The first thing you notice at a Harry Styles gig is the colour. Similar to when thousands of football fans stream down the iconic Wembley Way in their home colours before a match, the exuberant flood of fans who skipped their way along the path to the stadium on Tuesday night were a dazzling sea of bright hues and fancy dress. Stocks of pink cowboy hats and feather boas in the vicinity were critically low.
The former One Direction member’s first gig of four at the venue this week – totalling six nights there across last summer and this – was more of an event than just a concert. Styles played an exquisite and seamless two-hour show, but everything happening around it in the stadium was just as important and gripping. Costumes were made, online friends met for the first time, fans held up signs asking Styles to help them come out as gay, and a heartwarming community came together to celebrate.
