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Lana Del Rey has announced two major arena dates for August and is set to play in Liverpool and Glasgow.
The ‘Video Games’ singer plays:
AUGUST
22 - Liverpool, Echo Arena
23 - Glasgow, SSE Hydro
Fans who buy her new album ‘Lust For Life’ will have access to the pre-sale when it begins at 9am on Friday (July 28) and the rest of you will have to wait until Monday (July 31).
The gigs come hot on the heels of her sold out Brixton Academy gig on Monday night (July 24). And speaking of which, Lana Del Rey has spoken about that fluffed intro to ‘Love’ at the Brixton Academy on Monday night and blamed her keyboard player (July 24).
The singer was forced to sing ‘Love’ a capella after the band seemed to struggle to come grips with the number. An easy mistake to make given that the song is pretty new and is the opening number of her new album, ‘Lust For Life’. It would be almost forgivable if it weren’t for a little concept known as “rehearsing”. Y’know, that process where musicians get to together and like, practice a song until everyone plays it.
Indeed, our very own Cai Trefor who was at the gig, mused on the possibility that it might well have been staged to give Lana Del Rey to show off her pipes to greater effect.
Lana Del Rey singing #LOVE live at O2 Academy Brixton in London, UK on July 24, 2017. pic.twitter.com/ZQpSWR2Tx6
— Lana Del Rey World (@LanaDelReyWorld) 24 July 2017
Not so, says Del Rey.
“I’m not exactly sure what happened, but I think my keyboard player was playing the wrong chords,” she told the BBC. “I was leaning in to him and saying, ‘That’s not it, that’s not it’ and he was like, ‘That is it, trust me’. I listened for 10 seconds and I was like, ‘Damn, I definitely can’t get it’. I couldn’t get it in rehearsal, either. So I just told him to stop. I feel bad – I was kind of abrasive.”
She went to explain why she was determined to see the song through to the end: “But that song is at the heart of the record and I thought it’d be weird if I didn’t do it. So, luckily the people who were at the show knew the words and they sang along with me.”
Perhaps she buy a copy of Elton John’s Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player album for her hapless cohort? Or rehearse a bit more?
