beabadoobee was routing through theaters as recently as 2024 and 2025. The Powerlines Tour tells you something has changed: 30 arenas across North America and Europe, with Madison Square Garden, the Kia Forum, and the O2 all on the itinerary. The October 8 stop at Place Bell in Laval is in that company — the night after she plays Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, placing Beatrice Kristi Ilejay Laus in arena-scaled rooms on back-to-back Canadian nights.
About the Show
The tour supports Pylon, beabadoobee’s fourth studio album, due September 18 on Dirty Hit/Interscope. Laus, born in Iloilo City, Philippines, and raised in London from age three, began recording in a friend’s bedroom in 2017 — “Coffee,” her first song, found an online audience and led to a deal with Dirty Hit in early 2018. Fake It Flowers (2020), Beatopia (2022), and This Is How Tomorrow Moves (2024) tracked her progression from bedroom-pop intimacy toward something wider in sound and scope. Pylon arrives as the fullest expression of that shift: the album’s title draws from electricity towers and, by Laus’s own framing, becomes a metaphor for anxiety and the particular isolation of touring — the distance from home, from people, from ordinary life. “i missed home, i missed how people were and im still learning to accept the confusion within the uncertainty of being away,” she wrote of the record’s themes. What the music does with those themes is worth noting: the record leans into distorted, guitar-driven energy rather than introspection, and lead single “Sun Has Set” runs on propulsive drums and a sharper, more electric sound than her earlier catalog suggests. The collaborator list — Hayley Williams, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates, Deftones’ Chino Moreno, Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens Hall, Title Fight’s Shane Moran, and The 1975’s Matty Healy and George Daniel on production — signals an artist who has decided which end of the alternative spectrum she’s working from. San Francisco shoegaze act Wisp opens all North American dates.
Venue & Logistics
Place Bell is a 10,172-capacity arena in Laval, Quebec, listed in this publication’s north-country concert calendar. The show is all-ages; doors open at 8:00 p.m. The Laval date falls the day after beabadoobee plays Scotiabank Arena in Toronto (October 7) and well ahead of Rogers Arena in Vancouver (October 28), the three Canadian stops tracing a coast-to-coast arc through the North American leg.
Tickets
General on-sale began July 2 via Ticketmaster.ca. Buy tickets