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Panic At The Disco Live
Pretty odd, but pretty good.
London Roundhouse - 10/03/08
Panic At The Disco are greeted with the rudimentary carnival atmosphere that you’d expect from 14 year-old-girls, who have just been, “freaked out dude” by the latest new album lure from PATD. Ironically enough though it’s coming from random ‘guinea pigs’, dotted across the Roundhouse venue, dressed up as a half animal/half ‘young knife’ – you had to be there.
With the bubblegum-blue-coloured sick mopped up and the imminent last crimp of Brendan Urie’s new hair do, the emo-stalwarts saunter on to the words of: “Oh it’s been so long. We’re so sorry we’ve been gone. We were busy writing songs for you.” before powering into the instantly recognisable, Nine In The Afternoon from the band’s forthcoming second album, Pretty. Odd.
Their newly inherited toned down stage set serves to open themselves up to a, dare I say it, more mature audience.
The less fanciful attire that has been adopted will endear the band to their ever ageing fan base, who can’t fit into their waistcoats anymore, and who can’t get away with wearing skinny jeans to job interviews.
Nothing dies does it? It just evolves.
PATD will always be tarred with the emo-brush that painted them. And while I still can’t see the wood for the trees with this band, their undeniably catchy melodies, with hooks bigger than Peter Pan’s deadliest foe, keeps me and everyone else there… hooked!
With the crowd about to pour out of the Roundhouse after, I Write Sins Not Tragedies, they are treated to a solo effort from Brendan Urie on the bands first ever written song, Time To Dance.
The rest of the band rear their pretty heads on one of their most recent written songs, Mad Rabbits, from the new album.
So there you have it, a bookended encore of PATD’s short musical career.
How sweet – now you can stick an exclamation mark on that!
Review written by Emmet Mannion
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JEE
THU 20/03/08 @ 14:05
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