16th of FebruaryMelkweg, Amsterdam

By: Jorien Cornelissen

On the 16th of February I went to the band All Time Low in the ‘Melkweg’ in Amsterdam. It’s in the centre of the city. It was hard to get there with the car but we made it. The pop punk band All Time Low formed in Maryland in 2003. Lead vocalist Alex Gaskarth and guitarist Jack Barakat put the group together and recruited drummer Rian Dawson and bassist Zack Merrick. The band's name came from a line in the song "Head On Collision" by the band New Found Glory. Early on All Time Low mostly performed covers of songs by bands like Green Day, blink-182, and New Found Glory.

All Time Low's first recording contract came with indie label Emerald Moon in

2004. Their first release was an EP titled The Three Words to Remember in Dealing with the End. A full-length album The Party Scene followed in 2005. It was produced by Paul Leavitt.

Just months before band members graduated from high school, All Time Low signed to national indie label Hopeless Records in 2006. Their first release was an EP titled Put Up or Shut Up which included mostly re-recorded versions of songs from their Emerald Moon album. With the release of the album So Wrong, It's Right in 2007 and extensive touring, All Time Low began rising in the ranks of national pop punk bands. The group received strong support from MTV and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live in the spring of 2008.

2004 - The Three Words to Remember in Dealing with the End EP

2005 - The Party Scene Album 2006 - Put Up or Shut Up EP 2007 - So Wrong, It's Right Album 2009 - Nothing Personal Album 2011 – Dirty Work Album

All Time Low have made their name largely through extensive touring and their fun, energetic performance style. In 2007 All Time Low joined the annual Vans Warped Tour. In 2008 they toured with bands such as Cobra Starship and Mayday Parade. All Time Low joined the Vans Warped Tour again in 2008. The group joined Fall Out Boy as an opening act on the 2009 The Believers Never Die Part Deux tour. All Time Low appeared in the Vans Warped Tour again in the summer of 2009. In 2011 they toured again through the whole world with their album Nothing Personal .

All Time Low first broke into national charts when the EP Put Up or Shut Up broke into the Indie top 20 in 2006. The

following album So Wrong, It's Right broke into the top 100 of the overall album chart in 2007. It included "Dear Maria, Count Me In," the band's first song to reach the pop singles chart. The band has released two singles from the upcoming album Nothing Personal. The second "Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't)" is All Time Low's first single to hit the Billboard Hot 100.

The concert took place in the biggest hall of the Melkweg. Usually alternative bands are performing in the Melkweg. The band was set up like always, Jack (guitarist) stood left, Alex (singer) in the middle, Zack (bassist) at the right and Rian (drummer) behind Alex on a little stage. They wear their own merchandise on stage. On the wall was a big poster of All Time Low.

Nerissa and me were at the Melkweg at one o’clock and the doors opened at 7 o’clock. In the mean time we sang some All Time Low songs with other All Time Low fans and met Alex, Rian, Zack and Jack. We ran into the hall and stood in the front row. The concert started with two support acts, ‘Young Guns’ and ‘Crown Jewel Defense’. They started with metal music so everyone was very exited when All Time Low came on stage. They started with a

real party song: Keep the Change, You Filthy Animal. This was the setlist:1. Keep The Change, You Filthy Animal2. Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't)3. Jasey Rae4. Poppin' Champagne5. Six Feet Under The Stars6. A Party Song (The Walk Of Shame)7. Time Bomb8. Lost In Stereo9. Stella10. Break Your Little Heart11. Teenage Dream(Katy Perry cover)12. Therapy13. Remembering SundayEncore:14. Weightless15. Dear Maria, Count Me In

So up and till Break Your Little Heart everyone got crazy. Teenage dream was really great and Therapy and Remembering Sunday are two slow and emotional songs, it was really sad to see Alex sing Remembering Sunday because it was wrote because his brother committed suicide. The encore songs were very great as well. In the song Therapy there’s a lot of polyphony and at Teenage Dream they improvise some times. Time bomb was played for the first time live and that was very great with a lot of solo’s of Jack, Zack and Rian.

The concert was first a metal concert and when All Time Low came on stage it was a pop-punk concert. It also was a kind of Indy. All of the songs tell a story about a normal life where some strange things come to light. The theme of the concert was nothing personal. It’s also the name of their tour and album. All the songs were talking about someone, or about yourself and feeling good about yourself. The function of the concert was to amuse the fans. I definitely feel involved with the music because they speak to the audience between the songs, and each song tells a part of a person’s life.

My opinion:I expected that when we came there, we had to wait in a line of miles long. It wasn’t like that because there were only six people. I thought the supports acts would suck but they were very cool though. I did expect that All Time Low was very great but when they came on stage I totally got overwhelmed. I got crazy. The moment they came on stage and we saw them live was really great, I’ve been a fan for years and to see them finally live was amazing.