Dua Lipa made a surprise appearance at Tame Impala‘s headline gig at the O2 in London. Check it out below.
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The moment took place as Kevin Parker played the iconic London venue on May 8, with Lipa joining around halfway through his performance of the 2025 track ‘After Thought’ from his most recent album ‘Deadbeat’.
Afterwards, Parker said: “Let’s play a song that we made together!”, before the two broke into ‘Houdini’, taken from Lipa’s 2024 album ‘Radical Optimism‘, which saw Parker serve as producer.
Lipa later said the experience felt “completely surreal + euphoric” in a post on X. Watch footage of the moment below.
TAME IMPALA BROUGHT OUT DUA LIPA TO PERFORM “HOUDINI” TONIGHT pic.twitter.com/6jmOrB6eQH
— dua lipa crave (@addictionlipa) May 7, 2026
Tame Impala brought out Dua Lipa for his show in London last night. pic.twitter.com/KOHZ0aMuXX
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 8, 2026
My week so far has been filled with so much 🫀🫀🫀jumping on stage w my buddy @tameimpala last night felt completely surreal + euphoric honestly!!! spending so much needed time w the people i love most, endless studio studio studio, slow lazy mornings reading, celebrating my… pic.twitter.com/RYLVtqK560
— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) May 8, 2026
It’s not the first time the pair have joined forces on stage. Last year, Parker made a surprise appearance at Lipa’s show in Sydney for a performance of ‘The Less I Know The Better’.
Before that, the pop singer previously brought Parker out during her headlining slot at Glastonbury in 2024, with the two also duetting on the song then.
In an interview with The Guardian, published later that year, Parker spoke more about that moment, saying that it was “way more wild than I thought it was gonna be”.
“The nicest thing about it was that it was Dua headlining Glastonbury, which is something she has wanted to do since she was a kid,” he added. “I felt like I had a seat in someone’s dream that they were living – I was just happy to be a part of it.”
Elsewhere, the pop star credited Parker and Harle with contributing to the “eureka moment” on her new album, while Parker called Lipa a “brutal” editor while recalling the lengthy process of making ‘Houdini’.
“I’d kind of recoil in horror and go, ‘Oh, no, it’s a great verse!’” Parker remembered. “But then an hour later, we’d have something that I can’t imagine not being in the song.”
Before that, Lipa said Tame Impala’s ‘Currents’ “completely changed [her] life”.
“In terms of things that I’m obsessed with, ‘Currents’ has been the soundtrack to my life,” she told Triple J. “It’s one of my favourite albums ever ever ever. [It] was kind of like the gateway drug for me into Tame Impala.”
Tame Impala, ‘Deadbeat’ scored a three-star review from NME when it arrived last year, and noted that “Parker has grown outside his comfort zone, only to strike a kind of lyrical inertia that becomes detrimental to his new vocabulary of music”.
Elsewhere, Parker has also been confirmed as joining A$AP Rocky, WILLOW, Lil Yachty and more to feature on Thundercat’s first album in six years, ‘Distracted’, while he was recently spotted in the studio with members of Geese, Pond and King Gizzard.
As for Lipa, the Southbank Centre recently announced that the pop star is set to curate its 2026 London Literature Festival.
