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Metro
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong kicks fan off stage for playing Oasis song
A Green Day fan has been booted off stage after trying to troll the band. Forming in 1987, the American rock band's line-up includes lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool. They rose to fame with their debut album Dookie in 1994, later releasing hits like American Idiot, Wake Me Up When September Ends and Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Over the past 38 years Green Day have sold around 74 million records worldwide and have been nominated for 20 Grammy Awards. Despite their success, someone at one of their recent concerts tried to poke fun at them – and it didn't go down well. On Monday night the band were playing at the Luxexpo in Luxembourg. Like they usually do, they invited a fan from the crowd onto the stage to play guitar on the show closer Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life). However, the person picked wasn't too keen on actually taking part and started playing the wrong chords, with Billie Joe looking visibly confused. 'You told me you could play this one!' he said, attempting to remind the fan of the proper key, before the man instead started to strum the intro to Oasis' Wonderwall. Reacting immediately, Billie Joel was unimpressed, declaring: 'Oh, f*** me.' He then grabbed the guitar from the man and declared 'nice try' and 'wrong song', before the attention-seeker was ushered off the stage by a security guard. Not willing to let the moment pass by the musician then played the song himself. Many people slammed the man, saying he wasted a 'once in a lifetime opportunity'. 'Why do people keep taking once in a lifetime opportunities from real Green Day fans,' Yvonne commented on Instagram. 'The crappy thing about this is he not only ruined his chance to play with an amazing band, but someone else lost out too. Such a shame,' Kathy shared. 'Dude had ONE shot to play with them, and he fumbles it like that? Bruh,' Denny added. However, Oasis star Liam Gallagher saw the funny side, posting on X the next day: 'Best song of the night.' In 2022 Liam's brother and bandmate Noel also declared that he though other bands should emulate them. 'I've always thought most bands should play Oasis songs, anyway. The Foo Fighters should definitely do a couple. Green Day could do even more than one or two. Radiohead? I mean, let's face it. It'd be a better night out,' he said. In a few days' time Oasis will make their-long awaited stage return – kicking off their reunion tour in Cardiff on Friday. Last year Green Day also had a run-in with a fan during a gig. More Trending While playing at Hurricane Festival in Germany, Billie Joe could pointed directly at a fan in the crowd and flipping them off. Soon after he threw his microphone down and took off his guitar, pointing directly at the fan and mouthing words at them, looking incredibly annoyed. Other attendees later explained that the fan in question has been repeatedly spraying the singer with a water gun while he was performing. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Cassie Ventura releases statement after ex Sean 'Diddy' Combs sex trafficking verdict MORE: Dave Grohl and wife Jordyn Blum make first public appearance after secret love child revealed MORE: Sean 'Diddy' Combs found not guilty of sex trafficking in bombshell trial
Boston Globe
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Wilbury's ‘American Idiot' is a triumphant, headbanging, full-frontal assault
Get Globe Rhode Island Food Club A weekly newsletter about food and dining in Rhode Island, by Globe Rhode Island reporter Alexa Gagosz. Enter Email Sign Up And so, too, does the Advertisement 'American Idiot' has made its way onto the Advertisement Written by Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong and Broadway/Metropolitan Opera veteran Michael Mayer, the musical enriches the album's thin and scattered narrative with intriguing theatricality. And with the aid of Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tom Kitt, who wrote the score for the modern opera 'Next to Normal,' the album's angst-ridden guitar riffs, omnipresent and inventive bass lines, and angry, rapid-fire drumming are complemented with more traditional pit instrument orchestrations. All this makes 'American Idiot' something unique: a musical that bears a resemblance to the traditional theatrical artform, but which comes draped in defiance, sarcasm, and youth-fueled exuberance. In this Wilbury production, under director Josh Short and musical director Milly Massey, there is enough youth-fueled exuberance to light up all of Rhode Island. It is accompanied by a team of terrific local musicians that include Chloe Cordeiro on drums, Ernie Lau on violin, James Lucey on bass, Nick Mendillo on guitar, and Christine Perkins on cello. They are particularly good when leaning into ballads like 'Wake Me Up When September Ends,' but someone needs to turn up the volume so that their spot-on rendition of the no-frills anthem 'St. Jimmy' and the hard rocking 'Give Me Novacaine' causes a greater ripple of vibration in our ribcage. After all, this is a punk rock opera. Short and his designers – Scott Osborne (scenic), Alexander P. Sprague (lighting), and Andy Russ (sound and video) – make sure that this production does not resemble the traditional theatrical artform too closely. There's more performance space than seating – which includes ramps, scaffolding, a trap door, a band stand and a band pit. Everything is littered with urban decay and surrounded by large video screens that display images that establish a sense of time, place and mindset. Actors rock punk fashion is courtesy of designer Dustin Thomas. Advertisement Much of the aforementioned defiance and sarcasm is communicated through Ali Kenner Brodsky's choreography as performed by an ensemble of frustrated, passionate, and aimless youth, played by the talented Perry Barkett, Jenna Benzinger, Alexander Boyle, Sofia DaSilva, Michael Eckenreiter, Grace Graham, Annabelle Iredale, Elisabet Ober, Paige O'Connor, Henry Stanton, and Justin Alice Voena. The dance emerges as edgy, explosive movement that would seem organic and guttural if not for the occasional moments when it appears a tad premeditated. Eckenreiter, as Johnny, has the prerequisite hair, physicality, acting chops, and guitar virtuosity to play an endearing antihero. Just not the extraordinary voice needed to sell his solos or stand out in shared songs like 'Jesus of Suburbia' and 'Tales of Another Broken Home.' Fortunately, extraordinary voices – as well as incredible intensity and remarkable stage presence – can be found in Benzinger as Johnny's short-term girl, Whatsername; O'Connor as the walking pharmacy, St. Jimmy; Boyle and Stanton as Johnny's best friends, Tunny and Will; and Iredale as Heather, Will's pregnant girlfriend. Green Day was inducted into the AMERICAN IDIOT Book by Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer. Music by Green Day with Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong. Directed by Josh Short. At Wilbury Theatre Group, WaterFire Arts Center, 475 Valley St., Providence. Through June 22. Tickets are $5-$35. 401-400-7100, Advertisement Bob Abelman is an award-winning theater critic who formerly wrote for the Austin Chronicle. Connect with him
