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Tonight's show was originally never set to happen, but you'd never have guessed it. As the only show on this tour to be added as an extra date - due to simply, huge fan demand - it's still a packed room.

The first act on are Just Surrender, an American band on their first visit to the UK. They were also as unplanned a support act as this show, since they are tonight standing in for Valencia, who were forced to drop out last minute.

The music they play is good, great even, fitting in nicely with the current flux of American pop-punk that has happily taken over UK audiences. Next to theAUDITION, they are a sound match, and their songs reminisce the feel of Saosin. The crowd find them pleasant, and dance-able but, with just half of the set over, the tone changes dramatically. It's in one, well, unexpected statement made by guitarist and vocalist Dan Simons, that the whole crowd stand back and mutter, "what the fuck?" under their breath: "So, we were in Glasgow last night, and we had some girls on the tour bus. We sure do love English pussy!" I later find out this isn't his only incident, but I'm not quite sure whether to be insanely angry, or to laugh at the fact any Glaswegian girls they did get last night will probably be fuming at being told they had 'English pussies'. Their set comes to a close, and the music is still great - most definitely worth a listen, but a few members of the audience are still a little taken aback at the earlier words.

Next on are UK pop-punk darlings, You Me At Six. Yes, they seem to pop up on every tour possible, but rightly so. It's at this point that the entire room compresses towards the stage, and the female population attempt to grab handfuls of their favourite member. The madness that Just Surrender earlier tried to create explodes into action, and their set contains everything from ear-bursting singalongs, to crowd-surfing drummers. Playing all of their hits, from new single 'If I Were In Your Shoes' to their iconic tune of 'Save It For The Bedroom', the boys pull out all the stops for tonight's Northern crowd; a sentiment that's not lost. "We love you Southerners!" screams a group of girls, whilst guitarist Max Helyer echoes back the statement, "And we love you Northerners!"

The crowd reception is quite astonishing and they seem as though they've been thirsty for this band for a long while, despite this being their third time in Newcastle since just October. With even a few security guards singing along (to be mentioned again soon), there's not much these boys could do wrong tonight, and as they close with 'The Rumour', along with added 'Umbrella' freestyling courtesy of Mr Josh Franceschi, it's hard to see a face in the room that isn't smiling. As the band leave the stage, I hear one main sentiment muttered by surrounding fans: "They should've been headlining."

As the room clears considerably, the space left allows for an instant pit to open up for the fans of tonight's headliners, who jump to the stage in a head rush of energy with new song 'Edinboro'. The crowd still roar along with the older tracks, from their debut 'Controversy Loves Company', like 'Approach the Bench' and 'Dance Halls Turn To Ghost Towns', but it's during 'You've Made Us Conscious' that the room feels that little bit smaller, and the energy levels soar; audience members almost bouncing off the walls. Only halfway into their set, the heat becomes intense, the air is a little moist. Explaining that this seems like their smallest show, and, boy, it feels it on this end too, lead Danny Stevens grins and bears it, despite his voice being a little raw from illness. Yet, whilst their set is a little more rough and ready, it's in the few flaws that the magic is found. It's upon this tour that they are given the chance to debut new tracks from their sophomore release 'Champion', which are well received all around, with particular liking to their latest single 'Warm Me Up'.

Tonight feels like a night spent getting that little bit closer to the music, and with the amount of stage dives and audience participation, you can tell the band feel the same way. Even when Danny's shirt is ripped, very literally, from his back, he simply grabs another from the side and changes - in a 'discreet' fashion - almost directly centre stage. Yet, as always with these kind of shows, the main spectacle is reserved for the final song, and since the AUDITION aren't a band that do encoures, 'like assholes', they leave with their greatest hit to date, 'Don't Be So Hard'.

I won't lie: it's pretty insane.