A Day To Remember At UMBC Event Center 3-13-2018

Written By: Brandon Delano

A Day To Remember’s ’15 Years in the Making’ tour played the UMBC Event Center on the outskirts of Baltimore on Tuesday night. The tour which also features The Devil Wears Prada, Falling In Reverse, and Papa Roach has been filling venues across the country since it kicked off February 20th in Grand Rapids, MI. Tuesday’s show sees the tour entering its final week with the tour slated to wrap up with a sold out show in St. Augustine, FL on March 20th. Fans can purchase tickets to the remaining shows at the bands website HERE.

Over 4300 fans filled the UMBC Event Center for the venues first concert and what better way to break a venue in than with one of the biggest winter tours of the year. Doors opened at 5:30 and the show started at 7 with The Devil Wears Prada kicking things off for the night. The band’s opening set only saw one song from their latest release, Transit Blues, with the rest of the set consisting of older material from the bands earlier releases.  

The Devil Wears Prada Setlist: “Danger: Wildman,” “Reptar, King of the Ozone,” “Planet A,” “Worldwide,” “Anatomy,” “Wapakalypse,” “Mammoth,”

The highly energetic Ronnie Radke led his band Falling In Reverse out on to the stage next. They kicked off their set with “I’m Not A Vampire” from 2011’s The Drug in Me Is You. Only one song, “Fuck You and All Your Friends” made the nights set from their current album Coming Home which was released in April of last year. The bands latest single, “Losing My Mind” which was released last month did make the setlist. Overall it was a well rounded set that covered the band’s four albums. The band will waste no time getting back on the road at the conclusion of the current tour as they will head to Australia and the far east before returning to the states to play the Vans Warped Tour. 

Falling in Reverse Setlist:  “I’m Not A Vampire,” “Rolling Stone,” “Alone,” “The Drug In Me Is You,” “Fuck You and All Your Friends,” “Losing My Mind,” “Just Like You”

Veterans Papa Roach were up next and got their set started by getting the crowd to chant ‘Fuck Papa Roach’ with them. The set kicked off with the title track from their latest album, Crooked Teeth the set featured several tracks from the album including, “Born for Greatness,” “American Dreams,” “Periscope,” and “Traumatic,”. Papa Roach’s high energy set caused the venues fire alarms to go off midway thru “Periscope” causing all the house lights to suddenly come on. The night wrapped up with “…To Be Loved”. Papa Roach will kick off their headlining tour with Nothing More and Escape the Fate on April 7th and run thru May 13th when it wraps up in Corpus Christi, TX. Fans can purchase tickets and VIP packages HERE

Papa Roach Setlist: “Crooked Teeth,” “Getting Away With Murder,” “Between Angels and Insects,” “Face Everything and Rise,” “Born for Greatness,” “American Dreams,” “Periscope,” “Scars,” “Song 2 (Blur cover),” “Traumatic,” “Help,” “Last Resort,” “Infest,” “…To Be Loved”

A Day To Remember closed out the night, touring to celebrate the band’s 15 year anniversary the nights setlist spanned the band’s six studio releases. The set started with The Devil Wears Prada’s Mike Hranica joining the guys for “I’m Made of Wax, Larry, What Are You Made Of?”, confetti canons going off on each side of the stage is how “2nd Sucks” started out. This tour has no shortage of production as the band uses confetti and streamer canons thru out the show as well as cryo jets and large led displays flashing images of the bands album covers and other images. There was no shortage of crowd surfing as vocalist Jeremy KcKinnon encouraged the Baltimore crowd to get up off their feet. The night consisted of a highly energetic 20 song set that spanned the bands 15 year career, as well as included the Kelly Clarkson cover of “Since U Been Gone.” A Day To Remember will make several festival appearances this summer with appearances at Las Rageous, Montebello Rockfest, Inkcarceration, and Rock Fest. 

A Day to Rmember Setlist: “I’m Made of Wax, Larry, What Are You Made Of?,” “You Already Know What You Are” “2nd Sucks,” “Right Back at It Again,” “Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson cover),” “The Danger in Starting a Fire,” “All Signs Point to Lauderdale,” “Fast Forward to 2012,” ‘You Be Tails, I’ll Be Sonic,” ‘Monument,” “Paranoia,” “Better Off This Way,” “Same About You,” “Have Faith in Me,” “Sometimes You’re the Hammer, Sometimes You’re the Nail,” ‘All I Want,” Encore: “If It Means a Lot to You,” “I Remember (acoustic),” “The Plot to Bomb the Panhandle,” “The Downfall of Us All”

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