Billie Eilish recently held two concerts in Raleigh, N.C. at the Lenovo Center on October 16-17. The two shows sold-out with nearly 20,000 people in attendance each night. Here’s what you missed out on if you didn’t attend.
Fans, many sporting Eilish’s signature oversized streetwear style, started lining up outside the arena well before the doors opened at 5:30 p.m. Merch lines and porta-potties were available, with the merch ranging from $15 for a keychain to $140 for a sweatshirt. T-shirts and posters were also available.
Inside the arena, guests were allowed to roam before the show began. The pre-show atmosphere was booming with a variety of food vendors serving everything from plant based meals that Eilish personally advocated for to Chick-fil-a sandwiches.
Spanish singer Young Miko opened for Eilish starting at 7:00 p.m. with songs like “Meiomi” and “WASSUP” and her performance lasted until 7:45 p.m. The lights dimmed sharply just after 8:15 p.m, and Eilish arrived on stage at around 8:17 p.m. The crowd erupted as she launched into her first song, “CHIHIRO.” The show lasted about an hour and a half, ending at around 9:55 p.m.
At both shows, she played the following songs pictured on the left. With some songs being shortened, the artist was able to play 24 songs at each show. Eilish was very interactive with the crowd, often pausing to address her audience. She moved to a secondary ‘B-stage’ to perform her verse from hit song “Guess” by Charli XCX, giving other fans a closer view. She then walked along the barricade to touch fans during her own song “everything i wanted.”
The severity of the traffic on night two varied depending on which roads were taken, but a good amount of guests were able to get in just in time, despite concerns of a potential repeat of the Sabrina Carpenter concert incident at the same venue last year.
