During their 15-year band history, they have been thrilling their fans with electrifying live shows. Whatever you think, the band exudes pure boisterous energyand has never failed to impress their audience. Onstage, they deliver a slim, highly energetic extravaganza that avoids the usual frills of state-of-the-art stage technology: no hydraulic ramps, no laser guns, no video screens, thank you verymuch.
There's no doubt that Green Day have kicked off a punk revival, sort of. During their fifteen-year band history, they have been thrilling their fans with electrifying live shows. Green Day have a lot to prove indeed: As the threepiece from California produces short songs that resemble the sound of British punk legends like The Jam, The Clash, and The Buzzcocks, critics have repeatedly marked them as opportunistic and reproach them for cashing in on an originally rebellious music by selling out to the mainstream. Whatever you think, the band exudes pure boisterous energy and has never failed to impress their audience. Onstage, they deliver a slim, highly energetic extravaganza that avoids the usual frills of state-of-the-art stage technology: no hydraulic ramps, no laser guns, no video screens, thank you very much. Pure music is what counts here. An angry frontman, singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong precisely directs a densely packed crowd, persistently animating his fans with the entire posing inventory of rock history.
American Idiot - the seventh studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day - achieved success worldwide, charting in 27 countries and peaking at number one in nineteen of them, including the United States and the United Kingdom. Since its release, American Idiot has sold over 14 million copies worldwide. The album won a number of awards, including a Grammy for Best Rock Album, and received acclaim by critics. In 2009, Kerrang! named American Idiot the best album of the decade. Rolling Stone also listed "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "American Idiot" among the 100 best songs of the 2000s…