It’s a hot day…wait, scratch that. It’s the hottest June day since records began. Where better to go to cool off than packing ourselves into a pit for The Only Band Ever? We’d get the Tube twice as far to catch Alexisonfire and Billy Talent’s UK album-in-full team up show, with the co-headliners each showcasing their biggest record. It’s the millennial dream lineup, but it’s also far more than that; an evening of revelation, proving that there’s hidden depths to our favourite bands and their records that we’d never even considered before.

None of the snap to ‘Devil In A Midnight Mass’ has diminished over time and the ability of Billy Talent to reel us in has only grown. While it’s been twenty years since the boys from Ontario dropped ‘II’, tonight is chock full of their trademark crispness that makes their sound inimitable. Somehow playing ‘II’ doesn’t feel like a nostalgia-fest or a game of tracklist bingo: songs like ‘Worker Bees’ are jet- propelled to new heights, fuelled by...

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