“You guys know that it’s ridiculous that we’re still here, right?” laughed Hayley Williams, shortly after serenading The O2 Arena with a swaying rendition of The Only Exception, lit by twinkling phone-lights.
A soft-edged stand-out from 2009‘s Brand New Eyes, the song has come to symbolise the beginning of Paramore ripping apart at the seams; shortly after that album’s release founding members Zac and Josh Farro swiftly departed in acrimonious circumstances. The years that followed were tough to weather, and at one point even Williams secretly quit the band.
