The Collide with the Sky tour played a sold out show at the Plaza Theatre Tuesday night.
A total of four bands performed for an energetic audience on October 23. The bands were Hands Like Houses, Tonight Alive, Sleeping With Sirens, and Pierce the Veil.
“This is the most rowdy crowd we have had on the entire tour,” Pierce the Veil singer Vic Fuentes said in the microphone as confetti fell onto the audience.
The line extended around the small venue as fans wait for the doors to open at 6:30 p.m.
Almost every fan wore a band t-shirt to promote who they were coming to see.
Hands Like Houses, a six-piece Australian group, opened the show. One physical feature each member shared was a mustache under each of their noses. A few songs the post-hardcore group performed were “One Hundred” and “This Ain’t No Place For Animals,” their new music video single.
Tonight Alive, another Australian band with a female vocalist, commanded the stage next. After the first two songs, vocalist Jenna McDougall, motioned the crowd to split down the middle and allow the mosh pit to ensue. The crowd responded with energy.
The band played their new cover of Mumford & Sons’ song “Little Lion Man,” which is featured on the new Punk Goes Pop 5 compilation album. After, the group slowed it down with a ballad called “Amelia,” which McDougall said was about losing someone you cared about. The five-piece group ended their set with their new single “Listening,” which they recently released a video for last week.
Anticipation filled the room when the lights dimmed. One by one, the members of Sleeping with Sirens took the stage. They are a five piece band originally from Orlando, Fl, but each member is from different parts of the country.
They opened with “Do It Now, Remember It Later,” one of their singles from their newest album Let’s Cheer to This. Along with playing songs from their most recent album, they also played a couple songs from their first album With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear including “Don’t Fall Asleep at the Helm” and their first single “If I’m James Dean, You’re Audrey Hepburn.” The crowd’s energy grew as the mosh pit pushed everyone back and almost everyone was screaming the lyrics.
When Sleeping with Sirens was finished, and the lights dimmed for the last time, everyone felt a rush of anticipation. The introduction song on their latest album began to play, and as the singer began to sing and scream, the crowd roared over him. The drapes dropped to the floor and Pierce the Veil appeared on the stage.
Fans were crowd surfing, banging their heads, and dancing in the mosh pit. Pierce the Veil recently released their third full-length album called Collide with the Sky. Compared to their Warped Tour set back in July and this night’s set, they made sure to add more new songs as well as keep songs from their second album Selfish Machines.
In the middle of their set, it was only singer Vic Fuentes and his acoustic guitar. He began playing “Yeah Boy and Doll Face” from their first record Flair for the Dramatic. Near the end of the song, the rest of the band joined him. Then they dived right back into songs from Selfish Machines.
The four-piece group then began to play a song “Hold on Till May,” which features guest vocals by Lindsey Stamey from the band Oh No Fiasco. Oh No Fiasco is not on this tour, therefore the band had Tonight Alive’s singer Jenna Dougall to sing with him.
Pierce the Veil ended their set with the song “Caraphernelia,” which features Jeremy McKinnon from the band A Day to Remember. As a surprise to the entire audience, McKinnon joins the band onstage and performs. The band said good bye and left the stage.
However, the fans began to chant for an encore. After about a minute of chanting, a light shines against one of the walls, showing a crown. The entire audience cheered, knowing what song was next. The riff began to play as the band returned along with Sleeping with Sirens’ vocalist Kellin Quinn.
Kellin Quinn did guest vocals on Pierce the Veil’s new album on a song called “King for a Day”. Bright lights shined across the stage as confetti fell from the ceiling for the third and final time. When the song ended, fans rushed to the merchandise tables to purchase their favorite bands’ shirts.
Even after two hours of the show ending, fans were still hanging out around the venue just waiting to meet someone from those bands. However, security was strict and it was almost impossible unless the fan went to the signing at the merchandise table.
For more information on the bands that performed, they all have Facebook pages and their music is available for download on iTunes.
