Lily Allen will play her first tour in seven years following the release of her explosive new album West End Girl.
The record has drawn attention for her explicit and brutally honest lyrics about the breakdown of her four year marriage to David Harbour, which ended last December after she accused the actor of of having multiple affairs.
In her most talked about track, titled Madeline, she appears to directly address David’s infidelity with the mystery woman, who she gives the fictional moniker.
Now it’s been announced Lily will perform the single as well as her other hits during her brand new theatre tour next year.
The 40-year-old will tour the UK in March, with her first shows kicking off in Glasgow before moving to Liverpool, Newcastle, Bristol and Cardiff.
It will culminate at the London Pallidum, with Lily performing at the renowned venue for two nights.
Lily Allen will play her first tour in seven years following the release of her controversial new album West End Girl
She will tour the UK in March, with her first shows kicking off in Glasgow before moving to Liverpool, Newcastle, Bristol and Cardiff before bringing her tour to an end in London
Tickets for the shows will go on sale on Friday, November 7 at 10am.
The Not Fair hitmaker last went on tour in 2018 with her album No Shame.
She has made only a handful of live performances since then, such as a guest appearance with Olivia Rodrigo in 2022 and this year’s Glastonbury as she put an animated display at Worthy Farm.
In Lily’s song Madeline, she sings: ‘How long has it been going on? Is it just sex or is there emotion?/ He told me it would stay in hotel rooms, never be out in the open.
‘Why would I trust anything that comes out of his mouth?/I’m not convinced that he didn’t f**k you in our house’.
The chorus reads: ‘We had an arrangement/ Be discrete and don’t be blatant. There had to be payment/ It had to be with strangers/ But you’re not a stranger, Madeline’.
The Mail On Sunday exclusively revealed Madeline’s real identity and spoke to the woman at the centre of the storm at her home in the US.
Lily’s split from David led her to check into a £8,000-a-week trauma treatment centre at the time to focus on her mental health.
In her most talked about track, titled Madeline, she appears to directly address David Harbour’s infidelity with the mystery woman, who she gives the fictional moniker (pictured in 2023)
And she admitted that she has used her music as a way to work through the dark feelings she was having and to ‘lay my truth on the table’.
The mother-of-two said: ‘Nobody knew what was going on in my life. So I got into the studio, cried for two hours and then said, “Let’s make some music”.’
Meanwhile, Lily recently dropped a huge hint she had mended her relationship with her ex-husband as she insisted she doesn’t want ‘revenge’ on him in a new interview.
During a chat with Interview magazine, Lily claimed she now feels ‘differently’ about their marriage breakdown, after first penning the record last December.
When asked whether the new album is a ‘revenge tour’, Lily said: ‘It isn’t. I mean, I wrote this record in 10 days in December and I feel very differently about the whole situation now. We all go through breakups and it’s always f***ing brutal.
‘But I don’t think it’s that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you’re in it.’
The Not Fair hitmaker last went on tour in 2018 with her album No Shame (pictured in December 2018 in Glasgow)
She added: ‘That’s what’s fun about this record; it’s viscerally like going through the motions. At the time, I was really trying to process things and that’s great in terms of the album, but I don’t feel confused or angry now. I don’t need revenge.
‘It’s not a cruel album. I don’t feel like I’m being mean. It was just the feelings I was processing at the time.’
Last week it was revealed how Lily gave out raunchy sex toys to her celebrity pals at a launch party for her album.
The hitmaker gifted those on the guest list a sex toy which doubled up as a USB stick to play her new tracks.
The party took place at Spanish restaurant Decimo, which saw Lily dazzle in a Marc Jacobs minidress as she was joined by 45 diners including friends and family.
