Lily Allen’s West End Girl has been causing waves in the music community and is her first release since her split with Stranger Things star, David Harbour
10:28, 30 Oct 2025
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Lily Allen will bring her brand new album, West End Girl, tour to Wales. Playing her first dates for seven years, Allen will tour the UK in March 2026 and be in Cardiff’s New theatre on March 18..
The show – Lily Allen Performs West End Girl – will see the singer/songwriter play her brand-new album in its entirety, in the order the songs appear on the record. Lily has chosen the theatre venues specially to showcase her new material. The tour concludes with two nights at The London Palladium.
Tickets for the shows go on sale on Friday, November 7 at 10am at www.gigsandtours.com and www.ticketmaster.co.uk
Allen has described West End Girl, released on Friday (24 October), as “a mixture of fact and fiction which I hope serves as a reminder of how stoic yet also how frail we humans can be”.
West End Girl is turning heads and widening eyes all over the internet. The release, her first in seven years, documents through a series of fact-blurring-with-fiction tales, her break-up with David Harbour, the actor who rose to fame thanks to his role as Detective Hopper on Netflix’s Stranger Things.
Lily will be in Cardiff next March
The album has been lauded as a “brutal, tell-all masterpiece” of where she is in life after her four-year marriage broke down and Allen’s best work since It’s Not Me, It’s You in 2009. From superstar gigs to cosy pubs, find out What’s On in Wales by signing up to our newsletter here
In a recent interview with Perfect magazine, Allen admitted the end of her marriage is “really sad”, and she finds it hard not being with her “person”.
She said: “I don’t know what I can say. Two people who were once together are not together. And that’s really sad.
“It’s hard. It’s hard for me to not have my person, you know? And I am quite a codependent person.
“And I find it difficult to lean on the people who are available to me when I’m missing the comfort and stability of what is not available to me.”
The singer recently explained that she continues to feel “compassion” for her ex, telling told Vogue magazine: “There were lots of good things. My kids had an amazing experience living in America for five years, and I have a lot of compassion for my ex-husband. I think we all suffer.”
West End Girl has seen Lily collaborate with Welsh singer/songwriter, Violet Skies from Chepstow who’s also worked with Diana Ross and Mabel previously. Violet co-wrote the track on everyone’s lips, Madeline, as it details marriage betrayal, as well as Sleepwalking, Let You W/in (my fave), Dallas Major, Relapse and Beg For Me. Read more on Violet, here.
