Green Day - Rock in Rio - 9 September 2022

[mao]

The 4k video has been uploaded 🤩

[Insomniac90]

22 minutes ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

I didn't think so. There were whole swathes of empty seats but I could be wrong. Emirates was actually overcapacity but it was smaller at just over 65k

I mean the Wembley Show in 2010. thought it was sold out

[okotavio]

9 minutes ago, mao said:

The 4k video has been uploaded 🤩

Ok this is easily the best pro-shot in years 

[mao]

9 minutes ago, okotavio said:

Ok this is easily the best pro-shot in years 

I didn't think Hera Mega's OP footage would be so great 🥰

[jengd]

Here you go, Kevin says 120,000 https://www.instagram.com/p/CiXu0iBuLro/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

24 minutes ago, Insomniac90 said:

I mean the Wembley Show in 2010. thought it was sold out

I think that was sold out and was also a record attendance for Wembley.

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

4 hours ago, Insomniac90 said:

I mean the Wembley Show in 2010. thought it was sold out

That's the show I meant too

3 hours ago, jengd said:

Here you go, Kevin says 120,000 https://www.instagram.com/p/CiXu0iBuLro/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

I think that was sold out and was also a record attendance for Wembley.

I must be wrong, honestly it seemed half empty to me

[Tomcat20]

10 minutes ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

That's the show I meant too

I must be wrong, honestly it seemed half empty to me

Wembley had a lot of empty seats in the back. Bob Guen‘s book says 75k people attended Wembley.

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

I thought this was funny from Green Day Brasil  Billie the Redeemer

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Another photo from Mateus Montoni 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CiXYqNVNvXW/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Backstage(?) 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CiVgPy2OfSE/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

[jengd]

12 hours ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

That's the show I meant too

I must be wrong, honestly it seemed half empty to me

Some stadiums can be really hard to judge though due to stage siting and also they have max numbers so when you have crowds on what’s normally the pitch they can’t sell all the seats I believe. Fire regulations I think.

[okotavio]

So Rock in Rio is over and our boys are still mentioned as the best concert of this edition:

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With twenty minutes, Green Day had already done by far the best show of Rock in Rio until then (and it was not surpassed): Billie Joe devil, a fan on stage singing "Know your enemy", another couple of fans getting engaged and the biggest crowd they've ever managed to gather in front of the Mundo Stage in 2022. The repertoire was dominated by "American Idiot" (2004), with less space for the band's other big album, "Dookie" (1994).

Hopefully this means they'll play more often in South America in the years to come 🤞

[Alf]

just got back home from Rock I Rio!

I'll try to write a quick recap... The show was nuts. The best part is that the big media, who ignored the band for so many years in Brazil, are completely delighted by their performance. And the guys just did their usal show.. My bet is that they willl be here in the next RIR again

It was insane, elected the best show and Green Day was also the band who dragged the biggest crowd to main stage.

Both people who got on stage were near me in the pit, the green haired girl, Barbara, got some cool photos with them in Rio in the days before the show, so she got everything that was possible a fan can get. Awesome

I spent like 15 hours standing in the same spot, back aches since the early evening haha. Have no problemas drinking just enough water to no have to get out to piss (some girls around me were wearing diapers..................), didn't have lunch, just morning coffee and some crackers. Worthed it all, but it is exausting... I can't understand people saying that festivals are better than regular solo shows... no fucking way

funny thing is that the next night our group went to a pub with the personal security guard that worked for the band in south america in 2017, and was working for Avril Lavigne this time, such a cool person, he even payed all of our expenses at the bar hahahha

Those were three crazy days in Rio, amazing to met so many fans and to see people recognizing me for the work on Green Day Brasil, it was really unexpected

Can't wait for the next tour!

 

[Jhonib]

I got home too, bit depressed, because I felt in love for Rio (was my first time there) and seeing the media electing the boys as the best show is so amazing.

Hopefully this means they coming here more often now.

[Karol Oliveira]

The joy I feel that finally casual Brazilians now know that Green Day put the best show 🥰

I don't know how many artists performed at Rock in Rio - it's a huge festival, 7 days - and GD is elected the best! We already knew it! (I feared Coldplay could take their spot but they only reached #6)

[Karol Oliveira]

An article by Julio Maria from Estadão. I'm gonna translate the part where he writes about Green Day because there's a paywall.

"Green Day versus Coldplay

Anyway, what's the best show of Rock in Rio? Everybody has its own, but here there's an argument in favor of Green Day. Both bands, Billie Joe Armstrong's and Chris Martin's, work with very different emotional registers. Green Day access the anger - not hate, but anger, something sweeter - and Coldplay binds to love. But, independently from the part of the brain they operate, Armstrong and Martin's positions on the stage are very different and this will be definitive on the concert they do. More honest, Green Day lets their crowd feel with freedom what the band does on stage. Feel with freedom, that's the point. Just like literature or cinema, the emotions can be manipulated in a concert, making it possible the timing of the exact moment the first tear will drop from the face of a fan. This is Coldplay. The souls controlled all the time by the centralizer Chris Martin don't even decide when the lights binded on their arms will be triggered. Leave everything with uncle Chris Martin and just do what he says. A livestock-like behavior that would be concerning if Martin was a bad guy. How nice he isn't."

[pacejunkie punk]

1 hour ago, Karol Oliveira said:

An article by Julio Maria from Estadão. I'm gonna translate the part where he writes about Green Day because there's a paywall.

"Green Day versus Coldplay

Anyway, what's the best show of Rock in Rio? Everybody has its own, but here there's an argument in favor of Green Day. Both bands, Billie Joe Armstrong's and Chris Martin's work with very different emotional registers. Green Day access the anger - not hate, but anger, something sweeter - and Coldplay binds to love. But, indenpendently from the part of the brain they operate, Armstrong and Martin's positioning on the stage are very different and this will be definitive on the concert they do. More honest, Green Day lets your crowd feel with freedom what the band does on stage. Feel with freedom, that's the point. Just like literature or cinema, the emotions can be manipulated in a concert, making it possible the the timing of the exact moment the first tear will drop from the face of a fan. This is Coldplay. The souls controled all the time by the centralizer Chris Martin don't even decide when the lights binded on their arms will be triggered. Leave everything with uncle Chris Martin and just do what he says. A livestock-like behavior that would be concerning if Martin was a bad guy. How nice he isn't."

Not sure I understand that. Seems like he's saying they both manipulate emotions, just different ones, and for some reason Green Day's win out?

[Karol Oliveira]

33 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Not sure I understand that. Seems like he's saying they both manipulate emotions, just different ones, and for some reason Green Day's win out?

He's comparing two bands who put some of the best concerts of the festival. He says that both bands "operate" differently on the brain (Green Day access anger and Coldplay access love - first difference) and on stage (second difference). Green Day wins because on stage they let the crowd free to feel their own emotions during the concert (making them more honest) while Coldplay's is a big timed spectacle (for example, they distributed bracelets that have some kind of technology and during certain times of songs, they would all light up at the same time).

9 minutes ago, Karol Oliveira said:

 

 

[pacejunkie punk]

14 minutes ago, Karol Oliveira said:

He's comparing two bands who put some of the best concerts of the festival. He says that both bands "operate" differently on the brain (Green Day access anger and Coldplay access love - first difference) and on stage (second difference). Green Day wins because on stage they let the crowd free to feel their own emotions during the concert (making them more honest) while Coldplay's is a big timed spectacle (for example, they distributed bracelets that have some kind of technology and during certain times of songs, they would all light up at the same time).

 

Interesting distinction. I’m not sure how true it is. With Green Day that “freedom” I think is an illusion. Both shows of this size are highly scripted, programmed and designed to elicit emotions at specific times. Whether it’s love or what have you is a distinction without a difference.  I’ve seen Coldplay, and while it felt really unifying and lovely, I think it’s just the tempo and raw energy of Green Day’s music and Billie’s frontman antics that make it a superior live experience for me. 

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Don't think this has been posted before (apologies if so) 

 

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

[okotavio]

14 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Interesting distinction. I’m not sure how true it is. With Green Day that “freedom” I think is an illusion. Both shows of this size are highly scripted, programmed and designed to elicit emotions at specific times. Whether it’s love or what have you is a distinction without a difference.  I’ve seen Coldplay, and while it felt really unifying and lovely, I think it’s just the tempo and raw energy of Green Day’s music and Billie’s frontman antics that make it a superior live experience for me. 

Totally agree with you but I kinda think that only diehards can see this as highly scripted -- it's scripted to not feel scripted to a first-time viewer, in a way? Coldplay has been headlining huge festivals/concerts in Brazil for 10 years now and this is Green Day's first time.

I think the "illusion" is revealed only when you see the big picture -- yes you get to be on stage but always at the same parts of the same songs -- which is a highly controlled form of freedom 

[Beerjeezus]

Every big live act is a piece of theater. I’d say Green Day’s is centered around the songs a bit more than what some other artists do, but that’s just a creative choice.

[pacejunkie punk]

46 minutes ago, okotavio said:

Totally agree with you but I kinda think that only diehards can see this as highly scripted -- it's scripted to not feel scripted to a first-time viewer, in a way? Coldplay has been headlining huge festivals/concerts in Brazil for 10 years now and this is Green Day's first time.

I think the "illusion" is revealed only when you see the big picture -- yes you get to be on stage but always at the same parts of the same songs -- which is a highly controlled form of freedom 

Yeah for sure, Green Day are better at making it look spontaneous. How many reviews have we seen from cities where the journalist seems shocked and amazed that they brought someone up to play and gave the guitar away and we’re like uh, he does that every show 🙄 I mean yeah it’s awesome of them but was not an off the cuff crazy spur of the moment move, they just make it look that way every time.

[Beerjeezus]

Wow, Jesus Of Suburbia was rouuuugh

[Karol Oliveira]

When a little girl entered a wall of death

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CieAhB7Dt76/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=