Axl Rose has confirmed that Guns N' Roses are reuniting to headline at this year's Coachella festival in California
Although the hard rock band never broke up, lead vocalist Rose has been the only original member left in the band since bassist Duff McKagan and lead guitarist Slash left in the 1990s.
It is the first date to be officially announced by the revived band, whose songs include Sweet Child O' Mine and November Rain.
Rose sent a tweet earlier today confirming the news.
Ok,ok... 🙄It's "confirmed!" Guns N' Roses is Headlining Coachella 2016!! 🍾🎉📰🌋🎯🎤🎛📡😎 See Everyone There!! ❤️😎
— Axl Rose (@axlrose) January 5, 2016
Slash and McKagan both posted an image on Twitter and Instagram of the band's classic logo combined with the Coachella background.
Rose, McKagan and Slash have not played a live show together since July 1993 when they performed in Buenos Aires and relations between Rose and Slash have long been strained.
McKagan quit Guns N' Roses in 1997, but was inducted with the rest of the band’s original line-up into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
But only Slash, McKagan, Steven Adler and his 1990 replacement Matt Sorum attended the event, with Axl Rose - who had prior to that referred to Slash as a “cancer” - a no-show.
However, the band sorted out their differences during the past couple of years and in a recent interview Slash said: "It was probably way overdue, you know ... it's very cool at this point."
It is not clear whether the band will feature the full classic line-up, which also included guitarist Izzy Stradlin and drummer Steven Adler.
The festival takes place over two weekends between 15 and 22 April in California, with LCD Soundsystem and Calvin Harris headlining the other nights of the festival.
