I went to see Greenday in concert last night, at Manchester MEN arena. Generally, I’m not into that kind of music, however I really enjoyed the evening. I’d given their album a couple of listens the week before, so was fairly familiar with American Idiot.

The support band was New Found Glory, who I had heard fairly good things about. However, I thought they were terrible last night, talentless and very poor. It made me think that Greenday were going to be very similar, however I was pleasantly surprised. I presumed there would be more than one support band, but that wasn’t the case.

Greenday played all their usual songs from the latest album, and a few from older CD’s (such as Minority). Acoustics were great, and there were some superb special effects. Lots of fireworks, and huge flames emitting from the middle of the stage. Very impressive.

At one part, they pulled a few people from the audience, and asked them to play instruments on stage. They all sounded surprisingly good, and the lead singer let one lad keep the guitar he was playing. Just shows how many instruments they must get through!

All in all, I thought it was an outstanding evening. Greenday were great, and although the support band were appalling, it didn’t spoil the night for me. I’d certainly advise anyone considering going to see them to get their tickets bought!