What Is It Like to See Honey Revenge Live?

Crowd Surfers Are Invited, First-Timers Too

Bodies go over your head all night, and the band actively wants them there. At their first US headline show, in an Orlando room with no barrier in November 2023, fans who had never been to a concert surfed to the front and then just stayed on the stage instead of jumping back off (Papadol to Ticketmaster Discover). At the barricade-less Le Poisson Rouge in June 2025, surfers kept landing straight on the stage (The Concert Chronicles). At the Belasco in Los Angeles on June 20, 2026, two "PE instructors" walked on mid-song and counted: 24 surfers before it ended, according to a fan write-up on The Indy Review. The band watches out for them, too. Supporting Stand Atlantic in Southampton in September 2024, Papadol called out security a couple of songs in because nobody was helping surfers down (Squareone).

Devin Ends Up in the Pit

Papadol doesn't stay up there. At The Vic in Chicago in June 2025 she went into the crowd and danced with fans during "Worst Apology" (Good Guys Press). At Dynamo in Eindhoven on January 23, 2026, the same song had her in the mosh pit (Melomaniacs), and at Electric Ballroom in Camden a week later she jumped down to sing with the front rows (Loud Women). On stage she dances through every instrumental gap and throws vertical leg kicks, and guitarist Donny Lloyd matched her with a high kick on a beat drop at the Belasco. Papadol calls the band the "choir students" of a lineup because the movement is choreographed and coordinated (WMSC).

"Habitual" Is the Singalong, and She'll Teach You

The song everybody shouts is "Habitual." At Delmar Hall on June 5, 2025, the room sang its eight-word chorus back (The Arts STL), and in Eindhoven in January 2026 Papadol stopped to teach the lyrics to newer fans before handing it over to them (Melomaniacs). The Mezzic reviewer at the Uptown Theater Summer School stop in July 2026 heard lots of people shouting along to it and took that as proof the band had grown in the past nine months (Mezzic). If you only learn one song beforehand, make it this one.

"Airhead" Is the Last Thing You'll Hear

Papadol calls "Airhead" the band's biggest song, which is a little funny since it never got a music video (WMSC). It closes the set: after "Distracted" at a Stand Atlantic support in September 2024 (Taped Magazine), as the 19th and final song at The Beacham in Orlando in June 2025 (100% Rock), as the main-set closer at The Vic, at the end of the co-headline set in Eindhoven, and right after "Are You Impressed?" at the Uptown Theater in July 2026 (Mezzic). The one exception we found was The Foundry back in August 2023, when it opened the set instead. Don't leave before it.

Devin Will Tell You About Her Dad

The quiet stretch of a headline set is Papadol talking about losing her father. At The Beacham she spoke about his death and how it fed into the songs (100% Rock). At The Vic, in his home city, one of his close friends was standing in the crowd, and the reviewer said the then-unreleased "Loving and Losing" landed harder for it (Good Guys Press). At Delmar Hall she and Lloyd told the room how the band started and asked everyone to hold on to the people they love. It's short, and the pit goes still for it.

Who's Standing Next to You

The band says outright that the room is meant to feel safe. "It's very apparent you're not seeing a bunch of straight white guys up there," Lloyd told Kerrang in 2023, and Papadol describes Honey Revenge as a queer band made up of strong women (WMSC). "You see people at our shows, and you can just tell they're Honey Revenge fans by looking at them," Papadol told the same interview. Crowds know the words even where they shouldn't: at Riot Fest in September 2025, Lloyd reckoned about 80 percent of a festival crowd knew "Distracted" (The Luna Collective). The Loveless support show at The Studio at the Factory in 2023 drew an all-ages room (mxdwn).