The Weeknd made his third Bay area appearance at Tampa’s Amalie Arena on May 12, 2017, and we described the set like this in our review:
Taking the stage underneath an amorphous, overhead lighting rig that kind of resembled an Imperial Star Destroyer, Tesfaye popped out of a long catwalk and immediately launched into a four-pack high-energy of Starboy tracks before inviting opener Belly to work through “Might Not” from the XO-signee’s 2015 mixtape Up For Days. He would bring all the openers, including rising young Atlanta rapper 6black and Rae Sremmurd — who charmed with a fun take on “Black Beatles” — onstage at some point in his own set, but Tesfaye didn’t necessarily need help to keep the energy at near-nuclear levels.
Read the rest of our review — and see more of Phil DeSimone’s photos — here, and listen to a playlist of songs from the show below.
This article appears in May 11-18, 2017.