LIVE: The Used / The Home Team / Honey Revenge @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
Outside the Forum, teenagers in face paint huddle together like baby penguins, hoods and occasionally plastic bags on their heads to protect their neon hair from the stinging winter rain. While The Used are ambivalent about being labelled an emo band (they’ve insisted on interviews that they’re just “a rock band”), the audience can’t be described using any term except emo. Those of us who aren’t in a Tim Burton phase are few and far between tonight. The guys from Utah have sold out this penultimate date on the UK tour, and it’s a compliment to the universal themes in their music that their latest album has managed to attract a much younger and wider fan base some twenty plus years after their debut. But first, punk rock barbies Honey Revenge appear with sheepish waves. Steppin...
