Lily Allen fans desperately hoping to attend her upcoming UK tour are begging the star to upgrade her venues after suffering huge queues for tickets, with tens of thousands battling it out for an average of 2,000 spots per venue.
The Not Fair hitmaker, 40, released the record of her lifetime in West End Girl, in which Lily dives into the murky breakdown of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour.
Lily has released four previous albums, but West End Girl, her first in seven years, is a breakout record in many ways: it’s been lauded as a musical ‘masterpiece’ and is an instant cultural emblem of 2025.
Given the popularity of West End Girl, fans were gutted when Lily announced her subsequent UK tour in venues with capacities that definitely do not match demand.
According to her official tour announcement Lily intentionally and ‘specifically’ chose to showcase her new material in theatres, with an average capacity of just under 2,000 people.
However, fans were said to have significantly outweighed available tickets, with some queueing reporting 50,000 others ahead of them all trying to get their hands on just over 2,000 tickets.
‘There is currently over 50,000 people in queue for the London night 1 show－the venue has a capacity of 2,286,’ said one fan, while another reported 30,000 people in the queue for a London Palladium evening ahead of them.
‘Girl you’re lily allen you could do stadiums,’ commented @toadinthebowl, while @Meadowlees said: ‘Nah did anyone even get lily allen tickets??????? Got through and every ticket I selected was unavailable.’
Lily Allen’s 2026 West End Girl tour dates
March 2 – Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow (2,475 person capacity)
March 3 – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool (1,700 person capacity)
March 5 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham (2,262 person capacity)
March 7 – City Hall, Sheffield (2,271 person capacity)
March 8 – City Hall, Newcastle (2,135 person capacity)
March 10 and 11 – Aviva Studios, Manchester (1,600 people seated, and 5,000 standing capacity)
March 14 – Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham (2,200 person capacity)
March 15 – Corn Exchange, Cambridge (1,400 person capacity)
March 17 – Beacon, Bristol (2,124 person capacity)
March 18 – New Theatre, Cardiff (1,144 person capacity)
March 20, 21 and 22 – London Palladium, London (2,286 person capacity)
Tickets are available here.
‘Everyone’s bandwagoning Lily Allen right now so hard. Which is great, I love seeing my girl get her flowers. But now it’s to the point I couldn’t even get presale tickets. I’ve never had this issue at any of her tours especially last record cycles tour,’ said long time fan @SerJeeOh.
While the pre-sale ticket drop has now closed, general admission tickets are going on sale on Friday November 7 at 10am.
West End Girl – a ‘mixture of fact and fiction’ – was bound to make a splash with all its scandalous allegations of cheating, lying and gaslighting directed towards Lily’s ex-husband Harbour.
In songs including Tennis and Madeline, Lily appeared to reveal that she and Harbour were in some version of an open relationship, but accused him of pushing the boundaries of this by cheating on her.
‘We had an arrangement / Be discreet and don’t be blatant/ It had to be with strangers,’ she sings, before describing her discovery of a woman who she refers to as Madeline, who it turns out is a costume designer called Natalie Tippet.
How successful is Lily Allen’s West End Girl?
While Lily’s 2006 classic has an impressive 483,000,000 listens in its nine years, the seventh track on West End Girl, Pussy Palace, has already clocked up almost 10mill listens in its short week-long lifetime.
Spotify told The Hollywood Reporter that most albums get their biggest numbers in the first few days after release, but West End Girl is bucking this trend, as its listens have doubled in the week since it dropped, confirming the buzz around the album is translating into plays.
While Lily previously said she’d like to have children with David, in the album, the star sings about her husband considering getting a vasectomy, as she wonders whether he’d got a woman pregnant that’s not her.
She also sings in Pussy Palace that she ‘found a shoebox full of handwritten letters /From brokenhearted women wishing you could have been better’ in an apartment owned by David in New York, which she said was evidence of his ‘double life’.
Lily also sings about finding a bag full of ’sex toys, butt plugs, and lube inside’.
Harbour is yet to speak out on the bombshell claims, and has been notably quiet as the press tour for season five of Stranger Things picks up ahead of its November 26 Netflix release.
However, West End Girl has made a rumble for more than just its blunt contents, with many applauding the album as musically superb, as the 14 tracks take listeners on journey with a machine gun of catchy hooks and genre experiments.
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