Live Review: Evermore, Jonnday

Jonnday opened the show for the parochial Hume brothers on a sad note, announcing it was to be their final show. Lead vocalist Corinne Taylor made an emotional speech to the crowd proclaiming, “We have had six years of history together so we may as well go through our musical history,” before breaking into an eclectic mix of covers and original songs, with Foster the People's I Would Do Anything For You getting the biggest crowd response.

Evermore opened their set with One Love, which drew everyone to the dance floor, but it was It's Too Late that really got the crowd going. Light Surrounding You brought the tempo back down and predictably invoked a massive crowd singalong. 

The crowd erupted even more when the brothers broke into Hey My Love and Jon Hume even spotted a girl in the crowd who he recognised from one of the photos that appears in the video for the single. Cute.

An awesome energy filtered out from stage, and the band rallied the crowd shouting, “Come on you Sydneysiders!” showcasing their natural talent and the reason why they have had such international success. Although Pete Hume was pulling out some seriously white boy dance moves for a large part of the gig and their guitarist had what seemed to be his own personal wind machine blowing through his hair, it all just added to the overall vibe.