16 May 2011
A Day To Remember changed the season on Friday night and brought Luna Park’s Big Top to boiling point.
US Christian metal band, Underoath roused the crowd with an interesting set list that skipped a few popular tracks. However, with frontman Spencer Chamberlain whipping his long dreads with more vigour than Willow Smith in set closer Writing On The Walls, there was no doubt this six-piece delivered a passioniate and impressive set.
From opening track Sticks and Bricks, ADTR pulled out all the stops to create a wild celebration for their very first Australian headlining tour. The Florida quintet seared through an avid set which tipped its hat to all of their four albums; tracks like This Is The House That Doubt Built, All Signs Point To Lauderdale and Monument saw the punk band start a toilet paper fight, release beach balls and blow up the stage with erupting smoke during all the best screaming bits.
The crowd boasted some of the fiercest hardcore dancers I’ve ever seen; there were a few fly-kicks to the face and punches thrown in detrimental directions but the audience highlight was when one kid got down on all fours and a stream of crowd surfers ran at him to use his back as a spring board to surf the waiting sea of pumping fists.
“This is the heaviest song we have,” said frontman, Jeremy McKinnonbefore 2nd Sucks. “There is a shit load of people in this god damn room,” he said, almost mocking Underoath; we then created a mind-blowing circle pit.
For Homesick, a guy in a monkey suit came and shot at us with an ADTR T-shirt gun, and in final tracks You Should Have Killed Me When You Had The Chance and The Plot Bomb To Panhandle, balloons fell from a suspended net and McKinnon climbed inside a giant zorb ball and ran like a drunk hamster across the top of us.
The two-track encore included a clumsy but lovely If It Means A Lot To You on acoustic guitar and crowd favourite, The Downfall Of Us All, where McKinnon strummed the riff on guitarist Kevin Skaff’s guitar. The Florida boys basically had a massive party onstage, guitarist Joshua Woodard did a fair bit of skipping across the stage's back wall; the energy was higher than heaven, the crowd knew every single word and the night was a visual spread of fun and games.
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