Winter was knocking on Toronto’s door as another cold rainy night had people shivering as they lined up to see All Time Low on the North American leg of their Everyone’s Talking! World Tour. Not only is November 5th the only Canadian date on the tour, it also marks the first show in the second half of this leg. Based on that, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the show run like a well-oiled machine. Joining forces with Mayday Parade, Four Years Strong, and The Paradox, the evening was jam packed with all the good ol fashioned pop and punk you could ever ask for and a solid lineup to celebrate the album they released the month before that the tour was named after.
The Paradox graced the stage first. The 4-piece from Atlanta hit the stage with a throwback style of punk that’s as lovable as they are in between tracks to the Toronto crowd. It could be something to do with their prefacing of Blink 182-esque type of song topics ranging from the love of their elementary school teacher’s “boobies” or how lead vocals and rhythm guitarist Eric Dangerfield’s ex hit him with her Subaru. Or maybe it was their shoutouts to Filipinos or making sure they tell their young audience to “”practice safe sex” before leaving the stage. It all just brought that energy you’d want your cool older brother to have – laidback and outgoing where it counts. Bringing high energy songs with lots of character, The Paradox jumped all over the stage and more. They told stories, connected with their audience, and had the most fun doing it all. A solid set for their first time in Canada.
Hitting the stage after was Massachusetts-own Four Year Strong that jam-packed a 30 minute set with as much energy as their 4-piece machine could offer. As mentioned later in the night, this would be the band’s first show on the tour joining this pop-punk pack of sorts for the rest of the dates and there’s no way any ticket holder would complain about that and the value this band adds to the already quality cast on the bill thus far. 4YS kicked off their set with lots of energy from the get go with uncooked, with dual vocals from guitarists Dan O’Connor and Alan Day shining through their entire half hour stint. History’s size also gave bassist Joe Weiss the entire left half of the stage to himself and of course, his enthusiasm and energy touched every corner of it like a Roomba. Combined with drummer Jake Massucco’s precision, the performance felt like a perfect storm and smooth sailing at the same time. Wasting Time (Eternal Summer) is also just anthem at this point and Toronto made sure to pledge allegiance.
Then like the calm before the storm, Mayday Parade took to the stage like the pop-punk royalty the crowd knows them to be. If you’re talking about All Time Low with someone in the scene, you’re inevitably going to talk about this band and with their “brother band energy” consistently solidifying since the late 2000s Warped Tour days, Mayday feels like the perfect band to lend ATL a hand to celebrate their newest body of work. And nowadays, as ATL feels more like the continuing ambassadors of modern pop-punk, Mayday remains the emotional backbone of the scene and they reminded Toronto on this tour like they did earlier this May in the same venue for their “Three Cheers for 20 Years” Tour especially with songs like Piece of Your Heart and Oh Well, Oh Well. The legends filled 45 minutes with hits from all over their catalogue including Black Cat that they didn’t perform in that show earlier this year. All in all, a total crowd pleaser of a set and an amazing band to prime the crowd for their brothers-in-arms.
As expected, the trend of heartbreak anthems and crowd-jumping bangers continued from there with Maryland’s best All Time Low bringing the Everyone’s Talking! “show” to its peak. Maybe “game show” more specifically, with the type of intro on the big main screen that’s been setup and flashing the entire night introducing the openers like we’re watching the intro credits to The Office – it really brought a sense of cohesiveness to the performance as a whole for the evening. Lead vocals and guitarist Alex Gaskarth took to the stage as a silhouette, the stage dimmed in blue light kicking the set off alone with an acoustic guitar with [cold open] fittingly as the giant “Everyone’s Talking!” sign rose up on the left side of the screen. It was a nice dramatic start to the show until the rest of the band joined in for Oh No! and SUCKERPUNCH. A great spark to the start of the set, the 3 tracks are also from the newest album and showcases how ATL can still know how to make a crowd move to their music. The songs hit that sweet spot between Wake Up, Sunshine’s pop brightness and Future Hearts’ emotional pull to highlight the evolution of the band’s sound in this new work.
The rest of the set felt really balanced as well with emotional pacing that felt like it constantly switched between explosive and vulnerable, blending that contrast of what people look for in honest pop-punk. Old favourites like Weightless and Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t) were played with new energy and helped anchor the set early on with awareness of their status as staples in the ATL lore. From there, they threaded together different eras like they’ve been prepping this pacing for months. Dark Side of Your Room (from Last Young Renegade) and Backseat Serenade (from Don’t Panic) bridged their mid-2010s output with newer material like English Blood // American Heartache — a 2024 single that felt like the emotional bridge between Tell Me I’m Alive and Everyone’s Talking!.
Around the middle, they slowed things down with Something’s Gotta Give and Missing You from Future Hearts which is always emotional live, especially with the crowd waving in unison and chanting every word back. In case it wasn’t already emotional, a fan gifted a handmade doll named Archibald prompting Alex to praise all the fans that bring gifts for them and even guitarist Jack Barakat taking it up a notch saying how their fans are “90% more talented than the band”. Glitter & Crimson (from Wake Up, Sunshine) and Goodnight, C’est La Vie (from Everyone’s Talking!) doubled down on this and deepened the vibe, pairing bittersweet reflection with sparkling hooks. The latter song was a recording that featured a sort of SNL type of interlude with the screen showing “We’ll Be Right Back” reminiscent of the same typeface as the late night show. An interesting visual before coming back out for the last stretch of the show and kicking the door down into Butterflies, a song that revolves around letting go and accepting change – a great song to define a band thats been around since 2003: how long they’ve come and the challenges they had to face.
Dirty Laundry was met with the loudest singalong of the night, and Sleepwalking from Tell Me I’m Alive slid in naturally before the I Prevail collab Hate This Song that feels heavier and punchier in-person than the studio version. You could tell All Time Low wanted to prove they could hang with their heavier rock peers and not just their pop-punk contemporaries. Monsters wrapped the main set and even though that song’s been around since 2020, it still absolutely hits live especially with Gaskarth’s sharp delivery, and Jack Barakat’s energy never dipping for a second.
After a quick drum solo (Rian Dawson having his well-earned spotlight moment), the encore brought things full circle: The Weather, another Everyone’s Talking! track before Lost in Stereo and Dear Maria, Count Me In. It’s a perfect summary of All Time Low in 2025: still the same radio-ready band you fell in love with in high school, but older, wiser, and a bit more self-aware. Dear Maria was the only track they played from their beloved 2007 album So Wrong, It’s Right compared to six tracks from the new album which says a lot about where ATL wants to put the spotlight though they still shoutout where it all started for longtime fans in the crowd. Either way, it’s all about the fans and the music for ATL praising the Toronto crowd for a “top tier show” and being their “favourite Toronto crowd” they’ve played for while making sure to remind everyone to support live music, and to keep venues alive and well especially with AI music showing its presence. This made it feel more than a celebration of the new album, and with All Time Low being around for more than 20 years, this was a reminder that it’s always been in the hands of the fans – the people that fuel the emotional rock and high-energy pop-punk engine that chugged along all night with Toronto completely on board.
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