Adele kicked off her huge Munich residency on Friday (August 2) in front of a crowd of 80,000 fans – check out footage and setlist details below.
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The run of shows at the purpose-built state-of-the-art Munich Messe arena marks the singer’s first on-stage appearance in mainland Europe since 2016.
She played a 20-track set packed with her biggest songs, ranging from breakthrough hits ‘Hometown Glory’ and ‘Chasing Pavements’ – the latter getting its first airing since 2017 – to songs from ‘30’, including ‘Easy On Me’ and ‘Hold On’.
Check out footage from the show here:
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Adele perfoming “Love In The Dark” with a whole orchestra for the first sold-out show of her Munich residency. #AdeleInMunich pic.twitter.com/nagv6zIcjZ
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Adele played:
‘Hello’
‘Rumour Has It’
‘I Drink Wine’
‘Water Under The Bridge’
‘Easy On Me’
‘One And Only’
‘I’ll Be Waiting’
‘Oh My God’
‘Send My Love (To Your New Lover)’
‘Hometown Glory’
‘Love In The Dark’
‘Make You Feel My Love’
‘Chasing Pavements’
‘All I Ask’
‘Skyfall’
‘Set Fire To The Rain’
‘Hold On’
‘When We Were Young’
‘Someone Like You’
‘Rolling In The Deep’
Adele onstage at Messe München on August 02, 2024 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for AD)
Adele onstage at Messe München on August 02, 2024 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for AD)
Adele onstage at Messe München on August 02, 2024 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for AD)
Fireworks above the stadium on Riemer Park viewing hill at concert by Adele in Munich. Photo: Felix Hörhager/dpa (Photo by Felix Hörhager/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Adele first announced the shows in January, and will play a total of ten nights at the venue, wrapping up on August 31. See the full list of dates here and find any remaining tickets here.
“So a few months ago I got a call about a summer run of shows. I’ve been content as anything with my shows in London’s Hyde Park and my residency in Vegas, so I hadn’t had any other plans. However, I was too curious to not follow up and indulge in this idea – a one-off, bespoke pop-up stadium designed around whatever show I want to put on?,” Adele said on Instagram when the residency was first announced.
The shows follow on from the conclusion of Adele’s ‘Weekends With Adele’ Las Vegas residency earlier this year, and are being staged at a “pop-up” venue designed by Eurovision Song Contest and America’s Got Talent set designer Florian Wieder. It was put together by a 700-strong team.
The stage is huge, featuring a 93-metre catwalk and 200-metre semi-circle stage meaning Adele is able to get close to fans in the audience. Behind her is a 220 x 30 metre screen – something that cost a reported £34million.
The venue, which spans 400,000 square metres across the Munich fairgrounds outside of the city, will be “open air” for audiences. Also on the site of the venue is ‘Adele World’ – a festival site area where fans can get a beer in a pub modelled on the Good Ship in Kilburn, London, where Adele performed some of her earliest gigs. There is also an ‘I Drink Wine’ bar named after a track from her most recent album, ’30’.
Notably absent from her setlist was any new material, and she recently said she has no intention of recording another album anytime soon.
“I don’t have any plans for new music, at all,” she said. “I want a big break after this and I think I want to do other creative things, just for a little while.”
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