For many years we’ve heard that a twenty one pilots show is a show like no other, and it was last night at the first of their two sold out London shows that we got to see this for ourselves.

With fans camping outside the famous London venue, Alexandra Palace, from Wednesday evening (the gig was last night, Friday 11th November) it’s clear to see that the Skeleton Clique are one of the most dedicated fan bases in the world right now.

Yes, we have the Beyhive and Rihanna’s Navy, but these fans have a sense of rawness that bands like twenty one pilots attract with their emotive and personal songs, and the lyrics within them. We’ve seen it before with the likes of My Chemical Romance, these bands have saved lives, and that’s no exaggeration.

And the feeling is mutual, what other band would transform an entire tube station with fan art? Not many is the answer, but twenty one pilots did exactly that at Wood Green station where every billboard had a unique piece of art created by one of the Skeleton Clique.

With these sorts of fans come epic sing-a-longs and we, as supposedly huge twenty one pilots fans, felt inferior to the die-hards that surrounded us. They knew EVERY word and sang them back to Joshua and Tyler with so much heart and yes, there were a few tears.

The Emotional Roadshow World Tour has meant that the band have been on the road for quite some time now, yet, this doesn’t affect their show at all. There couldn’t have been more energy protruding from the duo, and as lead vocalist Tyler Joseph kept saying, they’d been looking forward to this show for a long time, calling London a ‘home’ to them.

The set was a fan’s absolute dream as they performed tracks evenly split between their latest, critically acclaimed record Blurryface and their 2012 album Vessel. As well as this they threw in some old fan favourites for the OGs. Highlights from the set came in the form of new single ‘Lane Boy’ as well as an epic rendition of ‘Heathens’, a track they wrote for the Suicide Squad movie.

Alongside these bombastic stadium-worthy belters came the intimate moments that reduced down to the Tyler and his ukulele (on ‘The Judge’ for example) - the transition between these made possible by tracks such as ‘We Don’t Believe What’s On TV’ with the ‘yeah! yeah! yeah!’s from the crowd being a force to be reckoned with.

It feels odd to write about the songs without the visual elements that assisted them, and believe me, the list of performance techniques is LONG. From hanging microphones to elaborate yet subtle costume changes, right through to Major Lazer-esque crowd zorbing and some sort of magical trickery that transported them into the middle of the crowd, it all added up to one of the best live shows we’ve ever seen.

And that’s without mentioning the backflips and crowd-surfing with ACTUAL DRUM KITS! You kind of have to see it to believe it…

Perhaps this is all adds up to why their live show is considered one of the best of modern times (THE best if the MTV EMA awards are taken into account). Put seeing twenty on pilots live on the top of your bucket list, you won’t regret it.

SET LIST

Heavydirtysoul (Fairly Local Intro)
Migraine
Polarize
Message Man
Heathens
We Don't Believe What's on TV (House of Gold Intro)
The Judge
Lane Boy
Ode to Sleep
The Pantaloon / Fall Away / Johnny Boy / Forest / Addict with a Pen / March to the Sea / Kitchen Sink
Holding on to You
Jump Around (House of Pain cover)
Ride
Stressed Out
Guns for Hands
Tear in My Heart
Car Radio

ENCORE:
Goner
Trees