Just about anyone who has grown
up in the last twenty years knows at least one Blink-182 song. On the 9th
of June, London’s O2 arena filled with crowds to watch the American
Punk-Rockers play their come-back tour after it being postponed for a year to
allow the release of their album “Neighborhoods” last summer.
Opening the show, Scottish rockers, Twin Atlantic played tracks mainly from their latest album “Free”
to fire up the crowd. They were on fine form with heavily scottish vocals (by
the impressively named Sam McTrusty) covering catching guitar hooks. However,
having previously seen them before I feel that they were never allowed to reach
their best on the night; they would have benefitted from a chance to play a
much longer set.
The All American
Rejects followed and were disappointing. They opened with the well-known “Dirty
Little Secret” which received a less than impressive response from the crowd-
which was to be expected. Tyson Ritter’s
vocals were piercing and displeasing making their 40 minute set almost painful.
The alternative rock band finished with
what they had probably hoped to be a crowd pleaser, their best hit “Gives You
Hell”, yet this was not enough to win the audience over.
Blink 182 hit the
ground running by opening with the upbeat “Feeling This” and continued in the
same fashion playing hit after hit. In between songs, Tom and Mark kept the
crowd amused with their tongue-in-cheek jokes.
The atmosphere in the O2 was electric as fans sang at the top of their
lungs and mosh pits formed as the punk rock trio played classics from their
first album “Cheshire Cat” to 2011’s “Neighborhoods”. While anxiously awaiting
the trio’s encore, fans who were standing were sent into a frenzy when Mark and
Tom travelled through the crowd to make their way to the sound booth to perform
a simplistic version of “Reckless Abandon”, preceding Travis Barker’s heroic
drum solo on the main stage, reminding the audience that he is one of, if not,
the world’s best drummer.
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