All Time Low concert review.

All Time Low

On January 18^th, two friends and I went to see pop punk band All Time Low with supports, The Maine and We Are The In Crowd. At concerts like these, you can always guarantee to see some interesting looking people, who hate you for no apparent reason. But then again, there are also the people that make you feel completely at home and you don’t even know them.

We Are The In Crowd

The atmosphere at this concert was brilliant; everybody was so excited you could practically hear the collective sound of everyone’s heart beating out of their chest. The first to play was We Are The In Crowd, who aren’t all that well known over here in the UK but nevertheless they still put on a brilliant performance. I’m not going to lie, I didn’t have high expectations of seeing this band but their songs are catchy and the singer, Tay Jardine, is a lovely lady who really got the crowd involved.  Don’t get tricked into believing that they are  Paramore but with different members, because they really aren’t. Their songs aren’t quite as heavy as some of Paramore’s songs and their style leads more towards the pop side of the genre pop punk. I can honestly say that their performance alone made me want to go home straight away and buy their albums. Their performance gets a very well deserved 7/10.

The second support to play was The Maine, and by this point in the night, everybody was overheating but well prepared for the headliners. The Maine are a band of 5 men (I use the term men lightly. They’re like children.) From Arizona, USA. They’ve been in the industry for about 5 years now, and it was my first time tonight seeing them. It was one of the top 3 greatest performances I’ve ever seen. You can honestly tell that they love what they’re doing as it shows in their music, which had everybody dancing and singing along. They talked to the crowd, got them to laugh and really connected with us all. They played about 7-8 songs, most from their latest album Pioneer, but some of their classics from Black and White, and also Can’t Stop Won’t Stop. Front man, John O’Callaghan really puts his heart and soul into the songs he performs, as do the rest of the band. All in all I’d give their performance for the night at a 9/10.

The Maine

Finally it was time for the big moment, the main event. Everybody waited in anticipation to finally see the headliners All Time Low, and the welcoming they received was spectacular. This was my 4^th time seeing them, and they have yet to let me down. They were in high spirits tonight, making their usual jokes, pointing people out in the crowd and insulting one another. This was the tour for their latest album, Dirty Work, which whilst the actual recorded songs weren’t brilliant, when heard live you were converted and actually started to like the sound of them. The band themselves are very energetic, jumping across the stage and diving into the crowd, it’s a surprise they have the energy considering they tour 9 months out of the year. They played all of their classic songs such as Jasey Rae, Popping Champagne and Six Feet Under The Stars, they also played new songs which don’t particularly get played live a lot, along with songs from Dirty Work such as Guts, I feel like dancin’ and Time Bomb. To add to the atmosphere the lighting was absolutely fantastic, their light designer, Jeff Maker II is truly brilliant, he was lighting up the back drop and making words appear across an LED board which had the crowd laughing. The Guitarist Jack always jumps into the crowd, and the reactions this gets is pretty scary but so much fun as well. You could tell that there were people in the audience who were there just to try and ruin the night for other people, you could also tell that the parents that had accompanied some of the younger children were slightly uncomfortable with the language being used by the front man, Alex Gaskarth, but it didn’t spoil the night for anybody. Overall, All Time Low’s performance warrants a 10/10 because they get better and better every single time, and they always put on a brilliant performance.