NEWS 2023/11/20
Paramore have brought their incredible album This Is Why all over the world this year – but it’s taken until November for them to perform its epic final track. At New Zealand’s Spark Arena in Auckland on November 19, the band gave album closer Thick Skull its long-awaited live debut during the middle of their 20-song setlist, with those who were in attendance sharing how lucky they felt to hear it, and those – like us – who’ve only been able to watch fan-shot videos expressing their jealousy… In K!’s 4/5 review of This Is Why, we called the album “splendid”, and explained how: “Six years since Paramore unveiled the jangly art rock of After Laughter, the songwriting of these 10 tracks feel like a natural evolution: slightly older, slightly wiser, quite a lot more outra...