Last week an unsigned pop-punk band, known as Second Place Hero opened for Madina Lake on their farewell tour. The five-piece met at college and shared a love for pop-punk legends such as Blink 182, The Wonder Years and Four Year Strong . Of course the Newcastle lads were thrilled to open for an act like Madina Lake alongside ‘next big thing’ Fearless Vampire Killers: “It was unbelievable. We all loved them when we were growing up and to be able to play with them was pretty surreal,” confesses frontman Graeme Costello “We're still quite new ourselves, we haven't even been together a year yet. Tonight was our first gig as a five piece.”
The band already have a following and even sold official ‘I slept with Lynch’ t-shirts at the gig (referring to their bassist, Josh Lynch). But as newcomers they took some wise words from the headline act “Nathan Leone was telling us about how they ended up getting sued before because his stage dive went wrong so we'll be making sure we're always careful not to injure someone at one of our gigs because we're skint enough as it is already.” Now Second Place Hero have supported one of the biggest bands of the genre, what next? “If we somehow got the opportunity to open for Blink-182, it would be a huge dream come true.” The unsigned band will be gigging again later in the year including The Cluny in December.
Words: Neale McGeever
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