Grimes apologises for technical issues during Coachella set

Singer-songwriter and electro-pop producer Grimes has apologised for the glitches that plagued her Saturday night set at Coachella, Californian’s biggest music festival. Left screaming in frustration, the performer insists that she has learnt a “big lesson” from the technical hiccups that lead to “sonic chaos” on stage.

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The 36-year-old performer and mother of three took to social media on Saturday night to ask fans for forgiveness, promising a flawless return to the Empire Polo Club stage for the second weekend of the festival.

“I want to apologize for the technical issues with the show tonight,” Grimes wrote on X.

“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.”

Grimes, a.k.a Claire Boucher, went on to explain the night’s takeaway, including a three point lesson and a promise to personally prepare all of next week’s performance files.

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…

— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) April 14, 2024

“The big lesson for me was a mix of: 1 if u want it done right, do it yrself, 2 be a cunt even if ppl feel bad, 3 probably pretend it's fine and engage w the crowd rather than spend a whole show slumped over the desk trying to fix software when ur meant to be entertaining.

“I will personally organise all the files next week. I will not let such a thing happen again.

“The cdjs were showing me bpms like 370 so I couldn't even mix manually by ear and the front monitors were off so it was literally sonic chaos on my end trying to guess how stuff was sounding for u guys.

“Plz forgive me!”