Troye Sivan at ACL Live — Tape and Glue Magazine

Troye Sivan brought his Bloom Tour to Austin, and I was lucky enough to be there.

I can’t even believe I’m writing this right now. I have been a massive fan of Troye Sivan since his YouTube days, so the fact that I got to photograph him and see his new live set is beyond amazing.

Over the years, I’ve seen Troye a total of three times, with each show he has gotten more and more comfortable with who he is as an artist, now, he’s a full-blown star. The first time I saw Troye was in Dallas, Texas on his Blue Neighbourhood Tour, he played mainly to a crowd of barely-teenaged girls (and then me, one of the oldest people there besides the parent chaperones), I was pleasantly surprised to see that this go around he had one of the most diverse audiences I’d seen at any show. One of my favorite parts of the show wasn’t even during the performance, rather just how comfortable to be themselves everyone was. There were LGBT kids holding rainbow flags up during every song, people in drag makeup, some even in full drag, and everyone in between.

It was impossible to not fall in love with every second of Troye’s set. For the first song, he kept it simple, standing in front of a red curtain with nothing but a microphone, then as the show went on things got more and more elaborate until he had a multi-level stage, complete with a living room setup at the very top. Apart from the production value, Troye himself is one of the most kind and charismatic performers I’ve seen. Troye really took the time to embrace each fan’s experience, making everyone feel like he was speaking and performing to them personally, even snapping selfies with fan’s phones, and taking their gifts in the middle of the set. His set had tracks from both of his albums woven together to create a perfect story as the night progressed, with my favorites being Bite (truly the banger of our generation), a cover of Better Now by Post Malone that blew me away, and the closing song My My My.

Overall, my night at the Bloom Tour was absolutely magical, I already can’t wait for Troye to come back.

Check out the gallery of Troye and his opening act Kim Petras below, I think these are some of my best photos yet!

-Marissa