An exclusive interview with Cour Design's Jonny Kingsbury, the stage and lighting designer behind Charli XCX's new BRAT tour

Last night, Charli xcx kicked off the UK leg of her Brat tour, after spending the past month in North America on the Sweat tour with Troye Sivan, at Manchester’s Co-Op Live arena.

Charli XCX will take her viral tour to the Target Center on April 26, 2025. The star announced five U.S. stops on Friday in an Instagram post - and Minneapolis made the cut, as well as Austin, Texas; Rosemount, Ill.; and Brooklyn, N.Y.

The monoculture – a pop event that unifies the masses – is a phenomenon rarely experienced in this fragmented century. But Charli XCX’s sixth album Brat, with its messy ethos and lurid lime-green cover,

Charli CXC’s Brat summer turned into Brat winter, but 2024 as a whole will forever be known as the ‘Year of Brat’. Charli XCX has had quite the year following the release of her chart-topping album Brat which sent the world into a lime-green hysteria.