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Artist News
Lykke Li reveals “complete meltdown”
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 28 April 2011
Lykke Li has told fans that she pulled out of two UK gigs in Glasgow and Manchester earlier this month because she suffered a “complete meltdown”, apparently brought on by ongoing problems with her hip and a bout of flu. A statement issued at the time referred to “health problems” as the reason for the cancellations, but didn’t provide any more detail.
In a blog post published on her website yesterday, the singer wrote: “I had some kind of complete meltdown in Marks & Spencer in Glasgow on one of those very rare days off while en route. For various reasons, various hardships sneaked up on me and I was standing at an isle contemplating life and death and the struggles of being an artist/soul/woman/human being when the overbearingness sneaked up on me like Batman himself”.
She continued: “I fell to the floor and so did the raspberries I had in my hand, the troubled breathing lead to some severe lumbago which meant I couldn’t move and had to lay straight for a few days. In a valium haze I took a flight back to my loved ones where a strong man cracked my holy spine loose and I was soon able to walk again. Little did I know it was my troubled hip joint that was the problem in the first place, so had to go back to a horizontal mode”.
Finally, she said: “My body then decided Easter was the perfect time to let a god damn flu blossom out, so I spent the whole easter praying to God to get better, drinking ginger tea while watching ‘Apocalypse Now’ wishing nothing more then that I could have been on that stage with you”.
The singer will play various UK festivals over the summer and a show at London’s Roundhouse on 1 Nov. The two cancelled shows are also expected to be rescheduled. Lykke Li’s new single, ‘Sadness Is A Blessing’, is due out on 16 May.
