"In celebration of the TogetherTogether Tour, Harry last week sent Roses to residents and staff of our Wembley nursing home. Safe to say everyone was delighted!
Just when you think the man canât get any better ⌠he does!!!
Harry âtreating people with kindnessâ really is a thing!!" - via Mandy Hufford on Facebook
"New York, MSG, I love every single one of you. Thank you so much for tonight, I will never fucking forget it. You did this for me. Don't forget that. I love every single one of you. And don't forget, It's coming home!" - 08.07
Louis Tomlinson lights up DC's Anthem on his tour, showcasing hits from his solo discography and his new album.
The beloved pop star took a break from hockey arenas to play one of live touringâs most beloved large clubs
Louis Tomlinson brought his full arena rig to the 6,000-capacity Anthem in DC on Tuesday (July 7th) for an underplay on his How Did We Get Here? World Tour. The former One Direction star played most of the tracks from his new album, How Did I Get Here? He opened with the recordâs two starting tracks, âLemonadeâ and âOn Fire.â
Only one One Direction song made the setlist, 2014âs âNight Changes.â The rest of the night focused on Tomlinsonâs three-album solo discography. With his full-length debut coming just six years ago, Tomlinson is the last of the One Direction crew to jump into a solo career with both feet.
Tomlinsonâs pop music is equal parts rave-inducing (âLemonadeâ features a bursting surprise right at the top of the show) and genuinely pensive. âDark To Lightâ comes off as substantively emotive, with a driving beat anchoring the lyrics. The acoustic âDefencelessâ showed off the underappreciated rawness of Tomlinsonâs voice.
The pop star spent most of the night awash in a kaleidoscope of lights and lasers. His massive band riders doubled as techno-club light boxes, pulsating light downstage toward Tomlinson.
I love when artists post up at the Anthem with their full arena rig. It makes you feel like youâre at Rock Lititz watching bands run through at the iconic stage-rehearsal base camp. Everything just hits ten times harder in a box one-fourth the size of the Gardenâwhere Tomlinson interrupted Bon Joviâs return to the stage with a one-off gig on July 8th. (JBJ and company return on the 9th. My thoughts are with those rigging crews. I digress.)
Lasers and screens combined to make his feel like some sort of pop music laboratory in the middle of outer space. Itâs a stage you just donât want to peel your eyes from for a single second. His runway ended in a question mark-emblazoned b-stage where he belted songs âSunflowersâ and âLucid.â And singing right along with him were his fansâmostly femaleâscreaming every word to the new songs like they had been out for years.
For his third album, Louis pushed himself as a lyricist, songwriter, and performer, holding nothing back on these tracks. Though he certainly doesnât have to prove himself, itâs clear that he still writes music, plays shows, and sings as if everything is on the line. In the studio, restless creativity and a hunger for artistic exploration drive his process. Live, he leaves everything on the stage as sold-out crowds meet him head-on with the same amount of enthusiasm and energy. As a writer, heâs diving deeper into who he is than ever before.
By the end of the night, having heard most of âGet Hereâ live, I came to an inescapable conclusion: this record could well earn Tomlinson his first Grammy nomination and win. And thatâs a tricky thing to pull off in the crowded field of pop music. As I told a friend during the show, long live boy bandsâand the authentic artists who emerge from them.
2087
titsay
prguitarman
turnnoffyourmind
