Grimes apologizes for disastrous Coachella set: 'Plz forgive me!'
Grimes lived what is probably the nightmare of every Coachella performer: debilitating equipment malfunctions in front of thousands of fans and possibly millions watching online.
On Saturday, Grimes lived what is probably the nightmare of every Coachella performer: debilitating equipment malfunctions in front of thousands of fans and possibly millions watching online.
While things seemed fine for the first half of her set, things began breaking down during the second. The Canadian singer-songwriter tried explaining the problems had to do with the programming of the tracks on her mixing desk, but her frustration was evident and she shouted and shrieked into the mic as things broke down several times.
But by even the most charitable metric, it was a disaster.
Early Sunday, Grimes took to X to apologize for the performance and her reaction, and promised better for her performance next Saturday at Coachella’s second weekend.
I want to apologize for the technical issues with the show tonight. I wanted to come back rly strong and usually I always handle every aspect of my show myself — to save time this was one of the first times I’ve outsourced essential things like rekordbox bpm’s and letting someone else organize the tracks on the sd card etc. I had a bad feeling beforehand not having run everything thru the cdjs myself and tho I flagged it I wasn’t insistent. the big lesson for me was a mix of
Rating: 5