{"id":562950,"date":"2026-03-26T22:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562950\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:01:15","slug":"2000s-pop-idol-brings-major-arena-tour-to-vancouver-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562950\/","title":{"rendered":"2000s pop idol brings major arena tour to Vancouver this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver music fans are enjoying a bounty of great live music this year, and we can add a concert by English superstar Lily Allen to the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The Lily\u00a0Allen Performs West End Girl North American tour stops by Rogers Arena on Monday, Sept. 21.<\/p>\n<p>The tour is in support of Allen\u2019s fifth studio album,\u00a0West End Girl, which was released to critical acclaim last fall. Tickets for the show go on sale on Friday, April 3, at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLily Allen continues her remarkable run with the announcement of a major North American arena tour for Fall 2026,\u201d said Live Nation in a release. \u201cThe newly announced tour continues a truly career-defining run in her already esteemed career, scaling up to her largest headlining shows to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe show \u2013 Lily Allen Performs West End Girl \u2013will see the singer\/songwriter bring her internationally acclaimed album to life on a larger-than-ever stage, performing the record in full, in the order the songs appear, to arenas across the U.S. and Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West End Girl reached number two on the U.K. album charts, was nominated for British Album of the Year at the Brit Awards, and scored Allen her first top 10 song on the U.K. charts in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Lily Allen\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2256176\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lily-Allen-1024x768.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2256176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Live Nation<\/p>\n<p>Allen is a multi-platinum-selling artist with hits like \u201cSmile\u201d and \u201cAlfie,\u201d known by fans around the world. She has been nominated for a Grammy, three NME awards, and even hosted her own TV talk show on the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0My Thoughts Exactly author has appeared in films like\u00a0How to Build a Girl\u00a0and\u00a0Elizabeth. Allen has also made her West End debut in the play 2:22 A Ghost Story\u00a0and received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress for her work.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a busy week for Vancouver concert announcements, with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/ive-vancouver-concert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">K-Pop supergroup IVE<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/weezer-vancouver-guests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rock legends Weezer<\/a> also coming to town in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>When: Monday, Sept. 21, 2026<br \/>Time: 8 p.m.<br \/>Where:\u00a0Rogers Arena \u2013 800 Griffiths Way, Vancouver<br \/>Tickets:\u00a0Tickets go\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenation.ca\/all-events\/lily-allen-tickets-ae_K8vZ9175BJV_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on sale<\/a> on Friday, April 3, at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver music fans are enjoying a bounty of great live music this year, and we can add a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-562950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}