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Photo courtesy of Azrael’s Merryland Blog
I was at the Paramore Live Manila concert last night. Yeah, technically I was there. Not in the venue but outside. Since my office is just at the MOA complex, I spent my lunch break to check out the concert. There are two concert grounds at MOA, the bigger venue right across the IMAX theatre where Ne-yo, David Cook and David Archuleta held theirs. But with Paramore, their venue was the smaller one beside the SMX Convention Center. The reason? It’s a work week and the tenants/offices at the One E-Com center are working so it’s not possible to held concerts on the bigger venue. Only weekend concerts are held there. That’s a trivia for you guys should you be wondering why some of you got lost a while ago searching for Paramore.
Paramore is an American rock band with members Hayley Williams, Josh Farro, Jeremy Davis, Zack Farro and Taylor York. They’ve been performing since 2004. Their latest album Brand New Eyes is so far their best highest charting album after All We Know Is Falling and Riot! The band is so good that their first nomination was for the Grammys’ back in 2008 and ever since Paramore’s been tapped for other music awards.
Filipino rock band Callalily started the concert for Paramore. When news came out that they were doing the front act for the show, music fans went crazy. I’ve been to several forums bashing the group. It seemed that fans do not appreciate Callalily that much. Whatever the issue is, it’s outside this blog post. Enough of that, here’s something that caused an uproar of emotions at the Paramore concert. Last minute announcements were made switching VIP and Gold ticket holders’ place in the venue. Apparently the concert producers acted as if they were concerned with VIP’s getting hurt due to slammers. So they’ve decided to have the Gold ticket holders stay in front. I know some friends holding VIP tix who were furious, I mean who wouldn’t anyways? Paying more to get a better view then without prior notice shooing them away to the Gold area? That’s a big no no!
But when Paramore started performing, everyone at the venue somehow have forgotten about the commotion, even for 2 hours. They opened the concert with Ignorance from their Brand New Eyes album. Followed by Crushcrushcrush, Thats What You Get, Looking Up, Careful, Let The Flames Begin, Never Let This Go, The Only Exception, Pressure, For a Pessimist, I’m Pretty Optimistic, Where The Lines Overlap. They did songs from all their albums including Decode, a soundtrack from Twilight. Encore songs were Misery Business and Brick by Boring Brick.
Prior to ending the show Hayley introduced Justin York, Paramore’s touring member to replace Josh Farro who is planning his wedding.
It was really one hell of a concert. Too bad I wasn’t able to get in but it was all worth it. I could see Hayley in her white Thrilla in Manila shirt from the video wall. She’s definitely adorable and so good. I so love the part where she asked for a band photo with the concert goers on the background. It was the sweetest ever.
Photo from Hayley’s Tumblr
And let me just share this tweet from Hayley, she posted it at 11pm, an hour after the concert ended:
SICK SHOW BRO!!! Manila, did we win you over? Tonight was the best way to finish off an insanely fun tour. Gonna backflip into the pool now. – Hayley
Here’s a link of the lucky fan TweetPhoto when Hayley threw her eyeglasses after the concert, he was there at the right time at the right place.
Thank you to Azrael for the photo. More of Azrael’s photos of the Paramore Live In Manila concert are available at his blog.
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