All summer Londoners have been dutifully Bumpin’ That to Brat, and now the queen of the 666 with a princess streak is bringing her highly anticipated tour to London.
Charli XCX is due to perform her headline show at The O2 tonight, following the opening of the UK leg of her tour in Manchester last night. It should be something of a homecoming for the 32-year-old Essex-raised singer-songwriter, who spent her teen years playing her Myspace dance tracks at illegal warehouse raves in east London.
Whether you’ve been a diehard fan since her Boom Clap days or been inducted to the church of Charli XCX via the slime green avalanche that was “brat summer”, it’s sure to be a high-octane show. Reports are in that the Manchester performance featured a certain amount of spitting, licking and fake rain.
Unfortunately, there are no tickets for tonight’s show left to be had. Charli XCX dropped her Brat remix album – Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat – on October 11, prompting searches for ticket sales for her show at The O2 in Greenwich to shoot up by over 246 per cent, according to ticket resale platform Viagogo.
If you were lucky enough to nab one – or just want to feed your fomo – here’s everything you need to know.
Who will be sharing the stage with Charli XCX?
The is fresh off her Sweat tour of North America, where she shared top billing with Troye Sivan. The Australian singer-songwriter released his album Something To Give Each Other in 2023, and the frequent collaborators joined forces for a tour between September and October.
Charli XCX and Sivan welcomed several special guests along the way. At Madison Square Gardens in New York both Lorde and Addison Rae guest starred to perform their tracks from the remix album. It caused another huge spike in fans searching for tickets, per Viagogo. The biggest of the whole brat summer, in fact, with enough fans logging on to the platform to fill the Utilita Arena Birmingham.
However, Charli XCX is flying solo for the UK Brat Tour. No surprise guests appeared at Manchester nor have been announced for tonight’s performance, but Sweat Tour supporting act Shygirl will be reprising her opening slot.
Shygirl, aka Blane Muise, is a south London-born singer, rapper and DJ. She released her debut album Nymph in 2022, followed by a remix album, Nymph_o, last year.
What time will Charli XCX be on stage?
While live music events are, well, live and thus subject to change, the official timings from O2 are as follows:
Doors to concourse – as in, the doors to the waiting spaces around the arena – will open at 17:30 to allow people to queue.
Doors to the arena will officially open at 18:30.
Shygirl, the supporting artist, will be on stage at 19:30.
Charli XCX, as the headline act, is due to take the stage at 20:30.
What songs will be on the set list?
The Brat Tour opened in Manchester last night and it sounds like the setlist did indeed play all the Club Classics from her 2024 Brat album. Here’s what to expect:
⬤ 365 (featuring Shygirl)
⬤ 360
⬤ Von Dutch
⬤ Rewind
⬤ I Might Say Something Stupid
⬤ Club Classics
⬤ Unlock It
⬤ Talk Talk
⬤ Apple
⬤ So I
⬤ Spring Breakers (from Brat and It's the Same but There's Three More Songs So It's Not)
⬤ Girl, So Confusing
⬤ Everything Is Romantic
⬤ Speed Drive
⬤ Sympathy Is A Knife
⬤ Guess (The Remix)
⬤ Party 4 U (from How I’m Feeling Now, 2020)
⬤ Vroom Vroom (from her 2016 album of the same name, with production from the late artist Sophie)
⬤ Track 10 (from the Pop 2 mixtape, 2017)
What should I wear?
Charli XCX herself will, of course, be lookin like an icon. Her Brat-era stylist Chris Horan pulled some incredible looks for the Sweat Tour, from McQueen to Mugler.
For mere civilians, think rave fashion: sweatproof makeup, mesh tops, tiny skirts, underwear that is either visible or forgone entirely, and – most importantly – shoes you can dance in.
Oh, and as it’s The O2, it’s one bag per person and no larger than the size of an A4 sheet of paper.
Where else can I still see Charli XCX?
The Brat Tour is continuing with live shows in Birmingham and Glasgow, before Charli XCX jets off to New Zealand and Australia.
If you’ve missed out Brat Tour time around, there will be future opportunities to see Charli XCX live in London. She is already set to headline the LIDO Festival in Victoria Park on Saturday 14 June 2025, as well as curating the other artists’ on her own themed Party Girl day.
And if you’re planning your summer festival schedule, she’s already set to play Coachella 2025 in April, as well as headlining Primavera Sound in Barcelona on June 5 and Parklife in Manchester June 14 to 15.
Will she be playing Glastonbury? That’s anyone’s guess – so far the only headliner confirmed is Rod Stewart.
