Last weekend, Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer performed at Wembley Arena three nights in a row, and I was lucky enough to attend the three sold out shows, so today I thought I would do a review of one of the shows I went to.
If you've read any other post on my blog, or know anything about me at all, then you will know that I am a huge fan of this band, and so I was incredibly excited to see the show.
I was lucky enough to be given soundcheck tickets for all three of the Wembley shows. This basically means that myself and about 400 other fans were allowed to go into the arena early to watch the boys soundcheck a couple of songs, and then have a group q & a session. We were not allowed to film in there, but it was 5SOS being 5SOS, and the songs they soundchecked sounded brilliant.
The support act, Hey Violet, also did an acoustic hangout outside the arena before the show. I see a huge future ahead of that band, they're super talented, and stopped to take a picture with everyone who came out, and at the London shows, there were a hell of a lot of people.
All 4 members of the band are super sweet, and are easy to get along with and have some banter with. Here's one of the pictures I got with them.
Before long, Hey Violet were on. They were brilliant, and in my opinion, were the perfect type of act to open the show for a band like 5 Seconds of Summer. My personal favourite song was a song called 'Bullet' *BOOM HEY*, and the band really got the crowd pumped and ready for the show.
After Hey Violet had performed, there was a half an hour wait before the main event started. Being the cheeky lads that they are, the 5SOS boys ended the wait with the anthem 'The Final Countdown', and by this point, tensions were running high, the level of excitement was off the scale, and everyone was ready to rock out.
After a ten second countdown, the band came out, starting with the energetic 'End Up Here' to start the show off with a bang. 5SOS did all of their well known songs, such as She Looks So Perfect, Don't Stop and Amnesia, alongside fan favourite's from the album, like Heartache on the Big Screen, Disconnected, and Kiss Me Kiss Me. The 4 Aussie's also performed a new track called Permanent Vacation, and one lucky fan even was allowed on stage to play guitar/bass with the band during a song called 'Rejects'. When the band finished, the crowd were screaming relentlessly for more, so the pop/punk band came back and sang crowd favourites Good Girls and What I Like About You for their encore.
All three shows were absolutely amazing (bar the last 10 minutes on Saturday, when guitarist Michael Clifford caught on fire, and bassist Calum Hood burned himself on the pyrotechnics, but both were back to full form on the Sunday to provide an incredible final show). This band have oodles of stage presence, and really know how to put on a good show.
I was so impressed with this show. From start to finish, it really was the best concert I have ever been to. If you haven't already seen this young band, I recommend you get tickets, and you go. You won't regret it. You can buy tickets here! http://www.5sos.com/live/
I've written some reviews of some of the songs I've mentioned above, so I will leave the links below. Also, I posted lots of videos and pictures on my instagram and twitter, so if you want to check those out, I will leave them below.
Until next time,
MG
xxx
5 Seconds of Summer debut album review > http://musicglare.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/5-seconds-of-summer-album-review.html
5 Seconds of Summer 'LIVESOS' review > http://musicglare.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/5-seconds-of-summer-livesos-review.html
Hey Violet, 'This Is Why' review > http://musicglare.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/hey-violet-this-is-why-review.html
5 Seconds of Summer 'Permanent Vacation' review > http://musicglare.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/5-seconds-of-summer-permanent-vacation.html
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love this !
ReplyDeletethank you very much emma! :)
Delete5sos are so good live! and hey violet are gonna be huge i can feel it!
ReplyDeletei agree!
Deletei just bought my tiket!
ReplyDeletewhere for?! you're gonna have such a good time! :D
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