OK, so just got back (read recovered from the hangover) from see ing these lot @ Manchester on wednesday night.
what a night, it opened with some bloke from down south, who was ok, but just ok.
then came Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, what can I say? she sounded bored and only in it for the money, shame as I am sure if she had have belted it out it would have been good, even "I hate myself" sounded limp and crass.
then, at about 19:00 BST Mike, Tre Cool and Billy Jo took the stage. Song after song belted out, crowd singing along, sun shining, cold beer.....
You name a Green Day song you know,, they played it. Around 21:00, when other bands would be flagging Billy Jo said "there is supposed to be a curfew, but we don't give a damn about curfews, we are going to play until we get tired" And so they did. Around 22:00 Mike and Tre Cool left the stage and Billy Jo grabbed an acoustic guitar, sat on the stage and rounded out the night with "Time of Your Life" "Wake Me Up (When September Ends)" and the acoustic number from "21st Century Breakdown"
I stood there gobsmacked and speechless, it was the best concert I have ever been to. We walked a little while back towards MCC then decided to get a taxi as none of us had a 2 mile walk left in our legs, and we could all here more beer calling....
Just two little points from the night....
1) Taxi driver, check your mirrors before pulling into a cycle lane, that poor woman was scared witless by you trying to wipe her out
2) Scrawny little PFY, the next time you barge into my wife and try to knock her over, make sure I am nowhere near, as I WILL ripp you limb from limb then beat you still twitching corpse with the soggy ends of said limbs. You really didn't think that 6' guy sat deep in thought would do anything did you?
