Last week I went to see Green Day at Shepherds Bush Empire.
Yet another favourite from my teenage years playing a reasonably tiny venue? Well, I
couldn’t resist. I may not listen to Green Day on a regular basis anymore, but
one thing that I really don’t have in life is musical regrets. If I loved a band once, they will
always have a place in my heart and on my ipod, and Dookie is a damn fine example.
To be honest this review won’t
take me very long because it was a fun show, pure and simple. When Tré was the first
member of the band on stage and opened with All By Myself I knew we were onto a
winner and followed straight up with Welcome to Paradise and Burnout, I was immediately satisfied that we were going
to hear plenty of old material. And indeed we did.
A few new songs from their soon to be released album ¡Uno! were integrated in nicely (the album which will be followed shortly by a further two albums, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!) and marked a return to an older style rather than the longer rock operatic songs of the American Idiot era.
Other highlights included When I Come Around, Hitchin' A Ride and She, and a comical portion
following King For a Day with the band all playing their guitars lying on their backs. It was a great show
and reminded me exactly why my Green Day albums are still in my collection. It's hard not to get sentimental about a band from your childhood who have survived a 25 year run without a split and over two decades without a line up change.
The only thing missing from my night was Good Riddance but hey, you can’t win ‘em all.
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