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Green Day … I Seen the Light!
I have been lucky enough to witness the fantastic Green Day live in concert at the SECC , Glasgow (Mon 21st June 2010) and I must say they were unbelievable. I didn’t know a lot of their music before seeing them especially their older stuff but the songs I did know such as American Idiot, Jesus of Suburbia and Minority I thought were excellent so I was really looking forward to the gig.
Talk about value for money, the sheer energy and commitment of their show was second to none. The band played for over a mammoth two and a half hours, which consisted of over 30 songs from their 20 year back catalog featuring tracks and hits from seven of their eight albums. I was exhausted by the end and I had just been watching them! Green Day have been in our lives for over 20 years now and this really shows with how they work the stage and audience.
Green Day opened with “Song of the Century”, the first track from their 2009 album 21st Century Breakdown, and then proceeded into track 2 “21st Century Breakdown”. The pyrotechnics and shooting flames were spectacular as well. Audience participation is a huge part of their show and throughout the 3 hours the charismatic front man Billie Joe Armstrong, brought several fans onstage to help out on vocals and on one occasion in particular one fan sang the whole of ‘Longview’ while the rest of the band played on.
Billie Joe likes his on stage props as he proceeded to launch Green Day t-shirts and toilet roll from some kind of air launcher gun. Have a look below at something similar from another concert:
The show closed with Green Day playing two encores, with the particular highlights being ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’ and ‘Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).’
If you have the chance to go see them live do not turn it down as you will not be disappointed.