Chicago pop rockers The Audition worked up the crowed with fervour at Sydney’s Metro Theatre when they opened for You Me At Six. The four-piece delivered tracks like You’ve Made Us Conscious, Warm Me Up and Hell To Sellwith more energy than a box of Duracell bunnies on crack.
The Audition rattled us hard and fast before Brit punk rockers You Me At Sixtook the reins. Opening with Consequence, new drummer Dan Flint saved time by taking his shirt off before coming onstage, whilst singer Josh Franceschidonned a Justin Bieber shirt with a target on his forehead.
Not long into the track The Ghost Inside’s Johnathan Vigil and Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall joined them for a choral screaming match that even your mother would enjoy.
Tracks Kiss & Tell, Safer To Hate Her and Truth were all sung in unison by the band and the all-ages crowd. Rhythm guitarist Max Helyer, bassist Matt Barnesand lead guitarist Chris Miller along with Franceschi all jumped in unison at the front of the stage, this was one of the only times you saw Miller’s face because for most of the set he held his signature hair-over-face position.
The death circles were a highlight, at one point Franceschi parted the floor and asked the crowd to do a ‘Moon Walk of Death’ which basically just eventuated into another death circle for track Trophy Eyes and new song Stay With Me.
It was clear this was the bands last show in Australia, their chord progressions were near perfect and Franceschi’s tired voice made for a masculine rasp in final tracks Fireworks, If I Were In Your Shoes, Save It For The Bedroom andUnderdog. There may have been no encore but the audience knew all the da da’s and whoa oh’s and even laughed when the band dedicated Save It For The Bedroom to The Ghost Inside and “a slut back home.”
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