After a two year delay, Dua Lipa has enraptured fans with her 'Future Nostalgia' tour, built alongside WFB Live and debuted in Miami, Florida.
WFB Live worked closely with Dua on her performance. A new band was sourced and rehearsed, and brand new arrangements were created to showcase her new album for the first time and bring new life into her old record.
The show also included many bespoke compositions from intros and interludes to the 2.5 hour house music mix before the show began.
NME gave the tour a 5 star review, commenting “there’s no more potently thrilling sound than that of a pop star whose time is now, as this stratospheric set proves.” Variety stated “Dua Lipa delivers the ‘Future Nostalgia’ show New York has been waiting two years for”, and Rolling Stone described the show as “a powerful reminder of Lipa’s pop savvy“.
After the success of WFB Live's last partnership with Post Malone on his '12 Carat Toothache' tour, they were brought back to help create an even bigger, even bolder show with 'If Ya'll Weren't Here, I'd Be Cryin' touring globally throughout 2023.
The WFB Live team wanted to embrace the sheer musicality of the genre-hopping American's back catalogue and new 2023 release 'Austin'. The idea to bring on board a band for the first time ever on a Posty tour was enhanced even further by an alternative string quartet. All images Adam DeGross
Working alongside creative director Ace Bowerman, WFB Live composed and produced all interstitial music for the BLACKPINK Born Pink Tour.
WFB Live took the audience on a dark fantastical journey, elevating the experience in-between songs taking influence from glitch-hop, IDM, and electronica.
WFB Live flew out to Los Angeles to work alongside production company London Alley in creating the tour audio and sound design for all intros, outros, interludes and dance breaks.
For Dua’s performance at the 2024 Grammy Awards, the team at WFB Live worked with her to put together a medley of the singer’s latest singles ‘Houdini’ and ‘Dance The Night’, and teased her next release ‘Training Season’ within the arrangement.
WFB Live were brought in to work with FKA twigs and producer Koreless to create her performance for Valentino’s spring/summer 24 catwalk presentation. WFB Live also worked closely with the live foley team to create a naturalistic, organic soundscape to accompany the presentation. The 14 minute performance was choreographed by The Rambert Dance Group.
Dua kicked off DL3 era with the first live performance of Houdini from the London Sessions. WFB Live refreshed the live set up, and looked after both performance and music direction on site.
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Engaged by creative director Lewis James, WFB were brought in to build Post Malone’s fourth world tour - ‘The 12 Carat Tour’.
WFB Live created bespoke arrangements, medleys and transitions and collaborated with Post’s existing team on creating his darkest and most ambitious show to date pulling in our main references from the industrial, screamo and electronica worlds.
Post Malone took time out from his 'If Ya'll Weren't Here, I'd Be Cryin' tour to sit down at the NPR Tiny Desk. WFB Live recreated his tour set up, bringing in a band and string quartet, and arranged acoustic versions of some of his back catalog as well as his new single 'Enough is Enough'.
For Zara Larsson's most recent European tour 'Venus', the team at WFB Live worked with visual creatives Blackskull to create a show that captured the 'evolutionary essence' of the Swedish popstar's fourth studio album.
The show featured four acts that swept the audience along in a celestial journey of rebirth, revival and metamorphosis, finally witnessing Zara, or our Venus, in full bloom.
Dork described the show as “a feeling of sheer euphoria“ and an “ambitious, visceral gig”.
Ahead of Vogue's second annual 'Vogue World' event, held in London this year, WFB Live were brought in to work alongside FKA twigs in creating a mash up of Opus 3's It's a Fine Day and FKA twigs' Sad Day. Led by William Bowerman, the team collaborated with twigs in creating a bespoke arrangement to accompany her performance with the Rambert dance troupe at the gala.
Image: Vogue World: London
As Rina Sawayama took her HTG tour out for the festival season of 2023, WFB Live continued their work with her and her creative director Ace Bowerman to elevate the show even further.
Rina’s Glastonbury show was especially well reviewed, described by Dork as “theatrical, flawless and fucking stunning“ and The Guardian as “magnificently OTT“.
In collaboration with Jessie Ware, WFB Live created the star's sell out 5th album tour, 'That! Feels Good!'.
Together with Ware, WFB Live brought the audience into the sexy, sumptuous world of ‘The Pearl Club’. The audience were taken through 4 acts - “Lady” “Lover” “Freak” and “Mother”, a journey through love, sex, power, all accompanied by WFB Live's arrangements of Ware's new album, interludes, original music, and reimagining of her back catalogue.
Attitude declared that the show “underscores Jessie Ware as one of the UK’s most important – and commanding – voices in dance music.” NME and the Independent gave the show 5 stars, the former describing the show as “joyous, OTT and carefully thought-out at the same time – it's a genuine triumph”.
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WFB Live and sister company Ceremony London were brought in to build Anne Marie's "Therapy" world tour from the ground up, providing musical and creative direction across the project.
The tour was Anne Maries biggest to date, being described as “a constant delight” by The Evening Standard.
WFB Live were brought in to build Rina Sawayama's second album tour for "Hold The Girl".
WFB Live, in collaboration with Rina's creative director Crystalline, sought to create a tour that brought to life Rina’s journey through some of her most painful times, onwards to her path to happiness and self acceptance.
WFB pulled from a wide array of influences from the world of Nu metal, UK Garage of the early 2000s and early American techno.
Jessie Ware first approached WFB Live in 2020 to help create her "What's Your Pleasure" tour.
The show was built with inspiration from 1980s New York club culture, resulting in a 90 minute dance show that doesn’t stop for air. WFB handled all arrangements and interludes.
WFB hired a new band and worked closely with a wider creative team resulting in a show that has since been met with multiple 5* reviews, described by the Guardian as “scintillating, grown up pop, done with wit and finesse” and the Telegraph as “A night of joyous disco-infused numbers confirm[ing] Ware's return to the top table of pop”.
The tour wrapped up with a headline slot on on The Park Stage at Glastonbury 2022.
Jessie Ware took to the BBC Radio 2 Piano Room to perform “Pearls” from her upcoming album, directed and arranged by WFB Live.
WFB Live wrote, directed and produced the cover of Cher’s “Believe” as well as composing the string arrangement for the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
As part of an ongoing consultancy project, Amazon Music asked WFB Live to provide music direction for their online content series 'CURVED', working closely with various artists.
WFB Live directed, arranged and produced an alternative version of "Glue Song” by beabadoobee.
After producing the 2054 remix of 'Real Groove' with Kylie Minogue and Dua Lipa, Kylie invited WFB Live to arrange and direct an intimate show at the decadent Carlyle Hotel in New York for the US launch of Kylie wines.
As part of the Future Nostalgia Tour run during summer 2022, Dua Lipa headlined major festivals around the world including Lollapalooza in Chicago, Osheaga in Montreal, and Sziget in Budapest, amongst many others.
As part of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, WFB Live arranged a medley and directed a bespoke show and rehearsals for 'Party at the Palace' performance with Jax Jones and special guests Stefflon Don, Mabel and John Newman. This was aired live on BBC1, straight from Buckingham Palace in London.
Rina Sawayama, one of the UK's most exciting new pop acts, brought on WFB Live to elevate her live performance, ahead of her second album "Hold The Girl".
Rina and WFB took three tracks from her latest album to the Vevo Studio in London for a special performance.
In partnership with sister company Ceremony London, WFB Live produced a bespoke arrangement of "Better Days".
Amazon Music approached WFB Live to provide music direction for their online content series 'Amazon Originals', working closely with various artists.
WFB Live directed, arranged and produced an alternative version of "This Car Drives All By Itself" for The Wombats.
WFB Live created bespoke arrangements from Dua's second album "Future Nostalgia" for NPR's (third most viewed ever) Tiny Desk Concert.
With the Future Nostalgia tour not yet out in the world, WFB Live and Dua Lipa decided to create a medley featuring all of the songs from her second album, marking a triumphant return to live shows after the pandemic.
For the 2021 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, WFB Live arranged and directed Dua’s performance of her platinum selling singles ‘Levitating’ and ‘Don’t Stop Now’. This was the #1 trending video on YouTube upon release.
WFB Live arranged the Taylor Swift / Avril Lavigne acoustic performance for YungBlud.
Taylor Swift responded to the cover on Twitter - “Well this took my breath away! Bravo and thanks Yungblud!”
At the 2020 Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Award Party in West Hollywood, WFB Live worked with Elton and Dua Lipa arranging and directing stripped back versions of their songs including 'Love Again', and 'Bennie and the Jets'.
Ahead of the release of "Future Nostalgia", Dua Lipa took to the Jimmy Fallon stage in New York to perform "Don't Start Now". WFB Live hired 15 musicians and arranged a 12" extended version which was later re produced and released on all digital platforms.
For the Brit Awards 2019, WFB Live created the stand out performance of the night, with a medley for triple award winner Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa, Sam Smith and Rag n Bone Man, managing the music direction and rehearsals for all artists involved.
Dua Lipa and St Vincent joined forces for a minimalistic Grammy's performance in 2019. Brought to Los Angeles with 5 days to go, WFB Live collaborated with Dua and St Vincent to arrange the mashup, and direct the rehearsals and performance.
WFB Live arranged and directed the world premier of Kylie Minogue and Jessie Ware's 'Kiss Of Life' on the Jonathan Ross Show.