August 27, 2012
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Rock Sound published a review of the full Reading festival, you can read the Paramore one below 
Hayley Williams and co have faced more than their fair share of challenges over the last few years, so today’s performance takes on something of a celebratory feel. Pulling in an enormous crowd PARAMORE more than live up to their billing, attacking the occasion like headliners and reminding us all how broad their treasure-chest of tunes has become. From a touching rendition of ‘The Only Exception’ (with thousands providing backing vocals) to a loud, proud, explosive ‘Ignorance’ they resolutely fail to drop the ball, tweaked line-up or no. Whereas in the past the band could seem dwarfed by such sizeable stages they dominate today, Hayley confident and charismatic, as well as – for the most part – in fine voice. With a new record in the works and their popularity continuing to skyrocket, you wouldn’t bet against them returning to top the bill in a future year. The doubters can consider themselves silenced.
Source: RockSound.TV
August 25, 2012
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NME reviewed latest Paramore performance at Reading festival, you can red it below.
Paramore made their first major UK appearance since the departure of founding members Zac and Josh Farro at Reading Festival tonight (August 24).
The band, who had earlier seen queues snaking all the way down to the main arena for their appearance at the NME Signing Tent, played an 11-song set, which lasted for just under an hour.
Speaking to the crowd, singer Hayley Williams said that the set “felt like a victory” after “the band had been through some hard times”.
She told the crowd: “For those of you who’ve been following our band, there’s been some hard times and this really feels like a victory right now.”
Although they are currently working on their fourth studio album, the band aired no new tracks, choosing to focus on material from their second album ‘Riot!’. Despite choosing not to air any new tracks, the band did play two of their 2011 singles ‘Monster’ and ‘Renegade’. Continue Reading
August 22, 2012
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A treat from Ms Williams as the Paramore frontwoman gears up for Reading and Leeds Festival this weekend!
Hayley Williams loves summer, absolutely loves it. Hayley Williams loves music, absolutely loves it. Hayley Williams ADORES summer music, especially when it is in playlist form. Check out her ultimate summer festival anthems on the player below and keep scrolling for her thoughts on each track.
Paramore play Reading and Leeds Festival this weekend, and it will be huge!
01. Gypsy & The Cat – Time To Wander
“This song gives me a super nostalgic feeling for some reason. A perfect ‘driving with the windows down’ kinda song. Heard this song on a lake last year, and it blew my mind.” Continue Reading
August 16, 2012
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Hayley Williams Leads Revamped Paramore in First Show in Almost a Year
‘I’m 23, but it feels like I’m 63!’ she jokes
Standing onstage last night at the Fox Theater in Pomona, California, Hayley Williams told a capacity crowd that she’d been yearning for nearly a year to say the words she was about to say.
Her big reveal? “We are Paramore.”
Williams was leading the pop-punk band through its first show since last September, a sold-out warm-up gig before Paramore heads to the U.K. for a handful of dates including the Reading and Leeds festivals. And though part of her excitement was probably attributable to cabin fever – she and her bandmates have been working in a Los Angeles studio on Paramore’s fourth album – Williams also was acknowledging the break-up rumors that have swirled around the group since late 2010, when guitarist Josh Farro and drummer Zac Farro left in a storm of accusations regarding the band’s direction and authenticity.
“Our band has been a little bit of a soap opera since day one,” Williams went on. Then she introduced “Ignorance” – a cut from 2009’s Brand New Eyes about a judgmental friend (or bandmate) – as “a reminder of how it’s never, ever going to be again.”
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