Pop-punk royalty, Neck Deep, are first up tonight and fresh off a long tour which saw them support Bring Me The Horizon's huge headline dates and headline shows themselves across America, you'd expect them to give a bit of a lack-luster performance. But no, not this bunch of heroes. Right from the minute they get on stage they are bursting with energy ready to make this the perfect start to our night and the perfect end to their live stint. They tear through the likes of Losing Teeth, Kali Ma and Can't Kick Up The Roots, throw in new crowd pleaser Serpents and of course include the always delectable A Part of Me. This is a band that just keep getting sharper, cleaner and more amazing so after a well earned break, 2016 will only see Neck Deep get bigger and better.
After a whirlwind of stage-techs blow across the stage, the lights go out, the music stops and screams erupt. Not even Bring Me The Horizon themselves were ready for the reception they were about to get; it was unreal. You'd think smaller venues like the one tonight would be of no significance to a band that now dominate arenas and festival main stages, but frontman (and beautiful messiah) Oli Sykes, is quick to say how much it means to them that they still get to play to small and adoring crowds. The scene on the floor for the whole night is carnage. Pits open and close without any need of command and people crowd surf their way to their heroes feet like it's no mission at all. Each and every one of the band look ecstatic throughout as they play new anthems Happy Song and Throne, Sempiternal classics such as Shadow Moses and Sleepwalking and even when they throw back to Chelsea Smile they still play their souls out. Following the latter the crowd plead a 2000 strong chant of "pray for plagues" (a song from the band's debut album Count Your Blessings) to which Oli replies something to the effect of 'no, not a fucking chance so you can all just forget it.' The crowd aren't disappointed however as more favourites such as Antivist, True Friends and Blessed With A Curse are piledrived into their earholes. Drown concludes the night in an emotional and epic singalong and every single person in the room is left wide-eyed and smiling from ear to ear.
It's a spectacular sight to behold and an even more spectacular one to hear, and if tonight has taught us one thing it's that Bring Me The Horizon can orchestrate mayhem of any size like no one else can.
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