Billie Eilish gave fans special treatment at the AO Arena in Manchester, England on Tuesday night (June 7). “We haven’t played a new song live until it’s been released since 2017 or 2018,” Eilish said before she and her brother/producer Finneas released a track called “TV.”
“It’s the one we just wrote, and we just wanted to play for you guys,” she said before launching into the hushed, melancholic ballad, which featured Acoustic Guitar accompaniment from Finneas. “I don’t wanna talk now/ I just wanna watch TV/ I’m gonna stay in the pool and drown/ So I don’t have to watch you go/ I’m gonna put Survivor just to watch someone suffer/ Maybe I should get some sleep/ Sinking in the couch while we all betray each other… What’s the point? / All my friends are gone again / That’s what happens when you fall in love,” Eilish sang in her hoarse whisper.
Later in the song, Eilish seemed to get topical singing, “The internet went crazy watching movie stars on trial / While they knock Roe v. Wade,” before ending with the hypnotically repeated outro “Maybe I, maybe I, maybe I’m the problem.
Eilish will make time this week to appear at the upcoming six-day ‘Overheated’ climate conference, which will take over London’s O2 Arena from June 10-12, June 16 and June 25-26. Presented by Eilish, Support + Feed and REVERB will overlap with UK/Ireland dates on the singer happier than ever tour the world and feature a mix of musicians, climate activists and designers to “discuss the climate crisis and their work to make a difference”.
Other hosts/speakers at the event include a number of climate activists, with Sigrid and Love Ssega performing at the June 16 climate music session. An accompanying documentary will also feature Eilish, Finneas and Yungblud, as well as fashion icon Dame Vinne Westwood, Glastonbury Festival co-organizer Emily Eavis, Girl in Red, Support + Feed founder Maggie Baird , climate activist Tori Tsui and cultural sustainability fashion activist/entrepreneur Samata Pattinson.
Check out fan footage of Eilish making her “TV” debut below.
New #BillieEilish it sounds good 🥹 pic.twitter.com/7gpbHIuGpv
— Erica Campbell (@ericacxmpbell) June 7, 2022
