Suki Waterhouse Welcomes Anaheim Into ‘Loveland’

There was no shortage of hearts at Suki Waterhouse’s Anaheim show. Some were glowing in the crowd, others decorated the stage, and the largest sat directly behind her: a massive mirrored heart pierced from every direction by arrows.

On July 24, Suki Waterhouse brought The Loveland Tour to the House of Blues Anaheim, with EMMMA and Charlotte Lawrence opening the night. By the time Waterhouse took the stage at 9:30, the room was already packed and washed in red and purple light, with a giant mirrored heart pierced by arrows waiting behind her.

The tour follows Loveland, her third album and first full-length release with Island Records, which arrived only two weeks earlier on July 10. Anaheim was one of the first stops of the tour, following shows in Phoenix and at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Waterhouse entered a room already glowing red and purple and opened with “Supersad,” followed by “Tiny Raisin” and “OMG.” The mix of old favorites and brand-new songs worked especially well for a tour starting so soon after an album release. Fans were still learning some of Loveland, but they already knew exactly when to yell along to songs like “OMG,” “Moves” and, of course, “Good Looking.”

The new material also felt much bigger live. “Back in Love” leaned into the album’s romantic side, while “When I Get Drunk (I Want You Boy)” fit naturally beside the messier relationship songs that made people fans of Waterhouse in the first place. The latter had only been released as a single in June, but by Anaheim it already felt at home in the set.

The entire show carried the same slightly chaotic romance as the album. Waterhouse performed in sunglasses and black lace against the arrow-covered heart, then later reappeared wrapped in layers of pale pink fabric. It never felt overly polished or distant. She spent much of the night moving right to the edge of the stage, leaning toward the crowd and letting the audience take over parts of songs they knew better than the new ones.

“Good Looking” was inevitably one of those moments. The song first came out years before Waterhouse’s albums and found a much larger audience after going viral in 2022. At House of Blues, there was no question it had become her signature: phones immediately went up and the room seemed to know every word.

Some of the best parts of the night came when the show pulled back. “Notting Hill” brought Waterhouse to the piano, while songs like “Dream Woman” and “Johanna” gave the crowd a break from the brighter, louder moments surrounding them. The Anaheim set reached across Loveland, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin, I Can’t Let Go and her earlier releases rather than treating the new record as the only reason everyone was there.

That balance made Loveland feel less like the beginning of a new version of Suki Waterhouse and more like the next part of what she has already been building. The dreamy songs were still dreamy, the heartbreak was still there, and “Good Looking” still brought out nearly every phone in the room. Now there was just a giant disco heart behind it all.

For one night in Anaheim, getting your heart pierced by a few arrows didn’t seem so bad.