Fun Facts

This page contains random interesting information about Emilie Autumn that I wanted to include, as well as some random audio files, quotes, pictures, and perfomances...like the site's official junk drawer.

• Gothic Lolita Demo Recording - August 16, 2004
• EA works with HGTV on a show called Crafters Coast 2 Coast to showcase some of her crafts, most notably, faerie wings. - November 2004

• Emilie, detailing her experience with Zoloft and mental health issues on her blog: “I ran out of Zoloft about a week ago, and all it takes is 2.5 days for it to have worn off and I go on a sudden and always somehow unexpected downward spiral. This sounds horrible, but it’s not - it’s just a cold hard fact: I realized tonight with complete clarity that, without this medication, I would most certainly be dead. I’ve been on this drug for three years, though I should have been on it for fifteen. I used to be very unhappy, but I’m not anymore - I’m doing very well, I’m finally happy, really. So I get lax with the pills and within the aforementioned time span, everything turns to hell and I find my self-destruct button once again, and I am so very disappointed to think that, within the context of my otherwise completely drug-free life, without an artificial substance being pumped into my brain every night I will self-destruct, as if I weren’t meant to exist in the first place.” - December 4, 2004
• Emilie goes on the WGN morning show to perform with Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins and Dennis DeYoung of Styx, writing the arrangement, putting together the string quartet, and fiddling. - December 22, 2004
• Crazy He Calls Me (Billie Holiday) - January 26, 2005
• Emilie on her blog, while producing Opheliac -- “I have just opened one of the largest tracks from “Opheliac” only to find that my five layers of glitchy-industrial-intricately programmed-obsessed-over-for-days drums are *mysteriously missing*. Of course I did a global search on all my myriad hard drives to see where they might have hidden themselves away to, but all for naught…they are gone… Now I have to start from scratch on a track that I was only expecting to touch up and be done with, which translates into hours upon hours of work…Hell hath no fury like a woman who has to re-program five tracks of percussion…” - June 24, 2005
• Emilie Autumn and her friend Queen fLee ran an online Boutique called WillowTech House as a sister site to Traitor Records in the early 2000's. They sold clothing, accessories, and bath products.
• Madvillain Studios is the studio where Emilie Autumn recorded several of her albums, most notably her 2006 album Opheliac and the spoken-word tracks from The Opheliac Companion. The studio is located in Chicago, IL, and she worked with a producer named Inkydust there.
• On October 9, 2006, Emilie was featured on an episode of the Adult Swim show, Metalocalypse, to play violin. She posted this about the experience on her LiveJournal: "Most notable about this performance is that I didn’t have any of my violins with me when I was asked to record the tracks, so I used a $150 dollar student beginner violin which was in the Dethklok arsenal and is more a toy than an instrument, and which barely makes a real tone upwards of the A-string…May I have a collective “HOLY SHYTE HOW DID YOU MANAGE IT?!!”…Thank you."
• On October 31, 2006, Emilie announced the upcoming release of the Liar/Dead Is The New Alive EP, mostly containing remixes of the two songs. She released it as a set with the first official Emilie Autumn tee (pictured below). The text "Are You Suffering?" on the shirt is from her song "Liar."

• Emilie, posting about the Liar/Dead Is The New Alive EP: "Did you know that, since our lovely Teatime Chat where the new Suffering T-shirts were unveiled, you’ve pushed the “Liar” EP to number 2 in the MNS [Music Non Stop] charts just behind my beloved Rammstein?" - November 3, 2006
• On December 14th, 2006, Emilie posted that she managed to get onto the Hot Topic compilation CD for that year, with artists like The Cruxshadows and Switchblade Symphony.

• On January 30, 2007, Emilie announced the release of a t-shirt and CD set for the Laced/Unlaced album.

• On Feburary 3, 2007, Emilie announced that she was featured on the European version of the Saw III soundtrack with a song she titled "Organ Grinder." Here is a link to a recording of it. Below is the German Saw III poster.

• On March 17, 2007, Emilie announced that she is an official endorser of Manic Panic Hair Colour and Cosmetics.

• Emilie performed at the June 2007 Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany. Pictured below with Bloody Crumpet "Mistress Aprella."

• Sir Edward speaks! And by Sir Edward I mean Emilie's pet rat (this page is a true junk drawer). - January 11, 2008

• Emilie gushing about her fans online, December 31, 2008:

"Dearest Plague Rats:

I have been meaning to say to you: My god, is there anyone on any stage on any planet who has been given such gifts as my Crumpets and I have on this, and indeed every, tour? I must confess it – I felt violently unworthy of it all for the longest time…that you came to the circus that is The Asylum Show and waited outside for hours and hours and danced and sang with us is one thing, but to realize that you had spent hours of your own private lives sewing the most intricate stuffed rats from scratch, embroidering clothes, painting pictures, crafting masterful jewelry, needlepointing rat brooches, and baking vegan muffins, and ALL FOR US…that, my sweet friends, was both unexpected and overwhelming. Indeed, the Crumpets can confirm how many a night I sat curled up in the Asylum Tourbus after shows, plaguing their dear souls with my tangential ramblings on whether or not it was right for any one person to be the beneficiary of such seemingly unconditional sweetness, and why oh why couldn’t I just accept and enjoy it all. BUT THEN! In the Netherlands came the night of my monumental breakthrough! During our after-show signing, I saw this enormous stuffed rat coming towards me, all fluffy love and big mismatched button eyes, striped paws and ears and a big “4 o'Clock” stitched onto it’s striped tummy, and to my extreme surprise I thought, “Upon all that is holy, let that giant rat be for me!” And, guess what, Muffins? It was!! My selfish hope allowed me to comprehend that, whether or not I feel I deserve your lovely gifts, I can still be delighted by them, and can display them proudly, as I look upon them now at this very moment, propped up as a great pile of treasure in the Asylum parlor, and glowingly show them off as I so often do. The moral of the story: We invariably take the bad things straight to heart while locking the good things just outside of it, but a giant stuffed rat can make all the difference in the world and can deliver the great slap in the face that shocks one out of their self-obsession and into the realization that it’s not about me – it’s about US. Epilogue? Thank you all for all of it."

• On April 24, 2009, Emilie performed the European leg of her concert "The Key" with the Bloody Crumpets at CC Luchtbal, in Antwerp, Belgium. Here is a link to a recording of the entire set, featuring striped-stockinged girls performing all sorts of crazy antics both en pointe and on stilts!
• Here is a link to a violin solo Emilie performed at the same concert.
• A quote from a Glide Magazine interview with Emilie: "MD: Have you been able to channel your bipolarity as a creative force in your music? EA: Yes, and I think the thing is that it always wants to be a creative force. So many artists have it because…well, you know, you have it if you’re genetically set up to have it but it does, in a way, encourage you to be…this is shitty to say like “this is a good thing” because it’s not. I prefer to not have it, and then not be artistic, and probably be a lot happier, but it is a very artistic…it puts you on another planet a bit to where you see things differently. You know, the sunlight looks different, everything looks different and it makes you a very dramatic person which then leads to…it’s like other people hear a leaf fall, and you hear a house crash. That’s something that makes you…you have this intensity of experiences that need to be let out. You just see things differently which have a unique point of view which then makes it slightly interesting. Still unfortunate - I’d still trade it in for anything else but, while it’s here, I’m going to use it for all it’s worth so that I’m not a victim of it." - January 30, 2010
• Emilie starred as The Painted Doll in the 2012 film The Devil's Carnival by Darren Lynn Bousman.
• On October 17, 2013, Emilie announces she will be the headlining act for Rob Zombie's Great American Nightmare on October 24 2013.

• On July 27, 2015, THE Anne Rice posts on Facebook discussing hateful comments towards Emilie Autumns' novel on Goodreads, and stating that she admires Autumn. (The mouths that Emilie's name ends up in never ceases to amaze me.)
• EA Instagram post from April 13, 2019: “Look what I found! In my hand I hold 1 of the last 4 Laced/Unlaced album sets in the Asylum, from the original 2007 printing. Looking through this booklet, I was overcome with memories, and also the lack of memories…I have memory of putting together this gorgeous packaging, of sending the files off to Germany, of managing to get ahold of my teenage classical violin recordings to include as secret tracks on Laced…but I have NO memory whatsoever of writing or recording a *single note* of Unlaced. I know I had only a laptop, a tiny keyboard, and my violin, and that I made the whole album within a couple of weeks, sitting on the edge of a shoddy bed in Los Angeles after a massive trauma. I don’t remember where the intricate music came from, how I managed to play it, or how it came out so fast. This is of course because I was not properly medicated at the time, had been put on what I still suspect were horse tranquilizers, and was in fact in the throes of some kind of mania which I even now do not remotely understand. The point is, it came from somewhere, and that somewhere was not my conscious mind. I am telling you this because, once I became stable and healthy, I realized that I had no memory of how a great deal of my music had been created. I had written and even programmed most of my best work in a similar manic state, and, when stark raving sane, I didn’t know how to do it anymore, because the part of me that really composes never needed to know how to do it, it just *did*. Without that part being easily accessible through, essentially, madness, how could I create?"
• On July 21, 2022, Emilie created a blog post on her website entitled "100 Things You Don't Know About Me" a few of which I'll share here as I found them interesting (and slightly silly):
• "The very first time I travelled anywhere was to perform in England at age 12. (I vividly remember the painfully shy and friendless me going wild at being away from home for the first time, running up and down the hotel hallway all night long, trickling tea out the 20th
• “I was hanging out in a jazz club with violinist Nigel Kennedy (eons ago, aged 16-ish), and he handed me his kazillion-dollar Stradivarius so that I could have a turn soloing with the house band. And guess what? I couldn’t accept it because I’d just had my hand bitten trying to save an eel’s life and had temporary nerve damage in said hand.”
• “As a child, I performed in retirement homes quite often, to entertain the residents and gain performance experience. It was wonderful.”
• “I also often performed at inner city schools in Los Angeles, where I had the privilege of playing for/learning about/getting to know kids my own age who might not have had the opportunity to see a violin up close or listen to Mozart live before. It was incredible.”
• “I wrote much of the Opheliac album in a tiny notebook whilst working as a greeter in a real estate office. I would show people the building models, write in a corner when they left, then go and record all night.”