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'Pickleball and pasta' - touring with Dua Lipa

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programmes, Rose has gone on to to perform at Derbyshire's Ynot? festival, Reading and Leeds festival, as well as opening a show for American singer-songwriter Noah Kahan in August 2024.

"It feels like it's been a whirlwind, it doesn't feel like so long ago since my first session at Nottingham's Metronome," she said.

"There are loads of incredible artists from the East Midlands and I'm so happy for myself and for other people that there is a way into the music industry."

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Alessi has performed in front of thousands of people for Dua Lipa's show in Madrid

Since finishing her 2024 UK tour, Rose said she felt "comfortable" transitioning from performing at smaller venues to bigger stadiums.

"I have always joked about my own headline tour, because we had a lot of staging and effects, people said it felt like an arena show," she said.

"To now take my shows on to those actual incredibly-sized Dua Lipa stages, it's felt like a natural transition where I felt comfortable.

"Sometimes I've walked off stage and I said to myself why was I so calm, that was so huge and there were so many people out there."

"As I'm so happy and proud of what I get to do, the excitement overtakes all other feelings, I'm always so excited to be on stage."

Away from the excitement on stage, Rose and her band have been enjoying some unusual pleasures whilst touring the world.

Speaking from a hotel room in Lyon, France, she said: "Me and the band are going to eat pasta downstairs and we have gained an obsession with pickleball.

"It's pickleball tomorrow and pasta tonight, that is the really glam life on tour with Dua Lipa."

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Alessi is touring with Dua Lipa (left) and Tate McRae (right)

Rose said to tour with Dua Lipa and Tate McRae was "so wild and ridiculous".

"I've admired both of their music and their careers individually for so long," she said.

"I love Tate McRrae and I'm so grateful for her having me. It's an insane tour all across America. I can't believe that's a real sentence I'm saying.

"I have not met Dua Lipa yet, but we have spoken over Instagram messages. She is a delight and she is an incredible performer.

"It feels like so much has happened in such a short time, but I'm excited to see what the next couple of years will be like."

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