A look at Olivia Dean’s ‘The Art Of Loving’ UK/EU tour featuring Sam Fender
Olivia Dean played her opening night in Glasgow on April 22 – and she has played all her UK dates, apart from two more scheduled for June due to increased demand.
Music News Blitz writer Bella Ford reports…
Touring ‘The Art Of Loving’
On May 8 her tour continues in Brussels, followed by the rest of Europe, with Olivia performing in cities like Oslo and Stockholm.
After the London shows in June she will jet off to North America, Australia and New Zealand for the next leg of the tour.
She sold out the O2 arena in London for six shows, where 20,000 fans a night will be experiencing the thrill of hearing Olivia's greatest hits live.
The first four dates sold out on the same day, so Dean added two extra nights in the O2 – later on in the tour, these also sold out quickly.
The support varied each night with Kokoroko, Jalen Ngonda and Alice Phoebe Lou showing-off their talents, where they brought a curated mix of soulful, indie-soul and jazz-influenced music to the arena.
They are normally chosen to complement Olivia’s warm and intimate music style.
Special guest
Olivia Dean surprised fans by bringing out Sam Fender during her show on May 1.
This was to celebrate nine weeks at UK number one in the Official Charts with the song ‘Rein Me In’ which they went on to perform for London.
It's become a fan-favourite with the track winning a BRIT Award for song of the year.
The song originally featured on Sam's third album ‘People Watching’ but the duo gave it a new lease of life on Sam's tour.
Fender first introduced her to his fans when they performed it at the huge London Stadium gig last summer in front of 80,000 people.
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Tour reviews
The tour has been a hit with fans so far – NME caught the first show in Glasgow and gave it a four star review.
They said that “as the energy soars to the end of the show, Dean forgoes the tired theatrics of an encore and goes straight into the electric ‘Man I Need’.
“Thousands of fans raise their hands and belt the earworm hooks back to the ever-captivating Olivia Dean. It's a moment of pure, confetti-coated europhoria: a grand finale befitting our news pop superstar.”
The whole tour is going to be a moment to remember, for Olivia and the fans.
‘The Art Of Loving’looks set to be one of the UKs defining albums as of late. Since its release it has barely left the top five of the Official Albums chart.
Dean dominated the Brit Awards, winning four awards including Artist of the year and Album of the year.
She has proven that her rising-star status is well deserved, and her records are only going to grow from here, having already gained over 59 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
