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First on tonight in this massive venue, are newcomers Now, Now Every Children. An unusual band on the tour, they do their best to translate their intricate indie pop to the big stage, and they sound great. With frontwoman Cacie Dalager's vocals reminiscing of Tegan and Sara, the six-piece command the stage and create some truly beautiful music. However, it fears that the crowd is a little lost with the first act on, and an arena of this size is a little too big for their UK debut performance.

Paper Route, however, manage to take over the stage with their six members clamouring around their endless supply of instruments and amps. The music they play is ambient, and huge sounding, making the massive room seem a little less empty at this early stage of the night. Songs like 'Are We All Forgotten' and 'Enemy Among Us' are incredible, with their fragile lyrical messages balanced out by an unsuspected musical power. They're the kind of band that are truly capable of moving their listeners, but again, it feels like this isn't the right place to showcase their talents for the first time in the UK.

As the SECC goes black and adverts for their new album 'Hold Me Down' appear on the video screens either side of the stage, there is a shrill cry from the audience announcing that British boys You Me At Six have arrived. Doing what they do best, they quickly incite riotous frenzies within the crowd, most of whom sing along word for word. Blasting through what is almost a greatest hits set - at least, in this stage of their career - the band execute their stage moves like seasoned pros. 'Kiss And Tell' is massive, 'Jealous Minds Think Alike' anthemic and 'Save It For The Bedroom' is still pop-punk genius. Tonight they also debut brand new song 'The Consequence' which proves just why the headliners called upon these Surrey boys to warm up their crowd. It sounds fantastic, but with an absent outro, it feels unfinished. However, with a stellar rendition of 'Always Attract', you quickly move on, and before you realise, they're wrapping up their set with the quite frankly, brilliant 'Finder Keepers'. Definitely the perfect way to end this first chapter of their careers.

As the room goes dark for the last time this evening, the air is electric. Appearing on a dimly lit stage, frontwoman Hayley Williams begins to hauntingly sing an original, and eerie, intro, which already allows for the hairs on the back of your neck to rise. Even in this two and a half minute piece, Paramore as a band possess an absolute power, proving exactly why they're playing this show tonight.

By the time they launch into lead single 'Ignorance', there's no doubting their talents. With a sold out crowd of close to 10,000 people singing along, the atmosphere is incredible, as Williams' bounds around the stage, dancing like no one's watching. This continues as the band showcase the understated yet great 'I Caught Myself', before launching into 'Riot!' favourite 'That's What You Get'. The energy remains high in both band and crowd as the uplifting 'Looking Up' gets it's first UK performance, and 'crushcrushcrush' is still as edgy as ever. Both 'Emergency' and 'Pressure' are welcomed by older fans, but it seems a pity that some of the crowd have no idea what's going on; perhaps the only downfall of this band's quick rise to the top.

Other highlights include a melancholy version of 'The Only Exception', which sounds tremendous in a live environment, 'Careful' which serves to test Williams' vocal talents but in the best way, and of course 'Where The Lines Overlap'; possibly one of their best, and most uplifting, songs to date. 'Decode' sounds massive, capturing the voices of an entire crowd, whilst allowing opportunity for guitarists Josh Farro and Taylor York to shine.

Watching this band play, it's very easy to forget about the tough journey it took for them to get to this point, and it's almost impossible to recognise these as current young people. Yet, they really are, with the band still only holding an average age of 20 years. It's when you remember things like that, that you really appreciate this band's talents, especially that of drummer, and youngest member, Zac Farro.

After a brief break, Williams and Farro return to the stage to play 'Misguided Ghosts', the most fragile of the tracks from 'Brand New Eyes'. With just an acoustic guitar and a voice, the two make for a powerful duet, sounding gorgeous, even when Williams stumbles on some of the lyrics.

In a stark contrast to this stripped down number, the full band re-emerge to continue their encore with the absolutely massive - and when I say massive, I mean it - 'Misery Business', before finishing up on the insatiably bouncy 'Brick By Boring Brick'. And, as the support acts' members fill the stage to sing and dance along with Paramore's final chorus, it feels pretty impossible not to be in love with this band.