Dua Lipa brought out Troye Sivan at her show in Melbourne this weekend for a duet of his song ‘Rush’ – watch footage below.
Lipa kept up her run of covering prominent Australian artists on her current tour down under on Saturday (March 22) in the fourth of her run of five shows at the Rod Laver Arena.
“So this next song in the set is different every night,” Lipa told the crowd, explaining that she has been filling it with a song “by a local artist.”
“And so tonight, I thought it would be a big mistake if I didn’t play one of my favourite, favourite artists who’s also a friend of mine,” she added. “This is a song I’ve been listening to for a really long time – I mean, 2023 until now – but this is a Saturday night banger, so I think it’s going to be a fun one.”
She launched into ‘Rush’, with Sivan himself appearing during the performance without any introduction. Watch the video here:
Lipa’s tour is in support of her album ‘Radical Optimism’ last summer, and at previous Melbourne shows this month, she has also covered Kylie Minogue’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’, Natalie Imbruglia’s ‘Torn’ and AC/DC’s ‘Highway To Hell’.
After wrapping up in Australia, Lipa is heading to the UK for even more live shows this summer, kicking off the run with two huge concerts at London’s Wembley Stadium (June 20, 21) followed by two dates at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool on June 24 and 25.
Before then, she’ll be touring across Europe performing in Paris, Belgium, Milan, Amsterdam and more. Visit here for Europe tickets and here for UK tickets.
The dates come following her huge headline slot at Glastonbury 2024, and after Lipa announced a special re-release of ‘Future Nostalgia’ in celebration of its fifth anniversary. The vinyl set will be released on March 28, almost exactly five years after the album first dropped.
Sivan, meanwhile, will be joining Charli XCX during her headline set at Primavera Sound this summer in Barcelona. The ‘Brat’ star is topping the bill alongside Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter, in what Charli dubbed the “holy trinity”.
