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LEWIS CAPALDI
@ Brisbane Entertainment Centre
4th December 2025:
A night of humour,
heartbreak & healing
(Live Review)

Review by Audrey Songvilay

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Lewis Capaldi has always been a fascinating contradiction. He’s the world’s funniest sad man.

He can write some of the most gut-wrenching heartbreak ballads of the decade, yet deliver them with the comedic timing of someone who could easily headline a stand-up tour. After taking a long break from touring to focus on his mental health, he returned to the charts with Survive, made headlines with a surprise Glastonbury set, and is now back on tour in Australia for his first headline run since 2019. Brisbane, naturally, welcomed him back.

What makes Capaldi so magnetic is that he doesn’t pretend to have it all together. He walks onstage with the grin of someone who’s equal parts nervous and thrilled, throws out a “Let’s get busy, Brissy,” and suddenly you’re breathing easier just because he’s here. He’s silly, unfiltered, painfully human. He signs fans’ jackets. He overshares. He rambles. He laughs.

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The setlist is basically a masterclass in yearning.
Survive. Grace. Forever. Wish You the Best. Bruises. Almost.
Every song is a timestamp. A reminder of the people we once held too tightly or not tightly enough. Capaldi sings with that raspy, unraveling tenderness that makes you think of the person you shouldn’t still be thinking about.

But between songs, he jokes that he doesn’t relate to all of them now, that some of those heartbreaks have finally released their grip on him. There’s a surprising sense of hope in that.

Growth that doesn’t erase the past.

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Just when the whole arena is about to dissolve emotionally, someone yells, “Where’s Niall (Horan)?” Capaldi’s longtime friend and former One Direction star. Without missing a beat, he fires back: “Home, probably. I’m the one who came all the way here.”

The show is pure Capaldi alchemy. It’s cathartic. It’s messy. It’s heartbreak in surround sound. One moment everyone is singing like they’re trying to get over someone, and the next they’re doubled over laughing because Capaldi said something wildly unserious.

Hearing him live settles a long-standing debate: what can sometimes sound a little forced on record is completely effortless in person. Capaldi lets each song breathe, bleed, and bruise exactly as it’s meant to.

Before You Go sweeps through the arena and thousands of phone lights rise like tiny stars.

And then… the proposal.

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A spotlight. A couple. A ring. A crowd losing it. Capaldi squints, pauses, and says, “You’re not taking the shine off me. Nice to see people being happy, I guess. A heads up would’ve been nice. A lot of people in here are single as f***.” It’s hilarious, of course, but there’s something oddly sweet about the way he pokes fun at a moment dripping in romance. The encore, naturally, is his self-declared least favourite part. “I was just standing there on the side, waiting. And you all played a part in it.”

Three songs for the encore. How I’m Feeling Now arrives with this quiet, aching honesty. It feels like the emotional core of the whole night. It’s the kind of song that mirrors back exactly how you’re feeling whether you want it to or not. Hold Me While You Wait deepens the blow, and then Someone You Loved finishes it. You feel the history of that song. The song that, for better or worse, made us all feel a little less alone. Lewis Capaldi bares the mess. He reminds us that sadness can be funny, vulnerability can be loud, and sometimes the best nights are the ones where you laugh and cry in the same breath.

A night of humour.
A night of heartbreak.
A night of healing.
A Lewis Capaldi special.

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Press Release 27th October 2025 (below) HERE

Support announced for
LEWIS CAPALDI 2025
Australia and New Zealand
Tour Dates

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