What Is It Like to See Knox Live?

The Set Never Moves. Except for the Part You Control.

Knox runs the same show every night. On the 2025 Going Going Gone tour "Going, Going, Gone" opened all 16 shows that setlist.fm could average and the running order barely twitched from city to city. Song four is always "Dumpster Fire" sliding into the "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" chorus. The one pocket that breathes is an acoustic stretch about two-thirds in: at Webster Hall on April 15, 2025 it was "Invisible" with ROSIE and "Miss When You Missed Me" with Jonathan Capeci of Nightly, in Charlotte it was "Invisible" and "Leg Day," and in Chicago it was a crowd vote (see Fan Culture). "Voicemail" acoustic is the fan favorite of that stretch, which still surprises him; he's said he doubted the song until rooms started singing it back.

"Not the 1975" Is the Ending, Every Single Night

There's no encore. setlist.fm records zero across every tour he's played, and "Not the 1975" has closed the show at all 49 analyzed 2024 dates and 15 of 16 averaged 2025 dates (the one exception ended on "Sneakers"). In Chicago on April 19, 2025 he did the fake exit while the room chanted, then came back for the closing run. The song's whole joke is that a woman in an LA bar told him "You will never be Matty Healy," so he wrote a hit made of puns on The 1975, and Healy later messaged him, "Congrats on the song. You owe me a million dollars." On the September 2025 European run he leaned into it further and covered The 1975's "Robbers" at three of the eight shows.

He Talks Smack About His Own Accent

The between-song talking is a feature, and it's mostly at his own expense. In Chicago he told the sold-out House of Blues it was one of his favorite cities, admitted his label had been skeptical about certain album tracks and asked the room to prove the doubters wrong, then joked about Chicago's dislike of Tennessee accents (Good Guys Press). Boston got the same accent bit; his tour account captioned the clip "Boston hates Tennessee accents (confirmed?)." He also pits rooms against each other on volume, which has its own card in Fan Culture. He wore a Bulls jersey for the Chicago show, which tells you how much of the banter is local.

Roadrunner Energy and a Band He Won't Stop Thanking

Hunnypot's review of the Echoplex in Los Angeles on April 16, 2024 described him moving with a "roadrunner" quality, his "movements matching the lyrics," while "the audience jumped with hands in the air" during "Man Down." Christian Delzoppo on drums and John Townsend on guitar are the constants, and Knox's Nashville hometown review noted that "one of the most prevalent parts of Knox's personality, both onstage and off, is his constant show of love to his bandmates." That's why the spotlight band introduction before the last song exists. A fan who caught him opening on the Band CAMINO Taking Shape tour put it more simply on TikTok: "him and his band KILLED it."

They Know the New Album Before He Plays It

His crowds do their homework. Going, Going, Gone came out April 4, 2025; by the Chicago show two weeks later "fans came prepared, knowing every word to newly released album tracks" (Good Guys Press). At the Echoplex a year earlier the room "knew every song by heart," and at his sold-out Exit/In hometown show his family sang every word from the balcony while the floor carried the acoustic segments. On the fall 2025 leg a Cleveland clip from Beachland Ballroom is just an "Acoustic sing-a-long with @Knox" on "Invisible," his voice underneath a room full of others. Even with sold-out rooms he told The Honey POP in July 2026, "I hope people show up. I hope they actually come," and that hearing the lyrics sung back "never gets old."