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Green Day will be playing Dookie and American Idiot in Jakarta, according to the promoters. They also said: “It was actually quite difficult to invite them. The process took quite a long time, I even had to come to LA, I was invited there.” https://en.tempo.co/read/1908281/green-day-returns-to-indonesia-after-28-years-get-ready-for-ticket-war Interesting that it says Green Day will be playing Dookie and American Idiot at this show too

3 years ago yesterday (29 August 2021), Green Day played in San Diego, CA on the Hella Mega Tour. More photos: 7 years ago yesterday (29 August 2017), Green Day played in Hartford, CT on the Revolution Radio Tour. More photos: 12 years ago (29 August 2012), Green Day played in Monchengladbach, Germany on the trilogy promo tour. More photos: 20 years ago (29 August 2004), Green Day played Reading Festival on the American Idiot Tour. They played a few covers they don't usually play – I Fought the Law, Blitzkrieg Bop and Ever Fallen in Love. More photos: 26 years ago (29 August 1998), Green Day played Rock am See in Konstanz, Germany. 29 years ago (29 August 1995), Green Day played in Oslo, Norway on the Insomniac Tour. 32 years ago (29 August 1992), they played at 924 Gilman Street. 33 years ago (29 August 1991), they played in Kansas City. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today (30 August 2024), Green Day are playing in Nashville, TN on the Saviors Tour. More photos and setlist on GDA On this day 12 years ago (30 August 2012), Green Day played in Berlin, Germany on the trilogy promo tour. More photos: 14 years ago (30 August 2010), Green Day played in Phoenix, AZ on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. This was the first time I saw Green Day in the US. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen and is still one of my most treasured memories. I touched up my recap about five years ago but it still seems a bit embarrassingly written now. Here it is anyway: "It was like everything leading up to this was a five-second dream. I was sitting in England, then I was suddenly there in the Arizona heat, surrounded by palm trees; hearing Song of the Century, the closest I’d ever been to a stage Green Day were about to take. Around us, the crowd chanted ‘Green Day! Green Day!’ Then the band ran on – Billie with his blond hair and striped jeans, Tré in shorts, perfectly drawn Mike, Jason in a blue jacket – in perfect clarity. ‘Buenos noches Phoenix, ARIZONA!’ I have no words to describe what hearing that for the first time was like. My words caught in my throat as I sang ‘dream, America, dream’ there, in America. I could have cried, broken down in tears of joy, but I danced them away to Know Your Enemy. We were living a dream that once seemed impossible of seeing our favourite band in the United States. In East Jesus Nowhere, Billie pulled up a kid called Alexander, stealing his earmuffs and helping him play his Les Paul Jr. ‘Security, security, get rid of this kid! He’s gonna steal my pot! Alex, do you wanna start a fucking war?’ I was as thrilled as any local with Billie’s every roar of ‘are you ready, Arizona?’ In the Holiday bass solo, the amphitheatre flushed red by lights and scrolling text, Billie ran over to our side. He spotted me, grinned and pointed before noticing a shirt that someone was holding up. He apparently reached out to the fan after the show to ask if he could buy the shirt for $100 and the fan agreed, but only if he would sign the $100 bill. ‘The representative of Arizona now has the floor!’ Pyros exploded with Billie’s ‘bang bang!’ as on the screens, troops marched in black and white. Drum rolls led to Murder City. ‘The clock strikes midnight in A-RI-ZO-NA!’ Then it cut to Give Me Novacaine. ‘Oh, it’s so hot, it’s so hot, I think I’m gonna take all my fucking clothes off. Whoever gets naked tonight gets 50 bucks!’ We chorused ‘heeeeeeeey-ooooooooh!’ to tinkling piano. The crowd waved, at Billie’s command, from the pit to the lawn in sync. Instead of ‘Jimmy says it’s better than here,’ he sang ‘Arizona’s better than California!’ and I screamed approval with everyone else. It ended with ‘give me the entire state of Arizona!’ Billie couldn’t have reminded us where we were any more if he tried. Then Tré began the intro to a ferocious Letterbomb. It was my second favourite song at the time, after only ¡Viva La Gloria! and it was the first time I’d seen it. I went insane. I was screaming, the lyrics, just screaming, turning my voice hoarse and jumping until my legs were weak. (My mum filmed me dancing to Letterbomb haha) ‘This is it! The time is right now! This is it! There’s no fucking job you’ve gotta fucking go to! There is no boss! There’s no bullshit! There’s no computers! There’s no television! There’s no cellphones! There’s no fucking school you gotta report to! This is it! This is the opportunity right now! This is your fucking freedom! Are you with me, Arizona?’ Some fans criticise Billie’s Letterbomb speeches. But you know what? He was right. That was our freedom and I was liberated, with Arizona as we screamed to tell Billie yes, we were with him. As Tré began Are We the Waiting, Billie announced ‘my aunt is out there in the crowd tonight! She’s a resident! Right here in Arizona!’ before singing ‘are we, we are! And screaming…’ and holding up his mic for the crowd to echo him. I had one hand on my heart, one in the air, screaming ‘heads or tails, fairytales in my mind.’ I felt like Jesus of Suburbia, escaping to a fairytale city to live ‘the rage and love, the story of my life.’ In St. Jimmy Billie roared ‘are you talking to me? Are you screaming at me?’ After the crowd sang the first verse of Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Billie placed his guitar down. He proceeded to attempt a headstand. He soon fell on his arse, but he just got back up, did a dance and announced ‘I’ll fucking do anything for fucking Arizona, I’ll tell you that!’ The song was anthemic. Billie caught something from the crowd, threw it out, then grinned. ‘We’re gonna play a brand new song.’ My mum and I glanced at each other with wide eyes. We had no internet and no idea what they’d been playing. ‘It ain’t that brand new. This song’s called Cigarettes and Valentines!’ We didn’t know the words, but with the strangers around us, we jumped and danced as if our lives depended on it. Burnout followed. If I thought this couldn’t get any better, I was wrong, because then they played One for the Razorbacks. I was drenched in sweat, watching people pass out around us, but I felt like I could pass out and stand straight back up. In 2000 Light Years Away they invited as many fans as they could fit onstage. Security guided them up, they danced, then were escorted back off. The regular oldies section followed. Seeing it here was like seeing it for the first time all over again. My mum and I were our own mosh pit, dancing and shoving and grabbing the other’s arm to scream our favourite lines. King for a Day’s fun dissolved into 21 Guns. Billie spoke into the internal microphone as he returned onstage to rolling drums. We expected Minority. ‘Sing us a song of the century, it sings like American Eulogy…’ We heard American Eulogy, in America. This mass hysteria was like the entire show’s rage, love, energy and passion rolled into one triumphant, dazzling climax as confetti exploded around us and the band. The crowd stilled as the show closed once again with Last Night on Earth, Wake Me Up When September Ends and Good Riddance. No dream of seeing Green Day in their home country could ever have prepared us for this reality. It was better." My old phone pics that are shit, but have a lot of sentimental value: Even more of them: Some gifs from my videos: Billie's tweet after the show: He accidentally wrote "ho as hell" after an earlier show and it became a Thing™. So many GDCers had "ho as hell" in their signatures and made jokes about it for months afterwards. Absolutely wild that I’d only been alive 12 years when I discovered Green Day, but the Phoenix show was 14 years ago. Anyway... 19 years ago (30 August 2005), Green Day played in Columbia, MD on the American Idiot Tour. 26 years ago (30 August 1998), Green Day played Pukkelpop Festival in the Netherlands on the Nimrod Tour. 30 years ago (30 August 1994), Green Day played Lollapalooza in Surrey, Canada on the Dookie Tour. Billie looks like the Winnie the Pooh in the suit meme. 33 years ago (30 August 1991), Green Day played the The Outhouse in Lawrence, KS.

For the locals. This is pretty funny https://triblive.com/sports/tim-benz-an-all-pirates-setlist-request-for-green-days-concert-at-pnc-park/

"Atlanta!! Hot AF!! What a beautiful night @gibsonguitar From Billie's Instagram story From Green Day's Instagram story

I just got one at a speedway in Long Island ! The cup

Between my wife and I, we checked eight 7-Elevens and none of them had the tumblers. Most were too busy for us to ask the cashier if they knew anything about them. Only one location had the coffee, but they were sold out by the time I was able to go after work. There's one Speedway within driving distance, so we might go there tomorrow.

Review https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2024/08/29/green-day-concert-review/

Atlanta (from the Atlanta Jornal-Constitution)

Pics from Green Day on Facebook

I woke up with a fever today because the universe fucking hates me. Praying I can get better in time for Sunday, this has been all I’ve been looking forward to for literally months.

I thought the same! Here's the band's photo of it

Some of you may remember when I tried Fiji water for the first time a while back and deemed it fucking gross. Well, my bf bought a can of Liquid Death the other day and I had a little taste - I'd rather drink toilet water. Billie, I am severely disappointed in your taste (or lack thereof) in water. Do better. 😔

I can't like the above post enough @solongfromthestars That show seems almost a different lifetime away now

And we don’t get Keurig coffee, and we don’t have many 7 11’s so we’re not getting any of that either! 😭

Logged into GDC for the first time in years, hoping to see some of y’all tonight. But no replies 😭 Its been 15 years since I’ve seen the boys and since they apparently hate Louisiana, I had to fly up to Nashville to see them. Worth it!!!

I went back to the store by my job to see if the coffee was finally ready - nope. They moved the PBC canister and the nozzle is still covered for "cleaning." No cups. No coffee for sale. The store by my house just didn't have any PBC stuff at all.

Found the cup at the 7-11 on Montrose in Chicago. They had a few cups but no coffee. And wouldn’t fill it for free with other coffee. Cup was $2.75. I’m still happy with my find.

Another 7-11 down. This one had no Punk Bunny signage anywhere, was super small, pretty sketchy and yet: I found it!! Completely caught me off guard. They had the cups and bags of coffee for sale The cup is surprisingly sturdy! I thought it was going to be flimsy and super cheap like the really cheap Starbucks refillable cups. I'm impressed! Now if I could track down the blue Speedway version...

From Billie's Instagram story

New photo of Billie with Green Day’s Manager, Jonathan Daniels at Irving Plaza from Bob Gruen's website https://www.bobgruen.com/january-july-2024/ Cincinatti https://www.instagram.com/p/C_AEVf4uCaJ/?igsh=MWgxejJta2QxdGZ0eA==

Quite possibly both. I can see them getting electrolytes pumped in after and possibly before with a healthy dose of b vitamins for keeping the energy up. Also, another reason would be for immune boosting with this huge surge of Covid this summer. Thankfully they've been keeping healthy.

Possibly these things too. But me looking at wart removal pictures was fun. 🙃

Could even be for fluids it's been so hot over there in the US? It must really take it out of the guys.

Bowling for Soup covered Emenius Sleepus as tribute to 30 years of Dookie. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_IXE6PJAWY/?igsh=MWpndTBjNms0bnBucg==

Pics from last night Check out the GDA article for more pics https://www.greendayauthority.com/news/6180/

Got myself a strange Italian Jukebox (?) single with an Oasis track from 2002 and 21 Guns as the b-side. Don't know how official that is, but I had to have it. And like for my other coverless vinyl singles I created a custom artwork sleeve too https://www.ebay.com/itm/176410695250