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35 minutes ago, jengd said:

This is the day I first saw Green Day in 2009 in Glasgow on the 21CBD tour.  It changed my life.  I celebrate every year. 

This touches my heart.❤️ Celebrating with you now…

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Happy anniversary to TADIKM! I remember this day vividly because I had a dentist appointment in the morning and couldn’t wait to get out so I could go sit in my car and watch the video. The start of a very special era!

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On 10/23/2024 at 11:38 PM, Hermione said:

And my first was 15 years ago today! Those are great pics

It was so awesome because a big group of fans from GDC and FB from the UK, US, Europe and even Australia were travelling to all the UK shows in a minibus and calling it "Rocktober" and we met up with them, met over 30 people from here that day and still see some at shows now! After just following the band online mostly through here it was surreal to actually see them live and hang out with so many cool people from here. I'll never forget lovely J'net who was with us during the show getting handed a pick by Mike and just giving it to me(!), singing along with *the* Tony from BIAB, staying at the awesome Sharon and Graham's house afterwards where they had an open door policy for GD fans :lol:, and everyone we met. And getting to do this with my sister who loves the band as much as me, every show I've been to since has been with her.

And the show, that tour was probably their live peak and got to see all the songs and traditions I'd waited for plus loads of 21st CB songs, just amazing to see hot blond Billie and the rest of the band right there :D. Then unexpectedly got to see FBHT just over a week later...one reason I still obsess over that is it came right after my GD dreams already came true. Unbelievable magical time.

 

Sharon 💜 I never got to meet her in person, but I knew her (and the rest of the Idiot Club UK crew) online. It is lovely how she kept so many of the Green Day community (I mean at large, not just GDC) together. I was so touched when Mike shared a message when she passed, and knew that wherever she was, that must have made her smile.

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On this day 5 years ago (25 October 2019), Green Day were on Kevin & Bean's Last Breakfast at the KROQ Sound Space in LA. They were interviewed and played 7 songs.

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29 years ago (25 October 1995), Green Day played the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada on the Insomniac Tour.

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"I'm sure I will get a lot of crap for this but I am going to be totally honest. This was and is still the shittiest rock concert I have ever gone to. The tickets were expensive for the time ($50-ish) and they only played, and not very well, for 45 minutes. The opening act (The Riverdales) were far more entertaining. Also, the venue was like 60% sold which makes for a crappy experience. Most overrated band of the 90's." — Tojo1978

That quote is interesting because someone said about one of the earlier shows on that tour (less than two weeks before, I think) that The Riverdales were underwhelming but Green Day were worth it.

"Don't throw your sneakers at the band. Seems like common sense. But there's no persuading the crowd during a Green Day show at Maple Leaf Gardens, in Toronto. Even a string of obscenities from singer Billie Joe Armstrong can't stop the footwear from flying. Then all of a sudden, Armstrong stops thrashing his guitar - smack in the middle of a searing rendition of 2,000 Light Years Away - to beckon one barefoot fan onstage to collect his rightful property. No hard feelings, Green Day's leader appears to tell him. The stage-struck kid scrambles up, takes a nervous bow and bends over to lace his shoes. He ought to be watching his back, though: Armstrong is behind him, wearing a boar's head Halloween mask and brandishing a butcher's knife. The crowd roars, and the kid, unharmed, leaps back into the snarling mosh pit. Minutes later, Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt bounds toward his microphone to add harmonies to a rousing cover of Operation Ivy's Knowledge, only to get smacked in the forehead by a wayward high-top basketball shoe. This time, Armstrong doesn't even notice. He's too busy ripping chords from his blue Stratocaster and contorting his face through a rogues' gallery of grimaces, gauging each one for maximum audience response. Then he turns his back to the arena and drops his pants. That's entertainment, Green Day style. Pretty soon panic-stricken security personnel are chasing down kids who have jumped from their assigned seats to the general-admission floor, dragging them out the exits. Has the evening finally gotten totally out of control? We'll never know. 'Thanks a lot, because we don't take this shit for granted!' Armstrong shouts, and the band walks off. In the dressing room, Armstrong heads straight for a sofa in the corner and clams up. Bored? Perhaps. Exhausted? Most likely." — Rolling Stone

There are a LOT of stories of shoes being thrown at Green Day from that tour.

33 years ago (25 October 1991), Green Day played their first European show at the Ostbunker in Osnabrück, Germany.

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On this day 2 years ago (28 October 2022), The Coverups played the Moroccan Lounge in LA.

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15 years ago (28 October 2009), Green Day played a second night at the LG Arena in Birmingham, England on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour.

20 years ago (28 October 2004), Green Day played the Centrum Centre in Worcester, MA on the American Idiot Tour.

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26 years ago (28 October 1998), Green Day played the Pabellón Oeste del Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City on the Nimrod Tour.

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29 years ago (28 October 1995), Green Day played the Colisée de Québec in Quebec, Canada on the Insomniac Tour.

Also added Tre's tweet about the first Birmingham show to yesterday's post :ga: 

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On the second night in Birmingham Green Day mixed up the setlist. They would play Jesus of Suburbia one night and American Eulogy the next night. American Eulogy was incredible and I really wasn’t expecting that. It’s just amazing live. Then when Billie came out with his acoustic guitar he sang Macy’s Day Parade and I wasn’t expecting that either! The guy next to me was complaining that they didn’t play his favourite song (Jesus of Suburbia) and I was like “but THEY PLAYED AMERICAN EULOGY!” We were staying quite close to the venue and could see all the buses and trucks outside. When we got up the next morning it was sad to see they'd all gone somehow.

They did individual t-shirts for each night which I just thought was so cool and they’re treasured possessions now.

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After the summer tour in 2010 we were just desperate to see another show.

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Our countdown to the show

So to go to Costa Rica we sold everything we could find: my old business suits, handbags, old jewellery, literally anything we could find that might have sold. Most of it went for nothing but it all added up. There were so many parcels that they almost wouldn’t fit into the car. If there’d been one more it wouldn’t have fit. It took the lady at the Post Office an hour to get them all ready to post. The receipt was so long it was comical.

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Some of the parcels 

Then we went and booked the flights and bought anything else we needed for the trip. People on GDC in Costa Rica had told us how to get the tickets and that there were still some left. You had to buy them at the Masxmenos supermarket so on the morning of the show we went and got them there on the way to the stadium as soon as the supermarket opened. We got to the stadium about 9.

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Us waiting in line

We were interviewed on TV while in the queue but sadly we never got to see it. It was all kind of surreal.

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Me with the flag and a Costa Rica fan

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Left to right J'net, Green Day Tone, Decca, Morgan, Maria, a GDCer from Honduras and Alejandro from Costa Rica

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A show wristband bought from a street vendor 

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Show t-shirt

When Green Day came on stage, that was the closest I’d ever been (about third row from the catwalk) and I remember Tre running out on the catwalk in his jacket with his sticks in his hands. I could hear all these piercing screams and they weren’t screaming at Green Day - they were screaming in fear! Everyone’s feet were off the floor and we all couldn’t breathe. The next thing I knew, I opened my eyes and saw the guy on crutches on stage in East Jesus Nowhere. I was unconscious but stood up being carried by the crowd. I opened my eyes again and saw the flashing light in Holiday. Then I came to after Holiday and Tre was filming the crowd, and the band went into  Viva la Gloria. I had an umbrella that I was going mad waving. Two sets of drumsticks landed by me but I wouldn’t have dared to attempt to get them. Tre forgot to finish playing Only of You. He came out, threw the drumsticks, then forgot to end the song and Billie looked at him confused! I remember Waiting and everyone going “heeeeeeeey-oooooooh.” I remember looking at my watch at the end and seeing it had been 4 hours 15 minutes and thinking “Jesus wept.”

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Bruise on my side (doesn't seem to look as bad now!)

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