Less than four months into 2015 and All Time Low have already had a co-headline arena tour of the UK, shot what is set to be a spectacular live DVD at London’s Wembley Arena and are now drip feeding us songs from their upcoming album Future Hearts. But the pop-punk legends didn’t fail to deliver a classic acoustic performance at Kingston’s Hippodrome which took over-joyed fans back to a simpler time.
All Time Low are no strangers to first-rate acoustic shows. In 2009 their MTV Unplugged special CD entered the Top 25 Alternative Chart in the US not to mention an abundance of well-watched stripped down You Tube videos.
But since everything the Baltimore rockers do is doused in an exceptional level of success, with only more to come, it would be easy to assume that these days are long behind them.
Thankfully that’s not the case and there was nowhere more apt to prove that then at Kingston’s Hippodrome, where they played a similar set back in 2013.
Kicking off with 2009’s Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t) the nostalgic scene was well and truly set but the crowd was soon reminded what year it was with the much more recent belters, Backseat Serenade and Somewhere in Neverland, all performed to the bands trademark flawless standard and decorated with dick jokes.
Of course it wasn’t all yearning and reminiscence. It was technically a launch show after all and it was only fitting to present their new offering Kids In The Dark, the video for which recently popped up on the internet delighting fans across the world.
One highlight of the night for any die-hard fan came when frontman Alex Gaskarth was left alone to perform Remembering Sunday, from So Wrong It’s Right, the 2007 album that catapulted them into the pop-punk hall of fame. To make it that much more special Gaskarth wasn’t alone for long as he was eventually joined by The Voice US 2012 winner, and Hey Monday vocalist, Cassadee Pope.
With so much exceptional work coming from this band since 2007 some may have forgotten that their stellar song writing goes way back, but playing Remembering Sunday and Therapy back to back once again soon helped to remind us that these guys have all been honing these skills for years and they were pretty good to start with.
Real crowd pleasers followed in the form of Weightless and Dear Maria, Count Me In but at this point the mass were just pleased to be in their company. Never has a band had such a rapport with their fans, wearing masks given to them by the audience and discussing their various travel arrangements: “You travelled for 13 hours to be here? Why? You didn’t have to do that.”
But closing the show with another new song, Something’s Gotta Give, it was all of a sudden really obvious why this night was special. This is a band who are so good at writing songs that they can still play them and get the exact same reaction they did 6 years ago. Not one of the new songs they have released has disappointed their extensive fan base yet and it’s clear that in another 6 years these guys will still be going strong and still be playing, and writing, what can only be considered as anthems.
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