Chaos. That’s how Billie Eilish described her last-minute headline show at London’s Electric Ballroom on Tuesday night. Over the bank holiday weekend, Eilish had become the youngest solo headliner at Reading and Leeds Festivals with a show that conjured up intimacy in a crowd of 90,000. Over the past 18 months, the star has also sold out five nights at London’s massive O2 Arena and topped the bill at Glastonbury. She’s an artist comfortable on the world’s biggest stages.
By comparison, playing to 1,500 fans in London was apparently “terrifying”. Three songs into the set, Eilish had to stop the menacing snarl of Therefore I Am to help a fan. She restarted it, then stopped again. “I haven’t played a show this small in six years and I’ve forgotten how to do it,” she said, before finally finishing the track.
