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It always would've been a greatest hits setlist. It's a coheadlining tour, all three bands did greatest hits because that's what works for that type of show. It means fans of all three bands (as well as people who just want to see three big bands live) can really get into every set. I would've been bored if Weezer and Fall Out Boy hadn't played their hits, I imagine the same goes for fans of those bands watching Green Day. Not to mention the many Green Day fans seeing them for the first time who also want to see the hits. Playing deep cuts or a lot of new songs no one knows on this tour would've been dumb, it's not the place for it. How can you really say it's a boring tour when you didn't attend a show and you're judging solely by the setlist? There's a lot more to what makes a show good or bad than just the setlist. Also they surprised us with a cover of All the Young Dudes in London. I wasn't expecting to see anything I hadn't before but got two new covers (that and Rock and Roll all Nite) plus a cool drum solo thing from Tre that I'd also never seen, and the whole show was great.

I just want to comment on the assertion that you saw the full show on YouTube and concluded the tour was boring. There is a world of difference between watching a video of a live act and seeing it in person. What makes these shows exciting is the live energy no matter what they play. I think we all learned during the pandemic that Zoom meetings and online learning are no substitute for human interaction because the screen cuts off that energy that gives us what we need for social connection and its the same with live shows. You can’t even compare the two. When I saw Green Day live, I was having so much fun singing, dancing and watching the performance I honestly didn’t care what they played, even though I agree it’s boring to watch a hundred live videos of American Idiot or Minority.

Omg that bellie photo! Although I loved all the short sleeved looks I gotta go basic and say my favorite is the plain black tee. It was the youngest look on him and reminded me of the Nimrod years.

Fangirl poll! I was just organizing my pics from this year, and the easiest way to do it was by shirt, since Billie actually gave us some variety this year. So I thought, what's your favorite outfit from on tour this year? Outfit examples spoilered since there's a lot of them. So what was your favorite tour look this year?

Same! I would really want to see their high quality documentary footage.

@TJChrobo was the real goat

I love this photo because it really looks like he’s in a child’s booster seat with his two dads up front 😜

What stuns me is that he actually cares enough to see it’s happening. I know it’s close but I think I would only see this mass of people, he really must be watching the crowd, so amazing of him, I love it.

I like you man, but the irony of this post..

The tour was a lot of fun and they are still amazing live, even though the setlist overall wasn't that great. They did change it up for some shows, from the top of my head, I remember 2000 light years away, Scattered and parts of 80. I don't see them stop playing AI.

You can't avoid that. Albums are always going to have filler along with 4 or 5 hit singles. But filler is really only a matter of one's opinion. What may be filler to one fan, may be another fan's favorite song.

Agree the show set list was a little tame, they have played shorter sets, in 2017 they played 2 hours 20 mins on average, now it’s around 1 hour 40, and I do think it’s because of possibly there age. i don’t think American idiot hits to be all cut, but I do they should at least keep American idiot and boulevard of broken dreams. Very upset they didn’t perform still breathing or forever now, which where amazing live. overall, I think it was still worth seeing, and weezer and fall out boy was bands I’d probably never normally see. And according to billboard I think is one of the biggest selling tours, all the bands are under crush management, so they must be really happy. lets hope the next tour is a little more focused on an album, and have those songs in.

The black t-shirt, the Hawaiian shirt, and the red shirt in Norway were my favourites. As for him stopping during Longview at Huddersfield, this video shows what happened. Around 1:10 the crowd surges forward on Billie's right-hand side of the stage and people fall over- he couldn't miss it. Oh, and I'm in the block nearest to the stage on the far side.

The Hawaiian shirt was good too! And the merch tshirt. It’s like by the time they reached the UK he said fuck it and came up with the dorkiest outfits. And I think he looked fantastic in the dark red suit. That color and polka dots worked great for him.

The tshirt was such a nice surprise that I have to go with it. At the beginning I had to do a double take to realize who that boy by the guitar rack was

From Tré Mike from @batmansmom There was another photo of Mike but it had already been posted previously From Kevin (there was a ton of stuff on his Instagram story but just posting these two)

I met Tre, and told him I'm looking forward to 1972, and his reply was 'me too man'

I was very pissy about HM way back when it was announced and I only went to a festival date instead of a regular HM show. I have to say that I’m still not a fan of the whole concept because it’s a greatest hits type of deal and I’d much rather like to see a setlist that would pander to fans instead of the general public. As someone who has seen the show twice in 2017, there wasn’t much of surprise element for me, but I cannot complain about the show itself. It was a great show with lots of energy and crown interaction that worked (which really made gd stand out compared to other acts i saw that weekend… FOB kept talking about being in a wrong country ). I had a normal amount of fun, not the over-the moon teenage fan amount of fun, but that wasn’t Green Day’s fault. Boring is the last word I would use to describe it and no one I talked to felt bored either. Would I be more excited if they played loads of deep cuts? Absolutely. Would the other 35k people be more excited too? I have some doubts about that. But after 10 years of being a fan, I can handle hearing the hits one more time. There really isn’t a lot of time to think about the setlist while you’re busy enjoying the show. I think they wouldn’t do this tour if they didn’t want to make the most out of their legacy now. Plus I think doing a package tour was a smoother way of making this transition to openly being a legacy act than plainly going “ok so we’re cutting our set by an hour and playing the hits now” during a regular tour… Cutting out the last 10 years of their career is the most jarring decision of it all and honestly two only possible explanations for it are that they’ve decided to go fully down the road of playing the biggest hits to an audience that only knows American Idiot anyway and that Billie Joe struggles to remember the lyrics.

Soo, the tour is over. Here are my quick thoughts about it: This tour was announced in 2019 and it didn't give any good feelings; Green Day shouldn't play alongside other big bands, they're big enough for their own tours. Plus side, they were set to perform in Finland for the first time since 2013 and Fall Out Boy was never scheduled for that show, so I was pretty excited to hear new tracks and my favorite track She live once again. Well, then COVID happened, FOAM was forgotten and instead of good setlist, we got Greatest Hits tour. Woohoo. They also scheduled Helsinki show for next year before ultimately cancelling it, thus resulting me not seeing Green Day like I was supposed to. Shit luck, but can't say that I missed a thing. Quick notes from the setlist: - She was taken out during summer shows in 2022 and only god knows will this be permanent decision or just temporary. They did play both She and King for a Day on 2 shows, until finally ditching She for rest of the tour in favor of playing 10 minutes of KFAD. She is high energy song that requires a lot of stamina and healthy vocal chords in order to pull it off consistently every show and this is the first time they've ever ditched it from the tour. It might be just because there wasn't enough time for KFAD, but it also might be because The Boys can't perform it that well anymore. Time will tell what happens to my favorite track, but honestly, I don't mind if they decided to retire it for good. They will never ever perform it as good as they did during 21st CB shows. - This tour didn't bring any other surprises to the setlist other than Pollyanna actually getting performed, Rock and Roll All Nite, 21 Guns making sort of comeback and FOAM getting ditched completely from the setlist. I thought FOAM was perfect for live setting, considering the songs were short and catchy, but for whatever reason it's now dead and buried and wont be seen ever again on shows. 21 Guns making comeback for Greatest Hits tour isn't surprising, but man do they really hate that last verse and chorus, considering that version hasn't been performed since 2010. It feels incredibly stupid to listen emotional solo and then transition to Minority straight away. - Regarding Pollyanna, it was a feel good song that was made thanks to COVID. I was surprised they decided to perform it live and that was a right call. Song sounds amazing. - Rock and Roll All Nite is fine and I still listen live version on Spotify regularly. Good pick for this tour, although covers in general are just lame for bands like Green Day. - I don't ever wanna see or hear any of American Idiot hits again after this tour. I guess Wake Me Up When September Ends is still fine, but man it's really time to ditch AI/Holiday/Boulevard/Jesus for good from the next tour. There are other good tracks from that album that could be swapped in place. - Then there are some other tracks that are still for some reason brought in setlists. Why is Waiting, Hitchin' a Ride (10min version) and King For a Day still in the setlist? I guess you could argue Hitchin' a Ride being a hit, but Waiting and KFAD didn't deserve to be on this tour over Trilogy/RR/FOAM singles. - As for omitting Trilogy/RR/FOAM singles, they really could've swapped even once Know Your Enemy to East Jesus Nowhere, Minority/Waiting to whatever Trilogy song they liked the most and Hitchin' a Ride for Bang Bang and Father of All. Now that I'm thinking of this, are they really ashamed to perform the tracks they've made during last 10 years excluding COVID song Pollyanna? Why even make new albums if American Idiot is always gonna be better option? - If and when they actually perform a true Greatest Hits Tour, I truly wish they will pick atleast one song from each album to truly represent their sound over the years. That is the only way you can truly enjoy Greatest Hits shows; to actually witness their growth in music over the years. All in all, this was by far the most boring Tour GD has ever done. Hardly any surprises, same Greatest Hits setlist every show, short and dull. If this tour was done in 2020 like it was supposed to, I believe I'd have enjoyed it more due to actually seeing them live and probably seeing more FOAM tracks in the shows. Now I'm just left shittier versions of the hits that will never match their 2009-2010 peak and absolutely zero positive feelings for future shows. If this is how Green Day wants to perform for years to come, I can't truly stay as a fan and that's crazy thing to even think about considering how much I love this band.

Hi, I'm trying to download a copy of Green Day's cover song "I Fought the Law" on mp3. I'm in the UK. I can only find is on the USA Amazon site as an mp3, but am told by Amazon I cannot buy an mp3 from USA to UK. It's not available on UK Amazon site. Can anyone kindly help? This is the one Green Day song that has eluded me. Thanks. Can I take the opportunity to say, sincerely and humbly, having only been on this site a few short months, I feel part of an awesome family. Although I don't post much, I spend hours reading all your posts, I think your all amazing. It's so special being a Green Day freak since 1989, coz Green Day are so special and unique. Love you all.

I agree with the black t-shirt, but I also kind of love the Hawaiian shirt

I'm surprised so many of us are going with the plain T-shirt! I thought I'd be the odd one out on that. Yeah, that's my favorite. Just a really great, simple look that is at the same time very youthful.

Give me a double album green day. Bonus: no filler

I knew the t-shirt was going to get a lot of votes. Other than the first one being my favorite, oddly enough my second and third are also are long sleeves. I like the Dublin and Stockholm ones. I like the casualness and humor of Dublin, and like him in pink. Least favorite by far is the plain black long sleeves. So tired of that one.

T-shirt ❤

That makes sense!! Remember when Billie shared those Sweet Children fan art album covers? 1972: The Making of the Sweet Children album And as I said a few pages back, they better not make this a Paramount Plus or Disney Plus exclusive. I would love a DVD/Blu Ray, or even better if it’s a theatrical release!!!

My dream would be for them to play one of the aftershows. Ideal dream, play it as the Foxies.

Many fans meeting them in Europe and no one asked about the new album

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfzCnWns2LM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link "Green Day live at Firenze Rocks, Italy"

”Green Day live at Firenze Rocks, Italy https://www.instagram.com/p/CfzCnWns2LM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfzCnWns2LM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link ”Green Day live at Firenze Rocks, Italy”

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfzCnWns2LM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link ”Green Day live at Firenze Rocks, Italy 🇮🇹” Sorry if these have been posted before.

Yeah it works for him. I like when he lets his hair go natural(-ish)

Yeah, it’s incredible he notices. I would think he’d be too focused on what he’s doing.

That was at Huddersfield, one of the shows I went to. He stopped two separate times at that one to check on people in the audience. Just makes me adore him even more when you see him looking after people like that . He actually played Ziggy Stardust one of the times he stopped too which I was so happy about as I had only ever seen videos of him doing that song with the Coverups in the US.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CftwpIeM3Wa/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CfwZG5QDhnj/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CfwYnNZDfFd/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CfwZBztDEt6/

Probably did not really want to spend a night off tour at a very low key award show!

I hope this works because I am a bit useless at adding pictures!lol! Here is a few of my best ones from London. I couldn't remember who wanted pictures of the Union Jack flag, but here you go! I do love the one of Billie smiling during Good Riddance (even if it is from the screen!) 😍

He did mention it! And during the last song, Time of you life, he included verses from 80, he suddenly swithched it to "I do not mind if this goes on, cause now it seems I'm too far gone, I must admit that I enjoy myself, 80 please keep taking me away", and it was beautiful! Them he said "this is the last show of the tour, <...>, we saved the best for last, <...> I don't know what else to tell you, umm, I love you?" And this is picture of me and a friend I gave spare ticket. https://ibb.co/LdCpCWr

Now these reviews were written by people who were there: https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/music-review-green-day-bellahouston-park-glasgow-3752971 This one is Dublin https://metalplanetmusic.com/2022/06/gig-review-hella-mega-tour-of-green-day-fall-out-boy-and-weezer-lands-in-marlay-park/

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/9093577/green-day-glasgow-bellahouston-fan-sneaks-in-hack/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=scottishsunfacebook&utm_source=Facebook&fs=e&s=cl#Echobox=1656679729 What a hero

UPDATE: My friend, who is also a Green Day fan, and whom I gave one spare ticket to France show, convinced me to not give up. She even gave me 200 euro for flight ticket search, my mother also gave the same amount. So I started searching for flights, but unsuccesfully, and suddenly I found one random direct flight from Oslo to Paris. It was not cheap (I wrote the requests for a refund as you all suggested), but thanks to good people I could afford to buy it, and... I'm in Paris now!!! This means that I could see Green Day... and yesterday I was feeling completely hopeless. I still cannot believe this. I am very exhausted of this rollercoaster of emotions, but... fuck, it seems I really made it.