Hey Voxina!
Someone found this "debunk" of All Along from reddit. Do you have any recollection of those dates?
https://www.reddit.com/r/larrystylinson/comments/168dfmw/comment/m7m0sr8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
According to this commentor, he attended the concert with E on Nov 1 2012, and went to Sweden the next day.
Hey sugar! Sorry, this post took more time than I expected, but my intention is to give you an answer as thorough as possible.
I have seen many attempts to debunk All Along, but honestly this is the first time I see someone trying to connect the song to the concert that Ed Sheeran held in Manchester in November 2012, since both larries and (some) antis, solos, Elounor shippers & any other subgroup exists in fandom today have always agreed that the concert to which Louis refers is the one that Ed did in October 2011 (whether it was Harry or Eleanor that Louis held that night is another story, that we won't discuss here and now).
I think the person who âdebunkedâ on Reddit has confused/mixed up dates and artists a little bit. So, Iâm gonna try to put some order and sense in the events.
Louis and Eleanor are not at the Maroon 5 concert, as erroneously claimed here.
It's not the first time I've seen this pic though. For a couple of years, we collectively took as valid this statement (at the time it was obviously more difficult to debunk or prove something). Two years later a post corrected the previous one, saying that there was no Maroon 5 show in London or Manchester that night as well as in the rest of the UK in the last months of 2011.
If we take a look here, we can notice that in fact Maroon 5 had only six shows in the UK in that year and all in February.
However, they are wrong when they say that "that picture of Louis and Eleanor at a concert is from when they went to see Ed Sheeran a few months ago", meaning November 2012. Actually, the photo dates back to December 11, 2011, and they are not at Ed's concert, but they were attending the X Factor final in Wembley, London.
The final was held at Wembley Arena and lasted for over four hours, split over Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 December 2011. One Direction performed with the JLS on the 10th, and played "She Makes Me Wanna" + "What Makes You Beautiful". Later that night, Harry, Niall, and Zayn attended JB's 25th birthday party.
Here is a photo with some fans taken on the evening of December 11, 2011, where we can see that Louis is wearing exactly the same outfit of the same sneaky pic taken by the fan inside the venue.
Timeline confirmed here too. And confirmed even in this Elounor masterpost.
The next day, on December 12, 2011, the band was at Pineapple Dance Studio (based in London) for their tour rehearsals. And thanks to this iconic tweet from Liam, we know that Louis is wearing the same outfit as he did the night before.
Harry also tweeted from the studios that same day, posting this photo of Zayn.
But we also have this photo posted on December 12, 2011 showing One Direction at Pineapple Dance Studio. Louis clearly had to change his shirt.
They will also return to the Pineapple Dance Studio on December 13, for more tour rehearsals. The rehearsals began in the morning and ended in the evening, as we can also guess from these photos, where it is evident that when they're leaving it is already dark outside.
On December 11, 2011, Ed Sheeran performed at T4's Stars of 2011 event, at Earls Court, London, with several other artists (photo proof here and here).
And he had a show in Manchester on December 5, but that day One Direction were already in the studio for some rehearsals for their upcoming Up All Night Tour, as Harry himself confirms with this tweet:
So yes, we can say without a doubt that the band was busy doing other things in those days, and that Louis could not have attended Ed's shows even if he wanted to. Not to mention that, if any of the fans saw Louis there (with El or someone else), we'd have definitely seen some pictures by now.
In that post on Reddit, the commenter says that Louis and El attended Ed's concert sometime in November 2012 at O2 Apollo Manchester.
According to this reliable source, Ed performed in Manchester on 1, 2 and 3 November 2012.
On November 1, 2012, One Direction were in Milan, guests of X Factor Italy, and that same day they did some promo interviews (including this memorable one with Radio Kiss Kiss) before flying that evening to Stockholm, Sweden.
Once again, it's Liam who confirms that they left and flew for Stockholm on the same day, with these two tweets from their private jet:
Harry too posted a photo from the plane after appearing on the Italian X Factor with the band.
The following day, November 2, 2012, the band hit the stage to perform on X Factor Sweden in Stockholm.
On the morning of November 3, they are still in Sweden and are interviewed during the Swedish morning news and talk show "Nyhetsmorgon" on TV4.
So, unless Louis has the gift of ubiquity, he would never have been able to attend any of Ed's three concerts in Manchester in November 2012.