It will be a grand finale. Harry Styles closes in Italy his very long and intense Love on Tourwhich started in Las Vegas in September 2021. And it is Reggio Emilia, excited and jubilant, to greet pop megastar’s trendiest singer-songwriter on July 22nd. Unobtainable tickets and tiny beds are the premise of the concert which will be an exciting hymn to inclusiveness, love, values LGBTQ+. Love on Tour, indeed.
Here’s what we can expect from the concert at the RCF Arena, including lineup, reviews and opening artists. With one certainty: the public will be the protagonist, in a safe space.
Less show, more music
For Harry Styles Love on Tour is the second solo tour, in promotion of the second and third studio albums End Line And Harry’s House, Grammy Award as Album of the Year in 2023.
After having seduced Germany and Austria, the singer has set his sights on Spain and Portugal, with dates of Barcelona, Madrid and Lisbonbefore leaving on July 22 in front of the one hundred thousand fans of Campovolo.
«He has the world at his feet And Frankfurt is no exception», they wrote from Germany after the stage on the Main. Almost punctual on stage at the Waldstadion, last July 5 the 29-year-old Briton entered the scene with a colorful eye-catching jacket and glittery top. The debut with Daydreaming was drowned out by thunderous applause, and lo and behold the whole stadium bouncing with golden.
«Entertains the audience with charm and messages of love»
TO Vienna, where he performed on 8 July, the official queue in front of the Ernst-Happel-Stadion started at 8 in the morning, with numbers distributed to all those who had camped out beforehand. «Taylor Swift could fill three concerts at Happel in 2024, but the hype surrounding her male pop counterpart is no less», commented those who were there. And on the Viennese concert spellbound words: “Harry doesn’t fly around the stadium like P! Nk, but he entertains his audience with charm and messages of love».
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Harry Styles on stage at Coachella, April 15, 2022, Indio, California
Reading the reviews of the stages just prior to the Italian one, for Reggio Emilia one can expect a concert that is not as spectacular as stage effects, “rather conventional”, which however aims at the substance. In Vienna «Styles wore something bright and shiny green and was already clutching his guitar during the second song, as if he wanted to say:“ Folks, it’s also about the music! ”».
The former One Direction, one of the few out of a boy band to hit solo success, as well as being a pop superstar is also a fashion icon, actor, queer champion. But on the stage of his Love on Tour he wants to remember that he is there for the music, more than anything else.
Harry Styles Safe Space
In Vienna Harry Styles showed with a rainbow flag. The audience, like a community crossed by the same vibrations, is the real star of his concerts. He cuddles him, shows him care and appreciation, makes him the protagonist. He even helped a crying fan come out. «He offered an inclusive, community and deeply loving pop show for all».
«An inclusive, community and loving pop show»
In his welcome speech in Frankfurt he explained that his concerts are a closed and safe space in which everyone should let go and feel free, without prejudicewithout worrying about what other people think. Dancing and singing carefree. Top i LGBTQ+ values, mutual respect, equality, love. And in the meantime, here he is often interacting with fans nicely, showing himself accessible. For everyone to have the opportunity to see him, he tries to use all the space on the stage. His mantra of him: every human being can be as he has always wanted to be.
“The atmosphere that prevails during the concert is indescribable.” And meanwhile here he is continually addressing the public to make sure everyone is okay.
Love on tour is a message from tolerance and acceptance and the celebration of Harry Styles the Pied Piper who exudes a charismatic and gentle masculinity, far from archaic toxic scents. “Even with a magnifying glass you can’t find the angularity of a rock ‘n’ roll show.” And that’s okay. A big party of euphoria and love in Harry’s style.
Who are Wet Leg, the opening band
From the Isle of Wight to the Love on Tour. It’s o’clock Wet Leg Harry Styles’ concert support group. Guitar band formed in 2019 and already two Grammy Awards 2023for best alternative music performance and album, is the indie revelation of recent years.
Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, adorable and quirky girls who started their amazing adventure with a deck chair eulogy with Chaise Longuealso performed at Coachella this year, where they were joined on stage by Dave Grohl during the performance of Ur Mumand last July they remixed the song Wagging tongue by Depeche Mode.
For his part, however, Harry Styles has made a cover of Wet dreams by Wet Leg, much to the happiness of the duo.
Harry Styles concert lineup
The lineup of Love on Tour at the end should not reserve big surprises. In the last concerts in Frankfurt and Vienna, and even before Cardiff, Harry Styles next to his greatest hits, from Watermelon sugar to As it wasalso proposed some songs from times gone by one directionas What makes you beautiful.
The lucky ones were also able to enjoy Medicines, an unreleased song that presents only on a few occasions. At the concerts in Bologna and Turin in July 2022, he delighted the crowd by singing If by phoning of Mina and encouraging, in Italian, to be free: «Be free to be whoever you want». Who knows if she will prepare some other gem for Reggio Emilia.
Here is the Vienna set list:
- Daydreaming
- golden
- I adore you
- Keep driving
- daylight
- She
- Matilda
- Satellite
- Late night talking
- Cinema
- Music for a sushi restaurant
- Treat people with kindness
- What makes you beautiful
- Grape juice
- Watermelon sugar
- End Line
BIS:
- Sign of the times
- As it was
- Kiwi
After the Love on Tour?
Finally after 23 months on tour, from the United States to Europe, from Canada to South America, from Australia to Asia and Europe again, after Campovolo Harry Styles will stop. He plans to take a break to recharge his batteries.
He will need it. In the tour that spanned almost two years, in addition to rivers full of affection Harry Styles also received blunt objects in the face. In Vienna a small object thrown by the crowd saw him bring his aching hands to her eye. It’s not the first time he’s been targeted, complete with throwing chicken nuggets and candy. For this at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion was expressly it is forbidden to bring kiwis and watermelons with youso that nobody comes up with crazy ideas while listening to the songs Watermelon sugar And Kiwi. But the ban was not enough.
It went worse a few weeks ago for the American singer Baby Rexha who, at her concert in New York, was hit in the face by a cell phone, complete with an interrupted show and three stitches on her forehead.
May the Reggio Emilia grand finale be just celebration, love and music.
