MGK At The Spark Arena

What’s going on, Internet? Last night, me, my sister-n-law and our friend went into town to see the MGK gig as he brought his Lost Americana tour to Auckland for his only New Zealand show. MGK, aka Machine Gun Kelly, aka Colson Baker is one of those artists where it’s probably good to separate the art from the artist as he seems to be a ball bag in real life. I never paid any attention to him while he did hip hop records, but as soon as I saw the Bloody Valentine I was hooked. The album, Tickets To My Downfall was the exact type of nostalgia I needed for early 2000s pop punk in 2020. I skimmed through Mainstream Sellout when it released and never came back to it. We got Lost Americana last year which was a step up from the second record and I listened to it a bunch. But we also got Tickets To My Downfall All Access last year, the 5th anniversary reissue. Original tracklist, the bonus tracks from the SOLD OUT Deluxe, plus 5 new unreleased tracks. Whew. It was good to hear some more…