IU (EDAM Entertainment), who is halfway through her 2024 world tour, also successfully completed her London and Berlin concert schedules.
IU successfully completed the '2024 IU HEREH WORLD TOUR CONCERT' held at London's OVO Arena Wembley and Berlin's Uber Arena on the 21st and 23rd respectively.
In this concert, IU announced the start of the concert by decorating the cute stage with child dancers from each city with "Holcsi." The audience responded with cheers and shouts of joy when the artist appeared in a lift. She then performed her hit songs one after another, such as "Jam Jam," "Apu," "Bbibbi," "Obliviate," "Celebrity," "Blueming," "Eight," "Coin," "Gwanak-i Beolgeo," "Night Letter," "Shopper," "Time's Outside," "You and I," "Love Wins All," "Shh..", and "Twenty Three," and heated up the scene with her passionate live performances and dynamic group dance.
After finishing the official set list, the encore was held with 'Someday', 'Lilac', 'Love poem', 'Palette', and in Berlin, 'You', 'Lilac', 'Hold My Hand', 'Love poem', 'Palette', and the atmosphere reached an all-time high. European fans also passionately expressed their feelings for IU at every moment, and prepared and presented cheering, singing along, and 'slogan events'.
Upon seeing this, IU said, “This is my third time visiting London, and it rained every time, but this time the weather was so nice. I was going to exclude ‘strawberry moon’ from the set list, but I added it back when I heard that the strawberry moon would rise on the day of the performance. It feels like a fateful drama that they even prepared a slogan event like this.” She repeatedly expressed her gratitude. In Berlin, when the slogan event was held for “Outside of Time,” she said, “I got even more immersed in the lyrics and I almost cried. The lyrics of the song, ‘To finally meet the reason for the wait’ seem to reflect IU and her fans, so it was truly a genius phrase with genius timing.”
IU's love for her fans continued in Europe, where she not only spoke in English and German, which she had studied in advance, but also showed different videos from the VCR of her performances, drawing attention. In London, she wrote handwritten messages for her fans in her hotel room, and in Berlin, she was seen carefully reading a message book prepared in advance by local fans. In addition, she gave reverse tribute gifts to all of them, and in 'Coin', she gave coin props to fans in each city who showed passionate support.
After the concert, one of the local media outlets, 'viewofthearts', gave a favorable review, saying, "Each song was delivered with heart-pounding emotion and precision. I wondered if there was another female artist in Korea who could deliver such a powerful performance." "It was one of the best performances I've seen this year."
After meeting with European fans, IU will visit Bangkok as her next world tour city.
Shin Young-eun, Star Today reporter (shinye@mk.co.kr)
IU successfully completed the '2024 IU HEREH WORLD TOUR CONCERT' held at London's OVO Arena Wembley and Berlin's Uber Arena on the 21st and 23rd respectively.
In this concert, IU announced the start of the concert by decorating the cute stage with child dancers from each city with "Holcsi." The audience responded with cheers and shouts of joy when the artist appeared in a lift. She then performed her hit songs one after another, such as "Jam Jam," "Apu," "Bbibbi," "Obliviate," "Celebrity," "Blueming," "Eight," "Coin," "Gwanak-i Beolgeo," "Night Letter," "Shopper," "Time's Outside," "You and I," "Love Wins All," "Shh..", and "Twenty Three," and heated up the scene with her passionate live performances and dynamic group dance.
In particular, IU surprised the audience at her London concert when she appeared holding an acoustic guitar, surprising everyone. She chose the song "Like A Star" by British artist Corinne Bailey Rae, released in 2006. It is known that IU learned this song when she first started playing the guitar, and she has often revealed that she sings it, so it caught the attention of the local audience as it had a meaningful meaning to them.
After finishing the official set list, the encore was held with 'Someday', 'Lilac', 'Love poem', 'Palette', and in Berlin, 'You', 'Lilac', 'Hold My Hand', 'Love poem', 'Palette', and the atmosphere reached an all-time high. European fans also passionately expressed their feelings for IU at every moment, and prepared and presented cheering, singing along, and 'slogan events'.
Upon seeing this, IU said, “This is my third time visiting London, and it rained every time, but this time the weather was so nice. I was going to exclude ‘strawberry moon’ from the set list, but I added it back when I heard that the strawberry moon would rise on the day of the performance. It feels like a fateful drama that they even prepared a slogan event like this.” She repeatedly expressed her gratitude. In Berlin, when the slogan event was held for “Outside of Time,” she said, “I got even more immersed in the lyrics and I almost cried. The lyrics of the song, ‘To finally meet the reason for the wait’ seem to reflect IU and her fans, so it was truly a genius phrase with genius timing.”
IU's love for her fans continued in Europe, where she not only spoke in English and German, which she had studied in advance, but also showed different videos from the VCR of her performances, drawing attention. In London, she wrote handwritten messages for her fans in her hotel room, and in Berlin, she was seen carefully reading a message book prepared in advance by local fans. In addition, she gave reverse tribute gifts to all of them, and in 'Coin', she gave coin props to fans in each city who showed passionate support.
After the concert, one of the local media outlets, 'viewofthearts', gave a favorable review, saying, "Each song was delivered with heart-pounding emotion and precision. I wondered if there was another female artist in Korea who could deliver such a powerful performance." "It was one of the best performances I've seen this year."
After meeting with European fans, IU will visit Bangkok as her next world tour city.
Shin Young-eun, Star Today reporter (shinye@mk.co.kr)
The London and Berlin concerts were a success!
As expected, it's IU. I'm looking forward to the next Bangkok concert!
