Adele kicked off her huge Munich residency on Friday (August 2) in front of a crowd of 80,000 fans “ check out footage and setlist details below.
The run of shows at the purpose-built state-of-the-art Munich Messe arena marks the singer s first on-stage appearance in mainland Europe since 2016.
She played a 20-track set packed with her biggest songs, ranging from breakthrough hits ˜Hometown Glory and ˜Chasing Pavements “ the latter getting its first airing since 2017 “ to songs from ˜30 , including ˜Easy On Me and ˜Hold On .
Check out footage from the show here:
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Adele gave us a fabulous opening night, we can t wait to see you all again!#AdeleInMunich pic.twitter.com/C4UtnUoism— Adele Access (@AdeleAccess) August 3, 2024
Adele perfoming Love In The Dark with a whole orchestra for the first sold-out show of her Munich residency. #AdeleInMunich pic.twitter.com/nagv6zIcjZ
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Adele played:
˜Hello
˜Rumour Has It
˜I Drink Wine
˜Water Under The Bridge
˜Easy On Me
˜One And Only
˜I ll Be Waiting
˜Oh My God
˜Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
˜Hometown Glory
˜Love In The Dark
˜Make You Feel My Love
˜Chasing Pavements
˜All I Ask
˜Skyfall
˜Set Fire To The Rain
˜Hold On
˜When We Were Young
˜Someone Like You
˜Rolling In The Deep
Adele first announced the shows in January, and will play a total of ten nights at the venue, wrapping up on August 31. See the full list of dates here and find any remaining tickets here.
So a few months ago I got a call about a summer run of shows. I ve been content as anything with my shows in London s Hyde Park and my residency in Vegas, so I hadn t had any other plans. However, I was too curious to not follow up and indulge in this idea “ a one-off, bespoke pop-up stadium designed around whatever show I want to put on?, Adele said on Instagram when the residency was first announced.
The shows follow on from the conclusion of Adele s ˜Weekends With Adele Las Vegas residency earlier this year, and are being staged at a pop-up venue designed by Eurovision Song Contest and America s Got Talent set designer Florian Wieder. It was put together by a 700-strong team.
The stage is huge, featuring a 93-metre catwalk and 200-metre semi-circle stage meaning Adele is able to get close to fans in the audience. Behind her is a 220 x 30 metre screen “ something that cost a reported £34million.
The venue, which spans 400,000 square metres across the Munich fairgrounds outside of the city, will be open air for audiences. Also on the site of the venue is ˜Adele World “ a festival site area where fans can get a beer in a pub modelled on the Good Ship in Kilburn, London, where Adele performed some of her earliest gigs. There is also an ˜I Drink Wine bar named after a track from her most recent album, 30 .
Notably absent from her setlist was any new material, and she recently said she has no intention of recording another album anytime soon.
I don t have any plans for new music, at all, she said. I want a big break after this and I think I want to do other creative things, just for a little while.
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