Music news: Everything you need to know about Dua Lipa‘s surprise performance at Tame Impala’s London show
Tame Impala have recently performed in the UK following his 2026 European/UK leg of the Deadbeat Tour from May 7 to May 11, where he brought out Dua Lipa as a surprise guest in his London show.
Here, Music News Blitz’s Amelie Da Costa gives a breakdown of the tour and the performance in London.
Tame Impala history and success
Tame Impala is an Australian psychedelic music project created by singer, songwriter Kevin Parker and founded in 2007.
He is best known for his album ‘Currents’, released in 2015, which led to mainstream success and followed on to the present day global accomplishments.
His most recent album ‘Deadbeat’ was released on October 17, 2025, and became the name of the current global tour.
The Deadbeat Tour officially started on October 27, 2025, in Brooklyn, New York shortly after the release of the album. It wrapped up temporarily on November 15, 2025, in Oakland, California.
Tour information
The European leg started on April 4, 2026, in Porto, Portugal at the Super Bock Arena, in support of the 2025 album ‘Deadbeat’.
The final show for the European/UK part of the tour is set to wrap up on May 13, in Dublin, Ireland, performing at the 3Arena before moving onto North America on July 6.
So far he has done 23 shows across Europe, some of them including Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and the UK.
The next performances of the tour will span across North America and Australia, with 41 shows, including some in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Melbourne, Sydney and more.
There will be special guests performing at the US shows, with DJO performing from July 6 to August 5 and Dominic Fike performing from August 25 to September 20.
The 2026 tour is set to wrap up in Perth Australia in the RAC Arena on October 25.
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Dua Lipa’s surprise performance
Tame Impala opened up his UK performances in London at the O2 Arena on May 7, where Dua Lipa made a surprise performance.
The show opened with the song ‘Apocalypse Dreams’ from his 2012 album ‘Lonerism’ and closed on three songs during the encore, including ‘My Old Ways’, ‘The Less I Know the Better’ and ‘End of Summer’.
The setlist also included hit songs such as ‘Dracula’, 'Feels Like We Only Go Backwards' and ‘Let it Happen'.
Just over halfway through the show, Dua Lipa joined the stage as a surprise to fans to perform two songs, one being a Tame Impala song, the other being her own song.
The songs included ‘Afterthought’ which was released in 2025, where she joined onstage to sing the chorus, and the other being her 2024 hit ‘Houdini’ that Kevin Parker helped produce.
Some fans are speculating whether Tame Impala and Dua Lipa are planning on doing a remix to the song ‘Afterthought’, though no one has made it clear that those are the future plans for the song.
The final show of the Europe/UK leg will be on May 13 in Dublin, Ireland before it kicks off again almost two months later on July 6 in Miami, Florida.
The tour is far from over and we can't wait to see what is to come in the future for Tame Impala.
