A Brill Day (Green Day - Live)

Member Name: Dringostarr

Product:	Green Day - Live
Date:	29/07/02 (236 review reads)
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Advantages: Extended songs, Covers, Comedy

Disadvantages: "Eh oh"

They had been on the road for 8 months when the turned up at Wembely on Wednesday 17th July, to what had seemed a packed out arena to play some of the greatest music of all time. It was hard to fault Green Day, whilst the lacked the comic genius of Blink 182 they made up with incredible extensions of their well established songs and random covers of other musical genius.

Green Day's attempt to get the crowd moving was non-stop, from the chants being started by Billie Joe himself to the occasional cry of "Whose your daddy", one famous moment had Billie Joe retrieve 3 audience members who are still in early stages of Drum, Bass and lead Guitar playing to finish off one of their songs. Sadly the attempts to get the crowd going is one of their downfalls especially in the form of "EH OH", Christ if I had to say that one more time I would scream! Nevertheless I was so caught up in the excitement generated from such a long standing band such a minor gripe is barley worth mentioning. Billie Joe tried the comical side of things after all this was the British version of the "pop disaster tour" that Blink 182 starred in America. The various people dressed in comical clothing such as the wasp and YMCA dancing drunken rabbit. What had me in hysterics was the WWE wrestling taunt "Spin-a-roonie" pulled off excellently by Billie Joe and when Billie Joe yelled, "Pi**off then" to a croud member that didn't want to go on stage.

Music wise I was utterly stunned, the music was often halted with the basic rift merging in the background to here Billie Joe speak to the audience such as "Who struggled to get here because of the F****** tube? Well we're here to make it all worth it" these sorta antics led to a 10 minute version of Minority that featured a mini song within. Famous at Green Day gigs are the covers of famous well established musical hits, in the case of the Wembely gig "Shout" wa
s played and really got the crowd going. From the occasional stage dive to drenching the crowd with a super soaker that was so big it probably needed a license. The lighting effects were no less than stunning especially in comparison to the poor support band errr Christ's (I think), from the flashing Green Day logo turning from green to red and the skull and crossbones that had an array of multi coloured lights flashing upon it. Probably the more comical moment was at the end is when Green Day decided to smash up their set, first the drum set was smashed to pieces and the guitar set alight and then guess what Green Day decided to do? An encore, quickly getting a new guitar and trying to fix the drum set together with Tre' Cool sitting on the floor because he destroyed his chair, utter brilliant.

Go see them I advise you do.

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