Last Tuesday night Panic! at the Disco played here in Adelaide. The high energy performance and the hyped crowd made for great performance.
I got the full experience of the concert by lining up since 9:30 in the morning with my friends who had actually camped out overnight in line so we could have a good spot for the show when doors opened at 7pm.
Not only did I line up all day but I also helped fellow people in line create posters for the show as well as handing out rainbow coloured paper hearts so people could hold them up and shine a light through them during the show to show support for the LGBTQI+ community during the song Girls/Girls/Boys.
Now doing all this lead me to being able to meet the supporting act E^St (East), her performance before the show was amazing with such high energy and dancing both from her and the crowd, especially during her cover of ‘Gives you hell’ by The All-American Rejects. (East is the one in the green pants in the group photo)
It also lead me to being able to meet Panic! at the Disco’s manager Zack Hall, when he came out to meet fans and give the two girls who had been lining up the longest a drum skin that had been signed by all of the band members.
The countdown started 10 minutes before Panic! were to come onstage to play and the crowd could not wait. They opened with ‘(Fuck A) Silver Lining, the first song on their newest album, ‘Pray For The Wicked’. Which being in the pit with every person around me singing and screaming I could barely hear the Brendon Urie singing.
Brendon Urie the lead singer of Panic! awed crowd members with his amazing vocals and how easily he was able to reach the high notes during the songs. He was even let one of the audience members who had created a sign saying “Can I please drum for Sins?”, one of the bands biggest hits. He got to go on stage and play the chorus of ‘I Write Sins Not Tragedies’ with the band. Brendon also noticed another fan, the one I helped make the sign for, who’s birthday it was named Maddie and he sung Happy Birthday to her.
They ended the show with one of their hits ‘Victorious’ from their last album ‘Death of a Bachelor’. It ended with shots of the confetti cannons which sent gold and white confetti raining down on the crowd.
Overall the show was amazing from the events before the show and during the concert. Brendon was truly an amazing live singer and performer with his signature backflip during ‘Miss Jackson’ to his amazing high notes in ‘Say Amen (Saturday Night)’ and ‘Death of a Bachelor’ as well as adding in many ad lib high notes throughout the show.
Paige.