„Fuck, no. It‘s definitely not going to be our last time visiting Germany,“ is what Alex Gaskarth left the audience with at the Luxor in Cologne. All Time Low then launched into their second encore, a powerful rendition of their ever famous tune Dear Maria (Count Me In) that had everyone singing and dancing along.

Before All Time Low took the stage by storm (sorry for the pun but it was just there for grabbing!) though, the crowd received support band The Audition at the fully sold out and packed venue.

450 people – and to my surprise female and male attendees to equal parts – formed a mosh pit on what is usually the dancefloor of a drum‘n‘bass night club and had the temperature rise to unbearable degrees and the A/C failing.

The Audition played a solid set composed of their more well-known songs, asking everyone to just dance and download their music anyway the audience could. It didn‘t feel like they were ,only‘ the support to heat up the masses for All Time Low. Everyone knew the lyrics to My Temperature Rising and Warm Me Up as well as Los Angeles which calmed the crowd down some and gave everyone a moment to breathe.

As soon as The Audition exited the stage and Rian Dawson‘s drum kit was revealed, focus shifted back to whom everyone had really come out for.

Thankfully, by then security (who‘d been not so awesome about press and photographers) had sorted out the pit and who didn‘t really belong in there, so I was able to snap some pictures of the band giving their all for Germany.

The set was short (ATL played ten songs plus two for the encore) but really sweet and a lot exhausting for everyone on stage, as there was a lot of kicking, jumping and dancing was going, as well as off stage, where the mob danced, screamed and sung their hearts out.

(Halfway through their second song, Six Feet Under The Stars, Jack took a seat at the edge of the stage, giving me the perfect opportunity to shoot a couple of close ups but alas! My camera failed me. Or rather: I failed because I didn‘t know what he eff was suddenly happening.)

Old and new songs blended in perfectly. There was a time to dance and a time to just sway along when Alex played Remembering Sunday. Also, there seemed to be a competition going on as to who could spew more curses and dirty words, it seemed.

At one point, Alex discussed the matter of not fitting his manhood into the pretty panties someone had thrown on stage (really, how mature was the audience?) and really, no manorexic man could have fit into them.

But all joking aside, musically the set was flawless, voices and instruments never failed the guys and everyone had a good time (and wow, does it sound like I‘m praising them ever so highly? Really, I don‘t, although I‘d have every reason to be biased!).

As mentioned, the night concluded with All Time Low playing two songs for the encore, Damned if I do ya and Dear Maria (Count Me In). The former had even the bar staff and the venue techs pumping their fists in the air for each Go.

Everyone got to express their amazement to the band personally (minus Rian) after the show when they all came out to meet the fans who‘d stuck around by the bus and venue.

It‘s safe to say that that night, show and after show hangs, was one of my favorite concert experiences so far. I got to hang out with some of my favorite people (junegloom and friends!) and randomly ran into the band guys.

Before the show, Jack and Rian crossed the queue to get into the venue from the hotel and after the show, we randomly walked around the venue and rounded a corner to find Jack and Zack walking into our direction and then pretty much stood in Alex‘ way when he wanted to get on the tour bus.

LOL, looking majorly psyched. Jack - not so much.

Such a sweetheart!

LOL for after show shots.

To top the night of, we managed to meet half the band – Alex, Rian and a couple of crew members – at Subway where we had a couple of delish subs and cookies and found out what the guys had ordered previous to our entry. We also got to take pictures with Rian (and Alex), so I can now be a fangirl and say that I met each member of All Time Low. The guys made their way over to the bar next door and well, I “promise we‘re not borderline stalkers‘” but we could still see them there through the windows from where we were sat at Subway.

Yeah, we know what you did after the show!

We had to make our way back through the rain to the car, where our fun night of adventures sadly ended.

Still, the memories of the good time remain, neatly transformed into a video here by junegloom.

My pictures of the show were all taken for Buzznet.com (thanks again!) and are to be found here (I also just edited the end of my review for this site). It‘s insane how much feedback I got on the photos.