Face Of Cheam

On Friday, I wondered into the Brixton Academy to see my current favourite rock band Paramore. Caught the end of the support, New Found Glory, who did a rocked up version of Sixpence None The Richers ‘Kiss Me’ which was fun. As for Paramore, they jigged the set list round from last time at the Astoria. It didn’t quite work with ‘Born For This’ about third song in with the lines, ‘This is the last song you’ll ever sing’ in it. Their normal set ender ‘Keep The Pressure’ was also in the middle and also seemed odd. They saved their best song till last ‘Misery Business’ in which the whole place was moshing. Hayley the singer is a great front person, despite her lack of height, and besides the set order the only slight complaint was that it wasn’t loud enough. Brixton’s sound normally starts poor anyway but here it stayed muffled and not at a volume to drown out audience chatter, which for a guitar based rock band isn’t what you want. Still a good gig though and will look forward to seeing them again. Hopefully they will do a warm-up before they play the Give It A Name festival at Earls Court. Interestingly, I ordered the CD of the show through the concertlive people. Normally you can collect it after the show or have it delivered. I ordered it off the website the next day. However, got an e-mail this week saying that it has been withdrawn from release and due to legal reasons they cannot say why. Whether the band were unhappy with their performance, or the sound was rubbish or whether they played a song without copyright I can only speculate. As an alternative I have been offered a CD from their Manchester show a few days earlier, which at least the only official live recording you can get from this band so far!