Posted on June 20, 2005 - by MG

Green Day rule!

I took my teenage daughter and her friends to see the US punk-pop band Green Day live at the Milton Keynes Bowl.

It’s years since I saw a proper rock concert. Last time was Oasis at Wembley, the old Wembley just weeks before they demolished it. In between I’ve taken our daughter to see S Club and Cher; both very poppy acts. And Jamie Cullum, the jazzy-pop singer.

Green Day took me right back to my early teenage years; they play exactly the sort of accessible punk (we called it New Wave back then) that I used to love when I saw The Boomtown Rats and Adam And The Ants. But its even more authentic to the three-chord rock song, with little variation in orchestration etc. I loved it! So did the kids; they were joining in, enjoying the rock energy, Billie Joe’s performance.

Blah, blah blah. Sorry my writing is flat today. I seem to be using it all up on the novels. Here on my blog I’m reduced to monosyllabic monotones.

It were great. Aye. It were brill.
Some photos and concert reviews (by fans) here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/mostpunk/comments.shtml
http://www.miltonkeynes.com/music/green-day-2005
http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1504303/20050617/green_day.jhtml?headlines=true

Awesome is the word!