Watch Matty Healy cover Colin Hay and Donny Hathaway as he supports The 1975 in Dublin

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Matty Healy has covered tracks from Colin Hay and Donny Hathaway while opening for his own band, The 1975. He also performed the live debut of their song ‘Then Because She Goes’ — check out the full setlist and footage of the show below.The frontman’s solo performance took place at The 1975’s show in St.

Anne’s Park, Dublin on Wednesday (June 7). Shortly before the gig kicked off, it was announced that Healy would be performing as the opening act for his own band, following Caroline Polachek dropping out of the show at the last minute due to illness.While there was speculation as to what the singer-songwriter would play during his support slot, he later delivered a stripped-back set for fans, which included both acoustic variations of 1975 songs, as well as covers of some other artists.Playing 10 songs as a solo act before later returning to the stage for the second time with his fellow bandmates, a highlight of the show came almost immediately after Healy began his set — performing the live debut of ‘Then Because She Goes’.The song is taken from the band’s 2020 album ‘Notes on a Conditional Form’, and was played for the first time during the solo segment of the evening.

From there, he also performed renditions of tracks including ‘Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America’, ‘All I Need To Hear’ and ‘Woman’, before also debuting the first ever live rendition of ‘Playing On My Mind’ — also taken from their 2020 LP.Another highlight for fans, however, came as Healy covered two tracks from outside of his discography.

The first was ‘I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You’, the 1998 ballad from solo artist and former Men At Work singer Colin Hay, and the second was a cover of Donny Hathaway’s ‘A Song For You’, which was.