Sign of the times!!!!!!!!!!!
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and then immediately after watermelon sugar everyone just full chest singing along to as it was
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Yes I was sad about that!!! I understand why they cut the synth-noodling though - not exactly ideal Netflix viewing material 😁
But I was sad about his speech about Tom. I heard an audio recording, it popped up on my feed.
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Dare I say: ONO had one of the best recoded SOTT performances of all time… & it would have CLEARED for the top spot if he had done the last few belts
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Also. Sarah ate the FUCK up the entire show S2 weight loss is a particular insanely hard drums to play on
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Ready Steady Go translated SO well into a live performance I was shocked by how good that was
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i love harry. i love his band. i love the choir. i love this album so much and i cannot wait to hear this live !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was SHOOKETH that he revived From The Dining Table!! I love that song though, and it’s so interesting for him to include something that - lyrically- feels so distanced from his current mindset. And maybe that’s partly why he included it! I love the harmonies in that song. I hope he keeps it so I can hear it live again.
Golden is one that Harry has always seemed to personally love, so I guess it’s a nice bridge to now.
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5* review of KISSCO ONO Manchester from The Telegraph.
“Thank God,” Styles whispered as he registered the crowd’s reaction. He shouldn’t have been surprised. Harry’s back. And we’re all hipsters now.“
A stage in the round crowded with vintage music equipment isn’t the sort of thing usually greeted with brain-coddling screams. But then Harry Styles appeared, dressed in baggy yellow trousers, a blue jumper and natty white shoes. Britain’s starriest male pop export since George Michael noodled on an analogue synth in near darkness as new song Aperture throbbed into life. Manchester went bananas. “We belong together,” yelled 20,000 people.
[[MORE]]This “One Night Only” £20-a-ticket concert at Manchester’s Co-op Live – a venue in which the 32-year-old is a financial investor – was part launch party for Styles’ fourth album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally (KATTDO), released earlier in the day.
It was also part showcase: the concert was filmed by Netflix to be rush-released on Sunday evening. But perhaps most consequentially, it was a taster of the aesthetic and music that will define pop culture in 2026.
Styles embarks on a mammoth world tour in May, playing a record 12 concerts at Wembley Stadium (with the rumour mill predicting more to come) and 30 nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden. This grand unveiling therefore offered the first proper glimpse — not counting Styles’ one-song Brit Awards appearance last week — of what will soon be ubiquitous. And the vibe? Slinky hipster heartthrob art-rave. Thom Yorke meets Tom Jones meets Tom from the Chemical Brothers. And it was life-affirmingly splendid.
“My name is Harry,” he said, as though anyone needed reminding. Dance No More sounded like Prince. Are You Listening Yet? built to a horn-filled crescendo.
Pre-show queues at the merch stands outside were dozens-deep as super-fans (at least the ones who didn’t have their tickets cancelled by Ticketmaster for being suspected scalpers) waited to snap up £80 sweatshirts. Earlier in the day, 16 Harry Styles pop-up shops opened in cities from Tokyo to Toronto. In a sense, the products on sale were moot. People were buying Harry.
So what precisely is he selling? A sort of hazy escapism, less brazen than Coldplay’s day-glo optimism and focused primarily on the 4am dancefloor. This was perfectly summed up on Pop, a glitchy banger with the synth wobble from Hot Chip’s Over and Over.
The new music’s a gamble. Styles, former of boyband One Direction, has revealed unexpected sources of inspiration for KATTDO: Brooklyn dance music pioneers LCD Soundsystem and Manchester post-punk band The Durutti Column. Both are big on sonic layering and atmospherics. It’s quite the pivot from the pure pop of As It Was and Adore You. With the best will in the world, it’s unlikely that the millions of fans who’ve bought tickets to Styles’ tour have been listening to such underground concerns. Therefore the big questions here were whether Styles could build a bridge between the towering pop of old and the warehouse experimentalism of now, and whether fans would cross it rather than look perplexed and just, you know, wait for Watermelon Sugar?
Well, on this evidence, the bridge was built and fans willingly shimmied over it. The new songs made total sense live. It was astonishing how many people belted out words to tracks only released into the wild 21 hours previously. String-laden ballad Coming Up Roses was spellbinding.
“Thank God,” Styles whispered as he registered the crowd’s reaction. He shouldn’t have been surprised. Harry’s back. And we’re all hipsters now.
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Me : I can watch it all on Netflix peacefully on Sunday.
Meanwhile Harry at the Coop : plays FTDT
