\n Worlds apart from your traditional concert, the British star\u2019s one-woman-show at the Corn Exchange saw her perform 2025\u2019s critically-acclaimed \u2018West End Girl\u2019 \u2013 her first album in seven years \u2013 from start to finish.\n<\/p>\n
\n Before that, however, there was the intriguing support act, Dallas Minor Trio, playing string instrumentals of Allen\u2019s biggest hits from her previous records, karaoke-style, with the lyrics on screen.\n<\/p>\n
\n Although this Bridgerton-esque choice of opener stirred debate among critics, it\u2019s certainly a fun, if at times cringey, combination.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Of course, it would have been nice to hear Allen run through the likes of \u2018Smile\u2019 and \u2018Not Fair\u2019 herself, but the tour had always been billed as a warm-up to her UK arena and festival dates this summer.\n<\/p>\n
\n By 9pm, it was time for the main event to begin: amid an intense introduction of flashing strobes, the illuminated edges of the stage elicited the energy of Charli xcx\u2019s BRAT tour.\n<\/p>\n
\n As Allen stepped out from behind a curtain and into a single spotlight, the applause was deafening, eventually quieting enough for her to launch into the evening\u2019s bossa-nova-tinged titular song.\n<\/p>\n
\n With the stripped back set gradually unveiled, the plush bedroom with minimalist decor provided a fittingly isolated backdrop for her vulnerable lyrics.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Amid the heartbreak-focused yet multi-layered narrative, there were also rave-y reprises, like the reverberating breakbeats of \u2018Ruminating\u2019 and \u2018Relapse\u2019s hedonistic spiral.\n<\/p>\n
\n Singalongs \u2013 and, even, dancealongs \u2013 came thick and fast, too, resulting in much of the crowd getting out of their seats to do the viral \u2018Nonmonogamummy\u2019 choreography.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Overall, as a showcase in prop-led storytelling \u2013 the now-iconic receipt veil that she unravelled in during \u20184chan Stan\u2019 got one of the night\u2019s biggest reactions \u2013 it was utterly compelling.\n<\/p>\n
\n Elsewhere, Allen\u2019s vocals frequently held the room in a pin drop silence and, at the close, she was deservedly given her flowers.\n<\/p>\n
\n While the brevity of this particular show has come under fire on social media \u2013 bar outfit switches and set changes, Allen was present for just shy of an hour, meaning the average ticket price would have equated to around \u00a31 per minute \u2013 the vast majority in Cambridge seemed unbothered by such details.\n<\/p>\n
\n In fact, the standing ovation that Lily received at the end said it all.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worlds apart from your traditional concert, the British star\u2019s one-woman-show at the Corn Exchange saw her perform 2025\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-481527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}