Don Broco at Manchester Victoria Warehouse

Don Broco at Manchester Victoria Warehouse

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Announced in mid-2018, this tour got a lot of people excited, not only due to new tour from Don Broco that would mark one year since the release of Technology, but they would also be bringing along some of the best pop-punk talent, Issues and Neck Deep. Oh, and this tour would also finish with a finale at Wembley Arena. If this doesn't show how huge this tour is then we don't know what will.

Upon seeing the stage you can already see a huge comparison to the tour they did last year; before it was a standard light show in o2 Academy style venues but this time around it was a lot bigger. This time around they were now using video backdrops of different images, videos and lyrics to be shown in the background of different songs.

This was the opening night of the tour so no one really knew what to expect but to open the night they had drummer Matt Donnelly appear onstage to sing his intro for Come Out To LA followed by the rest of the band as it hit the first chorus. Barely a minute in and we could already see the high energy that the night would bring, further confirmed with the now well known question of "Bedford, where's Bedford?" (complete with an image of a map marking it's location on the screen) as they went into Pretty.

The setlist for the last tour consisted more of a mixture between their three albums but this time they focused more on Technology so we able to hear the likes of Porkies, Tightrope and The Blues, but of course we still got to hear classics like You Wanna Know, Money Power Fame and Priorities.

Another thing that Don Broco did on this tour was using the cowboy from the Everybody music video. Every so often during the set the cowboy would appear in the background and then was shown performing the introduction of Everybody as well performing that dance routine at the end. He also got involved with Greatness where he also performed the intro with a cowbell and then proceeded to gallop off the stage. With anyone else it wouldn't make sense but, hey, it's a Don Broco show, just go with it.

For the encore we witnessed a rather epic performance of newly released single Half Man Half God, which was actually it's first live debut in the UK. We also had to have Thug Workout appear at some point in the set because what is a Don Broco show without a pit full of people doing push-ups? It was during this madness that it was revealed that it had been ten years since Thug Workout was released, meaning that this band had now been together for over a decade. Both they and the audience just couldn't believe how far they had come, and, in all honesty, they deserve every bit of success they've had over the years.

They ended the show with T-Shirt Song where a sea of people were seen swinging T-shirts around and, while to some it sounds ridiculous, but being there you couldn't help but think about how epic the entire thing is.

Don Broco never fail to impress and you can't help but be in awe, or shock (take your pick), at their live shows.

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