Agonising and extravagant
by Geg on 14/10/2024O2 Institute Birmingham - BirminghamRating: 4 out of 53 hours late but she delivered. Never got my souvenir ticket.

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Azealia Banks was born on 31 May 1991 and raised by her mother in Harlem, New York. After discovering her yearning for the limelight at an early age, she was enrolled in the La Guardia High School of Performing Arts and made her performance debut in off-Broadway shows with the Tada! Youth Theatre. A blossoming acting career beckoned, but it was music which helped Azealia discover her identity, and in particular rap music. When she was only 17, and under the pseudonym Miss Bank$, she released her first track, 17, on MySpace. It went viral and brought her to the attention of XL Records.
Artistic differences between Azealia and the record label soon led to her departure and relocation to Montreal, Canada. There, reverting to her real name, she recorded two tracks, L8R, and a cover of the Interpol hit, Slow Hands, which she put out on YouTube. However, it was her next, originally penned track 212, which featured Lazy Jay, released as a free download in September 2011, which brought critical acclaim and launched her career as a recording artist in earnest. The BBC, Pitchfork and NME, amongst others, hailed her innovative use of lyrics backed by bass-heavy rapping and vocal skills, and it became a hit in Europe, the UK and Ireland. The album resulted in Azealia being nominated for a Sound of 2012 award, and in the same year she was ranked first place in NME's Cool List.
Moving to London in 2012, Azealia started work on her first full-length album with Florence + The Machine and Adele's producer, Paul Epworth. Her mixtape, Fantasea, was released in July 2012 and features the hits Yung Rapunzel and ATM Jam, and she has also been in the studio working on her debut album, Broke With Expensive Taste, under the auspices of Universal, with whom she has a record deal.
A measure of Azealia's prodigious talent and recognition of her expected future success is that major music and video production stars from around the world are queuing up to work with her. Collaborations have included names such as Aaliyah, video producer Nicola Formichetti, most notable for her work with Lady Gaga, Two Door Cinema Club, with whom she toured in 2012, and Kayne West.
3 hours late but she delivered. Never got my souvenir ticket.
When she finally came on stage at 9:45, Azaelia was energetic and performed well. However her support act was a nameless DJ who was on for 2.5 hours and played completely unrecognisable and frankly bad house tracks. The audience was full of people holding up their phones with text saying things like "I'm bored". It felt like they picked the cheapest and lowest effort support act that they possibly could. I actually like house music and if the support act had been on for 30/40 minutes alongside another act like a local band or something then I think the show would have been so much more enjoyable on the whole. This combined with a complete absence of any kind of set, visuals, choreography etc. when azaelia did (eventually) come on left me feeling like I paid £35 a ticket for what felt like a £15 experience at a push. Will not be going to see her again.
The concert itself was great, really fun, the energy in the room was very hype. I think that it was the audience that made it such a memorable expirience. Azealia is very talented, her vocals and rapping were really impressive and lived up to the expectations. However her being late reputation also lived up to the expectations. Having to wait for 3 hours with no introducing acts was a bit draining, by the time she actually showed up I was already so exhausted from being crushed in the crowd in a hot room. Considering how long we waited, leaving after 45 mins without any goodbye came across as room, very much I couldn't care less about yall. I totally understand that's part of her persona, but cmon girl would be nice if you appreciated the fans that literally give fame and all your money. You would be nothing without your fans afterall. The concert was very low budget, just her on the stage, the line up of the songs wasn't even decided before the concert, she'd go up to the dj after every song to request the next one. Almost gave karaoke vibes. I really like her songs, they are perfect for a hype concert, so I think the highlight of the concert wasn't just Azealia herself but the fans made it fun.
The concert was amazing, Azealia was so alive and made the whole time fun, made sure the crowd was okay and played the best song, only thing was the opener was like 2 hours and my feet were killing me, other then that it was a 10/10 experience!
The atmosphere was great, but all started off on a bad foot, when queuing for bag search it had been raining so we had to walk through huge deep puddles of dirty water, once inside the DJ came on stage and did 3 hours of DJ set and then Azealia Banks came on stage 3 hours late with no audience engagement, no stage presence as such and then she just walked off stage at the end of the show with no thank you or anything. It just seemed very unplanned/careless which is a shame for the price we paid for the tickets.
We got in at 6:50 because we had o2 priority. Which was definitely worth it !. We got to the front of the balcony, and once the place had began to fill up Azealias special guest, kornel Kovacs, came on stage, he kept everyone entertained until 10PM when Azealia came on stage, she started doing a cappella for Luxury and stayed on stage until 10:45, personally the wait wasn't the best but the show she gave was unbelievable! If she ever comes back to the Uk I will definitely be buying tickets again for sure !
No props no dancers not screen and very late yet she managed to move the crowd like no other because she is THAT GIRL. Fantastic music that speaks for itself and a performer only being worth being referred as the GREATEST RAPPER OF ALL TIME.
Was so excited for this concert to very soon become disappointed after listening to an average DJ for two hours for her to show up over an hour late, we got less than an hours worth of songs and some of the obvious fan favourites were subsequently missed. It's very frustrating on this tour that each customer paid the same money for completely varied experiences. Stage presence was good, but not worth the wait.
The warm up DJ did not warm us up, not sure who he was but we expected a better variety of songs than just beats. 2hr's of torture whilst we waited for Azealia Banks. When she finally arrived she played the shortest gig of my life, was due on at 9pm but didn't arrive until 10:10pm and then only done a 30-40min set it just felt very rushed from the moment she got on stage. Despite her long hiatus from the UK the set was amazing and she had the crowd going! I just wished she arrived on time and played her whole setlist.