Saturday evening at the Convocation Center was a hairdresser’s nightmare, as kids with every hairstyle and color imaginable poured in to see Paramore and Jimmy Eat World in concert.

It appeared immediately that the majority of the crowd came to hear the powerful vocals of Hayley Williams, lead singer of Paramore. Fans were dressed from head to toe in Paramore merchandise, as they poured in to get close to the red-headed rocker on stage.

Williams made sure to make her fans proud to be there as she pumped them up for each and every song. She had fists pumping, rock-fingers waving, and kids jumping and dancing as she belted out her hit “Crushcrushcrush” and had the crowd belting back with “Whoa” from Paramore’s first album, “All We Know Is Falling.”

The crowd got even more excited with the song “Misery Business.” It appeared that many of the young women in the crowd could relate as they chanted the lyrics as if they were coming from their own hearts.

“I came here just to see Paramore tonight,” junior Jill Nozar said. “They were amazing, though. Hayley has such an amazing stage presence and ability to get the crowd rockin’ that I was too tired to stay for Jimmy Eat World.”

However, as much of an idol as Williams is, some observant fans noticed something that was not exactly ladylike of the 19-year-old singer.

“She was spitting huge loogies throughout the entire show!” said junior Kiki Holevas. “I was just glad to be sitting in the seats, because I am sure that a few of those people in the front got a face-full.”

Though the audience was pretty much all standing as Jimmy Eat World started their set, it was obvious that they were not as excited for this band. During the first song or two from their new album “Chase This Light,” fans stood almost motionless as they watched the band and slowly swayed back and forth.

Only a few scattered fans danced and sang with the enthusiasm Paramore fans showed, but this changed when the band played “Salt Sweet Sugar.” The crowd picked up as they sang along to the familiar lyrics from the band’s most successful album, “Bleed American.”

The crowd seemed to really only get excited during songs from that album. Perhaps most of the crowd was too young to be into Jimmy Eat World, as most of them were probably in elementary school when “The Middle” was on the radio.

But some die hard fans were in the crowd as well. Sophomore Joe Newton was happy that the band chose to return with an encore performance starting with “Hear You Me.”

“That’s the song that hooked me on them.” he said.

“I was so glad they played that song,” Nozar said. “After the shootings, this was one of the songs that really stuck with my friends and I [sic]. We even wrote the lyrics to it on one of the bulletin boards at the vigil, so it meant a lot for [them] to come back with that.”

The band responsible for kicking off the evening were the bearded men of Dear and the Headlights. Their charming sound and unique vocals were unfortunately drowned out by the blaring bass, which made it difficult to comprehend the lyrics.

The band was very enthusiastic and surprisingly comfortable on stage. The keyboard player showed the most energy. He lept up on his folding chair and jumped around on it while jamming on his keyboard, making audience members gasp, hoping the chair would hold up to his bounding enthusiasm.

Other members also had fun as they all played along with tambourines for one song, and in another, the two guitarists played the cymbals with the drummer.