{"id":665933,"date":"2026-06-30T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665933\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:23:08","slug":"lily-allen-defends-west-end-girl-tour-after-some-fans-criticise-show-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665933\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Allen defends West End Girl tour after some fans criticise show length"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his original post, Hawskley also criticised Allen for the lack of a support act on the tour – as there is no other band or singer who warms up for her in the traditional sense. <\/p>\n

However, the tour does feature a small orchestra who start the evening by playing instrumental versions of Allen’s earlier hits.<\/p>\n

The Dallas Minor trio perform orchestral versions of hits such as The Fear, Smile, LDN, Hard Out Here and Not Fair.<\/p>\n

After 10 songs from the trio, who play live as lyrics to the songs are projected on a screen, Allen arrives on stage to begin West End Girl. <\/p>\n

In her defence of the shows, Allen said “there is a support act” – likely referring to the three string musicians.<\/p>\n

Her comments come a few days after she thanked a newspaper, external<\/a> whose critic gave the show a rave review.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Williams of the Yorkshire Times described, external<\/a> the show as “top-tier art” and a “stunningly staged, thought-provoking visual feast”. <\/p>\n

“This is not a gig,” he noted. “This is a live interpretation of a bold, brilliant narrative album that would win huge accolades as a piece of solo musical theatre.”<\/p>\n

It has become much more common in recent years for groups and artists to take a single album on tour – often on the anniversary of an album considered a classic.<\/p>\n

But such tours, despite being advertised accurately, often spark debate among fans, some of whom are disappointed when hits from other albums are not included.<\/p>\n

In a later exchange, Hawksley acknowledged that Lily Allen’s show was presented as it had been advertised and he knew which songs Allen “would and wouldn’t play”.<\/p>\n

“But no support act and not even a ‘thank you so much for coming’ was a bit weird,” he added.<\/p>\n

Replying to that comment, Allen joked: “I’d happily concede that I’m a bit weird.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his original post, Hawskley also criticised Allen for the lack of a support act on the tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-665933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665933","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=665933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}