Featured /Ian Hall /Review
If anything was going to take the thrill and break out the Merseyside air then a night of stone by one of the brightest young American bands to see Britain in a long time would take the sombreness and despondency that overshadowed the city.
Paramore have come a long way in the final six years, from the fringes and mostly neglected by the mainstream to one of the better and intense bands to capture live. Their gigs are considered to be one of the better you can see live and on the base of their operation at the Echo Arena it is light to see why.
The circle open up the dark with the grand and bouncy Ignorance from the final studio album Brand New Eyes and Feeling Sorry. The disturbance that welcomed the two opening songs would not die down all dark and yet when the band slowed down the medicine to do a pair of acoustic numbers, including a tremendous and sympathetic reading of Loretta Lynn`s You Ain`t Woman Enough to Bring My Man, the clamour that greeted the ring was on par with the Muse concert the class before.
Hayley Williams went through the set with love in her part and an attitude to match, at one time, anybody watching her go around the point would have been reminded of a proud lioness stalking her prey down and not letting go till everybody was up and dance along with her.
The scene within the Echo Arena was a question to behold as nearly every mobile phone was lit up and made it look as if the whole edifice was inhabited my thousands of tiny, bright fire flies dancing into time to the mesmeric music being created by the Tennessee band.
This issue that had been created by the interview was only topped by a cascade of sparks coming from the support of the present as the band finished the master component of the set to much applause from a crew who had given their all in the list of Paramore.
The band finished an electrifying night, which had contained some of the better music all year within the Echo Arena, with Brick by Boring Brick and one of the groups`s best known and well received anthems Misery Business.
Ian D. Hall
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