Palaye Royale Thrill The Crowd With An Intimate Gig At The Iconic 100 Club!

Palaye Royale Thrill The Crowd With An Intimate Gig At The Iconic 100 Club!

For a band of this caliber to play an intimate gig like this was always going be unforgettable but unless you were there it might be hard to appreciate quite how incredible it was! This is a band whose success has sky rocketed in recent years! After becoming a sensation at the Download Festival last year, they have become one of the hottest tickets on the festival circuit right now, indeed their recently announced upcoming UK show at Wembley Arena is already creating a frenzy of excitement among their devoted fans! And in the iconic 100 Club, the venue was rammed to the point where once you’d claimed your spot you literally could not move an inch, hot as hell and filled to the brim with die-hard fans! The emotion in the venue was so strong, you could literally feel it in the air.  But there was something very different about this gig as the atmosphere was the friendliest, I’ve ever come across. Despite the intense heat and desperate need that they had to get as close to their idols as possible, the fans were sharing water with each other and apologising for stepping on toes, like some kind of big Palaye Royale family! Everyone brought together to adore their idols!

Support was from Nottingham based girl band called simply, ‘Girl Band?’, a dynamic four piece who the crowd immediately warmed to. Their music shared a message of solidarity and the pain and pitfalls of “coming out!” Many of the audience clearly related to them and the band were obviously thrilled to be there opening up for Palaye Royale!

As the fashionista darlings took to the stage to the sounds of ‘Teenagers’ by ‘My Chemical Romance’. Looking like a trio of beautiful vogue models or libertine dandy’s, the atmosphere hit fever pitch and the crowd surged forwards towards the stage. As they played their first track ‘Off With the Head’ Remington wasted no time in getting down in the crowd. Reaching out his hand to the audience who were beyond themselves with excitement!

Perhaps a sign of their generation and considering that the majority of their fans where in their late teens and very early twenties, one of the things that was most striking about this gig was how most of the fans spent the entire gig with their arms outstretched, mobile hands in hand watching their idols through their screens, but what was even more startling was how Remington Leith and his brother Sebastian Danzig performed to their phone screens, giving the fans what they wanted, a moment in history immortalised forever!

The dynamic between the band and audience is absolutely stunning!! Although the brothers are obviously the stars of the show, they have this incredible ability to make you feel like ‘we’re all in this together’!! It’s not hard to see what their fans are so evangelical about them as for such huge stars they’re incredibly humble and you can’t help but want to be part of the Palaye Army!

‘Broken’ was emotion drenched and certainly resonated with the fans! Whilst Remington delivered adrenaline fueled vocals, Sebastian strutted around the venue like a modern-day Andy Warhol, striding into the crowd to mass hysteria from their devoted fans, a man who looks like he was born to play guitar! ‘No Love In LA’, was a song that sounded like early Arctic Monkey with a new modern kick, something fresh and invigorating!!

 

Whilst this band are undoubtedly the most beautiful people on the music scene right now, their music is also incredibly good! Tracks like, ‘Fucking With My Head’ were driven by Remington’s raw vocal beautifully blended with Sebastian’s catchy guitar and Emerson Barrett’s pumping drum sound! Just sensational!

After the final song of their set, the no doubt, ‘My Chemical Romance’ inspired, ‘Fever Dream’ the band left the stage to hysterical applause, but they weren’t gone for long as mere moments later they returned for one of the tenderest moments of the entire gig, where they played the beautiful and heartfelt ‘Wednesday Afternoon’ in memory of the brothers beloved Mum Stephanie who sadly passed away in April. It was the first time that they had played this track live and within seconds, the screams subsided and were replaced by absolute silence as everyone came together united to share in their pain. Remington’s emotion particularly was clear to see and the audience joined him to share their tears. It was a raw and beautiful moment! The song released on Mothers Day can only be described as absolutely breathtaking! Within moments, the entire venue was illuminated by a mass of phone screens as the fans held up a picture of the boys and their Mum. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house!!

Seeing these beautiful boys whip the audience into a frenzy tonight, performing like their lives depended on it, it could be easy to think that this was a one off, a performance so incredible that nothing will ever touch it again! But having seen these incredibly talented swaggering libertines enrapture the crowd tonight, I don’t think this is a one off at all! I think that Palaye Royale are one of those bands that will only get better when better doesn’t seem humanly possible! So, buckle up and get down to Wembley because it’s going to be one hell of a ride!!

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Words and photos by Louise Phillips

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Palaye Royale Setlist:

Off With the Head
Black Sheep
You’ll Be Fine
Fucking With My Head
No Love in LA
Just My Type
Broken
Paranoid
Dead to Me
Little Bastards
Mr. Doctor Man
Fever Dream

Encore:

Wednesday Afternoon
Lonely