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Lizzo announces UK and Europe ‘The Special Tour’ dates

Lizzo is heading to the UK for four nights of 'The Special Tour'.

By Emily Maskell

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Lizzo (Image: Atlantic Records)

It’s about damn time! Lizzo has announced the UK and Europe leg of her 2023 ‘The Special Tour’.

Announcing a string of dates for spring 2023, the Grammy award-winning singer tweeted: “It’s about damn time The Special Tour came to the UK and Europe.”

Lizzo’s European dates begin in Oslo on 17 February and conclude at The O2 in London on 15 March.

She has four UK pitstops (Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, and London) alongside one night in Dublin through March.

The 34-year-old singer will be joined by Brit Award nominee Joy Crooks as the support act on the UK dates. 

Tickets go on general sale at 12 pm on Friday (7 October) – find a show near you and more information here.

‘Truth Hurts’ hitmaker Lizzo previously left LGBTQ+ fans delighted with the uplifting message of her track ‘Everybody’s Gay’.

Lizzo debuted the song in June at a West Hollywood tribute show by RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14-star Kornbread in front of an adoring crowd.

The chorus is an eruption of energy as Lizzo sings: “Dance the night away (Keep your p***y poppin’, pop those percolates). Everybody’s gay, yeah (It’s a happy place in here, baby, you’re safe). We can take our mask off. We can all ball and parlay. I can hardly wait.”

“I wanted to write a fantasy song, like one of those Hollywood songs where you’re taken away to a picture that I’m painting, a dream sequence kind of thing,” Lizzo told Apple Music. She noted that ‘Everybody’s Gay’ is the album’s centrepiece.

“And no, when I sing ‘Take your mask off,’ I didn’t mean your N95,” she adds. “I meant like the mask of the person that you have to uphold when you’re out in the world… Take that off, because we accept you for who you are in this space.”