Their tour may be entitled The Two Months of Spring Break Tour ’99!, but the average concert goer at Hellogoodbye’s sold-out show was probably still eating glue and learning how to ride a bike in 1999. The mostly teenage audience and their accompanying chaperone parents gave the awkward illusion of living in one of the band’s songs. As the California boys sang of young love and overcoming adolescent angst and parental control, the energetic teenybopper crowd sang along as their parents glared.

Matching the high-energy level set by opening act Boys Like Girls, Hellogoodbye gave a non-stop electric performance that did not last long enough. They played all their hits, including the power-pop radio hit “Here (In Your Arms),” but with their set lasting less then an hour it seemed rushed. A standout highlight was a remix to “All of Your Love,” which added a darker, intense sound contrasting the band’s typical upbeat, candy hits.

With high voltage hits like “Stuck to You,” “Bonnie Taylor Shakedown…2K,” and “Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn,” it was impossible to fight not only the fun dance beats, but also the unrestrained youthful enthusiasm of the crowd.

When the mood down shifted to some of the group’s slower tunes like “Dear Jamie…Sincerely Me,” “Baby, It’s Fact,” and “Oh, It Is Love” the crowd cooled down too, not missing a lyric and singing right along with lead singer Forrest Kline. For “Oh, It Is Love,” Kline commanded the stage solo as he sang and strummed on his guitar the simple love ballad until the final verse, when the rest of the band joined in for a vigorous ending pumping the energy back up.

Hellogoodbye ended their set with the driving power hit “Here (In Your Arms),” in which they provided the instrumentation as the crowd proudly belted every word, in turn drowning out the vocals of Kline and the group. After wrapping up their abridged set, the band returned for an encore of “Touchdown Turnaround (Don’t Give Up on Me).” The high school themed power anthem of chasing the unattainable crush provided the perfect ending for the show and a great beginning for the audience’s summer vacation.