opened her British tour in Cardiff last night, June 23, 2025. Here are our pick of five great moments from the show.

Hope you like her new direction! Whether it’s called , , or something different entirely, Lana’s new album is said to moving in a country direction. Even if support group don’t exactly set the tone for that, Lana’s pre-show playlist does – hitting the crowd with historic pop/country crossover hits like ’s “” (1961), “” by (1967) and ’s “” (1975).

Much as she did at in the spring, Lana opens the show with a new song, “”. Point of difference for Cardiff: her actual husband – alligator tour guide – is in the house! “It’s a long way to travel,” she explains as she sniffles a bit after embracing him mid-song. “These are good tears!”

There weren’t a load of signs commemorating Lana’s 40^th birthday last Saturday, but the one caught by the roving crowd camera does raise a endearingly massive cheer when it’s shown on the big screen.

Maybe the best of the new songs we’ve heard so far – certainly the catchiest – “” gets a huge welcome from Lana’s Welsh fandom, who are hip enough to have pre-learned the words from Stagecoach footage on YouTube. Featuring her Spotify stats as a chorus “I’ve got 57.5 million listeners on Spotify…”. It’s genius, because it’s true.

“Young And Beautiful”

Great song anyway but improved by Lana’s concession to the traditional “pier into the crowd” stadium gig strategy. Followed by a Lady Diana Spencer-style train of gauzy dress fabric, she performs the song from beneath the kind of floral arch under which American couples get married in idyllic locations. Do we take this theatre? We do.

A full review will appear in the next Uncut, on sale July 18

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