Ellie Goulding has to have a drink earlier than she goes on stage.
The ‘Love Me Like You Do’ hitmaker might have performed gigs throughout the globe, however she’s nonetheless ”too shy” to stand up on stage and not using a little Dutch braveness, as she says she virtually at all times has a drink earlier than her performances.
Speaking to The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column, she stated: ”I usually have a drink or two earlier than I’m going on stage – I’m too shy in any other case. I’ll have a vodka soda or one thing, nothing too heavy. I am unable to drink whisky. White wine isn’t actually my factor both. I like a gin and tonic.”
Ellie, 32, carried out on the royal wedding ceremony reception of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank final yr, after having beforehand performed a medley of covers and her personal tracks on the 2011 wedding ceremony of Prince William and Duchess Catherine.
And the singer admitted not too long ago that the expertise of performing in entrance of the royals put her in ”nervous robotic mode”.
She stated: ”I’m at all times nervous at the perfect of occasions, I’m simply fairly a nervous individual however I attempt to use it to my benefit. I feel with these two specific gigs I simply thought, ‘God I’ve to must be skilled, simply do the job, they need to hear the music, they need me to sing them effectively, after which go.’
”Sometimes I’m going into skilled, robotic mode and simply acquired up there, carry out the songs, do them as finest I can after which go, and hope they had fun. I’m good at doing that thank god.”
The ‘Close To Me’ hitmaker additionally beforehand defined that being on the street for lengthy durations of time will be onerous to ”tackle” by herself.
She added: ”I realised I used to be the one on stage, and had my band, unimaginable workforce and my workforce round me, however actually on the finish of the day it was me up there, so it was onerous to tackle and lots on my own. I signed my report deal once I was actually younger after which it was my life in my 20s.”
