As I told you some months ago, I had the chance to travel to Paris, France with a clear target: attend to the festival where Green Day was playing on Sunday 26th of August. As i was travelling with some friends I knew since the first moment this travel was not gonna be too much normal.
We arrived on Thursday with no much time to spend visting Paris but to get ready because, lucky me, I had written to the Billy Talent staff and me and three more friends had a pass to enter the festival the next day.
When we woke up, we got there and surprisingly, we didn't just have a free pass, moreover we had a VIP pass, which we could enter the VIP zone with. The first thing we did was going to the main stage to see Billy Talent, and like anybody can imagine, they were awesome. Here you can watch two of their songs
When their show was over, we went to the VIP zone and after they answered this little interview
we could spend some time with them talking mainly about what was next on their tour and they said that if there wasn't any problem they were touring the rest of Europe, Spain included in some months.
Ben, Ian, Jonathan and Aaron are absolutly nice I gotta say.
When the guys from the band left, we enjoy the rest of the day in the festival having a great time, mainly in the Converse zone. Where we could play the bass, guitar and drums to cover some Green Day and other bands songs.
Here is Nacho playing a Blink-182 song:
The next day we basically visited the city, althought, you know, always clowning and fooling around to keep it true hahaha.
About the city, all I can say is that it always seemed boring to me since all that shit about "the city of love" and that stuff but it's actually such a fun and beautiful city with plenty of places to visit and enjoy.
On Sunday, we obviously woke up early to go to the queue. We spend a lot of time there, but it was totally worth it. They opened the gates and let us in, we did not enter the first ones, but never better, we were the first ones to run. Bucause fortunately for us, the gates were a long distance away from the main stage and we took advantage of that to arrive betweet the first people and so we caught front row sites.
The waiting was a little bit long, but some other bands played and they were great, above all the veterans "Social distortion". And finally, after 8 hours of wait, our favorite band appeared on the stage.
It was about two hours wich just flew by. The amazing setlist was:
- Welcome to Paradise
- Murder city
- Know your enemy
- Stay the night
- oh love
- Holiday
- Burnout
- Hitchin' a ride
- letterbomb
- Hihgway to hell/rock and roll covers
- Brain Stew
- Saint Jimmy
- Boulevard of broken dreams
- 2k light years away
- When I come around
- Longview
- Basket case
- She
- King for a day
- Shout
- Minority
- American idiot
- 99 Revolutions
- Good Riddance
It is amazing how they have fun while playing their songs no matter how many times they do.
Personally, it was my first Green Day concert, and of course it was one of the most emotional moments of my life. It's like...I had watched Bullet in a bible and Awesome as fuck so many times and this time I was into the crowd and in the first line, screaming my lungs out and jumping with some of my best friends.
Here you have a pair of vids of the show
Lots of people from Europe were there just to support Billie, Tre and Mike, who are one of the most awesome, inspirational, nice...in general I could spend the day saying good things about these guys, seriously.
Talking about music and playing live, they are the best band nowadays. I've seen many bands but never a band has surprise me as much as Green Day did.
When we got our apartment we didn't even sleep. We just sit in the sofa and were in silence while time was passing, thinking about the concert we had just been to. Then we took our flight back and this adventure ended.
However let's be optimistic, they will tour Europe in 2013, and we will be there :)
Here you have a videowork about the trip:
Thanks for reading!
