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Lily Allen plays intimate fancy dress London show

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Lily Allen returned to the site of her first ever stage performance last night (May 11), as she played the final leg of her trio of MySpace Secret Show gigs at Notting Hill's Tabernacle in London.

You can browse a gallery of pictures from the night at NME.COM/photos.

The singer told the excitable crowd how she had first taken to the stage of the venue when she was five as part of a pantomime, playing "a frog or something shit, or a boy", before pouring a glass of white wine, sipping it and then passing it into the front row.

The show followed similar gigs in Tokyo and New York and Allen, known for her love of fancy dress, instigated a London tube stations theme for the night.

Allen played most of her set dressed as Queen Victoria, complete with a tiara, ruffled shirt and large Victorian skirt and corset, but she decided to remove her grey and black beaded wig early on.

Members of the crowd wore everything from angel wings (Angel) and rabbit masks (Warren Street) to tennis kits (Wimbledon) and bird suits (Canary Wharf).

Grinning and dancing in front of her four-piece band with her first name spelt out in huge letters at the back of the stage, Allen finished 'Never Gonna Happen', by explaining, "I've never sung in a corset, its quite hard", before smilingly telling the photographers in the front row to "fuck off".

Playing her second album, 'It's Not Me Its You', in its entirety, she introduced a number of acoustic songs by announcing, "This is the lounge part of our set now," and lighting up a cigarette.

When people in the crowd booed her for smoking she replied, "You got to smoke, its jazzy!" before breaking into 'He Wasn't There'.

Leaving the stage to an audience all raising their middle fingers for 'Fuck You', Allen later returned for an encore wearing a grey vest and ripped baggy jeans.

She finished the 18-song set by pogo-ing across the stage to her cover version of Britney Spears' 'Womanizer', yelling out, "Come on London, dance with me!"

Lily Allen played:

'Everyone's At It'
'I Could Say'
'Never Gonna Happen'
'Oh My God'
'Everything's Just Wonderful'
'Him'
'Who'd Have Known'
'LDN'
'Back to the Start'
'He Wasn't There'
'Littlest Things'
'Chinese'
'22'
'Not Fair Leading'
'Fuck You'
'Smile'
'The Fear'
'Womanizer'


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Nov 16, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen O2 Academy Sheffield Sheffield

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Nov 17, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen Apollo Manchester

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Nov 18, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen Apollo Manchester

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Nov 20, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen Bournemouth International Centre Bournemouth

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Nov 21, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen Plymouth Pavilions Plymouth

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Nov 22, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen Oasis Leisure Centre Swindon

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Nov 24, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen National Indoor Arena Birmingham

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Nov 25, 2009 19:00 Lily Allen S.e.c.c. Glasgow

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Nov 27, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen O2 Academy Brixton London

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Nov 28, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen O2 Academy Brixton London

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Dec 09, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen Liverpool Echo Arena Liverpool

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Dec 10, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen Trent Fm Arena Nottingham

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Dec 11, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen Cardiff International Arena Cardiff

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Dec 13, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen Brighton Centre Brighton

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Dec 15, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen O2 Academy Brixton London

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Dec 17, 2009 19:30 Lily Allen O2 Academy Brixton London

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Mar 05, 2010 19:30 Lily Allen Manchester Evening News Arena Manchester

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Mar 07, 2010 19:30 Lily Allen The O2 Arena London

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