Pierce the Veil’s “I Can’t Hear you” tour touched down in the Valley of the Sun, at the Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre in Phoenix, AZ on 6/15/2025. The tour was greeted with an Arizona welcome, a 114-degree heat with no clouds, no chance of rain and a dash of humidity. That didn’t deter the bands, the venue, the sponsors and most definitely, not the fans. The “Valley Sun Snake” in full effect and lengthened as fans lined up at the gates promptly and in waves; braving the beat down the sun was going to set upon them. At 5:00 PM, Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre opened their doors, kicking off the event; excitement and haste was met by the concertgoers as they marched their way through security.
Beach Weather, a band from many parts of the United States one including Phoenix, AZ, as front man Nick Santino shouts to the crowd “It’s good to be back, we are from here” and is met with a roar of pride from the Arizona crowd. With a tight 30-minute set they kick off the show easing their way into the heart of the crowd with the song “Chit Chat” off the album of the same name. They quickly follow up with songs off their albums Pineapple Sunrise, Basement Sessions and their newest album released in 2024, Melt. Songs such as “Swoon” (Basement Sessions), “Sex, Drug, Etc.” (Pineapple Sunrise) and four off Melt, “Dressing Room Tattoo”, “Hardcore Romance”, “High in Low Places” and “Tulips”.
During the momentary break between the set of Beach Weather and Sleeping With Sirens, you could feel, smell and taste the excitement; with any movement or sound on the stage leaking into the audience causing an uproar of cheering. The venue felt like a dropped bottle of carbonated sugar water, the buildup of excitement pressurized and tightened waiting to explode. As the lights dimmed, Sleeping With Sirens twisted that bottle cap off releasing the pressure with a wall of voices rushing down from the general admission lawn section straight to the pit, striking the stage in unison, as the band members took their positions. Sleeping With Sirens, hit the crowd with “Kick Me” off their album Madness. The fans shook the venue through the entirety of Sleeping With Sirens set; no love loss, no emotion wasted.
Sleeping With Sirens performed songs off numerous albums, such as With Ears to See, and Eyes to Hear, How It Feels to Be Lost, Madness and Let’s Cheers to This. There was no dampening the liveliness of the fans, with Kellin Quinn’s high energy darting across the stage and a vocal attack piercing through the matched energy of the crowd along with the constant movement from guitarists Tony Pizzuti and Nick Martin as well as bass guitarist Justin Hills; fans of the band were surely not disappointed. Sleeping With Sirens performed songs such as “Leave It All Behind”, “Go Go Go”, “Better Off Dead”, “Bloody Knuckles” and “If I’m James Dean, You’re Audrey Hepburn”.
With such a powerful performance from Sleeping With Sirens, you would have thought that concertgoers would have been worn down from the lingering heat and the full body workout of excitement and adrenaline; you would have been mistaken. As the heat slowly dissipated from the venue, the fire inside every fan that Beach Weather and Sleeping in Sirens had been stoking and fueling all evening was only getting stronger. Concertgoers gathered, squeezing tightly in anticipation as the intro for Pierce the Veil’s set blasted the airwaves, José Alfredo Jiménez song “El Rey”.
Fans cheered, shouted and screamed as the band’s curtains showcasing emblems from the tour poster dropped. “Death of an Executioner” hit the eardrums of every crowd member and in an instant, the venue was filled with a multi-generational cheer. Pierce the Veil released their nostalgia trip, a set with two decades full of memories and reminiscing emotion. Songs performed included a surprise cover of “Where Is My Mind?” by the Pixies, “Bulls in the Bronx”, “I’d Rather Die Than Be Famous”, “Today, I Saw the Whole World”, “Hell Above”, “Circles” and in the encore the most awaited song “King for a Day” featuring Kellin Quinn from Sleeping With Sirens.
Photos/Review By: Julius Aguilar
Pierce the Veil
Sleeping With Sirens
Beach Weather
