Concert review: Paramore show leaves crowd wanting more

By Tabitha Rogers

Concert review: Paramore show leaves crowd wanting more

“One more song! One more song!”

The near sold-out crowd kept screaming near the end of the concert.

As part of the 2010 Honda Civic Tour, Tennessee-based band Paramore rocked out the packed U. Central Florida Arena and gave the fans from Orlando quite an exciting show.

The opening acts were Kadawatha, New Found Glory and Tegan And Sara. Each of the opening bands performed for about half an hour followed by an intermission.

After each act, the crowd would get more and more excited; because it meant that Paramore would soon be coming out to perform. The floor was crowded with fans who stood in place for just under four hours, just so that they wouldn’t lose their places in the crowd and miss being as close as possible to the band.

“The crowd was pumped and extremely excited for them to come on,” said Leslie Barnett, a senior double-majoring in hospitality management and event management. “The anticipation was killing everyone, including me.”

After a while, the crowd was getting restless as people tried to skip to the front of the crowd, even starting a few fights that weren’t too serious as security was able to take care of the situations.

The band performed a few of their hit songs from their certified Platinum album Riot!. Some of the songs they performed from the album were “When it Rains,” “Crushcrushcrush,” and “That’s What You Get.”

They also performed “Misguided Ghosts,” “Playing God,” “When the Lines Overlap” and several other songs off their most recent album, Brand New Eyes.

They ended the concert with fireworks, introductions of the bandmates and then they went ahead and played “The Only Exception.”

As the band was walking off, the hyped-up crowd wanted more and began chanting, “One more song! One more song!”

To the fans’ surprise the band came out again to perform and they capped off an already exciting show with stellar performances.

They first played “Brick by Boring Brick” and then, for the next song, picked two fans out of the crowd to perform along with them. The lucky guy helped by singing and the lucky girl helped by playing bass along with the band for the final song of the night: “Misery Business.”

After the song had played, confetti-filled cannons fired out into the crowd. The atmosphere was wild and the excitement was incomparable.

The performance was above and beyond anything that the eager crowd could have expected.

“The concert was amazing,” Barnett said. “When Paramore came out, the crowd went wild. Their entrance was beyond great and engaged the crowd perfectly. Everyone screamed and sang along with Hayley.”

There was nothing more you could have asked for from Paramore and their performance except for maybe “one more song.”

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