12 April 2026 – Brisbane Entertainment Centre – words by Staff Writer – pictures by Bec Harbour
2026 feels like the year of the super-bill. So many insane triple bill shows have been announced, or already happen. But tonight is definitely one of the biggest. On the bands first headline tour of Australia since the Big Ass Tour in 2013, Florida’s A Day to Remember packed out the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, with an insane roster of supporting bands. Following on from their dual headline shows in 2023, Cali rap rock icons Papa Roach are back in the country, and we even got some European flair on the show, with French metalcore standouts, LANDMVRKS doing opening duties for this insane show.
Walking out to a blackened stage lit up with spotlights, LANDMVRKS vocalist Florent Salfati ripped an impressive french rap, before the full band kicked in with ‘Creature’. With insane levels of hyping the crowd up with a simple “what the fuck is up, Brisbane?”. LANDMVRKS brought an immediate sense of high energy that never fell below the fault line. Salfati mentioned how happy they were to be back, and asked for the crowd to open up for ‘Sulfur’, which Brisbane happily obliged. After what felt like a massive emotional catharsis after ‘La valse du temps’, another blackened stage spotlight fell on guitarist Nicolas Exposito, as he ripped a pretty cool solo to lead into ‘Lost in a Wave’. After ‘Rainfall’ and ‘Blood Red’, Salfati spoke about how Australia always feels like home to the band. And even on their third trip around the country, they can’t wait to be back. They shouted out Papa Roach and A Day To Remember, before closing on ‘Self-Made Black Hole’, as they left the stage praising Brisbane, and a big, heartfelt “Thank you for everything” as the parting words from the French five piece.
LANDMVRKS – BEC – photos by Bec Harbour
Papa Roach were next out for their 75 minutes, and I could have easily been convinced this was our main event. From a high energy performance from the Roach lads, to the crowd giving insane energy back, this was a 17 song set full of highlights, and some surprising fan favourite songs. Opening with a newer song in ‘Even If It Kills Me’, it didn’t take long before the throwbacks kicked in. ‘Blood Brothers’ crowd into a frenzy, and they transitioned the end of ‘Blood Brothers’ beautifully into ‘Dead Cell’, leaving a 1/2/DEAD/CELL chant to the riff of the intro. Sensing the high energy, Jacoby did a crowd run for ‘…To Be Loved’, as he ran from one side of the venue to the other to get in the stands to sing with the fans, as those fans definitely got their moneys worth.
Papa Roach – BEC – photos by Bec Harbour
Jacoby said tonight show was to help people slay some demons, as he called for a Wall of Death to “smash those demons in the face”. The wall of death kicked off for ‘Kill the Noise’, before we got a really creepy choir backing track, that took me a second before realising it was the melody of ‘Getting Away With Murder’. And then just as I realised, Murder kicked into high gear. Even though GAWM is the song with one of their most well know tracks, I feel it’s a crazy underappreciated gem of a record, and I hope we get an anniversary tour for it soon. Jacoby then spoke about he loves coming to Australia so he has excuses to say the words “sick cunt”, but gets in trouble with the wife when he says it. The band dropped into an instrumental cover of ‘California Love’ by 2Pac, as Jacoby introduced the band. Shout out to Jerry Horton, who got the most love of the band, and even a whole “Jerry” chant.
Papa Roach – BEC – photos by Bec Harbour
After posing a very serious question to the crowd, namely, “Are you ready to level up with Papa fucking Roach, he told the crowd it was their time to perform for them, as ‘Liar’ kicked in, and crowd surfer requests from Jacoby were honored. Up next was ‘Falling Apart’, which is another underrated gem. This triggered the mental health portion of the set, as Jacoby talked about how it doesn’t matter if you keep falling, you just gotta keep getting back up, as a pre-recorded video played of Jacoby talking about the ties mental health struggles have had to the band, and that they would be donating proceeds from the show to local mental health charities, which drew a massive response from the crowd. The camera lights came out for ‘Leave a Light On (Talk Away the Dark)’, as the mental health songs continued with ‘Scars’, and ‘Help’, which somehow, ‘Help’ had a bigger sing along than ‘Scars’ did.
Papa Roach – BEC – photos by Bec Harbour
Jacoby shouted out how at every show, there has been a banana suit in the pit, and demanded the crowd get their potassium in, which drew a big laugh. We then were told there is a new Roach record in September, and that the next song is Jacoby’s favourite from it, which was ‘BRAINDEAD’. Jacoby then asked for the crowd to bounce for ‘Born for Greatness’, as they walked off stage. With an extended intro, we went full nostalgia mode, with ‘Between Angels and Insects’, took a trip in the Nu Metal Time Machine, with a covers medley of ‘Blind’ by Korn, ‘My Own Summer (Shove It)’ by Deftones, ‘Break Stuff’ by Limp Bizkit, and ‘Chop Suey’ by System of a Down, as they lead into the final song of the night, ‘Last Resort’.
After a lot of change over on stage, the stage blacked out at 9:30pm, as A Day to Remember slowly made their way onto the stage. Brisbane got a bit of a different set compared to the rest of the country, which was cool. Up until about halfway it was identical, but then there was a moment where it switched up, and I was loving the change ups. Opening with ‘The Downfall of Us All’ with smoke and pyro, Jeremy McKinnon mentioned how this tour was the bands first headline tour since the Big Ass Tour in 2013, which I was also at. They then had the crowd sing the intro to ‘I’m Made of Wax, Larry, What Are You Made Of?” before more smoke and pyro kicked off. It was fight time as ‘2nd Sucks’ started up, and the standard confetti canons came out in full force for ‘Right Back at It Again’.
A Day to Remember – BEC – photos by Bec Harbour
A lot of the set was tracks from Homesick and the new record, Big Old Album Vol. 1, and we got our first taste of the new stuff with ‘Bad Blood’, before McKinnon called for circle pits for ‘Paranoia’. Hearing ‘Miracle’ live was cool as hell, as the backboard that was showing different versions of the band logo had this one being covered in rain. It set an amazing aesthetic and mood, which would be a cool theme throughout the night. Also, something I haven’t mentioned. They had fans on stage the entire set. Which is something I’ve never seen before. They basically had a whole pit section behind Alex Shelnutt’s drum kit, where there was a barrier separating the band and the fans on stage. But they stayed the entire show, through every bit of pyro, which would have been an absolute dream.
A Day to Remember – BEC – photos by Bec Harbour
McKinnon asked two questions about the next song. Who showed up with friends, and who was here to drink. They then introduced the song for “the perfect crossover” as ‘All My Friends’ played. For a newer song, the massive crowd singalong on this one also surprised me a little. But at the same time, it didn’t, as it’s definitely my favourite song from the new record. They also had Mario come out on stage and shoot a t-shirt cannon, with another round of confetti on the “oh shit, here we go again” drop at the end of the song. Then got the full version of ‘Mr. Highway’s Thinking About the End’ which no one else on the Australia run got in full, and then the gut punch of ‘Have Faith in Me’ to follow it up.
McKinnon spoke at length about the memories made in Brisbane. And how Australia is a special place to them, because before the world knew who they were, Australia was there with full support for the band. McKinnon said thank you to Australia, not just for tonight, but for 20 years of support, and how shows like this aren’t normal for them. McKinnon dropped a really beautiful bar about how the next song is about appreciating stuff before it disappears forever, as ‘Flowers’ played. Then out of nowhere, we got the Space Jam theme song as two basketball hoops made their way on stage. The crowd was then flooded with inflatable basketballs, and were encouraged to play ball during ‘LeBron’, which is the most insane thing I’ve seen at a show.
A Day to Remember – BEC – photos by Bec Harbour
We then got an extended intro version of ‘All I Want’ before McKinnon spotted a guy in the crowd he’d seen at the airport, who had been following the tour. Apparently, this fan put in a request for a song before the Sydney show, and despite it not being planned for this tour, they ripped it out anyway. This then appears to have set off a chain reaction of events on the tour, where LANDMVRKS heard they played it, and were pissed they left early to get on the play to Brisbane and miss it in Sydney. But the final nail in the coffin for them to play it one more time, was Papa Roach also said for them to run it back, so they did. And holy shit, we got Monument. It’s rare to get anything from ‘For Those Who Have Heart’ live anymore, but being able to say I saw that track live, insane moment.
A Day to Remember – BEC – photos by Bec Harbour
We got back to back Heart tracks with ‘The Plot to Bomb the Panhandle’, as it was dedicated to everyone from the back, to the sides, to the floor. McKinnon asked for the earth to shake for it. After quickly running off stage for a guitar change, McKinnon returned on stage with Kevin Skaff, both with acoustic guitars, presumably for ‘If It Means a Lot to You’, and that would be the case. But not before McKinnon went on a rant about how encores suck, and that Nickelback don’t suck, saying “let’s not pretend they don’t slap, and don’t have bangers”, and even dedicated ‘If It Means a Lot to You’ to Nickelback. Two songs left, and we got the final new song of the night, in ‘Resentment’, before the set closer ‘All Signs Point to Lauderdale’ to close out one of the best nights of live music I’ve seen in a long while.
