The 1975 have kicked off their new ‘At Their Very Best’ tour in North America, where they debuted three new album tracks within an elaborate stage set-up.
The first appearance of their reworked live concert arrived at Uncasville’s Mohegan Sun Arena. BLACKSTARKIDS were featured as the opening support, offering a quick 8-track set before The 1975 took to the stage at 8:30 pm; a two-tiered stage set was revealed, with the elaborate backdrop imitating the inside of a house.
The band began with songs from their fifth number-one album, ‘Being Funny in a Foreign Language’, which Dork’s 5-star review described as, “a brilliant edit of everything that came before, cast in the self-realisation and not-so-quiet confidence of just how good they can be”.
The 11-track LP was played in order, with ‘Looking for Somebody (To Love)’ swapping position with ‘Happiness’. ‘Wintering’ and ‘Human Too’ were replaced with ‘Roadkill’, ‘Fallingforyou’, and a piano rendition of ‘I Like America & America Likes Me’. The Connecticut performance offered the live debut of ‘Being Funny in a Foreign Language’s ‘The 1975’, ‘About You’, and ‘When We Are Together’.
The band went on to deliver 11 further hits from across their discography – the full setlist for The 1975’s Connecticut show reads as below:
Being Funny in a Foreign Language
1. The 1975 (Live debut)
2. Looking for Somebody (To Love)
3. Happiness
4. Part of the Band
5. Oh Caroline
6. I’m in Love With You
7. All I Need to Hear
8. Roadkill
9. Fallingforyou
10. I Like America & America Likes Me (BFIAFL Version)
11. About You (Live debut)
12. When We Are Together (Live debut)
The 1975 At Their Very Best
13. If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)
14. Chocolate
15. It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)
16. Paris
17. An Encounter
18. Robbers
19. Somebody Else
20. Love It If We Made It
21. The Sound
22. Sex
23. Give Yourself a Try
The 1975 will tour North America for the remainder of 2022, returning to the UK for their hometown headline shows in January 2023 – tickets are available here. They have also been confirmed as headliners for Glasgow’s TRNSMT Festival next July.
