The Weeknd kicked off the long-awaited Australian leg of his After Hours Til Dawn tour on Saturday night, but some fans were left disappointed by the show, Daily Mail reports.
The Canadian singer-songwriter, The Weeknd 34, took to the stage at 8:45pm in Melbourne at the Marvel Stadium, 15minutes later than he was scheduled to begin.
The Weeknd then abruptly ended his set at about 10:30pm, leaving concertgoers to flock to TikTok and slam the artist for the short length of his $270+ per ticket concert, according to the report by Daily Mail.
One fan uploaded a video of herself to the social media site as she sat looking perplexed in the stadium seats while attendees filed out of the venue.
‘Tell me I’m not the only one who thought it was over way too quickly,’ she captioned the short clip.
Followers flocked to her comments to agree, with one person writing: ‘No literally he just like walked off.’
‘It was such an underwhelming end,’ another said, while a third commented: ‘He came on so late.’
‘Yesss!! We waited forever for him to come on then it was over before we knew it,’ added another.
Someone else said: ‘My kids went and they loved it but he started late and finished early for the price.’
‘My blood is still boiling,’ one fan fumed.
‘He arrived late, left early, left without an encore, didn’t perform Moth to a Flame which is one of his BIGGEST songs. Too anti-climactic.’
It comes after The Weeknd—real name Abel Makkonen Tesfaye—was tackled by a concertgoer while he performed in Melbourne on Saturday night.
The Starboy hitmaker was about an hour into the show, when the stage invader climbed up onto the stage and tried to hug him.
Security jumped onto the stage to usher the fan off as The Weeknd backed away and attempted to continue his show.
The stage invader, who calls himself ‘Pyjama Man’, was wearing red shorts and a red T-shirt with a print of the Ukrainian flag and the word ‘free’ on top.
The ‘prankster’, who also calls himself the ‘CEO of trolling’, took to Instagram to share the footage, writing: ‘It was cool chatting with you while on the stage.’
The Weeknd received backlash earlier this year after he cancelled his tour Down Under last year, only to return with fewer dates.
He initially postponed his tour of Australia in November, just weeks out from the kick off, but eventually cancelled it and refunded the tickets.
Now, the Grammy Award winner has finally kicked off the Aussie leg of his tour with only four dates—Melbourne on October 5 and 6, and Sydney on October 22 and 23.