensely for them — they needed a break, probably a moment to come back down and find themselves again, as people and as artists.
Now, about Sanremo. Since late August, half of Italy has been announcing a reunion at the Ariston in February — and the festival’s new artistic director, Stefano De Martino, has been very careful to say the invitation is there but nothing is signed. And then there’s Budapest. Their name has been floating around Sziget 2027 (10–14 August) since the first acts dropped this week — except the official line-up so far reads Fontaines D.C., Katseye, Lola Young and Bicep, and no Måneskin. Rumour, not poster. Come on Hungary, don’t mess this up. So for now, Coachella is the only date set in stone. No tour. No new single.
Yet. Time to start manifesting hard, people.
And if a new record does come, one wish: keep singing in Italian, guys. Don’t lose that. Those songs are exceptional, and Rush! lost a little of that identity along the way.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, 13 November, at noon California time — that’s 8pm in the UK and Portugal, 9pm in France and Italy. YouTube is streaming the whole thing.
I’ve been properly impatient since the very first rumours. Damiano and Victoria back on the same stage? Bi panic attack incoming.
Two years of silence.
Two weekends in the desert.
Your move, Sanremo.
Bentornati, tesori miei.
Ci siete mancati.
Måneskin — Coraline, live at Sanremo, 1 February 2022. Absolutely stunning.
