Tomorrow X Collectively mirrored on their debut look at Lollapalooza forward of returning to the pageant as headliners yesterday (August 5).

The five-piece boyband had been the primary Korean act to ever carry out on the Chicago pageant, showing on the Solana x Perry stage. This 12 months, they grew to become the primary Korean group to headline the pageant.

Within the band’s current Disney+ documentary Our Final Summer time, rapper Yeonjun expressed that he wasn’t “positive if we must be” on the line-up. “Did we need to be there?” he stated. “We had been anxious that we would wreck the vibe.”

Chatting with NME backstage forward of their headline set, TXT mirrored on that first look on the pageant. “Really, I believe I used to be very nervous as a result of it was my first time happening such an enormous stage and I believed that I used to be missing and perhaps that’s why I believed I didn’t need to be on such an enormous stage,” Yeonjun stated.

“However I believe I’ve grown quite a bit and I’m making an attempt actually laborious to grow to be an artist that may match that stage.”

Requested in the event that they felt extra assured to be performing this 12 months, all of them responded: “After all.”

Elsewhere within the interview, the band additionally mentioned performing with a reside band for the second time, bringing again the rock preparations from their first time at Lollapalooza. “Because it’s a pageant, I believe the reside band brings some extra liveliness and it brings extra enrichment to the songs,” Beomgyu stated.

“We are able to additionally lock our eyes with the band after which we are able to simply vibe collectively on stage, and I believe that’s actually applicable and becoming for a pageant.”

TXT just lately launched a brand new single, ‘Do It Like That’, which noticed them staff up with the Jonas Brothers. After I was younger, I watched Camp Rock and I noticed the Jonas Brothers,” Hueningkai stated of his love for the trio. “I believed, ‘Oh, I need to be like them’. So they’re my position mannequin, and I used to be joyful to collaborate with them. It was a dream come true.”

Throughout their Lollapalooza 2023 headline set, Tomorrow X Collectively carried out ‘Do It Like That’ reside for the primary time and invited Coi Leray to affix them for a efficiency of their current observe ‘Blissful Fools’.

In a five-star evaluation of the efficiency, NME stated: “This headline set exhibits they’re greater than worthy of this new, elevated slot on the line-up. Their performances are tight and impactful, their vocals phenomenal, and their stage presence nothing in need of rockstar standing […] Historical past by no means felt so giddily nice.”