Paramore kicked off its summer tour in Florida this week with a sweaty show at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre alongside Soccer Mommy and Foster the People. Our review described part of the show like this:
Williams gave all of the effort back, especially on another After Laughter track, “Caught In The Middle” where she dished out a nice running/walking-man to go along with a generous delivery of headbangs that sent the locks on her epic mop of blonde hair spiraling every which way. Her bounce and hand-clapping on “Idle Worship” certainly recalled a young Jagger, but it was the way she leaned into the crowd on cuts like “Brick By Boring Brick” and led the band through a slow jam (“Forgiveness”) that made Williams’ stage presence seem wholly unique. Old mall-pop hits (especially “Ignorance”) were dressed in new energy, but still familiar enough to be nostalgic. The band even weaved in a three-song acoustic set where midi-driven Drake covers (“Passionfruit,” “Hold On, We’re Going Home”) got butted-up against mellow walks through slow songs from the past (“Misguided Ghosts” from 2009’s brand new eyes) and present (After Laughter’s “26”).
Read our full review — and see a gallery of photos from the show — here. Listen to a playlist featuring songs from the show below.
This article appears in Jun 14-21, 2018.