Dua Lipa Joins Tame Impala for Live Rendition of ‘Houdini’ at The O2 in London

Dua Lipa made a surprise appearance at Tame Impala ‘s headline gig at the O2 in London. Check it out below.

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The moment took place as Kevin Parker played the iconic London venue on May 8 , with Lipa joining around halfway through his performance of the 2025 track ‘After Thought’ from his most recent album ‘Deadbeat’.

Afterwards, Parker said: “Let’s play a song that we made together!”, before the two broke into ‘Houdini’, taken from Lipa’s 2024 album ‘ Radical Optimism ‘, which saw Parker serve as producer.

Lipa later said the experience felt “completely surreal + euphoric” in a post on X. Watch footage of the moment below.

> TAME IMPALA BROUGHT OUT DUA LIPA TO PERFORM "HOUDINI" TONIGHT pic.twitter.com/6jmOrB6eQH — dua lipa crave (@addictionlipa) May 7, 2026

> Tame Impala brought out Dua Lipa for his show in London last night. pic.twitter.com/KOHZ0aMuXX — Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 8, 2026

> My week so far has been filled with so much jumping on stage w my buddy @tameimpala last night felt completely surreal + euphoric honestly!!! spending so much needed time w the people i love most, endless studio studio studio, slow lazy mornings reading, celebrating my… pic.twitter.com/RYLVtqK560 — DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) May 8, 2026

It’s not the first time the pair have joined forces on stage. Last year, Parker made a surprise appearance at Lipa’s show in Sydney for a performance of ‘The Less I Know The Better’.

Before that, the pop singer previously brought Parker out during her  headlining slot at Glastonbury in 2024 , with the two also duetting on the song then.

In an interview with  The Guardian , published later that year, Parker spoke more about that moment , saying that it was “way more wild than I thought it was gonna be”.

“The nicest thing about it was that it was Dua headlining Glastonbury, which is something she has wanted to do since she was a kid,” he added. “I felt like I had a seat in someone’s dream that they were living – I was just happy to be a part of it.”

Elsewhere, the pop star credited Parker and Harle with contributing to the “eureka moment” on her new album , while Parker called Lipa a “brutal” editor while recalling the lengthy process of making ‘Houdini’ .

“I’d kind of recoil in horror and go, ‘Oh, no, it’s a great verse!’” Parker remembered. “But then an hour later, we’d have something that I can’t imagine not being in the song.”

Before that, Lipa said Tame Impala’s ‘Currents’ “completely changed [her] life” .

“In terms of things that I’m obsessed with, ‘Currents’ has been the soundtrack to my life,” she told  Triple J . “It’s one of my favourite albums ever ever ever. [It] was kind of like the gateway drug for me into Tame Impala.”

Tame Impala, ‘ Deadbeat ’ scored  a three-star review from  NME  when it arrived last year, and noted that “Parker has grown outside his comfort zone, only to strike a kind of lyrical inertia that becomes detrimental to his new vocabulary of music”.

Elsewhere, Parker has also been confirmed as joining A$AP Rocky, WILLOW, Lil Yachty and more to feature on Thundercat’s first album in six years , ‘Distracted’, while  he was recently spotted in the studio with members of Geese, Pond and King Gizzard .

As for Lipa, the Southbank Centre recently announced that the pop star is set to curate its 2026 London Literature Festival .

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