I have been dying to see Paramore for years but their tours never include Austin. Oh well… A few weeks after we moved to London they headlined Reading Festival (England’s version of ACL) but tickets were sold out so we went to Bath and Stonehenge instead.
Soon after that, I heard they were coming back to London and immediately wanted to buy tickets. The venue’s site had sold out of floor tickets, but we were able to snag a couple from a reseller! I just like the floor so much more. You can dance around and you’re so much closer to the stage. When David and I saw U2 last year for my birthday, floor was also sold out so we sat in normal seats and no one around us even stood or really moved around during the concert. That’s no fun!
It took a while to get out to Greenwich to the O2 arena, formerly known as the Millenium Dome, a huge event center built specifically for the millennium’s New Year’s Eve party. The tubes weren’t running well on Saturday night so we had to get off and take a bus across the river. When we got to the bus stop, the place was swarming with teenagers in their punk rock gear. We felt old… David and I were also both feeling some déjà vue because the last concert we went to was Boys Like Girls at the Austin rodeo. It seemed like everyone there was a preteen screaming girl. We felt even worse when we noticed the row of girls in front of us was wearing “Class of 2014” T-shirts. 2014?! We both graduated more than a DECADE before those kids.
The nice thing about being older, though, is our disposal income and the fact that we could afford to pay for a taxi and not wait for the bus. Ha! Take that, British teens with limited allowances!
Thank goodness we decided not to wait for the bus because we got to the O2 just before BOB came on to open for Paramore. WE LOVE BOB!
And this was perfect, because it meant we got to hear “Airplanes” with Hayley and BOB together!
During “Satellite” David could not stop laughing at the backup singers’ robot dance:
Sorry the sound quality's so bad, it was REALLY loud!
Then Paramore came on! They opened with “Ignorance,” had a ton of energy playing their other hits, settled it down for a few acoustic songs, and then did the inevitable “let’s pretend we’re done but then come back out and play some more!” They ended the concert with their first-ever single, “Misery Business,” which was AWESOME! They were really grateful to all of the fans and told us this was the biggest concert they’ve done so far. And the crazy thing is, since it was so popular, they did a second show on Monday night too! It was a great concert and we had a ton of fun!
