Lily Allen review – West End Girl’s marital collapse is superbly evoked at arena scale

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According to The Guardian’s source item, Lily Allen review – West End Girl’s marital collapse is superbly evoked at arena scale, Utilita Arena, Newcastle Expanding on her recent theatre tour, Allen’s one-woman performance of her zeitgeist-dominating album is full of catharsis and high camp Lily Allen’s arena jaunt is a scaled-up version of the show she took into theatres last year, touring her acclaimed album West End Girl, which at least partly dramatises the real-life breakdown of her four-year marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour. Once again, the show opens with string ensemble the Dallas Minor Trio playing instrumental versions of her older hits, which warms up the crowd and provides a rare opportunity to cheerily bellow the likes of The Fear or Fuck You (“very much”) along with several thousand people. The 41-year-old comes on for the second act, an hour-long one-woman show performing West End Girl with theatrical staging. Looking resplendent – like a modern Ronette – in a dress finished off with a

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