Hawthorne Heights, Madina Lake, and Guillotine

Emo band, Hawthorne Heights, has been dedicated to putting out highly emotive and meaningful songs that strike a deep chord with their fan-base ever since their formation. Their live performance is a testimony to the caliber of sincere music they create.
At live shows the band puts on high-energy performances with hard guitar riffs and loud thunderous drumming. Vocalist, JT Woodruff, also puts much effort into the music yelling out his lyrics that touch on such topics as teenage angst. Other members of the band also provide background vocal duties by harmonizing with JT’s singing, which provides a deeper sound to the performance.
Audience members are also deeply focused during the performance, yelling out every lyric to the songs with intense vigor and ecstatically crowd surfing through the venue. It is hard not to be so enthusiastic about Hawthorne Heights when they play such classics as “Saying Sorry” and “Ohio Is for Lovers”, which is considered the quintessential “Emo Anthem”. Members of the band often incite the glee of the audience by getting up close to the crowd making them feel like they are part of the show and expressing that their fans are an integral part of making the show special. The guitarist from Hawthorne Heights has also been known to stage dive into the crowd, which is followed by him playing the guitar while crowd surfing. There have also been times when JT has jumped into the crowd to sing his songs with audience members. When you attend a Hawthorne Heights concert you can expect to be in awe of their sincere delivery of the classic emo songs that they have brought to the main stream, continuing to wow fans and critics alike.

After winning a lump sum of money on the TV reality show Fear Factor, twins, Matthew and Nathan embarked on their career as four-piece band, Madina Lake. They invested their winnings in recording their first studio album, buying a tour van, and buying reliable equipment to last, whilst they tour. The emo, post hardcore quartet gained quite a following over the years especially with their album, “From Them, Through Us, To You”.
The house lights dim, after a blindingly awesome set from support act, Halifax. It is a cold winters night at the O2 Academy in Birmingham. As the house lights dim, the crowd cheers louder, and louder. Their album opening electro orchestral piece “The Auspice” plays louder and louder setting the pace for what is going to be an incredible electric set from Madina Lake. They take to the stage one by one, before going into their song “Here I Stand”, as the beat drops, the whole room is jumping up and down to the beat, and there is a burst of a mosh pit in the centre of the room. There are some fantastic melodic sing-alongs with the audience to this opening track. There’s a moment that you realize as an audience member with a hoarse voice that this band wrote and entire album of hits with more hooks than a pirate convention. The hook of “One Last Kiss” is so big it could probably catch a great white shark. Despite their success, the Leone brothers remain humble, throughout the set, being continuously thankful to the audience for being so responsive, and singing along to nearly every word of every song.