Billie Eilish Is Touring Without Her Brother Finneas O’Connell For The First Time

According to her brother, producer, and collaborator Finneas O’Connell, Billie Eilish has transitioned from an adolescent sensation to a genuine adult.

It’s one of the reasons why, for the first time, O’Connell will not accompany his Grammy-winning little sister on her “Hit Me Hard and Soft” tour, except a few tour dates, to back her up on guitar, as he has on each of her previous tours.

Billie Eilish Is Touring Without Her Brother Finneas O’Connell For The First Time

“There were many years when I felt like I would never miss a show because, you know, Billie was 16 or 17, and I really had this feeling of needing to be there for every minute,” O’Connell told Vogue in an interview published on Tuesday.

“The truth is,” he told me, “over the last few years of touring she’s really become an adult.”

Eilish’s adulthood has manifested itself in what O’Connell calls the 22-year-old’s “disciplined way of existing on tour.”

“She sleeps through the day to make sure she’s rested for the show,” he said, adding that she does hours of physical therapy and spends time on vocal warm-ups to prepare.

O’Connell revealed on Monday that his “For Cryin’ Out Loud!” solo tour will begin in February, and his most recent solo album of the same name was published last week.

O’Connell and Eilish’s parents, Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, have also been regulars on her previous tours. Baird handles everything from scheduling to feeding Eilish, and the elder O’Connell serves on her stage crew.

“I will get your tampons and cook you a burrito at a moment’s notice, even if I have to use an iron to do it,” Baird told Vogue in Tuesday’s article.

Billie Eilish Is Touring Without Her Brother Finneas O’Connell For The First Time

While Baird believes that having a “mom on tour” may assist all singers, she and her husband will also make themselves scarce this time around, allowing Eilish to embark on a tour that they regard as similar to her “college years.”

Eilish will not be alone, however. Nat and Alex Wolff, an indie-rock duo (and actors) who Eilish said Vogue are some of her dearest friends, will be her opening act on the tour, which began late last month. She’s also embarking on her first tour with her own live band, accompanied by some of her childhood friends.

“Hopefully,” Eilish told Vogue, “it’s going to be the f***ing fun.”

SOURCE | AP