The British producer who turned bedroom pop into a cultural phenomenon is riding high right now. PinkPantheress just scored her first Grammy nominations, her mixtape Fancy That landed on nearly every year-end list, and her sold-out residency shows proved she could fill rooms for multiple nights without breaking a sweat. Now she’s extending that success into a proper North American tour, and Montreal made the cut.
The 22-year-old artist will play MTELUS on Friday, May 15, as part of her expanded An Evening with PinkPantheress tour. The show follows a completely sold-out 13-date residency run that included two nights at Brooklyn’s Kings Theater and four at LA’s Wiltern Theater. General ticket sales begin Friday, December 12 at 10 a.m., though artist presale kicks off December 10 for fans who text the heart emoji at her tour link.
PinkPantheress earned her Grammy nominations last month for Best Dance Pop Recording (her breakout track Illegal) and Best Dance/Electronic Album (Fancy That). The mixtape, which NME crowned with the year’s best song, also landed her on the Mercury Prize shortlist and cracked the Billboard Hot 100. Critics have praised her ability to mine late-90s UK garage and jungle without sounding like a nostalgia act. Rolling Stone called it “nine crispy song nuggets that don’t overstay or overshare,” while Pitchfork noted she “has a unique ability to invoke ’90s and Y2K nostalgia without getting bogged down in homage.”
The tour promotion through Live Nation comes with some consumer-friendly wrinkles. Most Ticketmaster shows will use Face Value Exchange, meaning resale tickets can only be sold at their original price and won’t be transferable. VIP packages include the usual perks: premium seats, exclusive merch, early entry, and tour posters.
Between now and the Montreal date, PinkPantheress will make two appearances at Coachella in April and work her way through 15 other cities including Seattle, Vancouver, Phoenix, Miami, Atlanta, and Brooklyn. For an artist who built her career on TikTok snippets and two-minute songs, the leap to theatre-sized venues and festival main stages has been remarkably swift. The Montreal show lands near the tour’s end, which means the production should be fully dialled in by the time she reaches MTELUS.
Photo: Charlie Engman
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