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“A lesson to all musicians”: Lily Allen amazes at TikTok Entertainment Centre
Lily Allen hasn't performed in Australia since 2019 — but this week's West End Girl tour was worth the wait.
Over two nights, the storied British pop star performed for thousands at Sydney's TikTok Entertainment Centre.
Allen's newest album was re-imagined as a highly theatrical one-woman show.
She begins in a hotel room, all on her own, before re-enacting every song on the semi-autobiographical concept album for almost an hour.
This is what triple j had to say about the West End Girl tour's Sydney stage debut.
"The show opened with a cello ensemble playing Lily's old bangers, accompanied by a diva conductor who revved up the crowd up to scream out her hits."
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Lily Allen’s West End Girl could have been ‘excitingly different’. But it’s lost in an arena
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In her brutal narrative album of marital discord and disaster, West End Girl, Lily Allen has the perfect vehicle to merge several elements of her career and appeal into something new.
There’s the frank feminist who bridged aspiring-cynic teens with seasoned-cynic adults and the hook-tastic pop singer who made that sound like a hoot; the hedonist-who-tried-it-all and the romantic-despite-it-all; the latter-day stage actor of other people’s words and the life-long diarist who will share her truth.
So turning last year’s record firstly into a small theatre creation and then into this year’s arena pop show – to which you can add a solid bit of sisterhood bonding over male treachery, with women near me regularly yelling out affirmations (“you’re too good for him … get him Lils”) and condemnations (“he’s a c—” and, to the marital interloper Madeline, “f— you bitch”) – didn’t just make sense, it was excitingly different for an artist who has not always found live performance a particularly interesting exercise.
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