As opposed to Friday night, where the Airbourne tunes kept people barely awake, Saturday night I went to see Green Day at the Crypt aka The Phone Dome aka Colonic aka Telstra Dome.
What an interesting comparison:
After seeing the two bands back to back, Airbourne can DREAM about being huge. Green Day ARE! To be honest I’m not a fan of Green Day, I don’t particularly like them, I wouldn’t have a clue what their names are, and their songs – yeah I hear them ad neaseum on the radio but I wouldn’t think of buying them in a pink fit.
But what a great show they put on. Slick, professional and thoroughly entertaining, it was a stage show par excellence, littered with the obligatory piss-weak political commentary which got the kids into an ignorant froth: “I’m here to make George Bush’s life a living hell”, and lit by pyrotechnics, flames and fireworks, it was like New Years Eve should be: loud, dumb and funny.
American Idiot, Minority, Brain Stew, Time of Your Life… All songs which have you singing the lyrics OF OTHER SONGS WHICH THEY HAVE BASED THEIR SONGS ON, however to mesh it all together, to play the ultimate cover band gig, to have 20,000 screaming 12 year olds thinking you’re the hottest thing since The Saddle Club…
Well isn’t that what rock n roll is all about?
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