Lily Allen treated the star-studded crowd at Chanel’s Coco Crush launch party to a one-of-a-kind performance. The singer used the night at Los Angeles’ Chateau Marmont to deliver the live debut of three songs from her latest album, West End Girl.
The appearance reimagined “Pussy Palace,””Tennis,” and “Just Enough” in an acoustic format, breaking away from the somewhat theatrical approach she took on the album. Allen opened her set with “Sleepwalking,” which she performed alongside “Madeline” on Saturday Night Live in December.
The launch party featured notable appearances from Gracie Abrams, Tessa Thompson, Conan Gray, PinkPantheress, Griff, St. Vincent, Maggie Rogers, and Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie, among others. The audience joined Allen as she giggled through the chorus of “Pussy Palace,” set to a sparse piano melody.
Allen’s five-song set precedes the West End Girl tour. The trek is scheduled to touch down in North America in April. The singer will deliver the entirety of the album from top to bottom, bringing her audience along for a wild ride through a messy breakup. The brief run will include stops at theaters in Chicago, Toronto, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
“Lily Allen’s new album, West End Girl, has pulled the rug out from under happily-married-after dreams,” Rolling Stone wrote in a review of West End Girl. “The record is an odyssey of betrayal and heartbreak, an investigation of the way we perceive ourselves and the people we wake up next to every morning, and a litmus test for how honest we’re allowed to be in art and life. As a result, her record stands as a marker on the musical landscape where storytelling is laid out in its barest and sharpest form. Impressively, she has found an audience that’s ready to listen.”
