Underscoreshas hitout at Houston venue Meow Wolfhours before a gig there, describing them as“misogynistic”.
The hyperpop musician and formerNME Coverstar, real nameApril Harper Grey, is currently on the road in the US in support of her third studio album ‘U’,which was released in March.
On Saturday night, the tour arrived in Houston for a show at Meow Wolf, but before the show, she took to her Instagram Stories to explain to fans that she would not be able to bring her normal level of production to the venue for reasons that she said we beyond her control.
“Full disclosure,” she wrote. “We won’t have full production tonight as the venue can’t accommodate it. They’ve honestly been very difficult to work with and have either been rude, misogynistic to my team or just don’t know what’s going on.”
“Still doing the show as planned but wanted toapologisein advance,” she continued. “I’llmake sure to come back to Houston next time with full production.”
In a later post, she clarified that the “general venue staff” had been “very nice” and “accommodating” to her, and said the problems had been coming from “upper management”.
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NMEhas contacted Meow Wolf for comment.
Underscoresisalso coming to the UK and Europe later this year, with shows in Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds,Londonand Manchester in November.Find the full list of dateshereand find any remainingticketshere.
Underscores spoke toNME’s Alex Rigotti in March, discussing how the fascination with fame expressed in her music led to self-monitoring own life. “I’ve always scrutinised myself like I was famous,” she said. “I’ve always been like, ‘someone’s gonna pick my life apart to pieces someday, so I need to prepare for that’. But obviously some of that is some mental shit.”
‘U’ received a five-star review fromNME, with writer Otis Robinson concluding: “More Black MirrorthanTwin Peaks, ‘U’ is an intimate hyperpop record portraying snowballing isolation, a digital-age pop star’s yearning under the limelight of the techno-infused Anthropocene.”