Live Review: Green Day
It’s 10.03pm in London and 20,000 people are singing the melody to a Mozart Nocturne (seriously) for the third or fourth time tonight, expertly conducted by a short guy who can’t stop pinballing around the vast stage. At various points in the...
Album review: Green Day
Album review: Green Day: Grand Masters of the post-punk concept album, arch social satirists, counter-culture insurrectionists, a Who for g-g-g-generation zero. Duh, who’da thunk it? Three gonk-rock basketcases whose most political action in...
Green Day
Green Day and John Lennon. Say it again: Green Day and John Lennon. That’s, like, the worst idea in the world, right? As if the principle of covering something from rock’s yawnsome cannon wasn’t bad enough, Green Day (a band whose lasting...
Green Day : Milton Keynes Bowl, Sunday June 19
At 8.50 in the evening, it’s worth having a look around the huge expanse of the National Bowl, Milton Keynes. The sun is falling, but the evil heat remains; ‘YMCA’ is being pumped from the PA system and wherever you look people are making...
Green Day : London Brixton Academy
Right, so we’ve already established that over the last year Green Day have turned out their best work, helped galvanise a generation and been rewarded with the plinth marked ‘World’s most important band’. Happy? Because to be honest, if...
Green Day : Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
OK, so thinking that Green Day’s loony emo-snot rock epic ‘American Idiot’ was gonna help dislodge Dubya from his presidential perch was a bit like expecting the next Selfish Cunt album to see Blair bushwhacked in 2005, but hey, like RP...
Green Day : Shenanigans
Before Sum 41 and 'Hooray For Boobies', before every kid on every street corner sported a brand new skateboard and a wallet-chain heavy enough to carve a groove in the pavement, there was Green Day - three SoCal punk rockers who made like...
Green Day : International Superhits!
They're the Nirvana of dumbass. While Kurt Cobain was nurturing his legions of kohl-eyed ledge-jumpers in 1994, over on the opposite side of giving-a-shit, Green Day were rallying together a new wave of leopard-spot-haired skatepunk goofballs...
Live 105 Not So Silent Night: San Francisco...
A long time ago, before the celebrity divorces and crap experimental albums, San Francisco radio station Live 105 used to drip with Britpop. Oasis and Blur rubbed shoulders with Pearl Jam and Pavement in a reasonable attempt at alternative pop...
Warning
Since Green Day have been away, a lot of water has passed under the bridge. Their skate-rock fanbase has been wooed away by masked men who jump around in boiler suits and the frat boy tits'n'ass punk shlock of the likes of Blink-182 . When...
