A Day To Remember, Papa Roach, Landmvrks @ Entertainment Centre, Adelaide 6/4/2026
Green and white streamers hang from the electronic scoreboard above. Toilet rolls are thrown throughout the air like water balloons on a hot day. Colours of the rainbow flicker throughout the venue as confetti dances in the air. Jeremy McKinnon grins like the cat who has got the cream. A Day To Remember? Yes. A night to remember? Certainly.
The Big Rock Tour crashes into Adelaide with a concrete solid line up of ADTR, nu metal legends Papa Roach and French metalcore upstarts Landmvrks. Between them we are brought melodic choruses, King Kong sized breakdowns and a basketball game with beach balls.
So where do we start? The mosh pit frenzy of Landmvrks, the emotional jarring and vulnerable poignancy within Papa Roach’s set or the fans lined up with the best seat in the house on stage behind ADTR?
Or the crowd-pleasing “Nu-Metal Time Machine’ snippets of songs of the past by Papa Roach, the hype job from Landmvrks singer Florent Salfati in firing up the heat in the room or McKinnon’s ability to have the crowd roar every single line in ADTR songs that they pierce the sky?
Landmvrks absolutely owned the cavernous venue, yet with only a half hour to play, they set the charge alight and watch it burn. They zoom through their setlist designed to inflict maximum carnage and the crowd do not disappoint. Opening with Creature and finishing with Self-Made Black Hole, the bands third visit here in two years signifies another level unlocked on their ascent to greatness.
For Papa Roach, it’s the welcome return of an old-fashioned rock show. Visually alluring, sonically electric and cheekily extravagant, Jacoby Shaddix and crew run you through seventy five mins of anthems, sweat inducing cardio and self-deprecating bravado.
The opening sequence with the backlit screen is wonderful as the band rip into Even If It Kills Me. Circle pits whirl from …To Be Loved and the first of many walls of deaths, collides in Kill The Noise.
Surfers are crashing over the barrier, shirts, hats and shoes are being flung around while Shaddix parades the stage like a salesman to an audience who is buying. Sombre moments, and a very important message of mental health and support, all land heavy in the middle of the set starting with Leave A Light On.
Flames, gang vocals and a medley of cover versions from the turn of the century somehow bring the level up again before they leave with Last Resort and an audience chanting their name.
However, as certain as night follows day, A Day To Remember always deliver. Every song is greeted with from the choir of South Australian fans around me and in McKinnon, they have a frontman who performs like every show is a dream come true that he may wake up soon from.
Opening with The Downfall Of Us, there are scenes everywhere. Limbs failing, shirtless surfers and the first of many confetti storms rain down us during 2nd Sucks, Right Back At It Again and Bad Blood.
A line of what I can only presume are diehard ADTR fans stand at the back behind the band, able to witness what the band can see, which I can only imagine is a mass of sweaty bodies, pouring their heart into the lyrics of Have Faith In Me.
Two giant basketball nets come out for LeBron, along with many giant sized beachballs as basketballs as the crowd cheer each time a basket swishes. If It Means A Lot To You has camera lights out before the final song, no encore thankfully, of All Signs Point To Lauderdale encourages the streamers, toilets rolls and confetti, for one last time; to pour over the delirious fans below.
Always a fun time to experience, A Day To Remember, Papa Roach and Landmvrks had everything you would ever want in a show tonight. You’d be mad to miss it.
Live Review By Iain McCallum