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Backstage With Grimes
By Nicole Pajer on 17 April 2013
The 25-year-old artist talks about leaving the keyboard booth, camping in tents on tour and ‘N Sync.
Grimes, a.k.a. Claire Boucher, has been looking forward to Coachella for a very long time. “It’s such a cool thing to play at!” she chirped backstage in her trailer prior to her first-weekend set. The eclectic Canadian artist modeled her multi color stage ensemble for us, coyly asking if we could notice the food that she had spilled on it earlier in the day. “I think it blends in well,” she said, letting out a big sigh. “My show is in an hour. Almost ready to go!”
Boucher doesn’t like to think too much about a show before she goes out and play, otherwise she finds herself too much in her head. Fortunately, we were there to distract her – with talk of her 12-year-old self attending an 'N Sync concert dressed in Goth attire, sleeping in tents during her early tour days, and her history of wiping out on stage – a problem she has recently found a way to resolve.
What do you have planned for your Coachella set? Anything special that you haven’t done before live?
We’ve got the whole thing with the bubbles and the dancers and all that. Since my Asian tour, I’ve started being better about leaving my booth – because I have my booth with all my stuff. It’s also my first time with a wireless mic, so we’ll see how this goes. This might be a total disaster.
So you’ll be able to move around more freely?
Yeah. I always get cut in my wires. I’ve had serious wipeouts on stage a few times so yeah!
Who are you looking forward to seeing this weekend?
I want to see Dead Can Dance. I want to see Chili Peppers. That was my very first concert.
They were?
I think so. It was Chili Peppers or 'N Sync. I don’t know which one it was because they were roughly around the same time. I had no choice in either. Both were birthday presents. I was around 12, I think.
Which one did you like better?
Chili Peppers because I was alternative. I was trying to boycott 'N Sync, but my parents made me go. I was trying to be a Goth so I was there all in Goth and I was angry. I think people were just like, “What is this girl doing?”
How has fan reception been to 'Visions?’
Pretty awesome! I mean I don’t have any other jobs right now other besides making art, so that’s pretty chill. I’m working on a new album right now as we speak.
You signed with 4AD for your most recent album. How has life changed since working with them?
I get to live in a house now. That’s pretty nice. Everything is much more organized and methodical. Instead of me running around playing crazy shows in people’s basements, I now play Coachella.
You can focus on more of the creative aspects of your career now?
Yes! I’m definitely not touring managing myself right now. Which is nice.
I’d imagine that was hard managing yourself and working on music at the same time…
Sort of. When you’re playing shows for like 13 people in parking lots, there’s not that much organization and stuff that goes into it.
But coming up through that has probably made you appreciate each and every fan…
 Definitely. I feel that I’m very aware of and appreciative of having a trailer at a festival and stuff and having a place to be and not just sleeping in a tent outside. I did a lot of touring in tents.
Where would you camp?
The side of the highway or wherever. Or you’d sleep on the couch of the place that you played, which is not terrible, but when you’re playing with punk bands and you’re trying to be a singer – and it just doesn’t matter for everyone else if their voice gets shot and you’re sleeping like two or three hours a night and all the rooms are filled with smoke and stuff – it’s very difficult to do a good job. The tent camping was fun though. It feels really nice to sleep outside on tour, but you also get sick.
Aside from creating your own music, are there other things you’d like to do in your career?
I’d like to work more in the video end. That’s one of my favorite parts so far – working on the videos. It would be cool to work on other peoples’ videos or work on more narrative-based stuff that isn’t all just music videos – that kind of thing.
What’s the last concert that you went to that you really enjoyed?
I just went to see Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. She’s a Japanese pop star. It was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. It was at the Nokia, I think, in LA. It was so different from American acts. There were four costume changes and then intermissions where there would be facts about Kyary and various mascots were introduced, like a large pink bunny. There were lots of children on stage.
Were you getting ideas of things to incorporate into your set?
I don’t know if I could pull off what she pulls off. There’s definitely an intense culture difference. If I went off stage and there were facts about my daily life that went up, people would be like, “What the hell?”Category:Interview
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