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Panic! at the Disco: Astoria, London

Sophie Heawood, The Guardian, 29 April 2006

PANIC! AT THE DISCO'S DEBUT ALBUM may be called A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, but tonight their obsessive fans are trying to do just that. Overworked bar staff are reduced to lining up glasses of tap water, which the frantic teenagers chuck all over themselves and each other. Meanwhile, the security men work like human fishing hooks, yanking shirtless bodies from the jar of writhing maggots that the Astoria has become. The band charge ahead with their 100mph punk pop regardless.

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