Alice Glass was born in August 1988
[1] in
Toronto,
Ontario.
At the age of 14 she ran away to live in a squat community of punks,
yet continued going to school and also started an all-girl crust-noise
band Fetus Fatale.
[2] After going to a Fetus Fatale show,
Ethan Kath,
impressed by her performance, gave her CD-Rs with 60 instrumental
tracks of which she chose 5 to write vocals for. Alice Glass and Ethan
Kath went to a recording studio to record the 5 songs and unknown to the
band, the microphone check before the session was secretly recorded by
the engineer, who later presented the band with a CD-R with 6 tracks.
This 6th extra track was discovered by London UK's Merok Records who
went on to release the track as the band's first vinyl single, "
Alice Practice",
despite Glass not knowing the track existed or what it sounded like,
and named for the fact Alice was literally just practicing while the
engineer set his levels.
[3][4]
In 2008, before the band's interview with
Now Magazine, Alice disappeared and neither Ethan nor the band's manager could contact her.
[5] Crystal Castles was infamously shut down at
Glastonbury 2008 after Glass climbed a speaker stand just before "Alice Practice" and was swallowed by the crowd during "Yes No".
[6]
In March 2008 Alice broke two of her ribs in a car accident. Doctors
instructed her to take at least six weeks off to allow time to heal but
she continued the tour, performing a twenty minute set within days of
the accident.
[1]
On November 2 2010 Alice injured her ankle during a show in Spain. In
Tokyo on 18 January 2011, Alice fell and put strain on the unhealed
ankle injury, causing her ankle to break. The injury forced Alice to
perform 5 months worth of shows on crutches.
[7]