Fairly recently I went to see the bands ‘Pierce The Veil’ and ‘Sleeping With Sirens’ for part of their world tour. They performed at The Forum in London along with support act ‘Issues.’ I’d never seen Pierce The Veil perform before, although I saw Sleeping With Sirens last year and met the lead singer, Kellin Quinn.
As expected, it was a great night. I queued outside for a fair amount of time and saw people I recognised from college, which was quite cool.
After Issues (who I’m not a massive fan of), Sleeping With Sirens came on stage, starting off with the song ‘Kick Me’ from their most recent album. I must admit that the lighting used was quite amusing, as panels had been put up above the stage, which spelled out some of the lyrics of the chorus in time with the band – ‘Kick me when I’m down’, etc. Ah, good times.
The played 12 songs, including some of their classics such as ‘Do it Now, Remember it Later’ and ‘If you can’t Hang’. In addition to this, they added a Goo Goo Dolls cover of ‘Iris’ to their set, which had the whole audience singing along.
They were consistently good, although there were a few high notes which Kellin couldn’t quite reach and so moved the mic away from his face (which is understandable as the songs are so high). I’ve gotta say that some members of the crowd were a bit annoying as the group behind me kept saying things like ‘I can’t even’ and ‘Kellin, why u do dis?’ which I didn’t realise people actually said off of the internet in real life.
Then we waited for Pierce The Veil. The screen put up while we waited was pretty cool.
Pierce The Veil performed songs such as ‘Caraphernelia,’ ‘Hell Above’ and ‘A Match Into Water,’ putting a lot of energy into their performances and keeping the crowd moving, such as by starting circle pits. It was good fun. They also performed an acoustic version of ‘I’m Low On Gas and You Need a Jacket,’ where there was a really nice atmosphere and the audience all sung along.
As they neared the end of the set, Vic asked a member of the audience to join them on the stage and he sung some of ‘Bulletproof Love’ to her (and she was so happy that she was almost in tears). She got to receive signed drumsticks and a setlist – Maan, she’s lucky.
And of course PTV and SWS finished off by performing ‘King For a Day’, which was freakin’ amazing! I really like the good chemistry that the bands have, as you can clearly see that they enjoy being around each other.
Pure Destruction 