Pierce The Veil
Pierce The Veil, Movements, Jack Kays live at Red Hill Auditorium, Perth | 16 April 2026
Pierce the Veils wrapped up the Australia leg of their 'I Can't Hear You’ world tour with a sold out show amongst the tree of Perth's Red Hill Auditorium. Arriving at the venue we were greeted by lines of punters wrapping around both sides of the perimeter. Once inside we were met with equalling daunting queues for the over worked merch stands.
As the sun set over the Perth skyline in the distance, opener Jack Kays took to the stage. Kays had a very versatile sound with a punk rock / midwest emo feel that resonated with the steadily growing crowd. His set was stacked new unreleased tracks, as he stated he’d just finished writing an album and has been using this tour as a bit of a screen test for his new material. Near the end of his set, relevant to the next track, Jack Kays took the opportunity to speak about the political situation in America right now, and good to see someone with a platform speak out about these issues.
By the time Californian post-hardcore band Movements made their entrance, the crowd was at near capacity. Movements lived up to their name, with their heavier sound instantly getting the crowd moving with numerous circle pits opening during their set. During the show, they stopped their set as there was someone in the pit requiring assistance. The band then waited for the issue to be resolved before continuing on. I always respect and appreciate when artists do this as it shows their care for the fans and what is happening in the crowd.
On stage they had infectious energy and were moving to their music, which encouraged crowd to keep moving as well. There were quite a few people in the crowd who also knew the lyrics to a lot of the tracks which positively impacted the atmosphere as people were really getting into the music. Movements well and truly had the crowd warmed up for the main event.
When Pierce the Veil came out on stage the energy of the crowd immediately lifted, from only having some areas moving during the openers to the vast majority of the crowd. Their set list was a mix of tracks from their most recent release ‘The Jaws of Life’ and some of their older projects with this tour being the first time they’ve included tracks off of their debut album ‘A Flair for the Dramatic’ for about 15 years.
During ‘Wonderless’, off of their album ‘A Flair for the Dramatic’, people held up yellow paper stars over their flashlights. This was part of a fan project to show their appreciation to the band for reincluding the tracks into the set list. Fan projects have become a common occurrence of this and past tours. This one was well executed with even people in the upper area of the venue having a paper stars displayed.
Pierce the Veil always have great engaging stage presence with a lot of energic movement.
They had raised platforms on either side of the stage, creating plenty of opportunity for bassist Jamie Preciado and guitarist Tony Perry to bounce off and engage with the crowd (also helps those further back in the standing section to have a clearer view of their shenanigans).
The set list was very well organised with a mix of both their high energy track and tamer ones. The quieter moments which gave opportunity for water to be passed out from the front and people to have a bit of a rest before the intensity picked back up. The crowd was fun with circle pits being formed and people moshing. Even though the crowd was very animated, they were still very respectful of people who didn’t want to get involved with the action, apologising if they bumped into anyone on the edge of a circle and helping people up if they get knocked down.
Pierce the Veil finished their set with an encore, finishing off the show with 3 tracks from their earlier work ‘Disasterology’ (a personal favourite of mine), ‘Hold on Till May’, and ‘King for a Day’. The crowd, as usual, went crazy for ‘King for a Day’ which is probably the band's most well known track.
At the end of the show, whilst bowing and saying thanks, the band threw their guitar picks, drum sticks and set lists into the crowd - wonderful mementos for a few lucky fans. The bass player, Jaime, also came right up onto the barricade and interacted with a bunch of the fans, high-fiving them before leaving the stage along with the rest of the band.
Review by Ava Thomson
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