Lily Allen “can’t imagine” doing a 20th anniversary tour for ‘Alright, Still’
Lily Allen has said she “can’t imagine” doing a 20th anniversary tour for her debut album ‘Alright, Still’.
2026 will mark the 20 year anniversary of her breakout album, which debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart and went on to be certified quadruple platinum, selling over 2.5 million copies worldwide and bagging a nomination for Best Alternative Music Album at the 50th Grammy Awards.
Speaking on her Miss Me podcast, which she hosts with Miquita Oliver, she said: “I do think maybe there is a conversation to be had about doing a 20 year anniversary tour of ‘Alright, Still’, but I can’t even imagine though. That person singing those songs is a relative child.
“I just can’t imagine being a 40-year-old woman and standing up on stage singing those songs with any conviction.”
“What are you chatting about,” asked Oliver. “What would you say to the Stones!”
“My voice is different,” Allen reasons, before playfully singing a few lines from ‘LDN’. “Like, I just can’t even imagine.” She however did add that she could “possibly connect with ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’,” her second album, slightly more. “But I’ll be 45,” she said, joking: “I’ll have had the facelift by then. I’ll have the facelift, the boob job and the bum lift by then.”
Upon the release of ‘Alright, Still‘, NME wrote that it contained “all the songs that made us fall for her in the first place – the Althea & Donna groove of ‘Smile’, the laugh-out-loud diss of ‘Knock ’Em Out’ and the rum-tale of the capital ‘LDN’.
“If the pop dreams get slightly tarnished by the graffiti put-downs of ‘Not Big’ (her ex has a ‘size problem’) and ‘Alfie’ (her brother smokes too much dope) then that’s not too worrying. With a personality this size, this isn’t the last time you’ll be hearing from her.”
Elsewhere on the show, she discussed working with Burna Boy on 2018 track ‘Heaven’s Gate’ after they connected on Twitter. “He just came to my studio at Tileyard,” recalled Allen. “And guess who produced that song? Fred Again...”
Oliver also mentioned the ‘Not Fair’ singer’s work with Jamie T, Dizzee Rascal, Common, Pink, Giggs, Stormzy, and Shy FX, saying she has always been “at the cutting edge of shit”.
Speaking again on her podcast recently, Allen came out in support of Chappell Roan for “changing the landscape” around fan behaviour and personal boundaries for artists, noting that her husband, Stranger Things actor David Harbour, had experienced a “palpable” change in people approaching him on the street since Roan spoke out.
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