LM5: The Tour
LM5: The Tour was the third worldwide concert tour and sixth overall by British girl group Little Mix. The tour began on 16 September 2019 Madrid, Spain and concluded on 22 November 2019 in London, England, to promote their fifth studio album, "LM5" (2018). The tour consisted of 40 concerts across Europe, and grossed over $22 million worldwide. A concert film of the tour was released in cinemas worldwide on 21 November 2020 titled "". This was the last tour with former member Jesy Nelson, who left the group in December 2020. Background. Little Mix announced the  tour on 18 October 2018 via their Twitter account. A second round of shows was announced on 25 October 2018. However, a planned date in Aberdeen on 4 October 2019 was subsequently cancelled due to unforeseen logistical issues. An extra date was added at Porsche-Arena, Stuttgart due to popular demand at 22 September 2019. On 21 March 2019 a new date was added on the Europe Leg. The show will be on 28 September 2019 at Dôme de Paris, Paris. In March 2019, dates in Australia were announced. The following month, it was announced the group would co-headline  the Fusion Festival UK in September, alongside Rudimental. In June 2019, the group's tour dates in Oceania were delayed, due to the release of "Bounce Back" before being cancelled in October. That same month, a date in New Zealand was announced. In August 2019, it was announced that Keelie Walker would serve as a supporting act for European dates, while Mae Muller and New Rules would serve as supporting for the group's Ireland and United Kingdom dates. During the last show at the O2 Arena in London, the full show was recorded for a concert film will be  released. On 8 October 2020, Little Mix announced on their social media that they will be releasing their first concert film titled "" together with the official poster of the film. The film premiered in cinemas worldwide on 21 November 2020. Critical reception. Laura Hernández from "Okdiario", who was at the first show of the tour which took place in Madrid, wrote that "the importance of women's empowerment was present, from the beginning, at their concert". Hernández continued to highlight "the spectacular medley of "Only You" with "Black Magic" [...] so well they combined it so it looked like a single  song. Now, the end of this part was simply spectacular. The lighting, the play of lights and the stage shine like never". She concluded her review by saying "after an hour and a half of a show simply brilliant, spectacular and as few have seen in Spain, the girls of Little Mix said goodbye to their Spanish audience. On numerous occasions they made it clear that they had not had such an extremely large audience so delivered for a long time. They love Spain and, once again, it has been shown that we also love them." Also about the first  show of the tour, Agustín Gómez Cascales from the spanish gay magazine "Shangay", wrote that "they exceeded the expectations of most attendees with a show as entertaining as, at times, powerful". Matteo Rossini from Sky TG24 attended the show in Milan, he stated that "the group has set up a show where girl power and messages to support the LGBTQ+ community have been the common denominator between pop music, amazing choreographies, extraordinary vocal performances and innovative visuals with attention to the smallest details". Sheena McStravick from "Belfast Live" gave the opening night of the UK and Ireland leg at Belfast  a positive review, stating that "messages of female empowerment featured heavily in the show which saw the four ladies barely take a breath as they belted out hit after hit and simultaneously performed high energy dance routines keeping up with their incredible backing dancers at all times". Aoife Moriarty from "Dublin Live" gave the show a 3 out of 5 stars, stating that the show was "very much a classic pop concert affair, from the pyrotechnics to the band’s matching outfits, a rain machine to a moving platform that flies high above the audience" and add that "from the  start, the show is peppered with feminist slogans of ‘female empowerment’. Which is no bad thing as this impressionable audience watch a group of young women genuinely living out their dream". Nola Ojomu from "Metro" gave the second London show four out of five stars, stating that "the nearly two hour-long show kicked off a trio of powerful pop bangers in the form of 'Salute,' 'Power' and 'Woman Like Me.' From the moment they hit the stage, the girls dance their hearts out without messing up a single note". Accolades. On 22 November 2019, Little Mix received an award  by the 02 Arena, for their five headlined shows at the venue for their LM5: The Tour. They had headlined the venue a total of 12 times from across four tours, and sold over 184,000 tickets. On 17 January 2020, the LM5 The Tour’ dates at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow, was nominated at the SSE Live Awards 2019.