Last Friday I went to see Green Day at Ahoy with some friends of mine. And man, did they rock out.
We decided to get a head start on traffic, so we arrived shortly after 2 PM and spent the intermittent time whiling away at the shopping mall next to Ahoy stadium. After a mediocre dinner we returned to the waiting line at 5, to find a couple hundred people already there. (half of which had been there when we arrived a few hours hence)
A couple of five minute rain bursts later we were heading inside to our position for the concert, five meters from off center left stage. The show kicked off with Prima Donna playing some very nice rock and roll ditties and after half an hour they had us warped up just enough to keep us nice and cosy until the main act could enter the stage.
So right on cue, on walks this guy in a pink bunny suit, holding two bottles of beer.
He moves over the entire stage, downing both bottles in a single gulp, getting the crowd riled up with a very humorous rendition of YMCA, after which he stumbled off stage again.
Finally, Billy Joe enters the fray, a veritable whirlwind of energy. Jumping, running, bouncing off things and generally getting the audience to go along with his antics. What followed was a show consisting of two and a half hours of non stop music, fun, pyrotechnics, people getting called on stage to participate, super soakers, fire hoses, air pressure guns shooting t-shirts at the crowd, silly costumes, video wall movies, BJ moving through the crowd to great dismay of security, moshing and everybody screaming along at the top of their lungs.
I had so much energy rushing through me at the end, that I could have gone for another couple of hours. But as always, all good things must come to an end. So with an acoustic rendition of When September Ends/Good Riddance, everyone went home satisfied.
Monday, 19 October 2009
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