Frank Ocean played his first live show in three years last night (June 9) at NorthSide Festival in Denmark – watch fan-shot footage of the long-awaited performance below.
The ‘Blonde’ artist announced his return to the live arena earlier this year by confirming a slew of summer festival dates in Europe and the US. However, the tour was recently thrown into some doubt after Ocean cancelled a small number of shows – including a headline slot at Primavera – owing to “production delays”.
But despite the uncertainty, Ocean has now made his return to the live stage with a headline slot at Denmark’s Northside Festival. Taking to the stage at 11:15pm wearing a white hoody and black headphones, he kicked off with the ‘Blonde’ tracks ‘Pretty Sweet’ and ‘Solo’, before also live-debuting the stand-alone singles ‘Chanel’ and ‘Lens’.
Other tracks from ‘Blonde’ – including ‘Ivy’, ‘Nights’ and ‘Nikes’ – featured in the setlist along with the ‘Endless’ songs ‘Comme Des Garcons’ and ‘Good Guy’, while ‘Channel Orange’ was represented with renditions of ‘Pyramids’ and ‘Thinkin’ Bout You’.
Watch fan-shot footage of Ocean’s headline performance and see his full set list from NorthSide below.
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Frank Ocean played:
1. Pretty Sweet
2. Solo
3. Chanel
4. Lens
5. Biking (solo)
6. In Here Somewhere
7. Commes Des Garcons
8. Good Guy
9. (Unreleased Freestyle) / Self Control
10. Wither
11. Close to You
12. Rushes To
13. Higgs
14. Ivy
15. Thinkin’ Bout You
16. Nights
17. Pink + White
18. Pyramids
19. Futura Free
20. Nikes
Ocean’s next scheduled live show is at Manchester’s Parklife, with his headline slot at the Heaton Park-held festival due to take place tomorrow night (June 11).