Green Day - Live

Being a huge Green Day fan I was naturally excited to be going to see my favourite band and queued for over an hour before the doors opened in order to get a spot at the front near my heroes. Being glad to be let in out of the cold night outside, I took my place at the barrier and waited for the support act, D:Generation to come on. They weren't anything special, but they where alright, something to jump around to and get ready for what was ahead. After half an hour D:Generation finished with a song that I actually had heard before (It was in a film I seen once). The roadies came on and begun to bring on Green Day's kit. As the D:Generation ...  Read the complete review

Date - 6th February 2005 Venue - Carling Hammersmith Apollo, Hammersmith, London Main Act - Green Day Support - New Found Glory ~~~ The Venue ~~~ The venue in itself was an absolute joy, providing comfortable seating with decent views of the band and the surrounding area in general. Having been an old cinema, the seats were previously catered to allow a prime view of the stage area, and luckily that hasn’t been compromised since it’s renovation to an ‘events’ arena. The Apollo itself, has hosted some of the main players in modern music over the last 10 years, yet never a band of the ‘gigging’ calibre of Green Day. ...  Read the complete review

There have been 2 occassions in my life in which I've seen Green Day live, July 2002 and 21st June 2005. Since 1998, Green Day had been a huge part of my musical life, and were my favourite band of all time. (I was even one of THOSE people who would learn trivia about the band members, thinking it would be of use one day). Seeing them the first time for their International Superhits tour was absolutely incredible, words cannot describe how insatiable I was with their fantastic mix of songs from all their albums. However, seeing them at Milton Keynes Bowl on 18/8/05 was a completely different matter. Bear in mind this was the tour for ...  Read the complete review

I have been to see Green Day twice, both in very different settings. The difference in location attracted different people. One crowd made me feel disollusioned with punk, life and everything. The other made me smile for weeks. The first time I saw Green Day was at Nottingham Arena, 09/12/00. I ended up stood second from the very front. No complaints, apart from being kicked by crowd surfers and landed on. What got me was the way Billie Joe had to stop on a regular basis and ask the crowd to help each other out, pick people up and so on. Although his please of "C'mon, we're in this together" seemed a bit cheesey at the time, I quickly realised ...  Read the complete review

Seeing Green Day live at Leeds Festival last year was by far the highlight of my summer. After waiting all year to see the band and going to Leeds purely to see them I wasn't disappointed. I arrived in Leeds on the Saturday to catch what seemed to be the punk day. The Friday had been mainly metal and not being a big metal fan I decided to give it miss. The Saturday was fantastic. A beautiful day sat on a hill watching some of the biggest names in music play. After waiting for PJ Harvey on the main stage and watching her whole set just to get a good view of Green Day I was as eager as anyone there, if not more so. I had missed out on seeing the band ...  Read the complete review