ladyfoxxx | Panic! At The Disco at Brixton Academy - 02 Feb 2012

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Panic! At The Disco at Brixton Academy - 02 Feb 2012

NO REALLY I PROMISE THIS WILL BE BRIEF!

So the groovers who were in attendance were: me!

knight_tracer

roga

katie__pillar and ~~another two awesome gals who are either not on LJ or whose LJ's I didn't manage to draw from them in my failtasticness~~ ETA - and

violet_doll and

kickingrad - though I did get everyone's twitters! I CAN BE ORGANISED SOMETIMES.

We rendezvous'ed at Nando's (because we are classy like that) and had the fun introductions where you get everyone's names and then the SECOND round of introductions where you learn everyone's LJ names and you're like OH YOU, I KNOW YOU. (I had a moment when

jenepel had to call my LJ name across the table to

sunsetmog where apparently I turned a bright shade of red. WHAT, THERE IS NO POLITE WAY TO SAY 'I REALLY LIKE YOUR PORN' ACROSS AN AISLE AT A CROWDED NANDO'S. I FAIL AT MEETING PEOPLE.)

Anyway, we traipsed across the road to the show and after fighting our way through the people selling fake merch and the touts we joined the queue, which even after waiting a while inside where it was warm was still AROUND THE BLOCK. We chatted and chattered and tried not to freeze to death while waiting to get inside. They were dividing the line into women and men for searches, the women's line was FULL and the men's line was TOTALLY EMPTY. One guy broke away from his group all "SEE YOU INSIDE! :DDDD" and walked down the TOTALLY EMPTY LINE (of course once we got inside I saw him waiting for his posse, not so smug anymore are we?)

Anyway, we divided - the upstairs people went upstairs, and we downstairs people got ourselves a good posse in the standing section, just to the right of the sound booth (Stage left, AKA Dallon side, AKA Ray side) and while we weren't right up close to the stage we had a great view of EVERYTHING.

The support act - "Me" - were adorable (AND AUSTRALIAN, HEH). The LOOKED like bb!Panic, right down to the vests and stupid hair, and they switched around instruments a lot. The singer played some keyboard, one of the guitarists handed off his guitar to the singer and he played that while the guitarists played drums with the drummer (this was adorable. I have no idea who these guys are but I SHIP THEM ALREADY). They sounded a lot like Muse and two of their song intros sounded VERY MUCH like covers (Metallica's Enter Sandman for one).

halfeatenmoon I think you might like these guys.

But yes! Main event! Panic played some kind of intro music and came out to a smoky stage, with a lot of steampunk-eque stage props - pipes like in a church organ and a pulpit - and Spencer's drum kit was up on a riser so unlike the Shepherd's Bush show we had an EXCELLENT VIEW of Spencer the entire show! Whee!

Okay, highlights! These are in no particular order because I am going from memory and I'm up waaaay past my bedtime!

Brendon was VERY talkative, he did quite a few long segue's between songs and he really seems intent on NOT being parent-friendly including:

Introducing Lying like THIS: "This is a song about fucking complete strangers... which is one of Ian Crawford's favourite pastimes!" (or something like that. I have a terrible memory.) Ian DENIED NOTHING.

Going up on the pulpit thing and talking all churchy-sermony at the audience. Saying things like, "I'm not a religious man, but if I knew God was up there, watching me dance like an idiot, I'd tell him to LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE" (again, paraphrasing) and then he went and did backflip off Spencer's drum riser. As you do.

The intro to That Green Gentleman "This is a song about smoking marijuana! No really, this song is about smoking weed!"

Another segue - THERE IS ONLY ONE TRULY GREAT FILM EVER MADE, it's not Citizen Kane! It's the most amazing film ever made and it's so much better than any other hollywood film (again I'm paraphrasing) and it's called........... JENNIFER'S BODY. It has a kickass soundtrack too! When they asked us to do a song for it, I had a vague idea for a song and I'd written one line. I told them "this is a song about ORAL SEX" and they LOVED IT, Hollywood loves that stuff.

"My good friend Dallon Weekes was saying to me (pitches up voice very bigh) "YOU KNOW WHAT BRENDON?" no really (pitches voice normal again) he said "you know what Brendon, you worry too much!" I asked him what about and he said "EVERYTHING! Brendon, you need to relax, you need to stop worrying about things that shorten life and just LIVE LIFE.

"Ian had some advice for me too, he said to me "Brendon..... you're a little BITCH. And then he punched me. In the mouth." I said, "you're right! I am, but why?" He told me, "Brendon, if you want to have THE RAINBOW, you need to learn to deal with THE RAIN"

..... and then they played Hurricane.

The intro to I Write Sins started with him deciding it was time to "get serious" and he talked about how even though he loves tour he misses his family, and he got to see them recently for Xmas. He mentioned his "sexy hip" mother. ("I can call her sexy, because it's not like she'll ever sleep with me") and he said he had a bad moment when her phone rang and he heard her ringtone, because it was an old song they've been playing for SO MANY YEARS and he's SO SICK OF IT and he didn't mean to but he was all "OH GODDAMIT MA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME" and then he apologised, so very sincerely for his outburst with something like "I love you and I am so glad to have COME OUT OF YOUR VAGINA."

IN CONCLUSION: Dear Brendon Urie, you are very nice to look at, PLEASE DON'T TALK.

In other news, they did the cover of The Darkness' "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" and look, I know I am late to the party okay, but I've never really had that much of a view on Ian at the other shows (Shepherd's Bush was all DALLON'S CROTCH and Reading was just me going OMG I CAN SEE SPENCER WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE IN THIS BAND SPENCERSMITHSPENCERSMITH) and something about seeing them do this ridiculous rock metal song really drew my attention to the fact that IAN CRAWFORD CAN FUCKING SHRED.

Yeah I'll just wait a moment for you all to roll your eyes at me.

I KNOW, I AM SLOW, THE BOY IS FUCKING GOOD AT THIS. The solos in IBIATCL were PHENOMENAL. He really knows his shit!

Okay, I found a video. THIS IS NOT A VIDEO FROM LONDON. It's a video from Glasgow but I HAVE TO INCLUDE IT because there is SHIRTLESSNESS. And you will totally get what I'm saying aobut Ian:

(If you don't have time, then skip right to the solo at 2:52) Right? RIGHT?

And then AND THEN! 2 songs into the encore Brendon goes up to Ian and like pokes his chest saying "I was thinking about your tattoo, and I was thinking we should play some Zep. PLAY ME SOME ZEP."

And Ian JUST DOES. He busts right into The Immigrant Song and Spencer chimes in on drums and Dallon picks up the bass and Brendon just starts fucking WAILING and it was BRILLIANT and obviously completely unplanned and it was ZEPPELIN and I MAYBE CAME IN MY PANTS A LITTLE! They did the first verse and bridge and it kind of came to a natural end, definitely not the full song but and awesome chunk and I think maybe I have a thing for extremely competent guitarists with fro's who can totally shred *coughRayTorocough* NOT THAT I HAVE A TYPE OR ANYTHING.

Also,

violet_doll GOT IT ON VIDEO:

Additional slightly-late-to-start video of it from random youtube! This one is much closer to the action:

Okay! Spencer! Was drumming! And I could see him! I could look at him WHENEVER I WANTED and it was GREAT. Also, when they came back onstage for the encore someone GAVE SPENCER A MIC. And he said, "we were maybe thinking we could play you one more song" WE ALL CHEERED "well maybe two more songs" WE CHEERED MORE "maybe even three more songs." CHEER CHEER CHEER YAY HOORAY HOORAY. I didn't quite catch the rest (hello? cheering!), but it was something like "Fuck, I'm not very good at this" and handing the mic off.

HE IS ADORABLE AND I MAYBE SIGHED AUDIBLY AND POSSIBLY CLUTCHED AT MY CHEST AREA. He also drummed like a FIEND all night. It was like DRUMMER PORN. GUH. I especially like when he does those little flourishes at the end where he holds his stick in the air like a CHAMP.

Not as much stagegay tonight as there was at Shepherd's Bush or even Reading, which was a bummer, and the closest anyone came to disrobing was when Ian came back on for the encore without his tie and with a few top buttons undone. MORE NUDITY NEXT TIME, OKAY BOYS? Dallon and Brendon did their usual nose-rubbing groping thing during Lying and there was another point near the end of the set when Brendon came up behind Ian and looped his arm around Ian's neck and Ian LEANED BACK INTO HIM and it was like Brendon was dipping him and Ian was all BLISSED-OUT-EYES-CLOSED and when I glanced at

bebunny I could SEE a million new ideas for subverse being born at that moment.

Oh and there were a lot of adorable moments of playing to each other between Ian and Dallon and this lovely moment when Brendon was singing while Ian and Dallon played and SPUN ACROSS THE STAGE IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS BEHIND HIM. Like ballet! Rock n' roll ballet! It was beautiful.

So in conclusion: Dallon is a tall drink of water. Spencer is a fucking HOTASS. Brendon is a hotass who gives me EPIC MOTTS and needs to spend less time talking and more time taking his clothes off and IAN IS A FUCKING HOTASS WHO CAN SHRED IN A WAY THAT TOTALLY ENGAGES MY COMPETENCY KINK AND MAKES ME WONDER IF HE CAN CHANNEL RAY TORO.

So yeah, I guess the gig was okay.

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i really do want some sort of dodgy backstage iphone camera'd jam session between ian and ray where they're just 'do you know this one? what about this one?' and admiring each other. AS ARTISTS! :D

lol brendon. oh god. i adore him. i really do. i am also super happy not to be related to him.

but my panic thoughts are basically: spencerfuckingsmithspencerfuckingsmithspencerfuckingsmithspencerfuckingsmith etc

YES YES YES. I want the to fro-bro's to have an epic jam and get all starry eyed over each other's MASSIVE... talent.

OH BRENDON. DON'T TALK. I feel so bad for his poor mother.

I think I had to go to three shows before I could get to the point where my feelings went beyond spencersmithspencersmithspencersmithspencersmithspencersmithspencersmithspencersmithspencersmith, yannow?

THIS, OMG THIS:

IN CONCLUSION: Dear Brendon Urie, you are very nice to look at, PLEASE DON'T TALK.

This is part of why he's so ADORKABLE!! But yeah, if he were a relative - or even a good friend - I'd be facepalming ALL THE TIME.

I really need to see them next time they tour. ~~Please to be touring the US again soon.~~

HE GIVES ME THE MOTTS SOMETHING AWFUL! I agree, it's ENDEARING but yeah, you'd spend a lot of time peeling your fingers off your face.

GO SEE THEM! It's the gayest thing ever! And so so fun!

Man, I cannot wait for them to plan another tour (seeing them nine times this past year was clearly not enough) - even though Brendon really needs to just NOT TALK a lot of the time. Speaking of which, this bit:

"My good friend Dallon Weekes was saying to me (pitches up voice very bigh) "YOU KNOW WHAT BRENDON?" no really (pitches voice normal again) he said "you know what Brendon, you worry too much!" I asked him what about and he said "EVERYTHING! Brendon, you need to relax, you need to stop worrying about things that shorten life and just LIVE LIFE.

"Ian had some advice for me too, he said to me "Brendon..... you're a little BITCH. And then he punched me. In the mouth." I said, "you're right! I am, but why?" He told me, "Brendon, if you want to have THE RAINBOW, you need to learn to deal with THE RAIN"

which he's doing as told to him by Dallon and Ian, now? Was totally a story about Eric Nally from Foxy Shazam when they were touring together in the fall. Which is to say: he's been doing pretty much all the same riffs for last tour and this, just changing them up a little. I mean, I read through that and was all, yep, yep, he's still doing THAT? *facepalm* OH, BRENDON.

You're not at all wrong in your opinions on all the rest of the band, either. Ian, in particular. Though I wish they made better use of Dallon up there. Basically, I seriously hope they make the both of them full band members and really take what they have to offer and use it to excellent effect on the next album. 'Cos they could take the whole affair up a few notches if they did, for sure.

YOU'VE SEEN THEM 9 TIMES? Wow. WOW. I thought seeing MCR 8 times over 1.5 years was a lot. Girl you take the CAKE. But yeah, OMG, usually when I see bands I get SO ANNOYED if they don't talk a little between songs sometimes, but Bden goes WELL into the other direction of OKAY WE GET IT, NOW SING.

What? He used to tell that story with Eric Nally and now he's doing it with Ian and Dallon! *FACEPALM* Oh Brendon, honey, it's really NOT THAT FUNNY! GET SOME NEW MATERIAL.

Wow, I feel like the biggest lamer for not noticing Ian sooner. I'm sorry, Spencer Smith has a smile that BLINDS and Brendon - even while mottsy - is REALLY DISTRACTING, OKAY?

I am very much looking forward to the new album. I loved V&V and I think they can only keep getting better.

\IAN/ (\Ray!/) All the fangirls having a great time together! :DDDD

Ian! Ray! Fangirls! What an awesome night. I just want to kidnap all the fangirls and party forever.

YAY so glad you had a good time, bb!

Yay! Thank you bb <3

\o/ Sounds like an epic night!!! And so many awesome fangirls, too.
I had to snort at your summary there at the end.
Also, how you managed to bring in Ray Toro three times in a post about Panic makes me very happy indeed ♥

Hope you slept the fantastically exhausted and happy post-concert sleep!

It was epic! Everyone was so lovely.

My summary absolutely sums up the night. It was awesome and spectacular and they are all fucking hotasses!

OMG I hadn't even NOTICED I'd mentioned Ray three times.. I actually had to go and skim through the entry to FIND all three mentions. wow. OBSESSED MUCH?

I slept hard for four hours before I had to get up to go to work. ZOMBIE DAY \o/

ahaha when i came online this morning i was all "hmmm i wonder if fox has written a panic review already" :DDDD

eeeeh so glad you had an amazing time! AND I ALWAYS TOLD YOU THAT IAN IS GREAT! :P oh god, my brain is going to ray/ian places now. i mean imagine them talking about guitars and getting into an argument about amp settings or something and then....

One of the prompts on eledh's kink meme was Ian/Ray, Shredding contests for sexual favours. I am SO SAD it was not filled

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NOW DO YOU SEE WHY THE WORLD NEEDS ALL THE IAN/RAY PORN? DO YOU?

It seems like you accidentally Ian the same way I accidentally Dallon on Sunday.

Also yes, Brendon, you can stop with the motts any time.

So glad you had a fab time! SO SAD I couldn't be there

(Zeppelin! *weeps*)

YES I WANT ALL THE IAN/RAY PORN WHERE THEIR HAIR GETS TANGLED TOGETHER AND THEY HAVE TO SEPARATE IT AND THERE ARE HANDS RUNNING THROUGH SWEATY CURLS AND SHINY MUSCLED CHESTS RUBBING UP AGAINST EACH OTHER.

Yeah it was completely accidental and snuck up on me like WOAH.

SO wish you could've been there! But come next weekend for Krisi visits and we'll hang, yeah? YEAH.

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Ian DENIED NOTHING.

I was on Ian's side and he not only denied nothing, but smiled and nodded in a smug manner.

I was also headdesking all the way through Bden's mum-speech (Brendon Urie, not only is your stage-chat inappropriate, your VERY PRESENCE IN THE WORLD is inappropriate) but I love the fact that she has 'I Write Sins' as her ringtone. I have a feeling it's going to turn up in fic really soon.

Awesome gig. Awesome time :DD

eta: oh, hi, hello btw. Random stranger here commenting in your journal. I went looking for London gig recaps and found yours, so thanks! Good job!

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Heeeee. AWESOME. So basically this is the story of how Ian joined the band. He accidentally hooked up with Brendon. (Wow. Bunny. Someone write me this, STAT.)

Oh man, I just really really wanted to shut Bden up. If his speech had been while receiving an award on a live broadcast I would have CUED THE MUSIC TO MAKE HIM LEAVE. That is sweet about his mom, but yeah, the story itself he manages to make VERY CREEPY.

Excellent gig!

Happy you happened by, was great to hear about Ian and always feel welcome! <3

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Awesome recap! I had to pass on Panic's tour this time around due to them deciding to schedule just when I wan in the midst of finishing my thesis (fail boys, fail). Ahahahaha oh Brendon, he really needs a ball gag when he's not singing.

Thank you! It was kind of capslocky and squealy but it certainly contained my joy. That was kind of dumb of the boys to tour during your thesis! :( But yeah. Brendon in a ball gag. Dammit. Now I want to read it.

<3

You know, I kind of like that there's not so much stagegay anymore. It's like as soon as people expect it, it starts to seem forced. I love seeing people being affectionate and handsy with each other onstage, but when I saw Panic and people were yelling out for them to kiss, anything they did would have felt forced and kinda gross. (I was embarrassed for everyone there including the band and myself. Ugh.)

Duuude, who is this band Me? I don't understand how they can be Australian and Musey and go on tour with Panic without me having heard of them! Must find.

You know I actaully didn't MISS the stagegay that much. Possibly because I was so busy going DRUM PORN *__________* GUITAR PORN *______________* I also agree I don't like it when it's forced. And yelling out for it even mottsier than Bden's moms vagina story.

IDK! I'd never heard of them either! But they do sound kind of Muse-y and they do kind of look like bb!Panic so, you know, you should check them out! metheband.com (http://www.metheband.com/)

Sounds like an excellent night in excellent company! :D

And oh god, even READING about Brendon's banter is giving me the motts. Possibly I would have exploded (or had to concentrate really hard on Dallon *g*)

IT WAS! Excellent gig! Excellent company! And man, I found a youtube vid that appears to cover the speech Bden gave about his mom but I couldn't even bring myself to watch it, let alone embed it in this post. I DON'T NEED TO RELIVE THAT.

I just concentrated really hard on Ian and Spencer. Worked for me!

SPENCERRRRRRRRR!!!! <3<3<3<3<3 I so wish I'd been able to make it to this show. But thank you for recapping! <3 And it is so awesome that you've finally seen the light about Ian! I love that guy, he's just so good at what he does. I always liked The Cab but he was so underused there. I'm really happy he's found his way to our boys. :-)

SPENCERSMITHSPENCERSMITHSPENCERSMITHOMGGGGGGGGG You're so welcome for the recap! It had to happen! I do ADORE Ian, and augh, his guitar competency. UNF. UNFFFFFFFFFFF.

I'm glad they've got him and are MAKING GOOD USE OF HIM *waggles eyebrows*

*facepalm*

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I'm glad you had fun :D I saw them last week and it was AMAZING :D

YAY! So glad everyone's getting an awesome show! <3

I'm SO thrilled that it was such a great show!

My thing for Ian is ridiculous and irrational and largely dates from when we saw Panic last fall and Brendon did that thing during Nearly Witches where he loops his arm around Ian's neck and Ian got all blissed out, and afterwards, Ian had to like *shake it off* so he could keep playing. . .IDEK, but it was hot as hell.

It was BRILLIANT!

Oh man, the looping the arm around the neck thing is obviously a THING. Ian really looks like he's going into subspace and the moment it happened my brain went PING SUBBY IAN. Which is a big deal, because as far as my brain is concerned, Bden is the bottomiest bottom who ever bottomed, so he must have made QUITE an impression.

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\o/ \o/ I'm glad you had such a great time. IAAAAAAAAAAN. I need more Ian fic. Or I need to search for it, idk idk HE IS GREAT, THO. I need to watch more Panic videos. It's just that usually when I do I'm focused on SPENCER. Which, SO GLAD YOU HAD A GREAT VIEW OF HIM, YAAAAAAY. SPENCEEEEEEEER. Also, oh, Bden. /o\ BUT YAY FOR A GREAT GIG. AND SPENCER SMITH. AND IAAAAAAAN.

It was so fuuuuuuuun. I haven't read that much Ian fic sadly, though I am in love with

littlemousling's Cyrano series (http://archiveofourown.org/series/12235). UNF. UNFFFF.

YAAAAAAAY SPENCER. YAAAAY IAN. YAAAAAY GIG. YAAAAAY LED ZEP. The only thing that would have improved it would have been shirtlessness, but hey, you can't have everything ALL the time, eh? ♥

I have to admit when Brendon looped his arm around Ian's neck I was all "Hey there subby Ian!"

I'm the tall ginger one/@knives_chau by the way.

I have to admit when Brendon looped his arm around Ian's neck I was all "Hey there subby Ian!"

My thoughts PRECISELY. And I could tell they were

bebunny's too, it was all over her face like a SIGN.

Thank you so much! I've got a complete list now - I wasn't quite with it enough to get all the LJ's as well as the Twitter U/N's it seems! ♥

violet_doll! And

kickingrad! Those were the two you missed :DDD

Aha! Thank you! Now I have a complete set. You're the best. So good to meet you last night, brilliant show, brilliant company ♥

IANNNNNNNNNNNNNNN. About 80% of my interest in Panic is Ian; not that the rest of the band isn't adorable and talented, I just find Ian SUPER-distracting. Because HELLO AWESOME GUITARISTS, MAYBE I HAVE A TYPE. Speaking of which, WOULD READ ALL THE IAN/RAY. YES.

BUT I am glad they were all so awesome, and I'm so glad you had such a great time! ♥

IAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNN. I was the slowest to come around to him, but I am THERE NOW. He is totally super distracting. HI I THINK MAYBE WE SHARE A TYPE. AWESOME GUITARISTS. FROS. IAN/RAY. HI THERE PAIRING I DIDN'T KNOW I WANTED.

They were great and it was such a fun night! ♥

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I was at the Brixton gig too XD I fucking loved it when they started playing Zeppelin, I think I was the only one that knew the song in my area though- there were a lot of blank faces XD
It was an awesome night and I couldn't stop staring at Spencer and Ian.

Oh man it sounds INCREDIBLE. I can't get over the fact that you guys got THE IMMIGRANT SONG. HOLY FUUUUUUUUUCK.

Also: so many incredible fangirls in one place! Oh man I would have been the most creepy fangirl if I went to a concert with

kickingrad O__________O SO GLAD YOU HAD A GOOD TIIIIIIIIME :D

Yeah...so...

what you said.

I maintain that it's totally not as obvious as you say it is when I catch a bunny. :P

I AM SORRY I COULDN'T COME BUT I WAS SEEING BLUE VELVET AT THE BFI

ALTHOUGH DAMN I WISH I HAD BEEN THERE NOW

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