Reviews

After 80 minutes they left the sweat-drenched and deafened Enmore audience with Would?, possibly their finest song and the best possible way to round out a diverse and exceptional night of hard-rock music.

It’s purely a matter of taste, not music quality, and the only thing you need to know about the show’s critical success was this: the fans fucking loved it.

Going by the rapturous reaction there is no doubt every kid in the room had a life-changing experience, including one young girl who was left seemingly stuck to the spot after the lights went up, sobbing and shaking uncontrollably.

It was a strange and deflating end to what had been an invigorating and entertaining show.

Well-honed, satirical crowd-pleasers, their thrash/heavy metal being oft-repetitive mattered little to those who wore fake blood like a badge of honour.

Much looser and way further off the cuff than his touring buddies (at one point they segue into some Iron Maiden), Neale takes a leaf out of The John Steel Singers’ previous book and invites the first three rows onstage for a fittingly chaotic version of In Stranger Times.

Even for those with a history not dating back to pop-punk, it’d be downright untruthful to claim Mayday Parade put on a bad show.