2025 breakout star Lola Young runs off stage over illness mid-Coachella set (2025)

Lola Young was forced to run off stage gagging and feeling like she was going to vomit while performing at Coachella.

The singer, 24, was propelled to fame after her song Messy went viral on TikTok, her first song to hit the UK top 40.

Before that, she covered Together in Electric Dreams for the 2021 John Lewis Christmas advert.

Lola is among the acts performing at this year’s Coachella alongside the likes of Lady Gaga, Post Malone, Travis Scott, and Green Day, having taken to the stage last weekend, during the opening weekend of the festival.

But it appears the nerves of performing in front of thousands of people got to the artist as she shared a video of herself retching while onstage.

Sharing a compilation video of her set to TikTok, Lola can be seen singing and dancing on stage in khaki green trousers and a matching bralet top, stopping at numerous points to gag before asking for a bucket.

‘Not me doing my first Coachella & gagging & throwing up all the way through the set,’ she wrote on the first clip, adding: ‘It was getting real bad here guys.’

After asking someone backstage, ‘Can I have a bucket please?’, Lola gets back to twerking onstage to the joy of her cheering fans.

‘That wouldn’t have been cute if I threw up,’ she told the crowd after dancing, admitting in the captions that she was ‘trying to hang in there with all her power.’

She also joked ‘If ur coming today maybe it’ll be messier’.

Additionally, she wrote: ‘i was nervous guys and it was 40 bloody degrees. Im back today, same time, same tent love ya x.’

Many of the Wish You Were Dead singer’s fans praised her for being open and honest about her nerves, saying she ‘absolutely smashed it’ regardless.

‘So proud of you Lola!! Absolutely smashed it! in that heat aswell?? Icon,’ Matt Johnson wrote on TikTok.

Cici commented: ‘Love it. No hiding, no faking it and no perfection. It just is What it is and she did a damn good job❤️.’

KitNetic said: ‘No one can EVER question your dedication to your music/fans. 🥰

‘Listen, Lola. You have something SO rare and sought after. You are a light. Keep shining, babe.’

Meanwhile, Alli added: ‘So professional you weren’t feeling good and you kept coming back with the good energy any other big singer would of probably left the stage completely good job girl👏❣️love you Lola🥰.’

Lola’s career began she joined the Brit School and won a national open mic competition at age 13.

Despite claims of ‘nepotism’ as her aunt is famed children’s author Julia Donaldson, Lola has worked hard releasing music and creating content on TikTok to rise up the UK music charts.

After Coachella, Lola is set to perform at Radio 1’s Big Weekend at Sefton Park in Liverpool on Sunday May 25 alongside Mumford & Sons and JADE.

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