Panic! At The Disco
>> Carling Academy
>> 12st April 2006
In 2005, few people had heard of young Las Vegas outfit “Panic! At The Disco”. In 2006, however, the band have been accelerating to super stardom at immeasurable pace, leaving many 14 year old girls (and guys…) hot under the collar. Tonight’s gig is proof of this as it had been first scheduled for the cathouse, before selling out phenomenally quickly, forcing it to be upsized to the majestic Carling Academy.
After an excruciatingly painful couple of opening acts (keep away from Forgive Durden and definitely keep the hell away from Men, Women And Children), Panic! At The Disco take to the stage to an eerie backing track and near deafening applause before launching into fan favourite “The Only Difference Between Suicide And Martyrdom Is Press Coverage”.
The sound at first is a little muffled with barely any guitar or bass to be heard over the vocals, drums and the all important backing track, and it does take the band a couple of songs to get into top gear but the crowd don’t seem to care: there’s not a still body or mouth that isn’t singing in the venue. Stand out songs from the set, which included every track from their debut album “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” as well as a Counting Crows and Third Eye Blind cover, included “Time To Dance” and “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”, with the latter allowing singer Brendon Urie to step back from the microphone handing over the vocal duties to the crowd.
However, despite proving themselves as one of the bands of 2006 on cd, they failed to do the same with their live performance. They seem a one trick band, playing an almost identical set to that from their Cathouse house gig earlier in the year including the same musical interludes between songs, while their backing track kept the live element of their show minimal, leaving me wondering whether the grandiose amount of production on the album was half of their success story.
>> Roy Chester
www.panicatthedisco.com
>> 12st April 2006
In 2005, few people had heard of young Las Vegas outfit “Panic! At The Disco”. In 2006, however, the band have been accelerating to super stardom at immeasurable pace, leaving many 14 year old girls (and guys…) hot under the collar. Tonight’s gig is proof of this as it had been first scheduled for the cathouse, before selling out phenomenally quickly, forcing it to be upsized to the majestic Carling Academy.
After an excruciatingly painful couple of opening acts (keep away from Forgive Durden and definitely keep the hell away from Men, Women And Children), Panic! At The Disco take to the stage to an eerie backing track and near deafening applause before launching into fan favourite “The Only Difference Between Suicide And Martyrdom Is Press Coverage”.
The sound at first is a little muffled with barely any guitar or bass to be heard over the vocals, drums and the all important backing track, and it does take the band a couple of songs to get into top gear but the crowd don’t seem to care: there’s not a still body or mouth that isn’t singing in the venue. Stand out songs from the set, which included every track from their debut album “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” as well as a Counting Crows and Third Eye Blind cover, included “Time To Dance” and “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”, with the latter allowing singer Brendon Urie to step back from the microphone handing over the vocal duties to the crowd.
However, despite proving themselves as one of the bands of 2006 on cd, they failed to do the same with their live performance. They seem a one trick band, playing an almost identical set to that from their Cathouse house gig earlier in the year including the same musical interludes between songs, while their backing track kept the live element of their show minimal, leaving me wondering whether the grandiose amount of production on the album was half of their success story.
>> Roy Chester
www.panicatthedisco.com
