‘Everyone’s Talking’ about All Time Low’s UK Tour setlist
Words & Photos: Chloe Michelle
Photo: Chloe Michelle
Opening song, if you class it as a song, was ‘[cold open]’; a total of 61 seconds. A very different opening song to choose from but the lyrics give it grace. “I’ll see you again when the curtain is falling, so happy to be here, everyone’s talking.” Cue curtain falling revealing Jack, Zack and Rian as they join Alex on stage.
Treated to a new song from the offset, we’re immediately jamming out to ‘SUCKERPUNCH’ - probably my favourite song on the new album. If you haven’t yet seen the music video for it, Alex is rocking a handlebar moustache and isn’t something you want to miss out on seeing.
The older fans are then thankful for ‘Weightless’, from the album ‘Nothing Personal.’ Fans start screaming, “maybe it’s not my weekend, but it’s gonna be my year!” Another classic music video from our teenage years, showing the emo fringes we all loved and adored, as well as cameos from Pete Wentz and Mark Hoppus.
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Now we’re about to really take it back, with ‘Poppin’ Champagne’ from their album ‘So Wrong, It’s Right.’ The boys played this album in its entirety during the anniversary tour back in 2018, which was the last time we saw them on a UK tour.
We jump through a few different eras of All Time Low with the next couple of songs. They belt out ‘PMA’, ‘Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t)’, ‘Dark Side of Your Room’, ‘Time Bomb’ and ‘Backseat Serenade.’ We were unsure whether or not they were going to bring Taylor Acorn or Mayday Parade back out on stage to join them for ‘PMA’ since they originally featured Pale Waves on the track.
We move into the album, ‘Wake Up Sunshine’, which in all honesty, isn’t my favourite album but ‘Sleeping In’ is a bop. I won’t deny that I was screaming, “seven in the morning, wanna listen to Britney!” Back on track to their newest album, ‘Everyone’s Talking’, we get ‘Little Bit’ next on the setlist.
Before we enter the slower part of the setlist, we get ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ (which has a very weird zombie themed music video), and a live debut of ‘Falling for Strangers’.
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Into the calmer section of the show, Alex brings out his acoustic guitar whilst Jack sits down side stage. Starting off with ‘Missing You’, as an opener knowing that the older fans are waiting patiently for ‘Remembering Sunday’. We are greeted to Taylor Acorn covering Juliet Simm’s vocals and she smashed it.
Twelve more songs left to go - we have an interlude of another short one, ‘Goodnight, C’est La Vie’ followed by ‘Butterflies’, ‘Dirty Laundry’ and ‘New Religion’.
The next song has a really weird featured artist attached to, but the 00s kids appreciate the two coming together. ‘Sugar’ features JoJo but disappointedly not in person. One song I’m not all too familiar with, ‘Sleepwalking’ from the album ‘Tell Me I’m Alive’ is played, and I feel like I missed an entire album release or it was during the weird interim between the pandemic and getting back to normal.
Now, I will not lie - I may have gone a bit feral for the last two songs before the encore. ‘Hate This Song’ which Alex filled in the screaming section usually sang by I Prevail, and ‘Monsters’ with the rap usually sang by Blackbear.
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Time for the encore - which brings Rian to the stage first giving us a drum solo that we’ve wanted for years and still want more of. We’re then left with one last song from their new album, ‘The Weather’ before ‘Lost In Stereo’ - which feels weird seeing as it used to be an opening song - and lastly, of course, ‘Dear Maria Count Me In.’ Now, if I got my dream setlist at an All Time Low gig, it would look something like this:
Lost In Stereo
Guts
The Irony of Choking on a Lifesaver
Hello Brooklyn
A Love Like War
Coffee Shop Soundtrack
Some Kind of Disaster
If These Sheets Were The States
For Baltimore
Therapy
Break Your Little Heart
Dancing With A Wolf
I Feel’ Like Dancing
Get Down On Your Knees And Tell Me You Love Me
A Party Song (The Walk of Shame)
Six Feet Under The Stars
Stay Awake
Stella
Outlines
Dear Maria Count Me In