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Green Day - Live |
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01/11/00 (160 review reads) |
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Advantages: It was Green Day, they where live playing my favourite songs - what more could I want
Disadvantages: Not a thing
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 banner dropped down and we saw Green Day's banner it brought up a huge cheer.
After another half-hour Green Day came on stage to a huge Belfast welcome. Billie Joe had dyed blond hair, Mike had short hair and Tre was wearing a Nimrod T-shirt and shorts. Billie Joe stood on a flight case and lapped up the applause. They launched into the opening song and the moshpit went wild, jumping all over the place and the crowd-surfers started. This would be a good place to put in the setlist
WELCOME TO PARADISE
GEEK STINK BREATH
NICE GUYS FINISH LAST
HITCHIN A RIDE
THE GROUCH
CHUMP
LONGVIEW
2000 LIGHT YEARS AWAY
BRAIN STEW
JADED
KNOWLEDGE
BASKET CASE
SHE
FOD
PAPER LANTERNS
*BREAK*
SCATTERED
PROSTHETIC HEAD
WHEN I COME AROUND
TIME OF YOUR LIFE
After the first song, I had been knocked over and trampled a few times, so I went back a bit to get a bit of space to jumpa round in. Being further away from the band didn't hinder my enjoyment as I had more room to flail around and enjoy myself!
Billie Joe was on top form. He requested clothes from the audience, and people threw clothes up on stage and he put them on, ending up with three or four layers of clothes. His best quote was "We wher
e here last at a gay festival five years ago, and I can see quite a few of you have come back again".
The intensity the band played with was fanatstic. They ripped through the songs, with a certain aggression it is only possible to obtain live. The highlight was probably them getting someone up on stage to help out with "Knowledge". I met the guy at the end and congratulated him. I was so jealous, he got to meet the band!
They played loads of my favourite songs, Bille was in top form and telling jokes and being funny all night.
It was a gig I wished would never end. I was tired, sweating and gasping for a drink, but I didn't go get one as I didn't want to miss anything. I came out with ringing ears and no voice left but I was really happy. I can't wait until I see Green Day again.
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mo79 - 05/11/00 I saw the band on the Nimrod tour too at Brixton Academy, really enjoyable night! |
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