WILLOW made her Reading Festival main stage debut today (Sunday August 28) – revealing her ambition to one day make a “rock opera”.Delivering heavy cuts from her her acclaimed fourth studio album, ‘lately i feel Everything’,the rocker opened with her viral TikTok smash ‘t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l’.Then, she told the crowd of her unlikely dream: “I know this isn’t a popular opinion – my opinions aren’t often popular – but I would love to make a rock opera one day.”She joked about the niche ambition before performing a guitar-heavy version of ‘Lipstick’, adding: “Nobody’s got to scream.
Nobody’s gotta clap. I know that’s not something people think about on a daily basis. But, if I were ever to make a rock opera, this song would have to be on it”.The 21-year-old has just finished opening up for Machine Gun Kelly and Billie Eilish on their the respective tours.
Recalling the experience, she told the audience: “Damn, so I just got off tour where I was playing in a lot of rooms in ceilings.
I couldn’t see the sky. There wasn’t any fresh air. It wasn’t like this.“This is how music is supposed to be; in nature, looking at the sky, the trees.
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