{"id":674638,"date":"2026-05-17T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/674638\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:14:09","slug":"harry-styles-electrifies-amsterdam-withtogether-tour-concert-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/674638\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles Electrifies Amsterdam With’Together’ Tour: Concert Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmsterdam, one of the more low-key of Europe\u2019s great cities, is an unlikely place to launch a tour as hotly anticipated as Harry Styles\u2019 long-awaited \u201cTogether Together\u201d global trek<\/a> \u2014\u00a0especially when he\u2019s only performing shows in one city per continent for this entire year. Walking around the city on this chilly May weekend, it was easy to see his contribution to the city\u2019s tourist trade: One was as likely to hear British or American accented English as Dutch on the city\u2019s streets, and when Styles asked the 60-something-capacity crowd at the Johan Cruijff Arena on Saturday night, \u201cHow many of you are not from Amsterdam?,\u201d the roar was approximately three times as loud as when he\u2019d asked the same of the locals moments earlier.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhich is not to say the audience wasn\u2019t screaming for the entire show, because they were. As he must have expected, the response to his low-key latest album, \u201cKiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.,\u201d<\/a> has been less fanatical than that of his previous ones \u2014 which, to be fair, is a very high bar. But the songs from the new album get much bigger in a live setting. In large part that\u2019s down to his versatile band, which grows to some 18 musicians at certain points during the show. But of course, it\u2019s mostly down to him.<\/p>\n

\n\tStyles is a one-in-millions performer, with a hurricane-force charm that\u2019s dashing and sexy and goofy at the same time, and he brought all of it on Saturday night. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe show\u2019s pacing seemed intended to ease the audience into the new material. The mood was set with Elvis Presley\u2019s gorgeous 1972 version of \u201cBridge Over Troubled Water\u201d as intro music, followed by a video of Styles walking through a garden and getting a phone call, with a woman\u2019s voice asking, \u201cHarry, are you coming out tonight?\u201d The giant screens lit up with animated images as the band kicked in and Styles, clad in sneakers, black slacks and a red leather jacket, launches into \u201cAre You Listening Yet\u201d from the new album. By the middle of the song he was halfway down one of the illuminated walkways that encircled the floor of the arena.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Anthony Pham<\/p>\n

\n\tBut he gave the crowd some quick satisfaction with a string of older favorites: \u201cGolden,\u201d \u201cAdore You,\u201d \u201cWatermelon Sugar\u201d and \u201cMusic for a Sushi Restaurant.\u201d A pair of new songs followed, and he concluded \u201cWhat we like to call act one of the show\u201d with a gentle version of \u201cthe song we used to end the set with, but now it feels more like a beginning\u201d: the title track of his second album, \u201cFine Line.\u201d For the next act, he promised \u201cwe\u2019ll be dancing.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe group launched into \u201cAmerican Girls,\u201d and followed with a long run of tracks from the new album. While the songs are elevated when played by a live band, what really made the difference was the staging: The entire group played in the middle of the walkway for 15 minutes mid-show. with Styles joined by two dancers for \u201cTreat People With Kindness\u201d and \u201cPop.\u201d He talked with the crowd at length, addressing people holding signs, helping one named Theresa who couldn\u2019t find her mother \u2014\u00a0\u201cTheresa\u2019s mum, are you here?\u201d and she waved almost immediately. Another audience member named Jana said it was her birthday, so he led the entire crowd in a \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d singalong.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe main set closed with \u201cCarla\u2019s Song\u201d and \u201cAperture,\u201d with the group briefly leaving the stage before an encore. The full band \u2014\u00a0including string players \u2014\u00a0took their positions and Styles played \u201cMatilda\u201d and a soaring \u201cSign of the Times.\u201d He finished with a joyful \u201cAs It Was\u201d that found him showing off his well-publicized runners endurance by sprinting full-speed down the runways as the band vamped on the chorus. <\/p>\n

\n\tStyles will be on tour for the rest of this year \u2014 with multiple concerts in London, Brazil, Mexico, Australia and a whopping 30 shows at Madison Square Garden \u2014 and, sources say, well into next. On the basis of Saturday night\u2019s show in Amsterdam, he\u2019ll be playing to ecstatic crowds for a lot longer than that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amsterdam, one of the more low-key of Europe\u2019s great cities, is an unlikely place to launch a tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,23481,341],"class_list":["post-674638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-styles","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674638","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=674638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}