Dua Lipa Brings Out Troye Sivan, Vance Joy at Final Melbourne Concerts

Dua Lipa has wrapped up the Melbourne leg of her Australian tour by bringing out a pair of acclaimed names for her ongoing cowl portion.

Lipa launched her stay appearances for 2025 earlier this month when she touched down in Australia as a part of her ongoing Radical Optimism Tour. With 5 nights scheduled for Melbourne’s Rod Laver Enviornment and three at Sydney’s Qudos Financial institution Enviornment, the joy for the tour spilled over forward of time when it was famous that each one eight dates on her Australian trek had offered out – leading to over 120,000 ticket gross sales.

To date, every of the Australian dates have seen Lipa dedicate the eighth music of her set to a particular cowl of an Australian artist. On March 17, AC/DC got the distinction when she carried out “Freeway to Hell,” with Natalie Imbruglia’s model of “Torn” making the reduce, and Kylie Minogue’s ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head” showing within the set on March 20.

The ultimate two Melbourne reveals had been taken up one other notch, nevertheless, with Lipa welcoming the unique artists for a particular duet. On Saturday (March 22), Troye Sivan served because the visitor of honor, becoming a member of Lipa to carry out a model of his Grammy-nominated 2023 single “Rush.”

“This subsequent music within the set is totally different each evening,” Lipa defined, noting she had allotted the slot to characteristic a music “by a neighborhood artist” every evening. “So tonight, I believed it will be an enormous mistake if I didn’t play considered one of my favourite, favourite artists ever who’s additionally a buddy of mine.”

“It is a music I’ve been listening to for a extremely very long time — I imply, 2023 till now, and endlessly extra I’ll be listening to this music,” she added. “However it is a Saturday evening banger, so I believe it’s going to be a enjoyable one.” Sivan then joined in unannounced to the sound of rapturous applause from the gang. 

The next evening (Sunday, March 23), Lipa wrapped up the Melbourne leg of her tour, with the eighth music once more being allotted to a music by an Australian artist. This time, she was once more joined by the artist in query, with Vance Pleasure showing to share a rendition of his 2013 single “Riptide.”

Pleasure’s “Riptide” topped the Rock Airplay chart upon its launch, and was additionally nominated for each music of the yr and greatest video on the 2013 ARIA Awards. It hasn’t, nevertheless, ever topped the Australian charts, although ARIA’s 2024 end-of-year report included the music as considered one of solely 5 native songs within the chart, with its No. 24 inserting being the best for an Australian music that yr.

Notably, Lipa’s level of sharing a music by a “native artist” every evening appears solely to increase to the nationality of every artist. Whereas each Pleasure and Minogue are from Melbourne, Sivan hails from Perth (by the use of South Africa), and Imbruglia and AC/DC are famous Sydney names. It’s at the moment unclear which Australian acts Lipa will add to her set in Sydney, although she is going to launch these dates on Wednesday (March 26).