Lily Allen stormed onto the stage last night to a packed Hammersmith Apollo. Her fans were mainly teenage girls wearing flashing bunny ears, which were for sale outside the venue in west London.
The MySpace success story was without her trademark prom dress and opted instead for a baggy black outfit with white trainers. She apologised for being pissed and said she would try and sober up.
She smoked throughout the gig and a backstage man had to come on every 15 minutes or so to give her a fag. She had her usual rant and rave and this time politicians and fashion magazine editors were her target. “They can F*%k off!” she yelled.
Lily and her band were due to fly to America the following morning and when she told the crowd, they booed. “Don’t worry guys, I’m proud of my British roots. It’s just that they’ve got loadsa money so hopefully I’ll be coming back with a few more quid,” she giggled.
“Where’s my drink?” she shouted to her hangers-on and then she declared: “Now I sound like Amy Winehouse.” Lily stubbed out her cigarettes on music equipment as she belted out her tunes such as ‘Littlest Things’ and ‘Not Big’. She spilt her drink down her dress and was even spotted spitting behind her.
She performed a mix of old and new songs as well as a few covers. She told the London crowd to pretend it was Friday. “I wanna see you all dancing!” she screamed.
After singing ‘Smile’, the song that shot her to fame she left the stage and her fans began roaring: “Lily! Lily!” She came back on and finished with her latest tune ‘Alfie’. “Go out and but this,” Lily added.
Lily then stated that MySpace was the way forward: “It did me a few favours.” But I think that it may have done her a few financial favours but lets hope she doesn’t end up singing about going into rehab one-day. Amy Winehouse eat your heart out.
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