Young Guns

Type – Live Review

Artist – Young Guns 

Date – October 14^th 2012-10-27

We interviewed We Are The In Crowd before the show, you can check that out here.

This Vans Off The Wall tour had an amazing line up as Vans Off The Wall like to provide a variety of genres to appeal to a wide range of people, and kicking off the night was Marmozets and with them they brought both ferocity and a whole lot of energy. With songs such as ‘onemanwolfpack’ its easy to see that this band will soon be one of the UK’s next big metal bands. The band have a quirkiness that the music industry often lacks these days.

Your Demise were next up, these guys are fantastic and always a pleasure to watch perform. They played and extremely high energy set with plenty of circle pits and crowd surfers. The O2 ABC was packed for the YD set and you could see the band feeding off the crowds energy and vice versa. The crowd sang along with every word to every song the guys played and everyone was clearly having a fantastic time.

The main support for the night is one of my personal favourite bands, New York punk-rockers We Are The In Crowd. As of recently WATIC have been taking the UK by storm. After only playing their first UK shows in May 2011, the UK seemed to really fall in love them and this tour made it the third UK tour for WATIC this year alone playing with All Time Low in January, a headlining tour in April and now Supporting Young Guns. The whole crowd got involved during their set when they belted out hit after hit from both their EP ‘Guaranteed To Disagree’ and their debut album ‘Best Intentions’. Tay and the boys had the crowd right in the palm of their hand for their entire set and for a moment Tay stopped singing and let the crowd take over for her. The best part of the night was when the band played ‘Kiss me Again’ and  the entire crowd went wild – in a good way of course. WATIC are a perfect example that hard work and determination pays off. They walked off the stage leaving the crowd wanting more.

As the headliners Young Guns took to the stage there was deafening screams coming to from the crowd, they started their set with ‘Dearly Departed’ and the entire crowd was jumping and going mental before the boys even managed to burst into the chorus. The band played an amazing set of 14 songs and all of the girls in the crowd were in complete awe of them the entire time they were on stage. Their set included crowd favourites such as ‘Weight of the World’ and ‘D.O.A’. For their encore the guys played YG classics ‘Winter Kiss’ and ‘Bones’. These boys really know how to put on a killer show and its fantastic to see a band with so much gratitude towards their fans.

The mix of bands and genres playing the show was a bit of a risky move from the Vans Off The Wall team but for those thinking that these bands wouldn’t work together; they managed to prove them all wrong. Everyone got a taste of something they might not usually listen to and everyone seemed to have a fantastic time.

@GillianLIMTV