NEWS 2020/11/27
Before pushing ‘play’ on FANDOM: Live In The UK, here is some important (and, frankly, impressive) context: after filming a gig at the O2 Institute Birmingham in January 2020, Waterparks frontman Awsten Knight and band photographer / videographer Jawn Rocha spent six long months editing the footage that now makes up the band’s concert movie. And it really, really shows. A longtime fan of the format, Awsten grew up watching live DVDs by the likes of My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday, wondering how he could not only match the concept with his own band, but crucially further the idea. “I wanted it to be like an IMAX Waterparks show but in an alternate universe,” he teased in a statement ahead of release, “and so every song is warped out and stylised to look how it feels to me wh...