Olly Alexander review – part night creature, part light entertainer
12-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com

Olly Alexander review – part night creature, part light entertainer

Palladium, London
The singer and actor hints at an outre new synth-heavy sound, drawn largely from latest album Polari. He stops short, though, of scaring his daytime TV fans“I’m all about playful subversion,” declares Olly Alexander with a grin on the final night of his UK tour. Clad in a series of outfits whose shiny buttons nod towards London’s pearly kings and queens and the dressing-up box – there’s one handily located on the left side of the stage &ndash
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