ELBA - CRAZY TOUR STORIES

In this Crazy Tour Stories segment, the indie pop artist, ELBA, shares one of her stories from being on the road. You can check out the story below:

One of the most nerve-wracking concerts I've ever played was at the Danish festival Roskilde Festival in 2019. Roskilde Festival is the largest festival in Denmark, and as a musician, it's something truly special to perform on one of its stages. It was very early in my career - I had released one song and was still very new to the industry. My band and I had rehearsed like crazy before the show, and we were so excited to perform. We arrived at the festival site. We were scheduled to play at 11:00 PM, with soundcheck from 10:30 PM to 11:00 PM. At 10:00 PM, I went to the bathroom and pulled down my jumpsuit. That's when I heard a huge plop and looked into the toilet. There lay my beltpack for my in-ear monitors, flailing around, and I panicked completely because I was about to play what felt like one of the most important shows of my life. I ran out to my sound technician David, who grabbed the beltpack from my hand and found a hairdryer, starting to dry the beltpack. It was beyond repair, and other technicians at the stage started calling around to all the festival's sound technicians, and eventually they found a beltpack that I could rent from a technician, and we played the show and everything went well. I've been teased a lot about that story, and I've learned that I always need to take off my monitor before going to the bathroom.

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