Paramore's Reading Festival set blighted by power failure
Paramore's performing skills were tested at the Reading Festival in England on Friday night (22Aug14) when their set was wrecked by a power failure.
The speakers blew in the middle of a speech by singer Hayley Williams, and the band had to improvise while engineers spent 15 minutes resolving the sound problem.
Williams and her bandmates sat down at the front of the stage and
she told fans at the front, "The system is down but they're working
on it. We're just going to pretend this never happened."
The power was finally restored to a single microphone, prompting
the band to play an acoustic version of their ballad Only
Exception.
Williams refused to let the sound issues ruin her night, telling
fans, "I'm never going to forget this. Alright Reading that was
unbelievable."
Full power was restored a few minutes later, allowing the band to
wrap up their set with a medley of hits like Misery Business and
Proof.
After the show, Williams wrote in post on Twitter.com, "The power
outage in the middle of the set tonight was possibly the best thing
that could've happened during our 1st headliner @ Reading (sic)...
To be able to have a 100 per cent candid & vulnerable moment w/
(with) that many people & at such a high pressure show was so
satisfying."
Queens Of The Stone Age headlined the first day of the weekend
event, while former My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way helped
open proceedings with his first-ever solo festival show.
Punk trio Blink-182 headlined Reading's sister festival in Leeds,
England.