After the release of her debut album, falling for robots & wishing i was one, in July, LØLØ embarked on her first headlining tour in Europe in October. Before she clicks her heels three times, she concludes the tour with a final show in Haarlem, The Netherlands, on November 3rd. She took her best friend with her from Canada, to support her during the tour. Singer-songwriter Gus did his best to make the crowd ready for LØLØ’s show with his optimistic pop rock songs, but the cover of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Taste” got the crowd really warmed up. After that, the crowd felt comfortable enough to dance along with his own songs for the rest of his set.
Those familiar with LØLØ’s debut know she references The Wizard Of Oz a lot this ‘era’, so it doesn’t come as a surprise that the stage is decked out with a yellow brick road and a tin man in the corner. The lighting is using a lot of primary colors, giving the concert a bit of a technicolor feeling as well. LØLØ’s Dorothy would prefer to stay on the road forever if she could, as she really found her voice on this headlining tour. It almost sounds too good to be true, but a failing in-ear piece by the end of the show proves otherwise.
She has named artists like Paramore, Green Day and Taylor Swift as her influences, and you can hear (and see) these throughout some of the songs. She shortly covers Green Day’s “Brain Stew” during “THE FLOOR IS LAVA!!”, The Killers’ “Mr Brightside” during “faceplant” and Lorde’s “Liability” as a vulnerable break in the set. The entire show feels as if you’re transported to the early 2000s, when Hilary Duff and Avril Lavigne were huge mainstays in popular culture. They were simpler times, and it offers us an escape from reality tonight.
If the heroes journey gets resolved by the end of the story, before Dorothy clicks her heels and heads home, then the last show of tour is the tearful farewell, the last hurrah before the hero goes home. Fans get pulled on the stage for “Debbie Downer” to cheer, and support act Gus comes on stage for it as well. For the encore, LØLØ’s wearing a white shirt with ‘Netherlands, u get me so damn high’ on it, to be sold to a fan after the show.
The first headlining Europe tour of LØLØ, she started on a journey to find her home, only to realize it’s right in front of her all along. But there’s no place like home, so catch LØLØ on her Canadian tour starting November 16th, or in the United States in the beginning of 2025.
GALLERY: LØLØ and Gus at Haarlem in Amsterdam (November 3, 2024)
