{"id":163762,"date":"2025-12-02T04:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163762\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T04:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:41:06","slug":"lewis-capaldis-stroll-along-auckland-viaduct-delights-fans-before-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163762\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Capaldi\u2019s stroll along Auckland Viaduct delights fans before concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kTSKoVNBhtQWC\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe were kind of a bit word vomit and just told him that we were so excited for the concert and that we\u2019d had tickets to the last one and he was like, oh, you know, like \u2018thanks guys\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kTSKoVNBhtQWC\" style=\"display:none\">The crooner played Glastonbury in June, his first major performance since he stepped back from the spotlight to protect his mental health two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kTSKoVNBhtQWC\" style=\"display:none\">Capaldi has Tourette\u2019s, a syndrome that can cause uncontrollable sounds and movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kTSKoVNBhtQWC\" style=\"display:none\">When he last played the major festival in 2023, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/lewis-capaldi-cancels-new-zealand-shows-rest-of-2023-world-tour-what-is-tourette-syndrome\/TSXA7B3DENH5ZM5SYD4XD6NSQI\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/lewis-capaldi-cancels-new-zealand-shows-rest-of-2023-world-tour-what-is-tourette-syndrome\/TSXA7B3DENH5ZM5SYD4XD6NSQI\/\">struggled to get through his set<\/a>, eventually being supported by fans who finished the song \u201cSomeone You Loved\u201d for him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"kTSKoVNBhtQWC\" style=\"display:none\">He told Theo Von\u2019s This Past Weekend podcast it was \u201cthe lowest moment of my life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kTSKoVNBhtQWC\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI had this moment where I was onstage like two, three songs in, I was like, \u2018This is the last time I\u2019m going to play a gig for a long time.\u2019 I need to try and get through the rest of the show, but when I come off, I\u2019m done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kTSKoVNBhtQWC\" style=\"display:none\">He went on to say the experience had been \u201cprobably the best thing that ever happened to me\u201d, causing him to stop pushing himself and take a break from touring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kTSKoVNBhtQWC\" style=\"display:none\">Irish musician Aaron Rowe and Auckland-based artist Jude Kelly will open for the singer tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kTSKoVNBhtQWC\" style=\"display:none\">Kelly released her indie pop EP The Seven Spirits of Her earlier in the year, with single \u201cClarence\u201d receiving support from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin during his time in New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe were kind of a bit word vomit and just told him that we were so excited for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33846,27605,51,22398,9218,106429,107338,25759,104650,21534,156,9517,1888,27494,111,139,69,49926,72780,14625,49519,88,48499,23505,42916,3608],"class_list":["post-163762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-along","tag-appearance","tag-auckland","tag-aucklanders","tag-before","tag-capaldi","tag-capaldis","tag-concert","tag-delights","tag-enjoying","tag-entertainment","tag-fans","tag-first","tag-lewis","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-scottish","tag-stroll","tag-summer","tag-superstar","tag-surprise","tag-taste","tag-treated","tag-viaduct","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}