Green Day - Melbourne, 2009

# Posted by Joel Dixon at 17/12/2009 20:58:41

I had never been to a live music show. No concerts, no festivals, no high school recitals. I never had the cash in high school - which is when I wanted to go to The Offspring, The Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, etc. When I started to earn enough money to afford such events, I started to feel like the first concert I went to would need to be worth the wait. So I just never went to anything (stupid, I know).

Green Day postponed their second Melbourne show, which had been planned for Tuesday. I had nothing on Wednesday night - so I thought I'd try to get tickets. Fortunately, someone had just returned their front-row lower seating tickets before I got to the ticket office - and my first concert was planned.

Green Day Tickets

The slightly off-yellow tickets

Jet was the support act - and I was pretty happy to be able to see them live. Cold Hard Bitch sounded great and it was good to hear Look What You've Done again. For some reason about 5 male strippers joined the band for Are You Going To Be My Girl. I guess there was a fair few women in the audience - but it just seemed weird.

This is Jet - just take my word for it

Then, before too much waiting, Green Day took the stage. I really did pick a great act for my first live show. They played for two and a half hours pretty much non-stop. The set list was incredible. They played seven songs from 21st Century Breakdown, a good number from American Idiot, Minority, a few from Nimrod (Hitchin' A Ride was awesome), a few from Insomniac and most of their hits from Dookie. A kid was pulled out of the audience to sing Longview. While it would have been good to hear Billie Joe sing it - it was great to see how happy the kid was to sing with Green Day backing him. He did pretty well too, pacing the stage and pointing to the crowd at times.

It was an amazing show and the 150+ minutes just flew by. It's done two things to me. Made me want to buy a drum kit and graduate from Rock Band, and see many more live acts in 2010. Here's hoping Daft Punk tours again soon. Or Boston decides to visit Australia.

Green Day - A surprisingly good picture - considering it was taken from my phone

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Brad Posts: 23	Can't believe it took you this long, but as far as first concerts go Green Day would have to be up there with the best. I saw part of the Offspring's performance at Soundwave a couple of years ago and they were amazing. Definitely worth the money if they come back. # Posted - 18/12/2009 00:06:41
joeldixon Posts: 170	The Offspring is probably the one that I most want to see next - except for maybe Daft Punk. I'm sure The Offspring will tour Australia again - and Daft Punk is rumored for 2010. And apparently Boston is working on a new album - hopefully they come down here to support the release! # Posted - 19/12/2009 10:30:12

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Green Day - Melbourne, 2009

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