Paramore @ The Hollywood Palladium 11/11/09

You know, I was kinda bummed when Hayley Williams got sick on the second day of tour and had to postpone their Los Angeles show—but in retrospect, I had so much more time to obsess over brand new eyes, so I felt like I was ready for this show. Know what I mean?

I got there a couple songs into the Swellers’ set. They’re a legit band, but not quite my bag. I feel like if No Use For A Name and Alkaline Trio had a baby and raised it a little less punk, (and maybe Face to Face was the non-parental influential adult) it would end up The Swellers. Probably not the best comparison, but it’s the best I can think of based on bands I actually listen to.

I took it to the hallway to wait for Miss Leslie Simon, and meanwhile stripped off a layer of clothing because OMG, so hot in there.

Once she showed up (wearing a great shade of red lipstick, I might add) we gabbed some before trying to find a relatively unobstructed view for Paper Route’s set. Leslie Simon loves Paper Route. She wants to build a life with them. I thought I should let you know that in case anyone has connections. PR are sort of a dreamy electro-rock band. All the songs have sort of a space-filling epic quality to them. I get the feeling that this is what Tom Delonge wants Angels and Airwaves to be, but you know, there’s Tom Delonge’s voice. Which I can appreciate, being a fan of whiny pop-punk, but isn’t so… epic. I didn’t get one decent picture of them, but I really liked the song that Zac Farro and Taylor York came out to help on. It might have been partially cause I was ready to chant “DE-TOX JUST TO RE-TOX” but hey. Check out Paramore’s hometown buddies on MySpace.

And then Paramore took the stage! There were a few false starts when the audience screamed for 1. The backdrop being revealed 2. The crew coming on stage to set ish up. I know the above picture is no masterpiece, but it gives you an idea of their stage set up, no?

Set list:

Intro (“There’s evil in your hearts and it wants out to play”…)

Ignorance

I Caught Myself

That’s What You Get

Looking Up

–Apologies for postponement of the show–

Emergency

Crushcrushcrush

Turn It Off

Here We Go Again

Careful

Conspiracy

Where The Lines Overlap

Decode

Outro? (“I asked you for mercy…”)

ENCORE YAY:

Misguided Ghosts (acoustic)

Misery Business

Brick By Boring Brick

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And oh holy song of all songs to scream your lungs out to, Brick By Boring Brick is IT. BEST song.

I really wanted them to play “The Only Exception” or “All I Wanted” but hey, I won’t be greedy. It was a pretty diverse crowd–there were some families, and I guess one kid was holding up a “it’s my first show” sign, cuz Hayley read it. There were some screamers, but not tons. Not too many Hayley-wannabes, or maybe I didn’t notice because now Hayley imitators would have blond hair?

I wonder if photogs prefer her red hair just cause she does so many hairwhips and red looks like FIRE sometimes.

I have a short little video going up in a few minutes.