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Ethel Cain’s Five-Night London Residency Sells Out With Southern‑Gothic Spectacle

Critics describe an anti-pop set built on ritualized staging with the pop payoff delayed to the encore.

Overview

  • The Hammersmith run at the Eventim Apollo spans five sold-out nights, drawing roughly 25,000 fans in total.
  • Staging foregrounds a Southern‑Gothic tableau with a mossy altar, a crucifix mic stand, heavy backlighting and billowing dry ice.
  • The set leans on 2025’s Perverts and Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, with slow, drone‑tinged and doomy arrangements.
  • Anhedönia keeps verbal engagement sparse and largely stays in shadow, emphasizing controlled presence over crowd banter.
  • ‘Tempest’ was briefly paused for medics to assist a fan before an encore that shifted tone with ‘A House in Nebraska’, ‘Crush’ and ‘American Teenager’, prompting notes that she could now fill arenas despite rejecting the pop label.