Due to a problem with missed flights or some such rockstar crisis tonight’s gig has rather neatly been postponed by a couple of days and finds a new home on Valentine’s Day. Fittingly the serendipity of this is not lost on Hayley Williams the lead nymphet with Paramore.
We’re continually reminded that we’ve chosen to join the band on this romantic occasion as she coyly flirts with the mass of lusting teenage hormones in the room, for which they are eternally grateful. You're welcome.
Musically the gig’s a bit of a rollercoaster. There’s a lack of any obvious flow and a few technical hitches threaten to overwhelm the set as the crew get an ample amount of onstage time themselves fixing mic leads etc. But thankfully these issues are treated with good humour by the band and they take it all in their stride.
There’s a comical effect before me stood at the back of the venue as I am – hey there are some young bodies in here tonight and being crushed in amongst that throng would be really inappropriate believe me – anyhow, the effect is, Hayley runs stage left and the crowd veers left with her, she runs stage right and they flock like starlings after the object of their desire. That the first ten rows are predominantly teenage males of an ‘emo’ persuasion should not be that surprising.
Having stormed through ‘Riot!’ and the highlights of first album ‘All We Know Is Falling’ the band exit and the crowd patiently awaits their return to play the hit and duly obliging Paramore come back to bluster through current single ‘Misery Business’. Back of the net. Grandstand finish!
I’m sure that without Ms Williams - sassy Avril Lavigne meets ‘Hard Candy’ Ellen Page - Paramore wouldn’t be quite the draw they are but they are all out fun and the addition of songs chock full of pop-rock hooks they can’t possibly fail.
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