Tonight
was the first time for me seeing Panic! At The
Disco since I saw them a couple of times back
in 2006 and I really did not know what to expect
as the first time I watched them live was at Give
It A Name 2006 and they stole the whole show and
got the biggest reaction from the crowd which
was massive achievement considering they were
on so early in the day, a couple of months later
I watched them at Reading and the show was totally
the opposite with the Reading crowd going against
Panic! At The Disco and throwing bottles with
one hitting Brendon Urie right in the face and
knocking him out but like a true man he returned
to the stage ten minutes later to complete the
set but the magic and excitement of the Give It
A Name show was truly lost.
Over
the past couple of years Panic! At The Disco have
been through many ups and downs such as the average
response their second album ‘Pretty Odd’
got, the losing of the exclamation mark in the
band’s name which has now returned after
their fans kicked off to key band members Ryan
Ross and Jon Walker leaving the band which left
many people writing Panic! At The Disco off but
it was in 2011 when they came back bigger and
better with their third studio album ‘Vices
And Virtues’.
The
academy was sold out tonight and as soon as Panic
At The Disco took to the stage there was screams
from every direction in the building and the whole
room erupted into dancing mode from everyone on
the main dance floor to the people at the back
enjoying a beer and even the bar staff dancing
away behind the bar, the atmosphere was fantastic
and the songs Panic! played was even better.
The
stage set up that Panic! had looked straight out
of the ‘Mona Lisa’ video with loads
of old skool wooden themed items littering the
stage, the band themselves looked pretty swish
with the whole band wearing a suit and in the
hour and a half they were on stage they blasted
through 21 tracks with most being taken from their
latest album ‘Vices And Virtues’ but
with a couple of covers also thrown in for good
measures.
Songs
like ‘The Ballad Of Mona Lisa’ and
‘Hurricane’ got a good reaction but
it was the classic older material like ‘Camisado’,
‘Nine In The Afternoon’, ‘I
Write Sins Not Tragedies’ and ‘Time
To Dance’ which were welcomed with the biggest
screams and funkiest dance moves.
 Through the set Brendon Urie interacted with the
crowd a lot and the highlights were when we all
thought things were getting religious when Brendon
went to pray to god but this had a little twist
with Brendon saying “Dear god, just leave
me along and shut up you fucking prick”
before blasting into ‘Hit The Night’,
other humorous moments were when he explained
that his mum has ‘I Write Sins Not Tragedies’
as her ring tone and how he freaked out at her
over xmas as he wanted to get away from the band
life for a few days but that ring tone was haunting
but he turned it around and told his mum how much
he loves her and how glad he was to of come out
of her virgina.
 The highlight of the show for me was when they
covered The Darkness ‘I Believe In A Thing
Called Love’ as they totally nailed the
song and Brendon’s vocals easily matched
those of Justin Hawkins, I am sure the girls in
the audience enjoyed the song even more as before
they started it Brendon announced that he has
never seen this band play with clothes on and
stripped his top off before carrying on the song
which was met with loud over excited screams from
the females in the building tonight.
Overall tonight was proof that no matter what
shit you go through as a band there is always
light at the end of the tunnel and that is exactly
the case for Panic! At The Disco as after a couple
of years of bad luck they have come back with
an outstanding album with ‘Vices And Virtues’
which proves that Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith
were always the key creative members in the band
and have also worked their assess off in putting
a killer live show together again.
5/5
Review By Trigger
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