Watch The Shocking Moment Grimes Was Electrocuted Live On Stage In Dublin
Grimes suffered an electric shock, believed to be from a faulty effects pedal at her concert at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on Tuesday night. She’s since assured fans she’s fine following the injury.
The ‘Oblivion’ singer was performing in the Irish capital when halfway through her set her guitar pedal developed a fault which caused her to suffer a mild electric shock.
In a Twitter post that has since been deleted, she wrote:
“Dublin! 1 mil apologies that my pedal failed and I was electrocuted, but there are tears in my eyes that y’all were so so wonderful (sic)”
She then posted an epic Instagram post, where she said:
Hey! just wanna apologize to the Olympia theatre that I originally thought they were responsible for the electrical issues at last nights show.
We’ve triple checked everything and haven’t yet discovered what the issue was. The Irish promoters were nothing but lovely and I don’t want them to take the blame for something that was most likely on our end.
I also want to reiterate that everyone on my team and especially my audio guys did everything they could without stopping the show, but it was some kind of an issue w the vocal channel so even whilst bypassing the pedal I was getting gunshots through the vocal channel into my monitors. Perhaps it was an angry ghost.
Anyway this probably doesn’t make any sense to non-musicians, but w regards to the inside baseball I just wanted to say something so no one loses their job or gets in trouble for an issue that, as far as I can tell, was outside of everyone’s control.
Anyhow haha, apologies for the long and insane post, about to get on a 12 hour flight so hopefully this won’t cause further press drama. 🙂 and thanks again to the Irish fans!!!! I cannot reiterate how grateful I am to y’all for letting us trouble shoot between songs and for singing me happy bday and being all around jovial. Xxxxx
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDBMaYoDfs5/?hl=en
Grimes, 27, is set to play Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival next month and will then head out on a world tour which includes shows in America, Britain and Europe.
She also referenced classic Simpsons character of the same name, Frank Grimes who finds an untimely end mocking Homer by touching live electricity chords. BOOM!
The whole incident was recorded by Youtube user funcoolhot1 and can be played below.