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Life on the road is hard. While the movies glamourise it and the kids dream about it, the reality is gruelling. It\u2019s a period of complete exhaustion, dazed burnout, separation from the real world and then suddenly, one day, it\u2019s over and you\u2019re back. That was the big St Vincent<\/a> that always found the hardest.<\/p>\n St Vincent, or Annie Clark, has toured a lot. With seven albums under her belt, each has come along with a hectic schedule of dates. But even before her own records, she was already a session musician touring with other acts, or a member of other bands who kept her out on the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n She\u2019s lived most of her adult life that was from the moment she left college to now. And it\u2019s not exactly like Clark\u2019s shows are light work. As a guitarist, she shreds. She routinely sits in the top class in lists of history\u2019s finest players, so to go to one of her shows, is to see her burning her instrument up with incredible passion and skill. Even years on from when she wrote some of those riffs, even if she\u2019s been playing them on repeat for ages now, it still never becomes without exertion. She\u2019s not one to half-arse it. <\/p>\n So that\u2019s been her life \u2013 make an album and then hit the road, spending months on end living in a strange liminal state of tour buses, service station food, different cities, same people. She\u2019s spent extended periods in that weird mindset of never really knowing where she is or what she\u2019s doing but especially in 2014 and 2015, after the release of St Vincent, the schedule was intense.<\/p>\n