With support acts, Divided by Friday, Decade and Man Overboard.
Once again Mayday Parade return with a bang with their catchy, hopeless romantic songs. Playing Koko, Camden as their last UK show the band ended on a high.
First on stage was a suited and booted, Divided By Friday. This North Carolinian band of 3 took to the stage in hope to warm up the crowd for the Headliners, Mayday Parade. Despite not seeming to be the crowd’s cup of tea, they did put on a good show despite it being awfully short (a good thing in some’s opinion) and filled with song that just weren’t worth the cut. The impression that I was given was that they were newly formed as there just wasn’t the stage chemistry and it just didn’t work well, despite the band being together since 2009.
Next up was newly formed British pop punk band, Decade. With the sudden rise of pop punk in recent months, it was the perfect timing for the band to perform songs of their first full length, ‘Good Luck’ and getting the recognition they deserve. Opening with ‘Fools Gold’ the catchy guitar riffs and buzz of energy that the frontman Alex Sears brought with him made us all forget the disaster that was on before them. They follow the traditional love drunk filled lyrics mixed with fast paced rhythms of the guitar and drums giving the kick that pop punk is so famously known for.
Last of the supports is more well-known Man Overboard. This band could be better described as the nerdy take to pop punk. To say the least, this band knows how to put on a show and anyone would have thought that it was in fact a Man Overboard show and not Mayday Parade’s just from the crowd’s reaction. The band were full of laughs and jokes that clearly put them at ease after technical difficulties hindered their acoustic attempts of ‘Love Your Friends, Die Laughing’
Now to the headlining act. Opening with ‘Ghosts’ from their newly released album Monsters In The Closet the band set to the stage with a bang and it was amazing to see everyone singing along and even the photographers chipped in for the chorus. They then followed with Jamie All Over which is a classic from their first studio album A Lesson In Romantics allowed for their older fans to become their 13 year old self again and sing their hearts out.
Throughout their set, lead singer Derek Sanders couldn’t be more thankful for the fans support through the years and practically dedicated each song to them. Mayday Parades trade mark is the set list slowing down with Derek bringing a keyboard on stage to where hes known to perform tracks such as “Miserable at best” and “Stay” which makes the whole evening just that little bit more special.
For encore, the band performed for the first time, “The Last Something That Meant Anything” which is off their first debut album which just completed the whole evening taking it from an average 7 to a definite 10.
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