All Time Low - Gig Review & Photo Gallery 9th December @ The Tivoli, Brisbane QLD

All Time Low
The Tivoli, Brisbane QLD
December 9, 2025
Supports: friends of friends

As we reach the back end of the festivities that Good Things Festival has brought to our Australian summer once more, we reach the finale of the sideshows bracing Brisbane with their presence. Tonight’s affair sees familiar faces All Time Low embark on their 11th visit to the country across their 22 year career (that works out to be a tour every 2 years, insanity right?)

The Baltimore Pop Punk juggernauts were a part of their 2nd Good Things Festival since being on the very first instalment of the festival in 2018! Having moved further up the card and growing immensely in popularity, how would these 4 boys transfer from main stage antics to intimate side settings?

Imperative to the growth of the local music scene (a comment reflected by All Time Low frontman Alex Gaskarth at Good Things Festival) Friends of Friends find themselves at the forefront of a packed out Tivoli to bring the warmth to the crowd. Through luminescent blue light, the Brisbane based quartet waste little time for introductions saving it instead for endearing energy from the get go.

Fresh off the release of their latest EP Synthetic Flower Chainsaw, the performance of ‘I Like Ya’ oozes sweet charisma from its abrasive album title. Companionship of smiles and mutual jamming sessions fills the room with an aura of positivity heightened by bright lights warming the crowd for a beautiful night. The crowd pays it back with a nearly full room with hands to the sky, clapping along to the sounds of ‘Morphine’, a truly engaged opening to the night making many forget of the woes of an early week show.

“Please buy our merch so we can get home” is a hilarious statement for a local band to make in the moment, but in the trying times our local scenes are currently going through it couldn’t be stressed any better. Bands improve through our support so it’s something we need to continue encouraging, especially for a young act with a future as promising as that for Friends of Friends.

I can only stress you take 15 minutes out of your day to listen to their new EP, it will give you so much hope that the spirit of Brisbane's music scene is very much alive and thriving.

A whole 15 minutes earlier than anticipated, the lights drop for 'Mr Blue Sky' to blare throughout the venue, catching the majority off guard in the most pleasant of ways.

Through the rumble of impending synths, out come the 4 boys from Baltimore for ‘Suckerpunch’ enhanced with the largest LED screen I am sure the venue has ever seen. The bands new album Everyone’s Talking has gone down strongly with longtime fans of the band garnering strong sing-a-longs but if you’re unsure of the bands new era, the accompanying lyrics on stage will help. But immediately throwing it back to ‘Weightless’ will appease all fans in the room tonight. As Alex pays focus to those who attended the bands festival appearances going into ‘Poppin’ Champagne’ for 2 decades of work to be crossed in just 3 songs, it’s only going to be a party from here on in.

With the band having moved on from previous labels to form their own, the thought of nostalgia could be a tricky piece to navigate especially after growing up before us for 2 decades. But the sheer joy reflected on the band as fans still get down for ‘Damned If I Do Ya’ shows the bands growing mentality is for their future only, the past is where they’ve come from and is still as important to them. Their shows have grown from small time punk rock outings into well choreographed timed performances that serve as journeys and not just flash in the pan moments. The passion and motivation to be basement boys making noise however has never changed.

“We haven’t played this room since 2013” prefaces a completely unhinged banter session atypical to All Time Low shows but serves a solemn reminder to just how far this band has come in their Australian performances. Where the band follows a structured setlist that fans who attended Good Things Festival are familiar with, the additions of ‘Sleeping In’, ‘Backseat Serenade’ and the slow favourite 'Remembering Sunday' continues what appears to be more a career celebration and less of a promotional tour for the bands latest album. Regardless, ‘Butterflies’ and ‘Little Bit’ still promote the next chapter of the bands life.

For those who have attended All Time Low shows in the past, you know crowd work is equal parts band and crowd. Fans took to shoulders during ‘Somethings Gotta Give’, gave the band a full dance floor for ‘Lost In Stereo’, Alex gave his best screaming efforts for ‘Hate This Song’ in place of I Prevail and the unrelenting banter over a new name for “Brisvegas” (We settled on Brisswaii over Brismumbai, BrisParis and BrisLondon) there was hardly a dull moment to be had for the entirety of the 90 minutes. And if you need to question what the finale entailed, are you sure you even like All Time Low? ‘Dear Maria’ makes a 1500 cap room feel like as if we have headed back to Good Things. Well, the sweat definitely made it feel immersive.

A celebration of the bands 11th time to our wonderful country, the more intimate setting this time around for All Time Low serves as a reminder that 4 boys who set out to make noise in their bedrooms can truly be one of the most influential and awe inspiring performers that Pop Punk has ever witnessed.

Words by Cody James-Henderson

Setlist

Suckerpunch
Weightless
Poppin’ Champagne 
PMA
Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t)
Dark Side of Your Room
Time Bomb
Backseat Serenade
Sleeping In
Little Bit
Somethings Gotta Give
Remembering Sunday
Lost In Stereo
Butterflies
Sleepwalking 
Hate This Song
Monsters

‍Encore‍

The Weather
Dear Maria, Count Me In