At their first Canadian gig since June 2016, twenty one pilots marked the occasion by playing every single song of their latest album Trench for the first time since its October release.
While it wasn't played in order, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun gave the Canadian Clique a real treat by playing the record in full at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver on May 12, also scattering music from 2013's Vessel and 2015's Blurryface throughout the set.
While fans across the globe have already witnessed a vast portion of Trench live, album tracks The Hype and Legend were only debuted earlier this month in Mexico. So this bodes very well indeed for future shows to come this year…
Drummer Josh recently told Kerrang! that playing live often changes the perspective of the songs from the time they were originally written – Trench included.
“I think going into a writing and recording process there is always the live show in mind, but you kinda never really know until you play it live how it’s going to feel in the room, or how it’s going to feel to us, or translate to people,” he said. “I think that there are songs that have kind of risen above other ones – even when I go back and listen to the record. I’m just like, ‘Ahh, I like the song a lot more now because we’ve played it live, and it’s a lot of fun, and it’s special because of those reasons.’ I think that’s really cool, and it makes me want to continue to play songs live (laughs).
“Cut My Lip is one of those for me where, after playing it live, it’s a song that’s kind of transformed a little bit, and it always feels like a really special moment in the set. I think that now I can’t help but think about that moment when I listen to the song, where that moment didn’t exist before. So yeah, playing the songs live definitely transforms and shifts, and even the meaning of the song, sometimes.”
Check out the full setlist from Vancouver below:
1. Jumpsuit
2. Levitate
3. Fairly Local
4. Stressed Out
5. Heathens
6. Legend
7. We Don't Believe What's On TV
8. The Hype
9. Lane Boy
10. Nico And The Niners
11. Smithereens
12. Neon Gravestones
13. Bandito
14. Pet Cheetah
15. Holding On To You
16. Ride
17. Cut My Lip
18. My Blood
19. Morph
20. Car Radio
Encore:
Truce (played from tape)
21. Chlorine
22. Leave The City
23. Trees