Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker slept through his Grammy Awards win because he “forgot” about the ceremony.
The Australian musician’s track End of Summer scooped the Best Dance/Electronic Recording accolade for the second year in a row at the event on 1 February but Kevin admitted he was left baffled when he received a string of congratulatory messages because not only had the Grammys slipped his mind, he had forgotten he had even been shortlisted.
Kevin – who won the same accolade for Neverender in 2025 – told Mac DeMarco for Interview magazine: “Look, I’m going to be dead honest with you. I forgot they were even on.
“I forgot that I was nominated as well.
“You have to imagine my confusion because in Australia, we wake up and then we find out about what happened in America last night, so my phone has absolutely blown up.
“I’ve got 30 messages on my phone, all saying congratulations. None of them are saying what for. And I’m like, ‘What for, motherf******?’ ”
Elsewhere in the interview, the 40-year-old multi-instrumentalist admitted he would find it a “challenge” to perform sober.
He said: “My relationship with drinking and shows is I’ve got this routine absolutely locked, and I follow it to the T. I don’t really drink much before the show, but I like to drink throughout because it’s fun and I’m up there with my friends.
“And for anyone who’s not, let’s say Australian, English or Canadian, the idea of getting drunk and then going on stage would be the challenge. But now the challenge is to do it sober.
“It would be a real challenge for me to get on stage sober and stay sober the whole time. That would be like playing my first gig all over again.
“But more and more, I’ve just been appreciating the moments when it doesn’t go to script because the bigger the shows you play, the more everything has to be to a script. If you go off it, then the whole show falls apart because it’s all time-coded and everything’s locked in. So when things go wrong, for me, that’s the sort of spice.”
