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Honestly, this is looking worse every day... Here's a timeline for you... Billie relocates to London > The Queen dies > Billie and his band flee to South America Pretty disturbing stuff. Not hard to put the pieces together...

I think this one is worthy of a place in this thread too

OMG I WAS THEREEE!!!!! I disconnected myself from the entire world to see three of my favorite people ever I'm so happy!!! My body still hurts, I was almost crushed by a sea of people at the front row but I don't care- IT WAS WORTH IT. Classic setlist, and always the same good energy and love... and i'll stop writing because i'm starting to cry. Love U Green Day. Gracias!!!

How about 2112. 5150? 8701. 1984? Anyone? Bueller?

Yeah for sure, Green Day are better at making it look spontaneous. How many reviews have we seen from cities where the journalist seems shocked and amazed that they brought someone up to play and gave the guitar away and we’re like uh, he does that every show 🙄 I mean yeah it’s awesome of them but was not an off the cuff crazy spur of the moment move, they just make it look that way every time.

From Green Day’s Instagram story

Green Day with @bastardosdelunder who were one of the support bands at the show https://www.instagram.com/p/CibG3MIMWoB/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= And from their Instagram story https://instagram.com/stories/bastardosdelunder/2925626009183936498?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

What a show, it was absolutely insane. Short but intense and powerful, my body is still destroyed. Finally they played Welcome To Paradise for first time since 1998, which for obvious reasons i couldn't attend to that concert (I was 5 years old in 1998).

Every big live act is a piece of theater. I’d say Green Day’s is centered around the songs a bit more than what some other artists do, but that’s just a creative choice.

Rock in Rio Buenos Aires

19-19-1985.

Totally agree with you but I kinda think that only diehards can see this as highly scripted -- it's scripted to not feel scripted to a first-time viewer, in a way? Coldplay has been headlining huge festivals/concerts in Brazil for 10 years now and this is Green Day's first time. I think the "illusion" is revealed only when you see the big picture -- yes you get to be on stage but always at the same parts of the same songs -- which is a highly controlled form of freedom

From Green Day’s Instagram story

Don't think this has been posted before (apologies if so)

Okay, I was nice about the last show but gosh dang, Green Day. Think about the rich, rich fans who are front row center at every show in the world. Not that they are bored with your setlist, noooo. But whoever they are....they can now perform your show with their hands tied behind their back. They could hit the road as Green Day 2.0 and everyone will go see those rich weirdos instead of you because they might switch it up every 1000 shows or something. I'm going to go see if Viagra Boys or Highly Suspect have really cool message boards like this one. And if they do..... Well... I'll become obsessed with them. I guess I should see if they play the same show every night for 20 years in a row first. But gosh darn it, Green Day. I known it a huge production and things are timed and Yada Yada, but there's room for audibles. For these sucky setlists, I demand the next audible be a Know One Knows / Jerry Caldwells Pool Party / Kill the DJ medley. And bring back the Midwest medley too, but add Southern Girls to it. Kidding, kidding. But if we get 1972 and they don't perform any songs from it, I'ma actually email Billie and ask what the deal is.

An article by Julio Maria from Estadão. I'm gonna translate the part where he writes about Green Day because there's a paywall. "Green Day versus Coldplay Anyway, what's the best show of Rock in Rio? Everybody has its own, but here there's an argument in favor of Green Day. Both bands, Billie Joe Armstrong's and Chris Martin's, work with very different emotional registers. Green Day access the anger - not hate, but anger, something sweeter - and Coldplay binds to love. But, independently from the part of the brain they operate, Armstrong and Martin's positions on the stage are very different and this will be definitive on the concert they do. More honest, Green Day lets their crowd feel with freedom what the band does on stage. Feel with freedom, that's the point. Just like literature or cinema, the emotions can be manipulated in a concert, making it possible the timing of the exact moment the first tear will drop from the face of a fan. This is Coldplay. The souls controlled all the time by the centralizer Chris Martin don't even decide when the lights binded on their arms will be triggered. Leave everything with uncle Chris Martin and just do what he says. A livestock-like behavior that would be concerning if Martin was a bad guy. How nice he isn't."

Yes, but it’s their footage from RevRad! Good old Kerrang 😂

I'm surprised this hasn't made it here https://thisisjoy.tumblr.com/post/695055153355718656 I couldn't get the gif to upload properly this time https://www.instagram.com/p/CiXYqNVNvXW/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Likewise I couldn't find a thread for this show either and it will be happening soon

That’s the retirement plan 😂😂😂

Or maybe Green Day should rename

Kevin with fans in Argentina

Good shots (the second one!) and videos here. I don’t know what it is but he seemed happier and more into this show than Rio https://www.instagram.com/p/Ciar-WJOLML/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

If that happens I think we'll all sign off on that email

“You’re making me f*cking cry”: Green Day share footage from “craziest” Argentina show https://www.kerrang.com/youre-making-me-f-cking-cry-green-day-share-footage-from-craziest-argentina-show

Sounds like a good break is needed after these planned shows wrap up. Take the rest of the year to rest and refresh, and come back in 2023 with the album strong.

Again the boring HM setlist. I don't get it. They come all the long way to South America and don't treat the local fans with a rare setlist.

I mean when someone says "I'm not interested in hearing their new stuff" I don't think that means "I'm not gonna go if they're playing any material I haven't heard before". I think it just means "I'm mostly coming for the hits and the songs I already know. They can play a couple new songs but I don't want half of the songs to be brand new songs I've not heard before" To be fair, if I was going to a show of a band I wasn't that familiar with, I wouldn't be wanting to hear a ton of brand new songs I've never heard before. I prefer my first experience listening to a new song or album to not be live. I prefer hearing the live version of a song after I'm already familiar with the studio version.

He seemed to be in pretty good form on Rio, not seen much yet from Argentina. Every time I look at those crowds, their reaction and the whole circus that surrounds these massive shows and being in a band of this calibre, I don’t know how anyone copes with it, hopefully he just needs some peace.

I know, I got very excited when I saw that!

These are just awesome And a smile here Love this one from Green Day also

That must mean we're getting a new Green Day single that same week!!!

You should NEVER have a beverage that close to your record player. And they were actually POURING right there beside it. I would have bought some if it weren't for that. I like irresponsibility, but not THAT much irresponsibility.

The 👏 album 👏 won't 👏 release 👏 until 👏 2023

No.

No Elmo! No! Not you too 😭

It means he’s still relevant ❤️

Not even 10 minutes at work and I got the joke. *sigh*

The WMUWSE jokes are coming. Please remember it's only jokes. We know it's about his father. And no he didn't locked himself in his room and screamed to his mother ''Wake me up when september ends''

On Monday, American Idiot was certified double platinum in Italy https://www.socialartist.it/2022/08/29/certificazioni-34-2022/

coming back to it after a while, i’m once again amazed how beautiful the lyrics on this album are

Some of Billie's old Instagram posts

Ticket prices have gone up since Crush took over but I didn't know about the dynamic pricing thing with Ticketmaster. Is it also because there's no longer any money to be made out of record sales so the only way to make money in the music industry is around the live performances