Live Review: 5 Seconds Of Summer, Mike Dignam, Little Sea

The discarded rubbish scattered all the way down Enmore Road was the initial indicator that 5 Seconds Of Summer fans are a dedicated lot, having queued halfway down the street and then some. Inside was something akin to pandemonium, every song on the between-set playlist inciting shrieks.

The same enthusiasm was directed at Little Sea, as the four-piece threw the usual slough of safe covers (Bruno Mars, A Great Big World) into their set of perfectly amiable and totally unsurprising original songs. Mike Dignam serenaded with simple acoustic guitar tunes that had the admiration of the predominantly female audience.

By the time 5 Seconds Of Summer arrived, at least three girls had been lifted out of the swelling crowd and the whole room was clouded with fog machine smoke and drenched with sweat. Earplugs were the best investment of the night, with every song's final riff being punctuated with the screams of a sold out teenage audience. The four boys have played their fair share of stadiums and it was evident in their committed showmanship: bassist Callum Hood and guitarist Michael Clifford rushing around the stage, guitarist Luke Hemmings splaying his legs and drummer Ashton Irwin demonstrating every drumstick twirl imaginable. Their catchy pop-punk melodies were sung back to them at fever pitch, including Don't Stop, a song released on the day of the show. The boys invited the audience to ditch their ever-illuminated phones for Disconnected, waxed lyrical on the joys of being home and slammed through irrepressibly fun songs Heartbreak Girl and She Looks So Perfect. By encore, the stage was scattered with plush toy and bra debris, and the underdog lyrics of Try Hard saw them out with an uplifting sensation that things are only going to get bigger from here.