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Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ UK Tour 2023: all you need to know

Onsale dates, ticket prices and more for one of the summer's biggest stadium tours.

By Joe Goggins

Last week (February 1), Beyoncé announced that she will return to the UK for the first time since her ‘On the Run II’ tour with Jay-Z in 2018, and for the first time as a solo artist since 2016. She will play stadium dates in England, Scotland and Wales in May and June in support of Renaissance , her fourth UK number one album.

The dates come as part of a wider European tour that kicks off in Stockholm on May 10. She will play Brussels, Paris, Lyon, Barcelona, Marseille, Cologne, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Warsaw on the jaunt. On the back of Beyoncé becoming the most successful artist in the history of the Grammy Awards at last night’s (February 5) ceremony, find out all you need to know about her visit to the UK here.

Where in the UK is Beyoncé playing?

The ‘Break My Soul’ star heads first for Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on May 17, for a third appearance there after previous visits in 2016 and 2018. She then heads to Scotland, and Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium, on May 20, for what will be her first ever appearance in the Scottish capital, not counting a performance with Sean Paul at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2003. Then, she’ll travel south of the border to Sunderland, and the Stadium of Light, on May 23; she played there on the Formation World Tour in 2016. The UK leg will wrap up in North London at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with a three-night stand on May 29, 30 and June 2.

👑 THE QUEEN RETURNS 👑 Attention BeyHive! @Beyonce is bringing her Renaissance World Tour to the UK in May 2023 😍 🎟️ Tickets go on sale Tue 7 Feb at 10:00 ☞ https://t.co/lbCoTr37xg ⭐ Don't forget to check out the VIP Packages ⭐ #RENAISSANCEWorldTour pic.twitter.com/Si8Tke1hRB — ticketmasteruk (@TicketmasterUK) February 1, 2023

When are pre-sale tickets available?

Various pre-sales for the Renaissance World Tour’s UK dates went on sale last Friday (February 3). Those allocations, through O2 Priority, Live Nation and the individual venues, opened at 10am and closed at 6pm. Reports surfaced of ticket sites crashing and hundreds of thousands of would-be buyers held in online queues on Friday. 

Tickets are available today (February 6) via another pre-sale, open only to members of Beyoncé’s official online fan community, the BeyHive. That sale is running from 10am to 6pm. You can join by visiting Beyoncé’s website here and following the link in the bottom left-hand corner.

When is the general sale?

The general sale begins tomorrow (February 7) at 10am. Tickets will be available here .

How much will tickets cost?

Prices vary based on quality of sightline and proximity to the stage. Prices for the Cardiff show, the first of the UK dates, are as follows: 

Reserved Seats – VIP Stage £170.00

Standing – Beehive – £170.00

Standing – Club Renaissance – £170.00

Standing – VIP Platform – £140.00

Reserved Seats – £140.00

Standing – Gold Circle – £140.00

Reserved Seats – £125.00

Standing – GA Pitch Standing – £95.00

Reserved Seats – £95.00

Reserved Seats – £75.00

Reserved Seats – £50.00

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Who is Beyonce's support act in Sunderland? Renaissance tour set for Stadium of Light

Beyonce kicked off the UK leg of her Renaissance tour in Cardiff and is in Sunderland on Tuesday, May 23

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There are now just days to go until Beyonce arrives in Sunderland on her Renaissance tour and one of the big questions on fans' lips is - does she have a support act?

The singer and icon who has given the world anthems like Crazy in Love, Single Ladies and recent smash Break My Soul, was last on Wearside with her Formation tour in 2016, hot on the heels of her powerful album Lemonade, which featured tracks like Freedom, Hold Up and Daddy Lessons.

Just like Lemonade, Renaissance sparked an instant reaction from fans, with lovers of Queen B lapping up songs like Alien Superstar and Cuff It and now tens of thousands of ticket holders are looking forward to seeing Beyonce perform them in the flesh at the Stadium of Light on May 23. There are some tickets still left for Beyonce in Sunderland on Ticketmaster , with standing seats and Gold Circle all still available.

READ MORE: Beyonce's Renaissance tour setlist - all 40 songs music icon is set to perform in Sunderland

Having launched the tour in Sweden last week, Beyonce kicked off the UK leg in Cardiff on Wednesday, May 17, with the Renaissance tour setlist causing a bit of a stir, due to classics like Halo, If I Were A Boy and Single Ladies all failing to make the cut.

There are 40 songs on the setlist, meaning fans will get to see plenty of their idol, but the big question is - does she have a support act?

Who is supporting Beyonce on the Renaissance tour in Sunderland?

Just like in 2016 on the Formation tour, there will be no support act for the May 23 gig in Sunderland.

Instead, with 40 tracks to get through, Beyonce fans look set to get a near three hour show from the music megastar, with her taking to the stage around 8pm.

The show is split into different sections: Opening Act, Renaissance, Motherboard, Opulence, Anointed, Anointed part 2 and Mind Control.

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Beyoncé Renaissance World Tour London dates, times, support, set list & merchandise

Here's the rundown of all the details you'll need for the Renaissance World Tour

• 11:29, 23 MAY 2023
• Updated 18:52, 1 JUN 2023

Beyoncé’s hotly anticipated world tour has finally landed in the UK, and in just less than a week she’ll be taking to the stage at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, North London. The legendary singer kicked off the UK leg of her tour in Cardiff at the Principality Stadium, before heading to Murrayfield in Edinburgh.

She’ll set foot in the Premier League club’s grounds on Monday, May 29, for the first of a five-night stint. The online queues for her tour reached over one million back in February, when she added three extra dates to her London roster.

So to get you prepared for next week’s festivities, we’re bringing you all the information you could possibly need - what time the doors open, closest train station, and those all important merchandise prices.

READ MORE: How long Beyoncé's concert is, what time she's on stage, when doors open and when it finishes

Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour London dates

Beyoncé will be playing five gigs in London. There was some controversy surrounding this as it meant the stadium breached its licence, breaking council rules. The stadium had to apply with Haringey Council for a licence to host the sold-out shows.

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Beyonc é’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium t imings

According to Tottenham Hotspur’s website, the main doors will be open from 5pm on Monday, May 29; Tuesday, May 30; Thursday, June 1; and Sunday, June 4. On Saturday, June 4, all of the timings are 30 minutes earlier than the nights.

Beyonc é’s s upport act

Beyonce will not be having a support act joining her on the Renaissance Tour. That is, unless they’re a surprise. The singer went solo at both her Cardiff and Edinburgh performances.

Beyonc é’s Renaissance Tour setlist

According to Setlist.fm, which compiles set lists from various artists’ shows around the world, fans can expect to see this as the running order for her London gigs.

• Dangerously In Love
• Flaws And All
• I'm Goin' Down (Mary J. Blige cover)
• I'M THAT GIRL
• ALIEN SUPERSTAR / Sweet Dreams (Medley)
• Lift Off (from Jay-Z and Kanye West's WATCH THE THRONE)
• 7/11 (Interlude)
• CUFF IT / CUFF IT - WETTER REMIX
• ENERGY (ft. Beam)
• BREAK MY SOUL / BREAK MY SOUL - THE QUEENS REMIX (ft. Madonna)
• Run The World (Girls)
• MY POWER (from The Lion King: The Gift)
• BLACK PARADE
• Savage Remix (Megan Thee Stallion ft. Beyoncé)
• CHURCH GIRL
• Get Me Bodied / Freakum Dress
• Before I Let Go
• Rather Die Young
• Love On Top
• Crazy In Love (ft. Jay-Z)
• PLASTIC OFF THE SOFA
• VIRGO'S GROOVE
• Naughty Girl
• MOVE (ft. Grace Jones)
• ALL UP IN YOUR MIND
• Drunk In Love
• AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM
• SUMMER RENAISSANCE

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium map

There are eleven different sections for Beyoncé’s show. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has revealed a detailed site map for everyone heading to the show, including where you can buy merchandise, entrances and where the early entry queue is located.

The full map can be seen below:

Beyoncé merchandise - where to buy and prices

Official merchandise can be purchased at the Tottenham Experience on the High Road, Park Lane Square outside the South Podium and within various locations inside the stadium concourse. According to photos taken at her Cardiff performance last week, fans can expect to fork out £190 for a full black tracksuit, £35 for a tote bag, and a pair of shorts that read 'Thique' across the bum came to £45.

Another hoodie is £120 while tee-shirts are £45. Some of the long-sleeved tops were priced at £55. There were also stalls selling unofficial merchandise, like cowboy hats, outside the stadium.

How to get to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and rail strikes

The full address for the venue is Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, 782 High Road, London N17 0BX.

There are a number of stations near the stadium, including White Hart Lane ( London Overground ), Northumberland Park (Abellio Greater Anglia service), Tottenham Hale (Victoria line and Abellio Greater Anglia services), and Seven Sisters (Victoria line and London Overground).

Before and during the event, London bus services that normally run up and down the High Road (149, 259, 279 and 349) are diverted to the east of the stadium at Lansdowne Road, re-joining the High Road at the Northumberland Park junction.

There are some upcoming rails trikes on Wednesday, May 31; Thursday, June 1; Friday, June 2; Saturday, June 3; and Sunday, June 4. Rail services are usually disrupted the day after strikes too.

The following train operators will not be impacted and will run as normal, among others: the Elizabeth line, Grand Central, London Overground, and Lumo.

See more accommodation options on Booking.com and Hotels.com . You can book UK and European trains - including cheap Eurostar tickets - on Trainline .

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BEYONCÉ RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR

Beyoncé returns to Cardiff for Renaissance World Tour!

Following the wildly successful release of BEYONCÉ’s seventh studio album, RENAISSANCE, the global superstar has announced RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR, her first solo tour in over six years.

The 2023 tour, produced by Parkwood Entertainment, and promoted by Live Nation, kicks off on May 10, 2023, at Friends Arena in Stockholm, SE, making stops throughout Europe in Cardiff on 17th May 2023 , Edinburgh, Sunderland, Paris, London, Marseille, Amsterdam, Warsaw and more.

This will be Bey’s third visit to Cardiff’s home of Welsh Rugby, first performing here in 2016, followed by 2018, as part of her much celebrated On The Run II Tour, and her first ever joint tour with Jay-Z.

TICKETING DETAILS:

Tickets start from £50 and will be on sale from 10am Tuesday 7th February via: tour.beyonce.com

Principality Stadium hospitality packages will be available for this event from £375 +VAT pp, from 10am, Tuesday 7th February via wru.wales/BeyonceVIP

RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR DATES:

EUROPE May 10, 2023 – Stockholm, SE – Friends Arena May 14, 2023 – Brussels, BE – King Baudouin Stadium May 17, 2023 – Cardiff, UK – Cardiff Principality Stadium May 20, 2023 – Edinburgh, UK – BT Murray Field Stadium May 23, 2023 – Sunderland, UK – Stadium of Light May 26, 2023 – Paris, FR – Stade de France May 29, 2023 – London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium May 30, 2023 – London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

June 08, 2023 – Barcelona, ES – Olympic Stadium June 11, 2023 – Marseille, FR – Orange Velodrome June 15, 2023 – Cologne, DE – Rhein Energie Stadion June 17, 2023 – Amsterdam, NL – Johan Crujff Arena June 21, 2023 – Hamburg, DE – Volksparkstadion June 24, 2023 – Frankfurt, DE – Deutsche Bank Park June 27, 2023 – Warsaw, PL – PGE Narodowy

NORTH AMERICA July 8, 2023 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre July 12, 2023 – Philadelphia, PA – Lincoln Financial Field July 15, 2023 – Nashville, TN – Nissan Stadium July 17, 2023 – Louisville, KY – L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium July 20, 2023 – Minneapolis, MN – Huntington Bank Stadium July 22, 2023 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field Stadium July 26, 2023 – Detroit, MI – Ford Field July 29, 2023 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium

Aug. 01, 2023 – Boston, MA – Gillette Stadium Aug. 03, 2023 – Pittsburgh, PA – Acrisure Stadium Aug. 05, 2023 – Washington, DC – FEDEX Field Aug. 09, 2023 – Charlotte, SC – Bank of America Stadium Aug. 11, 2023 – Atlanta, GA – Mercedes-Benz Stadium Aug. 16, 2023 – Tampa, FL – Raymond James Stadium Aug. 18, 2023 – Miami, FL – Hard Rock Stadium Aug. 21, 2023 – St. Louis, MO – Dome at America’s Center Aug. 24, 2023 – Phoenix, AZ – State Farm Stadium Aug. 26, 2023 – Las Vegas, NV – Allegiant Stadium Aug. 30, 2023 – San Francisco, CA – Levi’s Stadium

Sept. 02, 2023 – Inglewood, CA – SoFi Stadium Sept. 11, 2023 – Vancouver, BC – BC Place Sept. 13, 2023 – Seattle, WA – Lumen Field Sept. 18, 2023 – Kansas City, MO – Arrowhead Stadium Sept. 21, 2023 – Dallas, TX – AT&T Stadium Sept. 23, 2023 – Houston, TX – NRG Stadium Sept. 27, 2023 – New Orleans, LA – Caesars Superdome

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Another Ticketmaster war is on the horizon as the BeyHive prepares for battle. After weeks of speculation, Beyoncé has officially confirmed a world tour in support of Renaissance , scheduled to make stops in stadiums across the world in 2023 .

The musician confirmed the news on Wednesday morning. The tour will begin in Europe this May before landing in North America on July 8 with back-to-back nights at Toronto’s Rogers Centre. The tour will make stops in Philadelphia, Nashville, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and more.

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The Renaissance tour marks Beyoncé’s first extended stretch on the road since the On the Run tour, which made 48 stops across North America and Europe in 2018. Those shows were proceeded by the singer’s redefining Coachella performance, which arrived as the Netflix concert film Homecoming the following year.

The clips sparked multiple viral moments, the most notable being Beyoncé’s new vocal arrangements on familiar records, including “Drunk in Love” and “Countdown.” The private concert, notably, did not include any Renaissance tracks on the setlist, even the chart-topping lead single “Break My Soul.”

The tour announcement arrives as a saving grace for a starved BeyHive, still yearning for any meaningful visual companion pieces to the singer’s acclaimed seventh studio album. If Beyoncé is heading on the road again, maybe the wait for the music videos she teased in the record release trailer won’t be too much longer.

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Beyonce announces Renaissance 2023 world tour: UK and London dates and tickets

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Beyonce has announced a world tour to promote the release of her latest album, Renaissance.

The Crazy in Love singer recently performed at a private event in Dubai, attended by celebrities and influencers, but hasn’t gone on tour since 2018’s On the Run II Tour with husband Jay-Z .

Her last solo headline tour was even earlier: the Formation World Tour in 2016.

She announced the news of the latest tour on Instagram, with a photo of her wearing a disco ball-cowboy hat, riding a silver horse.

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Fans are sure to be thrilled for another chance to see Queen Bey in action. Find out below when Beyonce will be visiting the UK.

Beyonce UK tour dates

Beyonce will perform six UK shows, across England, Wales, and Scotland:

• Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, May 17
• Edinburgh’s Murrayfield, May 20
• Sunderland’s Stadium of Light, May 23

Beyonce will perform three shows at London ’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium:

• Monday, May 29
• Tuesday, May 30
• Friday, June 2

She will also perform in European cities including Stockholm, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Lyon, Marseille, Cologne, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Warsaw.

In the US, Beyonce will visit major cities like Philadelphia, Nashville, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.

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How to get tickets to Beyonce’s tour

Tickets for Beyonce’s UK dates are available to buy on O2 presale from 10 am on Thursday, February 2. O2 and Virgin Media customers can access Priority via the Priority app.

There will then be a Live Nation presale on Friday, February 3, at 10am, followed by a BeyHive presale on Monday, February 6, at 9am. Tickets will go on general sale on Tuesday, February 7, at 10am.

During the presales, tickets will be limited to four per customer, but during the general sale, customers will be able to buy up to eight tickets each.

Tickets will be available to buy for the May 29 and May 30 shows but not the June 2 date just yet. Although this third date appeared on Beyonce’s website on February 1, it has since been removed, and may be a surprise bonus show to be announced at a later date--so keep your eyes peeled.

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Beyoncé: Renaissance World Tour review – a dizzying three-hour spectacular

Friends Arena, Stockholm Queen Bey’s first solo headline tour in seven years is a lavish leap forward for live entertainment, dripping with sci-fi disco decadence, sex and Black pride

E ven without Taylor Swift’s Ticketmaster-melting Eras Tour nipping at her heels, it wouldn’t do for a star as compulsively ambitious as Beyoncé to merely protect her status as the greatest pop show on Earth. Not when her first solo headline tour since 2016 could instead push 21st-century live entertainment another lavish leap forward.

Titled after the Texan’s disco glitter bomb post-pandemic party album of the same name , Renaissance is a monster blockbuster concert experience on a different plane. Fifty-seven stadium dates globally, starting in Stockholm, are projected to gross as much as £1.9bn ($2.4bn) by the time the tour ends in New Orleans late September. Dripping with sci-fi disco decadence, sex, body positivity and feminine Black pride, the near three-hour spectacular plays out in front, behind and, at times, inside a football-pitch-wide high-definition video screen designed to assault the senses at dizzying scale.

The BeyHive, as Beyoncé’s fans collectively style themselves, are buzzing pre-show as they flood into the venue from around the world for their first chance proper to see their queen live since 2018’s On the Run II co-headliner with Mr B, Jay-Z. Dressed head to toe in official tour merch, including a cap and hoodie both emblazoned with the word “THIQUE”, Mykwain Gainey has been to 20 Beyoncé shows over the past two decades and has spent nearly £2,000 to fly here from New York. “To see her transcend, and become what she has become, especially as a Black woman, is exciting,” he enthuses.

Brazilian Yhes Bezerra wears a spangly cowboy hat like the one sported by Beyoncé in the tour poster, except theirs is homemade; sticking on the thousands of tiny mirror panels took nine hours. They were determined to come to the opening night to avoid social media spoilers about what to expect. “I want everything to be a surprise,” Bezerra smiles.

Beyoncé appears first in a video cut scene, laid out luxuriously across the giant screen semi-naked in dimensions big enough to be visible from space. And yet, once she emerges in the flesh – all sequins, shoulder pads and that megawatt smile, drinking in the crowd’s screams – she begins disarmingly with a slew of her rawest soul songs. By the second, Flaws and All, she already appears to be fighting back tears, whether of release or gratitude or both. It’s an opening that seems designed to strip away artifice, if only to provide some sharp contrast for the heavily technologically augmented spectacle about to follow.

Harking back to early house and techno and the ecstatic utopia of the dancefloor, a segment dedicated to the Renaissance album ensues with Beyoncé done up something akin to the Maschinenmensch in Metropolis. She grinds with a dozen backing dancers to the jittery reggaeton of her boss bitch mission statement I’m That Girl, then dances with some actual robots (a pair of mechanical arms) during Cosy. Were all that not semi-hallucinogenic enough, Alien Superstar interpolates narcissistic anthem I’m Too Sexy by 90s dance-pop twosome Right Said Fred.

With many of the setlist’s whopping 36 songs abridged, the tempo is relentless. Blink and you’ll miss dancers popping out of the stage like champagne corks, or Beyoncé’s powerhouse band getting wheeled into occasional view on a tall stepped riser (shades of Beychella), such as during Chic-style feelgood funk workout Cuff It. “Y’all having a good time, Stockholm?” our host inquires, wiping an imperceptible bead of sweat from her brow. “Me too.”

Black Parade finds Beyoncé cruising the stage atop what looks like a kind of lunar rover. Somewhat comically, it exits up the gusset of a pair of massive splayed legs. Later she sings Plastic Off the Sofa stretched out in a clamshell. Come Crazy in Love, the show finally gets the enormous disco ball it seems to have long craved, dangled from the rafters for only a bit longer than the time it takes for the crew to get it up there and back down.

Bass-quaking, envelope-pushing Black power anthem Formation is a powerful political statement in any setting. Performed in a kind of virtual cathedral, horny southern rap and gospel cocktail Church Girl (sample lyric: “drop it like a thottie, drop it like a thottie”) might just be intended to provoke. But by Beyoncé’s own standards, it’s hard not to read Renaissance as a show much lighter on overt socio-political messaging than it is sheer, unfettered, mildly chaotic indulgence. And who could blame her?

In a final, unsubtle, retro-futuristic fanfare, Bey summons Bianca Jagger’s iconic Studio 54 moment by gliding through the air on a glitter-encrusted white horse while Summer Renaissance – which samples Donna Summer’s I Feel Love – blares. The disco history references may or may not be landing with the mostly young BeyHive, but that’s not really the point. By rewiring dance music past in a sensory overload of truly stunning ambition and stamina, Beyoncé is writing some history of her own.

The Renaissance World Tour continues until 27 September, see https://tour.beyonce.com/ for dates

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Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Is a Sprawling, Endlessly Entertaining Tour de Force: Album Review

By Chris Willman

Chris Willman

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It sounds pretty magnificent, if a short answer is required. But if it’s genre we all really want to get into, “Cowboy Carter” sounds kinda country, and kinda not — in a way that feels wholly country. Because what is modern country music if not a cornucopia that’s a long way past being defined by a single sound? “Act II” feels a lot like a 27-course meal, difficult to describe in whole, but endlessly easy to digest, serving by serving. There are moments throughout where she’s embracing the tropes and traditions of country as we’ve known it, and just as many where you’re thinking she decided to abandon the concept, until suddenly Willie Nelson or Dolly Parton pop up for one of their intermittent spoken cameos, or there’s a fleeting Patsy Cline interpolation, and suddenly she’s veered back into C&W mode again. No one will mistake this sprawling set for ever following a straight path, or having a remotely dull moment.

It’s almost as if Beyoncé was watching some of the evolutionary leaps and hiccups country has been experiencing as it redefines its boundaries — as the music always has — and said, “Hold my Armand de Brignac. I’ve got this.”  But it’s not just a matter of what Beyoncé can do for country music; it’s what her concept of country can do for her, in expanding her musical empire and even her already well-honed sense of self. It’s a lot.

As a whole, “Cowboy Carter” is a masterpiece of sophisticated vocal arranging, laid out on top of mostly fairly stark band tracks. It’s not as if she ever laid off that great trick of her trade, even in a dance-based album like “Renaissance.” But here her brilliance at rendering self-harmonies is pushed up to the forefront in a way that might not have been as easy to focus on for a listener since Destiny’s Child covered “Carol of the Bells” for a Christmas record. It’s bliss.

Apart from these mostly common elements, the tracks almost couldn’t be more different from one another. Who knew that her exploration of Black Country would seem so much like her White Album? Or like a countrified version of Side 2 of “Abbey Road,” once the second half of this album turns into a series of short, sometimes weirder songs that have more strength as part of a dizzying medley than they might as Spotify singles. In its own fashion, “Cowboy Carter” plays as well as a smartly sequenced album as “Renaissance” did, even though that felt like a DJ club set and the new one goes harder on eclectic songcraft.

Her decision to issue “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” as the two teaser tracks two months in advance of the album turns out to have been ideal for setting expectations for two very different sides of the record. “Texas” wasn’t shy about invoking country tropes, like line-dancing; it, along with some of the attendent pre-release imagery, made some suspicious souls wonder if this album would end up feeling like country cosplay. But then there was “Carriages,” a deeply personal ballad about her misspent youth as a budding starlet, sounding nothing like either old or new country, but married to the genre somehow just by the sound of its intricately plucked strings and storytelling.

There aren’t many moments that sell the lifestyle-branding side of country as hard as “Texas Hold ‘Em” does. (That song did its job; it’s still rising on the country airplay charts, upending some people’s initial expectations.) But of course she’s tying herself to mainstream country’s coolest elders, bringing in Willie Nelson, who does a couple of faux-DJ skits, and Dolly Parton, who brings a chuckle to a spoken introduction to Bey’s “Jolene” cover by pointing out the correlation between that classic’s auburn-haired temptress and the fabled Becky-with-the-good-hair. The Dolly homage is unquestionably the most pure country number on the album, but it’s not a completely straight take, as Beyoncé has rewritten almost all of the lyrics (and added a bridge) to make the song a fiercely protective warning instead of an endangered housewife’s plea. Taking out all the vulnerability lessens the tune a little, but it’s still a kick to hear “Jolene” with a serious infusion of “Lemonade.”

Did we mention that this murder fantasy — which starts off with a classical-sounding guitar that sounds almost fit for a Marty Robbins song — eventually winds up with Beyoncé flawlessly singing an aria from the 1700s, “Caro Mio Ben,” in Italian? It’s that kind of unpredictable album, although this at least counts as probably the strangest turn on it. Unless you count “Oh Louisiana,” a much goofier number that has Beyoncé covering a Chuck Berry oldie in a sped-up voice for a mere 52 seconds.

In evangelizing for this album, it’s hard to know whether to emphasize its weirder choices or its more conventional pleasures. There are more than enough of both of them to give “Cowboy Carter” a real sense of dynamics. But when it comes to the most straightforward material, the average listener may gravitate immediately to Beyoncé’s crowd-pleasing duet with Miley Cyrus , “II Most Wanted,” which has producer Ryan Tedder building a breezy buddyship anthem over an interpolation of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide.” “I’ll be your shotgun rider ’til the day I die / Smoke out the window flyin’ down the 405,” they sing, putting the western back in country & Western. “II Most Wanted” is not the most interesting song here, but Bey harmonizes with Cyrus just as effectively as she does with herself. It’d be no surprise if their duet finds its way onto and sticks around the adult contemporary chart for about 18 months.

Sexy-time is a big thing on this album, too. Another superstar duet, “Levii’s Jeans,” has Post Malone in the role of Jay-Z. (Or at least we can surmise from other lyrics on the album that Beyoncé considers herself to have a very healthy marital relationship, physically and otherwise.) “Baby, let me rattle that snake with my venom / Denim on denim on denim on denim,” she sings, although it’s actually more lilting and gentle in tone than any saucy lyric excerpt is going to make it sound.

There are theories that “Act III” in her promised musical triptych will be a rock ‘n’ roll album. It could be wishful thinking; maybe she is saving an all-arias album for last in the trilogy. But if she is planning to rock, she gets a slight head start on it here with a couple of numbers here. “Bodyguard” is a strummed soft-rock number with a straight-up backbeat, sounding almost like a demo, in its sweet minimalism.

Later, she seriously ramps up the energy with “Ya Ya,” which brings out her Tina Turner side, and/or sounds like a “TAMI Show” outtake. “Ya Ya” risks extending itself an interpolation too far, as some iconic bass riffing from “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” is succeeded by Bey twice throwing in the hook from that famous country classic, “Good Vibrations.” On paper, “Ya Ya” is overstuffed with references, but that doesn’t really matter when you can feel the wind coming off the fringe of her miniskirt.

It takes until the 12 th song on the album — at which point, remember, we’re not halfway through — till we get the first and only real hip-hop song on the album, “Spaghetti,” which has Beyoncé rapping, ever so briefly. But it does have, yes, the barest trace of a spaghetti Western feel, which is just enough to technically tie it back to the overriding concept. It also has an introducion from Linda Martell, the first Black female star in country music (circa 1970), who gives a short homily: “Genres are a funny little concept, aren’t they? … In theory, they have a simple definition, but in practice, well, some may feel confined.”

And then, after a few more essentially acoustic-based songs that pick up the tempo, there’s the final stretch of the album, where things finally get a lot looser and loopier. It may be at this late point in the album when Beyoncé loses some people. After the bonkers “Oh Louisiana” and the 1:13 paean to oral sex that is “Desert Eagle,” a few listeners might be going: What the hell was that we just heard? Suddenly, after that, it begins turning into a club album, with “II Hands to Heaven,” which has an electronic pulse we haven’t heard much of, and “Tyrant,” which flirts with trap, even though Bey is keeping the rodeo underpinnings alive with a “Giddy-up, giddy-up.”

Hearing the album finally turn into something that feels a bit closer to 2022’s “Renaissance” toward the very end could be seen as a reward for some of her faithful fans who are more into dance music for sticking through the Texas two-stepping. But in country terms, it also feels a bit like going to California’s Stagecoach Festival, where the headliner is now always followed at the end of the final night by a late-night DJ set from Diplo, since the line between line-dancing and EDM culture is being further erased these days.

Who cares if any or all of it is country or not, you might ask? Well, lots of people do — especially fellow Black artists who have a stake in how this album is received and how it might affect their futures. Martell, 82, is on board for a couple of spoken-word interludes to serve as a reminder Black country’s largely swept-under-the-rug past. But Beyoncé has brought on board here several young singers who are part of the music’s past and future, including Willie Jones, on “Just for Fun,” and Shaboozey, on “Spaghetti” and again on “Sweet Honey Buckin’,” where their interplay is as randy as the title suggests.

“You were only waiting for this moment to arrive” — that’s a key line for an album that lives up to its event status as an inherent piece of agitprop and socially significant performance art, reflecting and affecting the history of Black music and country. It obviously has been compared to Ray Charles’ landmark 1962 “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music,” but this feels different than someone coming in and adopting the existing country songbook for their own purposes, vital as that was. Beyoncé expanding this historic catalog with her own crucial additions to it is a never-to-be-forgotten signpost, however much it does or doesn’t immediately affect the fortunes of those still trying to get a basic foothold in the genre.

And she’s not pulling this off either by unduly ingratiating herself into a scene with country customs or ignoring those hallmarks entirely. With this endlessly entertaining project, she gets to be a warrior of female and Black pride and a sweetheart of the radio. Because being Beyoncé means never having to pretend to be just one thing.

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Will Beyoncé announce the Cowboy Carter' tour? Fans think she may be hitting the road again soon.

• Beyoncé released her new album "Cowboy Carter" on Friday.
• Some fans think she's gearing up to tour again, though many say they don't have the funds to attend.
• The Renaissance World Tour wrapped last October in Kansas City. It was hailed as a must-see event.

Less than a year after the Renaissance World Tour wrapped, it might already be time for the Beyhive to dust off their boots and head back out to see Beyoncé live again.

The Renaissance World Tour was hailed as a once-in-a-lifetime event , a bona fide status symbol , and a blockbuster concert movie that awed audiences while near-singlehandedly boosting AMC's revenue . The 56-show run wrapped on October 1, 2023, in Kansas City.

On its heels, Beyoncé has released her new album " Cowboy Carter ." The triumphant country-inspired project is billed as "Act II" in a three-part "Renaissance" series.

So it would stand to reason — financially and thematically — that Beyoncé would plan another tour leg for "Cowboy Carter."

Her team seemed to hint that something is coming by launching a new website, " Been Country ." The landing page shows a photo of young Beyoncé performing at the Texas Sweetheart Pageant, as well as a childhood photo of her mother, Tina Knowles-Lawson , and an image of a banjo.

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A fan account on Instagram shared a rumor that the tour announcement is scheduled for Friday, exactly one week after the album's arrival. Knowles-Lawson liked the post, adding more fuel to the rumor's flame.

Beyoncé's longtime collaborator The-Dream, who produced 10 of the new album's 27 tracks, also alluded to a forthcoming tour. He celebrated the release of "Cowboy Carter" on X, writing, "This tour bout to B' Incredible!"

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Fans grabbed screenshots of The-Dream's post, though it has since been deleted.

'The-Dream' via Twitter: “This tour bout to B’ incredible!” The singer-songwriter is Beyoncé’s longtime friend, and worked on 10 songs on her new album #CowboyCarter . pic.twitter.com/KNHQOuqFI9 — COWBOY CARTER TOUR (@CowboyCarterWT) March 31, 2024

However, the six-month turnaround since Beyoncé's last concert does cast suspicion on these theories. Thanks to "Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé," we know the Renaissance World Tour took four years to ideate and execute.

It's unclear if plans for a "Cowboy Carter" show were also in the works during that time, but if not, fans may have to wait a bit longer to watch Beyoncé perform. As she's already made clear, " A queen moves at her own pace ."

Even so, a delay may come as welcome news, even for dedicated members of the Beyhive.

Many fans have been posting about their lack of ticket funds on X, playfully begging Beyoncé to put off touring until next year.

- I don’t want https://t.co/QqyQduNfkr to be a tour because we https://t.co/icyUqbLR1L . pic.twitter.com/XZ5WHMUqyL — Rob Milton (@therobmilton) April 3, 2024

She can announce it for 2025 but in 2024 we are at capacity https://t.co/Gtg7f2jvSG — Antoinette “Asst (To The) Regional Manager” Childs (@TheFancyFriend) March 31, 2024

. @Beyonce keep the tour announcement for next year…I have trips planned for this summer pic.twitter.com/GPhRrW1GiF — Nicolas is happy (@niggaolas) April 3, 2024

what i’m eating if beyoncé announce this tour https://t.co/CfI1Vm3XuG — 𐚁 onii 𐚁 (@__Onixivy_) April 4, 2024

i'm begging beyoncé to tour in 2025 and not this summer pic.twitter.com/Nqw68434Bu — zae (@itszaeok) March 27, 2024

the whole fandom begging beyoncé not to announce a tour is HILARIOUS! we are BROKE DOWN pic.twitter.com/YXDFHuzELM — j. (@virgosgrooviest) March 27, 2024

Representatives for Beyoncé did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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IDLES announce support acts for 2024 UK and Ireland tour

Genesis Owusu, Lambrini Girls, Chalk and more are slated to join them on tour this year

IDLES have announced their support acts for their upcoming 2024 UK/Ireland tour – check out all details below.

• READ MORE: Idles – ‘Tangk’ review: the most open-hearted we’ve ever seen them

The Bristol band have just released their fifth album ‘ Tangk ‘ and are set to tour the album across the country from July this year. Now, the band have taken to social media to reveal a swathe of support acts who’ll join their tour with them.

First, Australian genre-bending master Genesis Owusu , along with Brighton punk rockers Lambrini Girls have been announced to perform with IDLES. Belfast industrial post-punkers Chalk and Dublin garage-rockers SPRINTS are also set to support the band, with experimental rock duo BATTLES and Latin indie-pop artist Angélica Garcia slated to join.

Finally, singer-songwriter and potential future collaborator Willie J Healey will round out the list of support acts this year. Find out which bands will play with IDLES on which dates below and get any remaining tickets here :

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NOVEMBER 16 – Belfast, Telegraphy Building % 17 – Belfast Telegraph Building % 19 – Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre % 20 – Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre % 23 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro + 24 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, O2 City Hall + 25 – Nottingham, Rock City + 26 – Nottingham, Rock City + 29 – London, Alexandra Palace +# 30 – London, Alexandra Palace ^#

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NME  reviewed ‘Tangk’ when it was released last February, calling it “the most open-hearted we’ve ever seen them” in a four star review . “The record ends not on a scream but on the peaceful and jazzy full stop of ‘Monolith’ as the frontman serenely concludes: “I found myself my own king, I took his crown, I took his rings”.

“Removing our fat-fingered monarch’s jewels isn’t as much a ‘fuck you’ to the establishment here as realising that without self-worth and a little gratitude, you’re nothing. Anger is an energy, but love is the answer, they pose.”

We also caught up with frontman Joe Talbot for an extended In Conversation chat about the making of ‘Tangk’ and its approach to love: “I’m interested in showing the different facets of love that are not so conventional, but are very fucking important: empathy, patience, honesty, communion, hard work, recovery, forgiveness. That’s what I wrote about.

“I’m still there. I’m still going to need to go through it, and I’m still very much interested in writing about love forevermore. I find it fascinating and empowering.”

In other news, IDLES have spoken out about whether they could potentially headline Glastonbury in the future .

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Why Beyoncé Fans Are Asking Her to Hold Off on Announcing a Cowboy Carter Tour

R umors that Beyoncé will announce a tour to support her eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter , have been swirling online since the project came out last week. And though the singer has not announced plans for a tour as yet, the speculation has many fans already anticipating steep ticket prices.

“BRB gonna apply for a new credit card,” wrote one person on X in response to a post from a pop culture account that suggests Beyoncé will announce a tour on Friday. “I mean, we don’t have money, but we will be there,” wrote another. 

While there has been no official announcement of a new tour, the singer’s most followed fan accounts fueled rumors on Thursday by sharing a link on to a site called BeenCountry.com, which takes users to a page of photos of Beyoncé and one of her mother when she was younger with her maiden name, Celestine Beyince.

As rumors fly, fans are begging Beyoncé to hold off on announcing a tour, joking that they still need to financially recover from her last one. The Renaissance World Tour, which wrapped up in Oct. 2023 and was her first since the On The Run Tour II in 2018. According to Billboard , tickets for the Renaissance Tour ranged in price depending on the reseller. The average fan could expect to pay around $400 to $550, Billboard reported, with resale tickets for her Houston show going for as low as $279.

“NO TOUR UNTIL 2025,” one post said, and it was met with support from other commenters. “I ain’t going to the cowboy carter tour y'all,” another post says, “I thought I had more time. I thought I had more time.”

Another person joked that they wouldn’t be able to eat real food because they knew the concert would be expensive. According to Billboard , the Renaissance Tour tickets ranged in price depending on the reseller. They report that the average fan could expect to pay around $400 to $550, with resale tickets for her Houston show going for as low as $279.

The rumors of a new tour are still unfounded, but not impossible—although it would come faster than Beyoncé’s announcement for the Renaissance World Tour, which arrived several months after she released the album in 2022. It would not be unlike Beyoncé to have a few tricks up her sleeve, some that delight her fans—and some that throw them into a frenzy.

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Why Beyoncé sent flowers to Jack White and SZA sparks debate

This act comes in the wake of beyoncé's latest album release, cowboy carter.

Beyoncé  recently stirred curiosity and admiration among fans and fellow artists alike with her thoughtful gesture of sending flowers to several musicians, sparking widespread speculation and gratitude. 

The buzz began when K. Michelle shared a video on Instagram showcasing a stunning arrangement of white flowers she received from Beyoncé, along with a heartfelt note. 

Overwhelmed by the gesture, K. Michelle expressed her gratitude, mentioning how it encouraged her as she prepared to release her first country album. 

"WOW! This is so nice. One of the nicest things ever," she captioned, adding, "I’m in tears. Thank you for giving me my flowers. They are so beautiful."

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Shortly afterwards, Jack White, frontman of The White Stripes, revealed on Instagram the floral gift he received from Beyoncé, noting the beautiful cursive handwriting that accompanied the blooms.

 "What a sweet gesture to receive here in Nashville this morning," he remarked, expressing his appreciation and respect for Beyoncé's support and encouragement to continue creating powerful music.

Fans quickly filled the comments section with excitement and theories, some speculating about a possible rock record in Beyoncé's future, while others hoped for a collaboration between her and the artists she sent flowers to. 

The gesture also extended to SZA and Mickey Guyton, as reported by Vanity Fair, signaling Beyoncé's appreciation and support for their musical talents.

The mystery behind Beyoncé's flower-sending spree led to much speculation, although the reasons remain undisclosed. 

However, the value and composition of these floral arrangements have been highlighted, with Brooklyn Blooms florist LaParis Phillips estimating Jack White's bouquet at around $200. 

The arrangement was believed to include white ranunculus, tulips, wax flowers, and Dendrobium orchids, with Mickey Guyton's bouquet valued up to $300.

This generous act comes in the wake of Beyoncé's latest album release, Cowboy Carter, at the end of March. 

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