The Chinese-Scottish techno-pop artist and producer takes us backstage on their tour around China, Seoul, and Taiwan in this photo diary.
Photography by Lorenzo Landicho
Ever wondered what it’s like to be behind the scenes with your favorite artist on tour? LVRA will let you take a glimpse. With their show “Road 2 Redline,” the multi-hyphenate Chinese-Scottish star is taking over Asia on a month-long tour, accompanied by Eastern Margins, with a packed schedule around China, Seoul, and Taiwan. The tour follows the drop of their acclaimed Scottish Album of the Year-nominated EP, “soft like steel,” earlier this year.
Drawing references from the molten core of industrial, hyperpop, and deconstructed club music, they crystallise a sound that’s both anthemic and experimental, with influences by the likes of Grimes, Eartheater, LCY, Two Shell, Breaka, and SOPHIE. Here, we go backstage with them in an exclusive photo diary of the Asia 2023 tour. Keep scrolling…
Chengdu, China – Here we go: first show of the 15 show tour at Axis Chengdu! Amazing food, awesome club. Outfits on this tour styled by the amazing Suz Walsh (@suzwalsh) <3 (Photo by Lorenzo Landicho)
Nanjing, China – Back-to-back shows for China’s National ‘Golden Week’ holiday – next stop after Chengdu was Club 61 in Nanjing, crowd was fucking wild. Here’s the tour gang David (@triplelumi) and the mastermind behind most of these photos Lorenzo (@lorenzolandicho) shelling the end of the night. (Photo by He Shen)
Qingdao, China – Someone in the crowd gave me this cute surf Miffy after my show! So many little souvenirs from the tour made my heart sooo warm. (Photo by Lorenzo Landicho)
Dalian, China – Tight schedule meant a lot of getting ready in the club, here’s me doing my makeup in the corner of a club room in Dalian, having a mirror was a plus lol. This was the 5th show in a week and the final of Golden Week. Was totally dead at this point and in need of some serious sleep. (Photo by Lorenzo Landicho)
Osaka, Japan – On to the next country – Japan! Pre-show food is like as big a deal as the show itself here at Eastern Margins… here’s a pic of me and Arya having yummy takoyaki balls and yakisoba before the Osaka show. (Photo by Lorenzo Landicho)
Seoul pt. 1, South Korea – Straight from Japan to Korea, played the legendary Cakeshop in Seoul where the energy was INSANE. Here have two pics of this unforgettable night <3 (Photo by Lorenzo Landicho)
Seoul pt. 2, South Korea (Photo by Lorenzo Landicho)
Guangzhou, China – Back to China! Thank you Heewon for the outfit from Seoul (wearing @aesynctx). Met so many cute and cool people in the crowd and after the show <3 (Photo by Lorenzo Landicho)
Taipei City, Taiwan – Managed to spend a few days in Taipei before the penultimate show to chill out – highlight was an evening hike to a natural hot-spring with friends. Successfully avoided snakes. Shout-out to my friend Kim for driving us everywhere xoxo (Photo by Oscar McNab)
Hangzhou, China – FINAL SHOW #15 in Hangzhou for Halloween weekend! Outfits were next fucking level so Jex (@asiangirlfriend) and I got a photo with this guy who looked fucking cool and everyone else was getting photos with. Was so fun to play the last two shows with Jex as Lorenzo and David dipped out after Beijing. SO relieved the tour was a massive success!!! (Photo by Oscar McNab)
LVRA’s forthcoming Remix package “soft like steel: reforged”, arrives 15th November.
