Academy, Manchester
The LA singer had her young audience shouting her empowering lyrics as she worked the room like an old pro
“BILLIE! Billie!” yell a massed choir of young voices before the star has walked on stage. When she does – at the centre of a set shaped like a giant illuminated spider, with a musician under each arch of its legs – the screaming is so deafening that the venue’s security staff clutch their earplugs.
At just 17, Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell, Los Angeles-born daughter of actors Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, has the world at her dancing feet. Dubbed “the most talked about teen on the planet” by one music paper, the American has amassed a sizeable constituency of teenage girls (and here, their mums, brothers and boyfriends) by singing about teenage concerns, from mental health to breakups.
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