Lily Allen
Where: Brixton Academy, London
When: 28th November 2009
Lil Wayne’ ‘A Millie’ blasts out while ‘Lily’ projects onto backing screens, making the song become, ‘a Lily, a Lily, a Lily’, and then a short haired, skinny Lily Allen bursts onto the 02 Brixton Academy stage. But the difference between this Lily and the old Lily is immense. What happened to the young, ballsy, blinged-up chav is the look on many faces. Cracking America has transformed Miss Allen into a slender, polite showgirl. She used to come on stage in a prom dress and trainers but Brixton sees her dressed hippy, chic and strangely enough, as Britney Spears in three different outfits.
She stuns every single member of the crowd by singing all her hit songs, telling everyone to forget their troubles and smile while she sings ‘Smile’ and explaining how we should knock out annoying people in bars before singing ‘Knock ‘Em Out’.
She dedicated the song, ‘Who’d Have Known’, to her boyfriend, who watches from back stage and, ‘He Wasn’t There’, to her dad. All Lily’s songs feel so personal and after seeing her live singing her heart out you really feel as though you re being let into her life.
After wowing the crowd with the hit single ‘The Littlest Things’ she gives out free pints of Guinness from her on-stage pump. She even manages to juggle two pints and a microphone and carry on singing - very skilled.
Although Lily is now a new women the crowd still see her old traits seeping into the show, she sparked up three cigarettes while on stage and as always, has a few words to say about the BNP and George Bush.
The stage looked like something “Kylie would have”, a high stair case brightly lit, in killer heals she looks as though she could fall down them at any moment. In between songs Allen can’t stop giggling, being back in her home town and at Brixton obviously makes her very happy.
After changing into a skimpy silver outfit and a long, blonde wig, she came back on for an encore blasting out Britney Spears’ ‘Womanizer’, which the crowd went mad for. She ended with her brilliant song ‘Fuck You’ which really got the crowd singing along and by the end of it even the dragged along husbands joined in and stuck their middle fingers up for the chorus. Towards the end of the song she clambered up the stairs one more time and disappeared though a sinking floor until all we can see is her finger waving around for the last beats of the song. A truly amazing gig.
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