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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Rosamund Brennan

Harry Styles arrives in Australia – prompting a stampede, shoeys and screaming teens

Harry Styles in a Love on Tour show
Harry Styles in a Love on Tour show. He has opened the Australian leg of the tour in Perth. Photograph: Anthony Pham/Getty Images

On a blistering summer evening in Perth, the air is not only thick with humidity but the simmering anticipation of almost 30,000 ecstatic young Harry Styles fans.

“It’s a bit hot down here, innit? A scorcher!” Styles says in his best Australian accent, before checking in with the crowd: “Is everyone feeling OK? Are you drinking enough water? Does anyone have hydration tablets?”

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