Live Review: Yellowcard

With more energy than you’d anticipate for a Monday night, Yellowcard opened their show with tracks from their latest studio album, Lift A Sail, which frontman Ryan Key disclosed during the show was largely inspired by events in the band members’ personal lives.

A talented and dedicated group of musicians, theirs is a unique sound characterised by the distinctive violin sweeping through their pop-rock tracks. Encouraging the crowd to sing along (and to make up their own lyrics, if necessary) as well as telling anecdotes about their escapades in Australia between songs, they kept up the theatrics and engaged the crowd for the duration of their show. 

Yellowcard played a compelling set comprised of their most popular songs, as well as another couple of their new tracks, which had the crowd jumping and singing along to the punchy choruses and a few enthusiastic folk who deemed it necessary to crowdsurf even in the small confines of The Gov. 

Ryan finished their set solo with the delicate California, taken from their latest album, before bringing the full band back on again to wrap things up with the much-awaited encore of crowd favourites Way Away and Ocean Avenue. After countless worldwide tours and seven studio albums, Yellowcard continue to prove they’re a mighty rock band whose sound and shows are continuing to grow louder and larger each time.