{"id":84134,"date":"2026-05-16T22:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/84134\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:13:10","slug":"harry-styles-electrifies-amsterdam-withtogether-tour-concert-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/84134\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles Electrifies Amsterdam With’Together’ Tour: Concert Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmsterdam, one of the more low-key of Europe\u2019s great cities, is an unlikely place to launch a tour as hotly anticipated as Harry Styles\u2019 long-awaited \u201cTogether Together\u201d global trek<\/a> \u2014\u00a0especially when he\u2019s only performing shows in one city per continent for this entire year \u2014 and walking around the city on this chilly May weekend, it was obvious just how much he\u2019s done for local tourism. One was as likely to hear British or American accented English as Dutch on the city\u2019s streets, and when Styles asked the crowd mid-show, \u201cHow many of you are *not from Amsterdam?,\u201d the roar was approximately three times as loud as when he\u2019d asked for the locals moments earlier.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhich is not to say the audience wasn\u2019t screaming for the entire show, because they were. As he must have expected, the response to his unexpectedly low-key latest album, \u201cKiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.,\u201d<\/a> has been less fanatical than that of his previous albums \u2014 which, to be fair, is a very high bar. But the songs grow much bigger in a live setting, as his songs often do. In large part that\u2019s down to his versatile and deeply professional band, which has grown to some 18 musicians at certain points during the show (when the 10-piece core group is joined by an eight-member string section). But of course, it\u2019s mostly down to him.<\/p>\n

\n\tStyles is a one-in-several-million performer, unusually warm and charismatic, communicating an almost irresistible joyfulness in his loose-limbed, stumbly dancing, and in the positivity of the things he says to the crowd between songs \u2014\u00a0messages about togetherness and respect and sensitivity to others, about the love of music and dancing, nothing terribly profound if written down, but in his voice, and in this context, undeniably powerful. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn terms of pacing, the goal seemed to be to ease the audience into the new material. The show opened with a video of Styles walking through a garden and getting a phone call, as he does on the new album, with a woman\u2019s voice asking, \u201cHarry, are you coming out tonight?\u201d From there, the giant video screens light up with animated images before the band kicks in and styles, clad in sneakers, black slacks and a red leather jacket, launches into \u201cAre You Listening Yet\u201d from the new album. By the end of the first verse, he was halfway down one of the illuminated walkways that encircled nearly the entire floor of the almost 70,000-capacity stadium, giving him maximum contact with the crowd.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut he followed with four of his fans\u2019 most beloevd hits: \u201cGolden,\u201d \u201cAdore You,\u201d \u201cWatermelon Sugar\u201d and \u201cMusic for a Sushi Restaurant.\u201d A pair of new songs followed, and he concluded \u201cWhat we like to call act one of the show\u201d with a gentle version of \u201cthe song we used to end the set with, but now it feels more like a beginning\u201d: the title track of his second album, \u201cFine Line.\u201d For the rest of the show, he promised \u201cwe\u2019ll be dancing.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe group eased into a new, mostly instrumental clubby song called \u201cItalian Girls\u201d before launching into \u201cAmerican Girls,\u201d and from there it was almost entirely songs from the new album, many of them in energized arrangements. But what elevated them was the delivery: for two tracks, technicians moved instruments to the middle walkway and the entire band performed there, with Styles joined by two dancers for \u201cTreat People With Kindness\u201d and \u201cPop.\u201d He talked with the crowd at length, addressing people holding signs, helping one named Theresa who couldn\u2019t find her mother \u2014\u00a0\u201cTheresa\u2019s mum, are you here?\u201d and she waved almost immediately; \u201cThat was so easy!,\u201d Styles laughed. Another audience member named Jana said it was her birthday, so he led the entire crowd in a \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d singalong.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe main set wound down with two more songs \u201cDisco, Occasionally\u201d songs, \u201cCarla\u2019s Song\u201d and \u201cAperture,\u201d before the lights paused, signaling the crowd that the encore was coming. The full band \u2014\u00a0including string players \u2014\u00a0took their positions and Styles played \u201cMatilda\u201d and a soaring \u201cSign of the Times,\u201d drawing out the chorus to epic length. He finished with what is probably his most joyful song, \u201cAs It Was,\u201d showing off his well-publicized endurance as a runner by tearing down the walkways at full speed before walking slowly off the stage as the band vamped on the chorus. And with that, the show was over.<\/p>\n

\n\tStyles will be on tour for the rest of this year \u2014 with multiple concerts in London, Brazil, Mexico, Australia and a whopping 30 shows at Madison Square Garden \u2014 and, sources say, well into next. It\u2019s a lot to live up to \u2014 but on the basis of opening night in Amsterdam, Styles will be playing to ecstatic crowds for much longer than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amsterdam, one of the more low-key of Europe\u2019s great cities, is an unlikely place to launch a tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,11400,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-84134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-amsterdam","8":"tag-amsterdam","9":"tag-harry-styles","10":"tag-netherlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116586558751671859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}