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HIS FCJKIGN COLLLARBONES I–!!! DEATH WOULD HURT LESS

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Louis Tomlinson Live double CD will have:

High In California (Live From Amsterdam, 15 October 2023)

Where Do Broken Hearts Go (Live From Tallinn, 5 September 2023)

Louis Tomlinson Live double LP will have:

Only the Brave (Live From Milan, 3 September 2022)

High In California (Live From Amsterdam, 15 October 2023)

Kill My Mind (Live From Santiago, 15 May 2022)

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Perfect Now series, Vol. 12 (2021)  2/28 ↳ Love on Tour 2021 "Edging"

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Louis via Twitter. (25 April 2024)

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SURROUNDED BY LIGHTS ✨💫🌈 | faith in the future world tour in vienna, austria 09.13.23

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10 years of Rainbow Direction!

Exactly 10 years ago a girl named Danny printed out this rainbow poster and took it to the first concert of One Direction's Where We Are tour:

Anniversaries are always a bit arbitrary, and Rainbow Direction's was always a hard one to pin down.

This blog is just a day or two short of celebrating 11 years and without it Rainbow Direction would have never existed, because the people who were at the start of it would never have met, but its purpose and setup were entirely different and RD was still far from being developed.

The suggestions that eventually took form in "Project Rainbow Direction" were first submitted to the blog in late 2013. The first brainstorm between Kat, Li and Ellis about it, and further strategy talks with Ed and Molly took place in the early months of 2014. The project was announced in February. Haven and Red submitted their winning poster designs in March. Amy developed a logo and opened a merch store for us in early April.

While we've often referred to that midnight brainstorm on a cold January day as the origin of rainbow direction, that was only its conception. We don't even have a record of which date it was. We could also have chosen any of the more pin-downable dates: announcing the project, announcing the poster contest winners, opening the store. But really, all that Rainbow Direction was at those moments, was an idea, a plan, the hope that we had that it was within our, the fandom's power, to change something for the better for the LGBTQIA+ fans in it.

For months all of us, and especially Li, had worked tirelessly to encourage people to sign up and commit to bringing a rainbow poster to a show.

And then the big moment was there. First day of tour. The moment of truth. Would the people we'd encouraged actually have the courage to take a rainbow to a show, and stick it up in the air? Would it matter to people? Would it actually change something?

10 years on, we know that it did. So much more than we could ever have imagined.

But that was was anything but self-evident at the time. We had no idea. We nervously monitored the wwa tag and the blogs of those who had signed up, and then, after a few days, finally this report appeared. Danny from Bogota shared the first Rainbow Direction fan report.

I think if you'd ask any of us who were here at the time, they'd remember fondly how knowing that someone had actually done it, something happened in the real world, and if one person had done it, more would, how that sparked a fire in our hearts. A ball of warm feelings, not quite the same feeling as before. Before, there had been buzz and excitement and drive, but this, this felt different. Hope. A sense of the personal strength, and collective power, that could come from this if we could make it grow. It took a lot of hard work from a lot of people who committed themselves tirelessly to the campaign, but grow it did.

Thanks to Danny. Thanks to all of you who at some point or other, crafted something rainbow at home, took a rainbow to a show, put a rainbow on your blog, showed that you believed in your own power to change something, and showed the LGBTQI+ people in the fandom that they mattered, and that you cared.

It has been quite the roller coaster ride. As the coordinating group, we've had many ups and downs, and by now, for most of us, our attention has been drawn away from the fandom by our real lives and new pursuits. But regularly, when one of us checks in and sees the rainbows at one of the boys' shows, we share, revel, and sit amazed at how this thing, that once took so much effort on our part to get one, two, three people per show signed up, has grown into a regular staple, with people spontaneously taking it upon themselves to organize for entire venues to light up in a coordinated rainbow pattern, to design new posters and rainbow outfits, or to hand out hundreds of mini rainbow flags in the audience. This community has taken it up as its collective responsibility - let's get those rainbows out. How beautiful is that?! You are all so so amazing.

Thank you, you beautiful people, for becoming a part of this, for making it your own, for making it better, for carrying it forward, into the future.

So long!

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god honestly this feels so exhilarating to know that louis is finally so confident in himself and knows how beautiful his voice is. because that insecurity was always lingering even back in the 1d days no matter how much the fans loved his voice, he wasn't confident in himself yet and it took him going out in the world by himself for him to see just how much his voice matters and we got to see it firsthand how from show one to the last show he started gaining more and more confidence and finally felt at home on a live stage and he found his sound and it's just such a proud feeling to see him at this place! i am genuinely so excited for him and how he's just going to have so much fun at his festivals and tour dates and how lt3 whenever it comes out is going to fuck so hard because louis finally knows he's made it

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not to alarm anyone but saw Louis doing a photoshoot here in LA so maybe it's for the live album? an interview? or something 28 clothing related? HE IS WEARING A BLUE SUIT BTW, so let's hope for a new photoshoot for this

tell me more? uh what kinda blue suit? uh

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It's like the tracks are being returned to their natural habitat (live) to flourish as they were meant to

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“This record is a true collaboration between me and you”

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But i think he used OTB from Milan but in September it was biggest show from first tour on the end on Hippodrom not in arena

You're so right. Hajdha. I saw Milan and my brain went there. I even saw the date and like... I was there, at the September 3rd show, lmao.

Sorry, everyone. Still... The fact that all of our brains went to that Milan project.

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Louis performing Only the Brave to a sea of pride flags and rainbow lights in Milan 🥺 (x) - 10/04/22

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Louis via Twitter. (25 April 2024)

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LOUIS TOMLINSON: LIVE

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I - LOUIS I IDK ITS JUST - this sentence means so much to me and I will not elaborate, it just does ;

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ONLY THE BRAVE 😭😭