When Hannah Britt heard she had a plus one for Harry’s sell-out show in London, there was one person she knew she had to take. And Harry once again proved why his star has gone stratospheric
There’s something special about Harry Styles. From the moment he walked out on stage as a 16-year-old boy on X Factor in 2010, a glint in his eye told us he was going to be a star. And, flash forward 16 years, that star has gone stratospheric. Currently in the middle of an historic 12-night residency at London’s iconic Wembley station, I was there for night three – along with 90,000 devoted fans.
“My sister took me to that audition just over the road from here,” the 32-year-old told the crowd. They screamed in response. One of the loudest of those came from right beside me, my Harry Styles superfan friend Charlotte. When I heard I had a plus one to see her hero, I knew I had to bring her along. And I’m very glad I did…
“He’s otherworldly,” she mused, as Harry kicked off his 23-song set list with Are You Listening Yet, from new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. This then made way for Golden. Harry looked like a chic geography teacher in a shirt, blazer and pink jumper, a little applique kiss placed artfully on the collar.
“Please feel free to be whoever you always wanted to be tonight,” Harry told the crowd, getting the audience to hold hands with those next to them. It set the tone for the night as one of kindness and acceptance – and great PR for the mums in the room.
“Respect your mother,” Harry sang in Dance No More, as I made a mental note to play it to my kids. To my right, American comedian Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi twirled to the next tracks: Music For A Sushi Restaurant, followed by Take Back, which he comically mixed with Football’s Coming Home, reflecting the England World Cup Game that was going on elsewhere.
When Harry performed his first shows in Amsterdam, fans complained of a restricted view due to the staging, which formed a huge walkway around the arena floor, with several high bridges. Yet Harry represents a new era of fan collaboration, as by the time the residency hit London, most of these bridges had been removed.
“His bone structure is ridiculous,” noted Charlotte, as Harry sat to play piano with a string section for pretty ballad, Coming Up Roses.
When his new album was released in March, it was to mixed reviews. Many loved it, some wished for more classic pop bangers. But Disco is an album made for dancing.
And indeed, Aperture when it came was by far my song of the night. Wembley stadium was turned into a gigantic disco ball, as Harry took us all to Berghain for the evening. Ready, Steady, Go and Pop, performed on the X-stage were also a blast.
Without many visuals, dance troops or tricks, there was a lot of pressure on Harry as one man to hold the crowd’s attention. But that’s the thing with Harry, you genuinely can’t take your eyes off him. He’s the best in the game right now. “I honestly feel like I could sit here for three days and not get bored,” said Charlotte. And I couldn’t help but agree.
As the show drew to a close with Sign of the Times and As It Was, fireworks lighting up the London sky, Harry put his marathon training into practice and ran around the stadium to say goodbye. “My face hurts from smiling,” said Charlotte as we sang our way back to the tube. Together Together was great fun, and just the party we all need right now.
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