Even with low sound, American band reinforced headliner status at the Paulistano festival with energetic performance, party mood and comprehensive setlist
Great festivals are able to consecrate or sink the career of a definitive artist or band. Fortunately, the Green Daythe most popular punk band in history, was awarded the first option after debuting on the stage of Rock in Rioin 2022, as a main attraction.
We are not talking about a group of beginners. Composed of Billie Joe Armstrong (voice and guitar), Mike Dirnt (low) and Cool (drums), the record trio of sales has been active for almost 40 years and has gained huge success in the 1990s and 2000s. Outside, leading big events and occupies stadiums. Here, however, in previous visits in 1998, 2010 and 2017, played in arenas, gyms and amphitheaters. Therefore, their performance three years ago was so important: they changed their level in our country.
The show, it is said, was so good that he accredited them to return in 2025 as a headliner of the only day rock The Town. And this Sunday, 7, again showed why they became one of the biggest bands of the genre in which they are inserted.
Exception to the lowest sound, cutting some interactions and the less favorable structure compared to 2022, the presentation offered to the São Paulo public was not so different from that three years ago. And you can’t even change much: there are so many hits that barely fit in an hour and 40 minutes of repertoire. It was costing space for three ranges of Savior (2024), the most recent studio album and celebrated by many as one of the best since American idiot (2004). Namely, they were “One Eyed Bastard”,“Dilemma”And“Bobby Sox”This close to the closing, almost as anticlimax as the final“Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”.
The beginning of the set with “American idiot”,“Holiday”And“Know your enemy”(With the right fan on stage in the final) is so energetic that it gives the impression that such catharsis will not be repeated. The slower hit“Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, The one already mentioned“One Eyed Bastard”They even relieve a little, but from“LongView”, Moment when Billie Joe Exchange your guitar Les Paul for one Stratocaster – indicating that it will prioritize songs from the first albums – the frenzy comes back and does not round, practically only reducing when ballads enter as “21 guns”And“Wake me up when sepateger ends“. Entertainment from beginning to end, offered by a group that is punk in essence, but learned all its movements from Classic Rock.
Impossible to stop highlighting Billie Joe Armstrong. Singer, guitarist, main composer, skilled frontman and owner of a hairstyle Dilma Rousseffthe 53 -year -old still seems to be in his 30. He preserved not only his voice, but also the physical disposition. At the same time, it has evolved its abilities to command large audiences, from the multiple choirs pulled to the classic movement to cover the Brazilian flag, in “Hitchin ‘a ride”. Mike Dirnt and Cool They form a straight kitchen, less affects the spotlight, but equally important for the show. The even more discreet trio of supportive musicians integrated by Jason White (guitar), Kevin Preston (guitar) and Jason Freese (keyboards and saxophone) provides the necessary bed for official members, especially Billiethey can shine without worrying about sound “holes”.
In 2022, it was necessary to make it clear that the Green Day made the best rock show of that edition of Rock in Rioat least three days of rock. Three years later, the competition is much smaller – there is only one date dedicated to the genre – but glory is the same.
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Green Day show setlist at The Town 2025:
1.
2. Holiday
3. Know your enemy (with fan on stage)
4. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
5. One Eyed Bastard
6. LongView
7. Welcome to Paradise
8. Hitchin ‘A Ride (preceded by an excerpt from Iron Man, from Black Sabbath)
9. Brain Stew
10. St. Jimmy
11. Dilemma
12. 21 Guns
13. Minority
14. Basket Case
15. WHEN I COME AROUND
16. Letterbomb
16. Wake me up when sepateger ends
17. Jesus of Suburbia
18. Bobby Sox
19. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
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Source: Rollingstone
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