{"id":44135,"date":"2025-08-18T16:38:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/watch-shawn-mendes-and-niall-horan-perform-this-town-in-london\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:38:40","slug":"watch-shawn-mendes-and-niall-horan-perform-this-town-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/watch-shawn-mendes-and-niall-horan-perform-this-town-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Shawn Mendes and Niall Horan Perform &#8216;This Town&#8217; in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Last year, Mendes made a surprise appearance to perform &#8220;Treat You Better&#8221; during Horan&#8217;s headlining show in London<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIf the whole world were watching, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/niall-horan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_niall-horan\" data-tag=\"niall-horan\">Niall Horan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/shawn-mendes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shawn-mendes\" data-tag=\"shawn-mendes\">Shawn Mendes<\/a> would still make surprise appearances at each other\u2019s concerts. Mendes recently kicked off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/product-recommendations\/tickets\/buy-shawn-mendes-on-the-road-again-tour-tickets-online-2025-1235390326\/\">On the Road Again Tour,<\/a> his first time back on the road since cutting the <em>Wonder<\/em> tour short in 2022 to prioritize his mental health. The singer-songwriter celebrated his latest London stop with special guest Horan, who joined to perform his <em>Flicker <\/em>single \u201cThis Town\u201d at the O2 Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cEverybody, please welcome Mr. Niall Horan to the stage,\u201d Mendes told the crowd. In the video he shared on social media, the audience screamed and sobbed in response. Horan and Mendes both played guitar as they sang together. Before leaving the stage, Horan added, \u201cI love you, and I love this guy. Take care of him.\u201d In March 2024, Mendes appeared during the London stop on Horan\u2019s tour to perform his single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/niall-horan-shawn-mendes-treat-you-better-london-1234979379\/\">\u201cTreat You Better.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019ll remember this for a long time \u2764\ufe0f,\u201d Mendes captioned the post. \u201cThank you so much London x.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe night marked a return to the stage for Horan, too. The musician completed his run on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/niall-horan-one-direction-night-changes-manchester-1234981989\/\">The Show: Live on Tour<\/a> in October 2024, just days before his One Direction bandmate Liam Payne<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/liam-payne-dead-at-31-one-direction-member-1235135586\/\"> died at the age of 31.<\/a> Coincidentally, the final tour One Direction completed together was also titled On the Road Again. One of Payne\u2019s last public appearances was at Horan\u2019s concert in Argentina.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWe got to live out our wildest dreams together, and I will cherish every moment we had forever. The bond and friendship we had doesn\u2019t happen often in a lifetime,\u201d Horan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/niall-horan-liam-payne-tribute-post-1235136787\/\">said in a statement <\/a>last year. \u201cI feel so fortunate that I got to see him recently. I sadly didn\u2019t know that after saying goodbye and hugging him that evening, I would be saying goodbye forever. It\u2019s heartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMendes also<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/shawn-mendes-liam-payne-dedicates-heart-of-gold-song-1235137983\/\"> paid tribute <\/a>to Payne during a run of intimate shows this past fall. While dedicating his song \u201cHeart of Gold\u201d to the late singer in Brooklyn, Mendes said, \u201cHe was a beautiful soul and his eyes gleamed. It was beauty shining through his eyes \u2026 Liam, we love you. The world is crying for you, brother, and we\u2019re all praying for your son and your family. I miss you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/shawn-mendes-niall-horan-this-town-london-1235410487\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Mendes made a surprise appearance to perform &#8220;Treat You Better&#8221; during Horan&#8217;s headlining show in London If the whole world were watching,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}