*Kralj na jedan dan*

It seemed the stars and moon were perfectly aligned for punk
rock’s most endearing outfit Green Day to treat an enthusiastic
Singapore audience to the time of their lives. IT’S something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right. I hope you had the time of your life.
– Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life), Green Day IT
started with a drunken bunny ... or rather, a man in a bunny costume
staggering onstage with two beer bottles in hand, bizarrely dancing to YMCA. While
we will never know who was really behind that bunny suit, we do know
that it was the start of a fantastically unpredictable and frankly
brilliant rock concert by punk rock veterans Green Day in Singapore
last Thursday night. Who you calling Pete? Billie Joe Armstrong replicating Pete Townshend’s (of The Who) signature stage antic in Singapore.
“STAND
UP!” was the first order frontman Billie Joe Armstrong barked out when
he came on stage. And immediately everyone in the seated areas obeyed.
After all, when Armstrong tells you to do something, you just do it. And just as soon as the intro to set opener 21st Century Breakdown
rang out, everything else was forgotten, including the rather tame
opening act Prima Donna (the five-piece band from the United States
tried their best, but when you’re opening for a band as big as Green
Day, it sure is going to be a losing battle to win the crowd). Even
from that very first song, the unpredictability was there, with
Armstrong stopping mid-song so the security guards could fix the mosh
pit barricades. Other random and mad things he did – grabbing members
of the audience and hauling them up on stage to sing and crowd-surf
(one lucky fellow even got to sing the whole of Longview by himself); leading impromptu sing-alongs of Love Me Tender, Hey Jude, Highway to Hell and er ... Pink’s Get The Party Started
(“Hey, I LIKE Pink!” shouted Armstrong in response to the crowd’s
booing); and most infamously of all, mooning the audience (final proof
that this is one band that will NEVER be able to perform in Malaysia). Never
mind Chris Martin. The Coldplay frontman’s much-vaunted showmanship
seems almost tame compared to Armstrong’s wildly energetic and insane
antics and his ability to get the crowd going with a mere gesture of
his hands. Armstrong was the supreme circus ringleader, playing
the crowd like an extra instrument, with us gamely doing whatever he
told us to do and singing whatever was asked of us. Heck, he could have
told us to eat our shoes, and we would have done it. OK, maybe not, but
you get the picture. And lest you think this is a one-man band,
think again. Bassist Mike Dirnt was more or less the quiet one, but
still managed some Olympic-grade running up and down the stage
throughout the show, while drummer Tré Cool was one of the maddest
drummers ever, flouncing around in a red bra during King For A Day and flipping his drum sticks into the air after every song. Love me tender: Armstrong soaking up the love from the ravenous audience in the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
Between
Armstrong’s antics, Dirnt’s energetic playing and Tré Cool’s flying
drumsticks, there was always something happening to keep the crowd
pumped up and high throughout the two-and-a-half-hour, 27-song concert.
Amazingly, the band (and the crowd) managed to keep those high-energy
levels up throughout the entire show, which was no mean feat,
considering how much jumping, screaming and head-banging was going on. Unlike
other bands who tend to only play material from their latest albums
(which invariably leads to awkward moments of silence in the crowd),
Green Day knew what this crowd wanted. The set list was
an unpredictable, eclectic mix of almost every hit the band have had in
their 21-year career, and included songs from almost every album they
ever made – from the most recent 21st Century Breakdown (21 Guns, Know Your Enemy, The Static Age, East Jesus Nowhere), their acclaimed rock opera American Idiot (Boulevard of Broken Dreams, American Idiot, Holiday, St Jimmy, Give Me Novocaine) and even older songs from their Dookie, Nimrod, Imsoniac and Kerplunk days like Basketcase (fantastically nostalgic), When I Come Around, Welcome To Paradise, Hitchin’ A Ride, Jaded Burnout, Brain Stew, and the fist-pumpingly defiant Minority. Even
when Armstrong announced during the encore that it was going to be
their last song, you knew it wasn’t – especially when the final song is
the marathon nine-minute masterpiece Jesus Of Suburbia, which for me was the highlight of the whole concert. Appropriately
enough, it was all down to Armstrong to finish off the show all by
himself armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar and three songs – Last Night On Earth, Wake Me Up When September Ends and appropriately enough, Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life). In
the end, like the closing line of that final song, this was one
massively crazy, wonderful and unpredictable show, but in the end, it
was more than just right. And boy, oh boy, did we have the most awesome
time of our lives.

PRIJEVOD

Činilo se da su zvijezde i mjesec savršeno usklađene
za punk-rock največi spektakl, djelo Green day-a da signapurska publika
doživi najbolje trenutke svojih života.

IT'S something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right. I hope you had the time of your life.
– Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life), Green Day
je zaopčeo sa pijenim zecom odnosno, sa čovjekom u kostimu zeca koji je
posrtao na pozornici s dvije boce piva u ruci, te je bizarno plesao
YMCA. Mi nismo znali što se zapravo skriva iza tog zečjeg kostima, no
znali smo da počinjenje fantastični, nevjerojatni i iskreno briljantni
rock koncert punk-rock veterana Green Day-a u Singapuru.

“STAND UP! je bila prva naredba frontmena B.J. Amstronga koju je vrištao kada je izašao na pozornicu. Odmah su svi gledaoci smješteni u centru zašutili. Uostalom, kada je Armstrong kaže da učiniš nešto, samo to učiniš. I baš čim je uvod u pjesmu 21st Century Breakdown odjeknuo, sve
ostalo je bio zaboravljen, uključujući i prilično pitomu predgrupu
Prima Donna (peteročlani bend iz SAD-a dao je svoje najbolje, ali kad si
predgrupa bendu kao što su Green Day, sigurno ćeš izgubi bitku za
osvajanje publike). Čak od prve pjesme, nepredvidljivost je bila tamo, uz Armstrongovo zaustavaljanje u sredini pjesme kako bi zaštitari mogli popraviti
barikade. Ostali slučajni i ljuti ispadi što je učinio - izvlačio je
članove publike na pozornicu da pjevaju (...)
(jedan sretan čovjek, čak je pjevao sam pjesmu Longview ), pjevao je pjesme Love Me Tender, Hey Jude, Highway to Hell i...Get The Party Started od Pink ( "Hej, ja volim Pink!" Vikao je Armstrong kao odgovor gužvi na njihov boo) i najsramotniji isapd od svih, mooning [neznam kako da tu riječ prevedem] publike ( konačan dokaz da je to bend koji nikada nećete biti u mogućnosti nastupati u Maleziji). Coldpaly-ov frontmen se mnogo hvalio da ima sposobnost privlačenja pozornosti javnosti čini gotovo pitomo u usporedbi sa Amstrongovom ludom energijom i ludim budalaštinama (...).Armstrong je bio vrhovni cirkuski kolovođa, igranje sa publikom kao dodatnim
instrumentom, radili smo sve što je od nas traženo te smo pjevali sve što se od nas tražilo. K vragu, mogao anm je reći d asi pojedemo cipele i mi bi to učinili. U redu, možda ne, ali ćete dobiti sliku. I da ne mislite da je on jedini član benda, basist Mike Dirnt je više ili manje jedini tih, ali ipak je Olimpijski trčao gore-dolje po pozornici, a bubnjar
Tré Cool je bio jedan od najluđih bubnjara ikada, koji je hodao okolo u crvenim grudnjak za vrijeme pjesme King for a day a i njegov bubanj je završio u zraku nakon svake pjesme.
Love me tender: (...) Između Amstrongovih budalaština, Dirnitovih energetskih sviranja i Tré Coolovih letećih palice, uvijek se nešto mora dogoditi kako bi gužva ostala ''nabrijana'' tijekom dva i pol sata,
27-pjesma koncerta. Iznenađujuće, bend (i publika) su uspjeli zadržati onu visoku razinu
energiju kroz cijeli show, što je iznenađujuće, s obzirom
koliko skakanje, vrištanje i lupanje glavom se događala. Za razliku od
ostalih bendova koji imaju tendenciju da se pjevaju pjesme sa njihovih najnovijih albume (koje uvijek dovodi do neugodne trenutke
šutnje u gužvi), Green Day je znao što je publika željala. Set liste je nepredvidljiv, eklektičan miks gotovo svakog hita benda su
imali u svojim 21-godišnje karijere, te su pjesme iz skoro svakog
albuma su ikada napravio - sa najnovijim 21st Century Breakdown (21
Guns, Know Your Enemy, The Static Age, East Jesus Nowhere ), njihova poznata
rock opera American Idiot (Boulevard of Broken Dreams, American Idiot, Holiday, St. Jimmy, Give Me Novocaine), pa čak i starije pjesme od svojih
Dookie, Nimrod, Imsoniac i Kerplunk dana poput Basketcase ( fantastično
nostalgične), When I Come Around, Welcome To Paradise, Hitchin 'A Ride,
Jaded Burnout, Brain Stew (...). Čak i kada je Armstrong najavio da je vrijeme za njihovu zadnju pjesmu, a znate da to nije bila zadnja - pogotovo kad je konačna pjesma
maratonski devet minutni remek Jesus Of Suburbia, koji je za mene bio
vrhunac cijelog koncerta . (...) Sve je ostalo na Armstrongu da završi koncert naoružan samo
akustičnnom gitarom i 3 pjesama - Last Night On Earth, Wake Me Up When September Ends i Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life). Na kraju, na zadnjim stihovima zadnje pjesme,
ovo je bio jedan masivno ludi, divni i nepredvidljivi show,(...).(...) Učinili ste da
većina nas ima nevjerojatno vrijeme našeg života.

super!

http://www.greenday.com/site/picsnvids.php ---> slike te klipovi sa koncerta...[vise u green day subforumu ]

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