Lillie Hollabaugh Nashville’s emo and post-hardcore lovers showed up and showed out for Pierce The Veil’s stop in Music City on their “I Can’t Hear You” world tour. Celebrating almost two decades of being one of the most prominent groups in emo subculture, Pierce The Veil embarked on this tour to prove, as Vic Fuentes put it, that their band has the loudest fans in the world, and their incredibly high-energy show definitely supports their theory. This concert could not have been held at a better venue in Nashville than at Nashville Municipal Auditorium, which was filled to the brim with fans decked head to toe in metal, chains, and bridal veils even before the first opener took the stage.
Beach Weather
Fans were already packed into the ground level pit as well as the upper level seats (and snaked in a line three times around the building) to see Beach Weather kick off the night. Coming off the release of their deluxe album Melt’d last month, this alternative rock band had the crowd jumping and headbanging from the moment they took the stage with their insane stage presence and incredible music. Closing their set with their hit song “Sex, Drugs, Etc.” had the crowd on their feet with their flashlights in the air, ending their set on a triumphant high note and leaving the audience craving more.
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Sleeping With Sirens
I’ve personally been to a significant number of concerts in my life, and I can confidently say I have never seen a crowd more excited and engaged with an opening act quite like this crowd was with Sleeping With Sirens. The entire audience was on their feet immediately when the lights went down, and their opening song “Kick Me” was nothing short of electric.
One of the highlights of their set was their song “A Trophy Father’s Trophy Son”, which lead singer Kellin Quinn dedicated to family and told the audience to “sing this shit loud because we’re all family in this place”, resulting in a beautiful, energetic moment of the crowd chanting the bridge “is this what you call a family?”
Another amazing moment with the crowd included the descant of “Better Off Dead” with an impromptu call and response with the crowd sans instruments singing “this is not where I belong; you’re gonna miss me when I’m gone”. This is what began the moshing and crowd surfing in the pit, which continued throughout the night. Quinn displayed powerhouse vocals during their song “If I’m James Dean, You’re Audrey Hepburn” and closed their set with “If You Can’t Hang”, leaving the audience roaring.
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Pierce The Veil
Concerts for bands that have been performing and creating music for a long time are always so special to me because it shows how music can have such a long lifespan and continues to touch lives of several generations. That is something I have always loved about emo and punk subculture in general; it continues to provide community and connection to newer generations and remains as strong as it was from its genesis.
This was represented in huge ways like pit members helping pass out water into the large crowd and people in matching outfits taking pictures together as well as in small ways like the crowd singing together “Where are you, and I’m so sorry” from blink-182’s I Miss You that was playing before Pierce The Veil took the stage.
As the lights went red and Pierce The Veil’s set began, part of Vicente Fernández’s El Rey played, giving an homage to the band’s Mexican cultural and musical influences being from San Diego, which sparked a wave of excitement throughout the crowd, even causing a group of fans in the pit to wave a huge Mexican flag. When the curtain dropped and Pierce The Veil took the stage, it was hard to tell whether the band members or the fans were more excited. Everyone could not have been more hype during their opening song “Death of an Executioner” with bassist Jaime Preciado sprinting in front of the barricade and interacting with fans multiple times.
Pierce The Veil’s entire production level was off the charts, especially during “I Can’t Hear You” with insane graphics and lighting that made the crowd go wild. A big highlight of the night included their cover of “Where Is My Mind” by The Pixies, a song that everyone in the room knew the words to, mashed with “Floral & Fading”. The incredible production continued during the interludes between songs, which included incredible lighting design and instrumentals that kept the audience on their toes, specifically an insane transition of lights shutting off slowly before leaving the audience in darkness before their acoustic set.
They performed their song “Today, I Saw The Whole World” acoustically while still packing in so much energy, making the song a highlight of the night. Shortly after, Fuentes brought out a megaphone that doubled as an insanely bright flashlight that beamed across the entire crowd to get the room hype for their song “Hell Above”, which was truly next-level. The entire cinder block building began to shake when Fuentes commanded “let me see you jump” to the audience.
Pierce The Veil’s encore was truly transcendental for the fans packed in the room, including a feature from Kellin Quinn for their final song “King for a Day”. Pierce The Veil put on a show unlike anything I’ve seen before, and from what I saw, they may actually have the loudest fans in the world.
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