It’s near the end of
Fletcher’s American tour, and it has been going well. Many of her shows are selling out, thanks to the teenage fanbase… and the Fine Line Music Café show, in Minneapolis, on Saturday night, is no exception. Fans showed up early and help sell out the venue.
New York’s
Julia Wolf (aka
WOLF), opened the show. We last mentioned that she released her debut EP
Girls In Purgatory… so most of the songs played were taken from the debut, including “Falling In Love” and “In My Way”.
She also had some new songs that haven’t been released yet. One of those songs, which I’ll call “Get Off My D**k” (based on a partial setlist that she released on her Facebook page), was written after being stood up from a record label. Let me explain, you see, a major label expressed interest in her music, so they scheduled a meeting with her in person, in Los Angeles. When the day of the meeting came, Julia Wolf waited and waited, and realized the label wasn’t going to show up. She never explained what happened, but I just got the impression that the label just forgot about it or something. I guess something good came out of it, we got a song out of it.
Wolf seemed comfortable on stage, with her live drummer. The guitar music may have been from a playback loop or DJ, which I did not see on stage, at my location. We’ve seen new bands, and sometime you can tell they’re not quite ready for the stage… but seeing Wolf perform, you can tell it’s not her first rodeo. This is a feat, as Wolf explained on stage that she grew up super shy. She never spoke up, she was passive, and she let people walk all over her. Something happened, now she’s outspoken, she’ll say what’s on her mind, she’ll stand up and fight! Most of all, she’s expressing her opinion and view point, through her songs. It’s how she is expressing her inner feelings.
Hopefully that message will inspire other teenage girls at the concert, hearing Wolf tells her story.
As for
Fletcher (Cari Fletcher), she started releasing her music in 2016 (with
Finding Fletcher), but her first major hit was a song called “Undrunk” in 2019. The single hit the Billboard Hot 100 and
Spotify’s #1 Viral Chart. Naturally radio stations started to pick up on the song, and overnight the song was the fastest-rising song at pop radio.
She started her set with “girls girls girls”, a song that reused a line from
Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl”. It sets the tone that she’s a member of the LGBTQ+ community. If you weren’t sure, her latest EP
The S(ex) Tapes is really about her relationship with famous YouTuber
Shannon Beveridge.
She has a very strong fanbase, almost every song, you can hear her fans singing back the lyrics. As you can see in the photos, she’s literally just letting her fans finish the chorus.
Fletcher’s latest
The S(ex) Tapes is available now on Capitol Records.
Remaining tour dates:
Apr
4
Englewood, CO, US
Gothic Theatre
Apr
6
New York (NYC), NY, US
Webster Hall
Apr
21
Stockholm, Sweden
Debaser Strand
Apr
22
Oslo, Norway
Parkteateret
Apr
23
Copenhagen, Denmark
Lille Vega, VEGA
Apr
25
Hamburg, Germany
Gruenspan
Apr
25
West Hollywood, CA, US
The Roxy Theatre
Apr
26
Berlin, Germany
Kesselhaus in der Kulturbrauerei
Apr
28
Zürich, Switzerland
Plaza
Apr
29
Cologne, Germany
Die Kantine
May
1
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Melkweg Max
May
2
Brussels, Belgium
Ancienne Belgique, AB Box
May
3
Paris, France
Alhambra
May
5
Manchester, UK
O2 Ritz Manchester
May
6
Glasgow, UK
SWG3
May
7
Dublin, Ireland
The Academy
May
9
Bristol, UK
SWX
May
10
London, UK
O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
May
11
Birmingham, UK
O2 Institute Birmingham
May
13
Liverpool, UK
O2 Academy Liverpool
May
15
London, UK
O2 Forum Kentish Town
May
20
Gulf Shores, AL, US
Hangout Music Festival
May
27
Napa, CA, US
BottleRock Festival
Jun
10
Austin, TX, US
Camp Nowhere
Jun
11
Outdoor
Dallas, TX, US
Camp Nowhere
Jul
28
Chicago, IL, US
Lollapalooza
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