Honey Revenge and the Summer School Tour Come to Irving Plaza
Written by Ash Schnoor on August 10, 2026
On July 1st, Honey Revenge, Chase Petra, Winona Fighter, South Arcade, and Games We Play brought the Summer School Tour to Irving Plaza in New York City, and the crowd was ready before the first note hit. Main singer Devin Papadol was battling a cold, but you would have had a hard time knowing it from the floor.
From the opening notes of “Run Your Mouth,” the room was already locked in. The energy in Irving Plaza that night had that specific quality that comes with a crowd that knows every word to every song and has been waiting a long time to scream them in a room together. “Seeing Negative,” “Recipe for Disaster,” and “Habitual” came in quick succession, and the place never let up.
What made this set interesting was the balancing act Devin had talked about leading up to the tour: new music sitting alongside the Retrovision era catalog, each side of the setlist carrying a different kind of weight. New tracks like “Risk,” “Butterfly Effect,” and “Hot Commodity” held their own next to fan favorites, and the crowd met every single one of them with the same energy. For songs that were still relatively new to a live setting, they landed like songs people had known for years. That is not something every band can pull off.
The back half of the set leaned into the Retrovision deep cuts. “Distracted” and “Are You Impressed?” hit the way they always do live, but there was something different about hearing them this run, knowing this is the last proper tour these songs are getting. The crowd seemed to feel that too.
“Sunday Scaries” was one of the newer tracks in the set, and it was a standout moment. There is something about hearing a song that is still fresh find its footing in a live room, and Irving Plaza took to it immediately. The crowd was loud in a way that suggested this one is going to be a staple before long. If this is what the next era of Honey Revenge sounds like, the people in that room got an early preview of something worth paying attention to.
The set closed with “Airhead,” and it landed exactly the way it should. No music video, no grand rollout, just the song that quietly became the one people point to when they talk about how they found this band. Hearing a room full of people sing it back was the kind of thing that makes you understand why Devin gets emotional talking about this era.
Honey Revenge made sure Irving Plaza felt every bit of it.
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