A venue curfew cut the Fugees' set short at the Diaspora Calling festival in Milton Keynes on 7 August 2026, AllHipHop reported. Organizers pulled the plug at the 11pm cutoff just as the trio's headline set was gaining momentum at the National Bowl, and thousands of fans booed as the microphones and screens went dark. "We was just getting started, so we're hoping to continue next year," Wyclef Jean told reporters afterward.
The Milton Keynes set capped months of reported healing between Lauryn Hill and Jean. The pair told the BBC their relationship as bandmates has improved considerably ahead of the tour, a shift AllHipHop said carried through in the energy of the performance itself.
AllHipHop, citing The Sun, said Hill and her sons performed earlier in the evening, which ate into the time the Fugees had left before the curfew. The trio had barely scratched the surface of their catalog and never got to play staples like Killing Me Softly, which fans had traveled to hear.
The Milton Keynes gig capped a summer of Fugees activity. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean marked The Score's 30th anniversary with a London fan event and said new music was coming earlier in August, and Diaspora Calling itself marked the festival's first UK edition.
The Fugees' third member, Pras Michel, was not part of the reunion. He is serving a 14-year federal sentence following a 2023 conviction for funneling foreign money into a US presidential campaign and lobbying for the Chinese government without registering, and any reunion with all three members is on hold until his sentence ends. The group's 1996 album The Score, which includes Killing Me Softly, has sold about 22 million copies worldwide, among the best-selling records in hip-hop. Fans tracking future dates can check the tour guide.
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- An 11pm venue curfew cut the Fugees' Milton Keynes set short on 7 August 2026
- The set was part of the Diaspora Calling festival at Milton Keynes National Bowl
- Wyclef Jean said the group was disappointed and plans to return next year
- The Fugees did not get to play Killing Me Softly before the curfew hit
- Lauryn Hill's earlier set cut into the trio's time onstage, per The Sun
- Pras Michel is serving a 14-year sentence and was not part of the reunion
- The Fugees' 1996 album The Score has sold about 22 million copies worldwide
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