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iTunes Festival: London 2012
iTunes Festival: London 2012
EP by One Direction
Released	20 September 2012
Recorded	20 September 2012, at the Roundhouse in London, United Kingdom
Length	23:28
Label	Sony
One Direction chronology

iTunes Festival: London 2012 is the debut and live extended play by English-Irish boy band One Direction. The EP was released on 20 September 2012, via iTunes and contains six songs that the group performed live at the festival.

Background and recording

On 15 May 2012, One Direction was announced as one of the performers for the iTunes Festival which was held at the Camden Roundhouse in London.^[1] Harry Styles spoke to the BBC about performing at the event, "Every year we see some of our favourite bands and artists on the bill so to be part of the line up this year is obviously incredibly exciting."^[2]

The group performed at the iTunes Festvial on 20 September. They performed a handful of songs including "What Makes You Beautiful", "One Thing", "Moments", "More Than This", "Up All Night" and "Na Na Na", which were comprised in the live EP. Other tracks performed at the event that didn't make the final cut for the EP include "Gotta Be You", a cover of "Valerie" by the Zutons, "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas, "Use Somebody" by King of Leon, "Everything About You" and concluded with "I Want".^[3]

Critical reception

Rachel Ward of The Daily Telegraph gave a positive response for the concert stating, "The shrillness of screaming girls, possibly whipped up into hysteria by Harry's preposterously skinny jeans, eventually seemed to shake them up for rousing performances of hits including the synth-drenched 'Everything About You', the gloriously catchy 'What Makes You Beautiful' and a credible cover of the Kings of Leon's rocky 'Use Somebody'."^[4] However, she felt that the ballads, "Gotta Be You" and "I Wish" were "mediocre" for the first half of the performance.^[4]