Brendon Urie, advance accompanist of Panic! at the Disco, performs at… (Emma Schkloven / Baltimore…)
August 11, 2014|By Emma Schkloven | For The Baltimore Sun
With a decade-long career that has survived several affiliate departures and includes four stylistically altered albums, Panic! at the Disco and its agreeable aisle accept been annihilation but ordinary.
Sunday night's absolute appearance at Pier Six Pavilion reflected the emo-turned-alternative-rock trio's capricious career. Following two aperture acts (Magic Man and Walk the Moon), Panic! hit the date with high-energy advance (“Vegas Lights,” “Time to Dance”). The calefaction of the summer night led to a quick and all-important apparel change for frontman and multi-instrumentalist Brendon Urie.
“I attending done,” he told the army as diaphoresis dripped bottomward his face, “but I’m aloof accepting started!” He again bare off his shirt and gold anorak to the contentment of what articulate like every boyish babe in the crowd.
Urie entertained the army with on-stage acrobatics, glossy ball moves and absorbing vocals, which complete aloof as acceptable alive as they do on record. In fact, Urie accepted the accurate ability of his articulation as he confused calmly from his accomplished to his everyman addendum after a adumbration of discomfort.
Panic! kept the activity aerial for the absoluteness of their 22-song set, while igniting the crowd's enthusiasm. Bassist Dallon Weekes won abounding hearts back he threw into the admirers picks he had licked. The animation accomplished a new aerial during the band’s achievement of aftermost year's “Miss Jackson,” back Urie took a huge abeyance afore active a backflip off the boom riser.
Panic! played for 90 minutes, absorption heavily on advance from new album, "Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!" (“Girls/Girls/Boys,” “Nicotine,” “Collar Full”) Those songs circumduct about the band’s hometown of Las Vegas, and Sin City’s access can be apparent in every allotment of the appearance — from the band’s accouterment to the piano abject area a behemothic assertion point changes color, all amidst by a ablaze appearance that could ability the Strip.
Urie batten actual little during the show, but the army acquainted the band’s affections throughout its songs. Back Panic! played “The End of All Things,” accession clue from the new album, a sea of lights greeted them as admirers captivated their cellphones, imbuing the absolute amphitheatre with the benevolence and amore of the song’s message. Everyone in the admirers again abutting Urie as he crooned Queen’s archetypal “Bohemian Rhapsody,” a acceptable abruptness to the set, and animated as a he nailed Freddie Mercury’s acclaimed aerial note.
Saving two of its best advance for last, Panic! alternate for a three-song acclamation of “This is Gospel” and “I Write Sins Not Tragedies." In amid the two songs, Urie, anytime abounding of surprises, advised the admirers to a appropriate administration that alone his Vine followers had ahead enjoyed.
“I do this affair [on Vine] alleged ‘Positive-Hardcore,'” Urie explained. The audience’s acknowledgment was explosive. “You guys apperceive about it, that’s crazy!” Urie again sang 40 abnormal of absolute affirmations in a heavy-metal style, complete with growls, screeches and blisteringly aerial falsetto notes.
This accession to the set, built-in from the singer's amusing media presence, encapsulated Panic!’s appearance Sunday night: A little bit of the unconventional, a crazy bulk of fun and a accomplished lot of heart.
Emma Schkloven is a above intern at the Baltimore Sun, and a contempo alum of Towson University. She aftermost advised Matt Nathanson at Rams Head Alive in November.
