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San Francisco Chronicle
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Billie Joe Armstrong stops Green Day set after fan sprays him with water gun
Green Day 's headlining set at Germany's Hurricane Festival took an unexpected turn over the weekend when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong halted the performance mid-song to confront a disruptive audience member. The band was deep into their nine-minute epic 'Jesus of Suburbia' on Sunday, June 22, when Armstrong suddenly removed his guitar and moved toward the front of the stage. Fan-filmed footage on TikTok shows the East Bay punk icon pointing and shouting at a concertgoer who had been repeatedly squirting him in the face with a water gun. 'You f—ing better quit it or I'll beat your ass. You understand me?' Armstrong shouted, visibly agitated. 'You just better fu– all right.' @greendayinc Billie Joe reacts to person who kept sh00t1ng water on his face with a waterg0n throughout the whole show #greenday #billiejoearmstrong ♬ original sound - Green Day Inc. The incident occurred nearly an hour into a set that began at midnight. Social media posts from attendees indicate the same fan had been targeting Armstrong for much of the show. 'Imagine being scolded by Billie Joe Armstrong. I'd be embarrassed,' wrote one commentator. Another noted, 'He even put the guitar down, he was so ready to throw hands.' Fan behavior at concerts has become increasingly erratic since the pandemic, with a growing number of incidents involving projectiles and disruptive conduct.
Miami Herald
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Rock Legend, 53, Stops Singing Mid-Song to Angrily Scold Fan
Billie Joe Armstrong may be approaching middle age, but he still has his youthful punk attitude. Whether he's being cheeky onstage about Green Day's "feud" with Charli XCX or making a brash, NSFW statement about the recent protests in Los Angeles or changing the lyrics of a song to criticize a politician, Armstrong, 53, is not afraid to flip a middle finger and let his emotions fly. But, sometimes, things can get a bit heated, like during Green Day's set at Germany's Hurricane Festival on June 22. In footage shared on TikTok, Armstrong was singing a call-and-response when he flipped off someone in the crowd. Armstrong then pointed directly at someone before walking forward, before removing his guitar. A visibly irate Billie Joe then pointed his finger at a concertgoer while scolding them. While the footage didn't capture the audio of what he said, Billie Joe does appear to utter the words "beat your [explicative]. Do you understand me?" The TikTok account that posted the footage said that Armstrong was reacting to someone who kept on shooting water at Billie Joe's face with a squirt gun. Users on Reddit also claimed that the fan was "shooting water with an [explicative] water pistol at Billie's face for an hour. The show started at midnight, so it was nearly 1 am when this happened." Redditors also reported that the concert was delayed due to a thunderstorm. They claimed that security checks were "pretty low to let people back in as fast as possible," though many argued that squirt guns wouldn't be confiscated like an actual weapon would be. After Billie Joe vented his frustration, he resumed the song. Redditors said it was "Jesus of Suburbia," meaning that, per Setlist FM, the band then went into "Bobby Sox" before closing the show with "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life). That seems fitting. Related: Pop Singer Stops Concert Mid-Show to 'Scold' Off-Beat Band: 'You Guys Gotta Follow Me' Copyright 2025 The Arena Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Sydney Morning Herald
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
A pop-rock lightning rod returns, as polarising as ever
Yungblud, Idols Ever since he exploded onto the scene with his 2018 breakout hit, I Love You, Will You Marry Me, Yungblud has been a lightning rod. An outspoken, gender-bending, genre-hopping pop-punk emo from the English suburbs, Yungblud – real name Dominic Harrison – is a magnet for curiosity and controversy. He's been accused of queerbaiting and fetishising the working class. He has been both celebrated and chastised for his political activism, affronting sincerity, and chameleonic approach to music and fashion. Depending on who you ask, he's a trailblazer or a poser, inauthentic or unapologetically himself. His music runs the gamut – he bounces like a pinball, pinging off David Bowie into Billy Idol, hitting Blink-182 and Machine Gun Kelly, grazing Robert Smith and Harry Styles. He's less an enigma than a graffiti wall, painted over until it becomes something messier and grungier but unmistakably fun and oddly beautiful. The 27-year-old's newest album sees Yungblud embracing his contradictions, whirling through the chaos in search of meaning, and emerging with a carpe diem-style optimism. It's ambitious, diverse and sprawling. But like a restaurant with too many items on the menu, you never quite know what you're going to get. The album opener is Yungblud's most impressive artistic achievement yet. Hello Heaven, Hello is a nine-minute statement of intent, and unlike Green Day's Jesus of Suburbia (which is effectively five mini-songs sewn together), it feels like a complete product from start to finish. It moves seamlessly from early-2000s pop-punk to '80s arena rock, and then shifts down into '90s Britpop. And, somehow, it absolutely works. From there, the album is almost Tarantino-esque, a technicolour pastiche. Yungblud wears his influences on his sleeve, for better and worse.
The Age
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
A pop-rock lightning rod returns, as polarising as ever
Yungblud, Idols Ever since he exploded onto the scene with his 2018 breakout hit, I Love You, Will You Marry Me, Yungblud has been a lightning rod. An outspoken, gender-bending, genre-hopping pop-punk emo from the English suburbs, Yungblud – real name Dominic Harrison – is a magnet for curiosity and controversy. He's been accused of queerbaiting and fetishising the working class. He has been both celebrated and chastised for his political activism, affronting sincerity, and chameleonic approach to music and fashion. Depending on who you ask, he's a trailblazer or a poser, inauthentic or unapologetically himself. His music runs the gamut – he bounces like a pinball, pinging off David Bowie into Billy Idol, hitting Blink-182 and Machine Gun Kelly, grazing Robert Smith and Harry Styles. He's less an enigma than a graffiti wall, painted over until it becomes something messier and grungier but unmistakably fun and oddly beautiful. The 27-year-old's newest album sees Yungblud embracing his contradictions, whirling through the chaos in search of meaning, and emerging with a carpe diem-style optimism. It's ambitious, diverse and sprawling. But like a restaurant with too many items on the menu, you never quite know what you're going to get. The album opener is Yungblud's most impressive artistic achievement yet. Hello Heaven, Hello is a nine-minute statement of intent, and unlike Green Day's Jesus of Suburbia (which is effectively five mini-songs sewn together), it feels like a complete product from start to finish. It moves seamlessly from early-2000s pop-punk to '80s arena rock, and then shifts down into '90s Britpop. And, somehow, it absolutely works. From there, the album is almost Tarantino-esque, a technicolour pastiche. Yungblud wears his influences on his sleeve, for better and worse.
San Francisco Chronicle
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong warns U.S. is ‘slipping into fascism' during recent concert
Billie Joe Armstrong may have been out of the country while No Kings protests swept the nation, but he made sure to chime in on the discourse with his thoughts on the U.S. government. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we are slipping into fascism,' the frontman of East Bay punk-rock trio Green Day 's debut performance at Download Festival in the U.K. on Friday, June 13. 'Donald Trump and his administration is a fascist government, and it's up to us to fight back.' Armstrong made a few other digs at President Donald Trump and his administration during Friday's performance, getting the crowd to join him in calling Trump a 'fat bastard' and tweaking the lyrics of 'Jesus of Suburbia' to call Vice President JD Vance an ableist slur. His bold comments came just a day before Trump hosted a military parade for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army in Washington D.C. The event coincided with the president's 79th birthday — and nationwide No Kings protests, which were organized as a direct counter to the parade to denounce the Trump administration's surge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests. The demonstrations in San Francisco, Oakland, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz and beyond on Saturday, June 14 drew a total of more than 5 million Americans. Armstrong has long voiced his contempt for Trump over the years, and recently showed support for protesters in Los Angeles who were rallying against ICE raids across the city and the president's subsequent deployment of the National Guard. Last week, he shared an incendiary video of the anti-ICE demonstrations to Instagram, making his stance clear in the post by captioning it with emojis of a middle finger and an ice cube. They last performed in the Bay Area at BottleRock Napa Valley.
