Lily Allen has announced her biggest ever headline tour, in the wake of the riproaring success of her revenge album West End Girl.
Earlier this month, the singer, 40, sold out a string of theatre shows in just minutes – leading to the confirmation she will play a slew of UK and Ireland arena dates in June 2026 – with the shows marking Lily’s biggest headline tour of her career.
The tour, which comes in conjunction with 20 years since the release of her debut album Alright, Still, will see the star play the entirety of West End Girl.
West End Girl is an ode to her marriage to philandering Stranger Things actor David Harbour, to whom she was married for four years after meeting on dating app Raya, with 14 tracks detailing the breakdown of their relationship in brutal honesty.
Arena locations will include London, Manchester, Glasgow and Nottingham, while Lily is also set for high profile performances on Saturday Night Live in December and at Mighty Hoopla in London in May.
Lily Allen has announced her biggest ever headline tour, in the wake of the riproaring success of her revenge album West End Girl
Earlier this month, the singer, 40, sold out a string of theatre shows in just minutes – leading to the confirmation she will play a slew of UK and Ireland arena dates in June 2026 – with the shows marking Lily’s biggest headline tour of her career (pictured with David in 2020)
West End Girl is an ode to her marriage to philandering Stranger Things actor David Harbour, to whom she was married for four years after meeting on dating app Raya , with 14 tracks detailing the breakdown of their relationship in brutal honesty
Lily stunned fans last month with the release of West End Girl, which shed a disarmingly honest light on her marital woes – from the discovery of her husband’s ‘P***y Palace’ to his illicit relationship with ‘Madeline’.
The heartbreaking album opens with Lily revealing David had requested the couple embark on an open marriage – however with stipulations in place.
She goes on to expose David’s extra-curricular and rule-flouting activities and also shares a number of sordid details of his affair and their union, including the discovery of an abundance of sex toys and condoms at his ‘P***y Palace’.
While many of her confessions are explicit, the star also takes to hinting, including alluding to prostitution on track five, Madeline, in which she states David was allowed to sleep with other women ‘as long as there was payment’.
Madeline is a constant thread of the album, as Lily appears to be naming the woman involved in David’s affair and reads out a message exchange, which sees Lily attempt to investigate whether he was emotionally cheating rather than just having sex.
The record is her first in seven years and was recorded in just 10 days, in the wake of her devastating split from the Stranger Things actor, 50, in December after Lily, 40, discovered his three-year affair and slew of infidelities
In an interview on Thursday, Lily admitted she feels ‘overwhelmed and validated’ by the response to West End Girl.
Speaking on CBS Mornings, Lily touched on how the viral success of the raw album has helped her comprehend her feelings towards the split, which allegedly saw David flout the rules of their open marriage with repeated infidelities.
She said: ‘It’s amazing, I write music for myself to make myself feel better and when something connects with people, it’s affirming , it’s validating – to have people listen to this record and go “Yeah, that’s really messed up, that’s really painful”‘.
In the interview, Lily also made a rare comment about checking herself into an £8,000-a-week treatment centre in the wake of the split after reportedly telling friends at the time that she was close to a nervous breakdown.
In an interview on Thursday, Lily admitted she feels ‘overwhelmed and validated’ by the response to West End Girl
West End Girl is her first in seven years and was recorded in just 10 days, in the wake of her devastating split from the Stranger Things actor, 50, in December after Lily discovered his three-year affair and slew of infidelities.
The album has been met with uproarious praise from fans, with many invested in the star’s pain but also her many witty takes on her lowest points.
Speaking CBS’ Anthony Mason, she said of the response to the album: ‘Firstly I’m overwhelmed and massively grateful.’
Having shot to fame via MySpace with her 2006 album Alright, Still, Lily spoke about how the reception to West End Girl has been similar in being totally online.
She said: ‘My first album, my success was born from a website called MySpace and it felt like a moment in time that you couldn’t recreate and I certainly haven’t felt anything like what that felt like until now. It sort of feels quite similar in a way…
‘I guess because it’s happening virally. I haven’t heard the songs in a shop, I haven’t seen somebody sing back the lyrics to me yet and that’s been weird. Great but weird. It’s highly entertaining, very overstimulating.’
When asked what she thinks about what’s being said, she responded: ‘I mean it’s amazing, I write music for myself to make myself feel better and when something connects with people, it’s affirming , it’s validating…
‘The thing then I was experiencing in my life at the time, I wasn’t really getting that validation for whatever reason…
‘So to now have people listen to this record and go “Yeah, that’s really messed up, that’s really painful, I can’t imagine what it would be like to go through something like that”, it’s like ok’.
She then made her comment about her stay in the treatment centre, laughing as she said: ‘Now I know why I had to check myself into a treatment center!’
A whopping 10 months before the release of West End Girl, it was revealed that the split had driven Lily to seek professional help.
The Mail on Sunday revealed that the singer’s mental health deteriorated significantly after she returned from holiday to her marital home in New York in January.
A whopping 10 months before the release of West End Girl, it was revealed that the split had driven Lily to seek professional help
