Lily Allen has announced her first tour in six years, returning to stages across the UK next spring following the release of her new album West End Girl.
The record, released earlier this month, shows Allen at her most direct. West End Girl is full of sharp, funny and sometimes bruising observations as she reflects on the breakdown of a relationship and the process of starting over. It’s a record that cuts close to the bone.
The West End Girl tour will see Allen performing in a series of special theatre venues, starting in Glasgow on 2nd March and running through to two final nights at London’s Palladium on 20th and 21st March. Stops along the way include Liverpool, Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester and Cardiff.
It is her first full UK run since 2018’s No Shame tour, which accompanied her Mercury-nominated fourth album of the same name. Since then, Allen has balanced a growing acting career, including a West End role in 2:22 A Ghost Story and the Netflix series Dreamland, with a steady return to music. West End Girl marks her first album in six years and has been seen as both a comeback and a creative reinvention.
Fans can expect a setlist mixing new material with favourites from across her career, from Alright, Still to It’s Not Me, It’s You. Tickets go on sale Friday 7th November at 10am via Gigs and Tours and Ticketmaster, and demand is expected to be high given the size of the venues.
For an artist whose songs have always blurred the personal and the public, the chance to hear West End Girl live feels particularly fitting, a theatrical return for one of Britain’s most distinctive voices.
