OT: Green Day in Turin

[Shangeris]

Tomorrow Green Day will do a concert in Turin (yay!). I hope the fever that I have will go down 'till then.

[Divemistress of the Dark]

!! Lucky you! Crossing fingers about your cold, there...

[Ya know...I do catch guff from ppl. for being a Green Day fan, myself. All I ever have to say to them is, have you ever seen this band live? No? Well, then shut your damn cakehole!

Have fun!]

[TheEqualizer]

Have fun!

I am not ashamed to admit that I am a Green Day fan. I HATED HATED HATED their new album when it first came out. However, my feelings have changed drastically the more I have heard the live recordings from the most recent tour.

[Divemistress of the Dark]

Do you have either of their side projects, Network or Foxboro Hot Tubs, EQ? Say the word and I'll burn dups. I think you'd really, really dig those [way less produced, way more spontaneous, way less stage-managed] albums.

Allegedly they played the entire FHT album the other night at some tiny joint in London. As I missed the U.S. tour for that, I'm pretty damn sick with envy.

Rumor has it they may be recording Network 2 next year. All digits crossed.

Oh, and they're playing more U.S. dates in '10. I know I'll be there for at least a few of them.

p.s. Their message board/fan club is full of cool people too. No LiveNation bullshit. NOT that I'm trying to drag ppl away from here, I'm just sayin'...been having fun over there lately.

[Shangeris]

Well, the show yestreday was just great! We arrived at 6.30 P.M. and had all the advantages of who lives in Turin (to know all the streets, where to bypass the traffic, where to park) and had plenty of time to wait outside in the cold. BTW we heard U2's ' I know I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy ' in the car before and I realized that in the 360° Tour the do a remix just because there aren't many guitar parts but many keyboard parts and various effects! Anyway, we get in the place at about 7 o'clock, and it was all full of smoke and smell'd like Rice pudding (don't ask!). It was waaaaay smaller than U2, wich has been 'til now the yardstick in concerts because it was my first real concert.
I soon discover that my seat doesn't exist! O.o There's the 24 and then the 26, but not the 25, wich obviously is mine. Damn! But in the most classical Italian style, no one knows nothing about it.... There is even a friend of mine whose place was already occuped by people who were in the wrong sector. After all that trouble I go and make some photos of the stage, very scretly because this time the staff won't afford taking photos, not like at U2.
Niw it's time for Prima Donna, the support act. They are a real punk band, not much playing but making noise and goofing all around the stage with an automatic toilet paper launcher and various stuff. The crowd is exultating. They could have been any other rock band who made noise and the crowd would have acted the same. The support band ends up the act with an enormous bustle on the stage, trashing around with the toilet paper (wich now invaded the stage) and foam makers. Now, that's the real essence of Punk!
The lights switch on again and now I see that the place is almost completely filled. I now have trouble seeing the friends is saw before at the other end of the hall.
After a little the Funny Bunny comes on stage! I always thought that it talked a little, warming up the crowd, but it did even without talking.
So now comes Green Day. The show starts with a Ramones piece (only on the speakers) and at the end the lights go out and 'Song of the Century' comes blasting out of the speakers. The people, including me, went nuts and everyone was singing to the songs. At the end of Hitching a Ride Trè pick Billie's guitar and plays 'Dominated Love Slave', wich was très cool!! And very country!! Billie Joe left several guys on the stage, and during 'Longview' they had to sing in front of the crowd; at least they could stage dive after that!
The show was full of pirotechnical effects and even without many TV screens the show was great.


The setlist should be:

- Song of the Century
- 21st Century Breakdown
- Know Your Enemy
- East Jesus Nowhere
- Holiday
- The Static Age
- Give Me Novacaine
- Are We The Waiting
- St. Jimmy
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- Hitchin’ a Ride
- When I Come Around
- Highway to Hell / Hey Jude (AC/DC cover)
- Brain Stew
- Jaded
- Longview
- Basket Case
- She
- King For A Day
- Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
- 21 Guns
- Minority

First Encore:
- American Idiot
- Jesus of Suburbia

Second Encore:
- Last Night on Earth (acoustic)
- Wake Me Up When September Ends (acoustic)
- Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) (acoustic)

ETA: I actually think that GD will break up after this tour. They've come to the point where the Police have been after Synchronicity: after two incredible works as American Idiot and 21st Century they could do another concept-album, wich is very hard, or do a 'normal' album and so they'd loose their credibility, I think. That's what I think, but I hope I'm wrong.

[Divemistress of the Dark]

Sounds like much the same gig as the U.S. tour. Did all the kids on the floor go nuts?

I may risk life and limb on floor tix for the '10 tour...I'm thinking about it.

[Edit: Another reason I looove GD: Their max ticket price is $50. Including floor tix. Ya know, seriously....who else is doing that and putting on a full stadium show these days? I'll grant you, t-shirt prices are still $35 or so]

[Shangeris]

Sounds like much the same gig as the U.S. tour. Did all the kids on the floor go nuts?

I may risk life and limb on floor tix for the '10 tour...I'm thinking about it.

[Edit: Another reason I looove GD: Their max ticket price is $50. Including floor tix. Ya know, seriously....who else is doing that and putting on a full stadium show these days? I'll grant you, t-shirt prices are still $35 or so]

Yes, everyone went nuts, not just the kids! I defintely will go to the floor the next time.

I really find GD tickets prices great but the shirts could be selled at 20€ instead of 30€

[Shangeris]

Here are the photos:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3696482&id=1092732798