 We
arrived at Brixton Academy a good 30minutes before
Papa Roach were due on stage and we were greeted
with the biggest queue I have seen at a gig in
a long time, the doors had already been open for
a good 40minutes and the queue went around the
building with the tail end nearly meeting up again
with the main doors of the venue, luckily the
staff were fast working tonight and the queue
went down in no time at all.
 When
we got inside the Academy we headed into the main
hall in time for Papa Roach to take to the stage
who smashed their first show in the UK in a couple
of years like they had never been away from the
country or the music scene, they opened up with
current single ‘Still Swingin’ which
had the crowd moving in a mad frenzy with frontman
Jacoby Shaddix jumping off stage and right into
the crowd towards the end of the song proving
that he still is and always will be the energetic
front man people have come to love over the years.
 Papa
Roach managed to fit 12 songs into a 50minutes
set and they put on a show like they were headlining
tonight in the form of a shortened down greatest
hits style set which featured the likes of new
track ‘Where Did The Angles Go?’ crowd
pleasers such as ‘Getting Away With Murder’,
‘Scars’, ‘Hollywood Whore’
and the classics from ‘Infest’ that
are ‘Dead Cell’, ‘Between Angels
And Insects’ and regular set closer ‘Last
Resort’.
 Stone
Sour took to the stage with a massive cheer from
the crowd and wasted no time opening up with recently
album ‘House Of Gold And Bones Part 1’
openers ‘Gone Sovereign’ and ‘Absolute
Zero’, the songs went down well with the
majority of the crowd but for me there was something
missing like a lack of energy and passion, but
luckily as the set progressed Stone Sour came
into their element and smashed it with the likes
of ‘Hell And Consequences’, ‘Made
Of Scars’, ‘Reborn’, ‘Say
You’ll Haunt Me’, the ever so explosive
‘Get Inside’ plus also the live premier
of ‘The Travelers Pt 2’ and ‘Last
Of The Real’ which were special moments
for the crowd tonight after Corey Taylor repeatedly
told the crowd how England is his favourite country
and London is his favourite city to play.
 The
en-core featured Corey Taylor doing a slight acoustic
cover of ‘Nutshell’ by Alice In Chains
before proceeding into fan favourite ‘Bother’
which had the whole of the venue singing their
hearts out alongside their hero Corey Taylor,
the pace then picked up for a great trio of songs
as Stone Sour closed the set in a heavy yet sing-a-long
way with the likes of ‘Through Glass’,
‘Digital (Did You Tell)’ and ‘30/30
- 150’.
 Stone
Sour put on a great show tonight like always but
Papa Roach just about had the edge over them with
their sing-a-long classics and pure energetic
stage presence and Jacoby Shaddix proving that
he can easily match Corey Taylor when it comes
to being a great front man.
The only downside of the night was hearing how
many people had been pick pocketed which is pretty
sad when you pay your hard earned money to come
to a show for it to end in disaster due to some
low life thieving gangs who operate through the
London live scene.
Papa Roach 4.5/5
Stone Sour 4/5
Review By Trigger
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