Do any of you have a tough time after going to a Gig?

[Isabel]

I'm surprisingly good, actually. I felt so bad after Belfast and Dublin, but I feel fine now. I guess knowing that I'll be seeing them in June helps. Although I'm not thinking about those shows much, I'm still on cloud 9 from the 4 I just went to. Watching videos from other shows doesn't trigger any sadness, just nostalgia in the best possible way

I feel like my Green Day experience was so personal and close to my heart, that only the shows I went to spark the full whack of emotions...if that makes sense

[Nova-Caine]

I thought I'd be in a state but I think the announcement of the Stadium shows for next June helped a lot, Rocktober was the best time of my life so far and I can't wait for next June

[fleicia]

well, i've seen green day live one time, and that was in october this year. when i got home from the show i started crying (again), not because i was depressed or something like that, but because there was a lot of emotions at the same time. haha, then i got sick from sleeping outside in the line so i was home like four days from school. it was good in a way, because i had time to really digest the night of my life. but i wrote it all down, all the things i was thinking and feeling. and the announcement of the wembley show helped a lot

[Freeny]

I felt really bad the week after the concert. I refused to listen to them at all... I know it sounds really weird, but being able to think "the last time I heard them was in the concert/s." was what made me want to keep that a rule, and I pretty much made up a plan like, a contest with myself to see how long I could go without listening to them. I think the thing that really made it hard to cope after the concert actually was the fact I couldn't listen to them at all.. Then a week later the new video came ut (21CB) and I watched it immediatly, and it made me happier, cus then I decided I could listen to them again. By then it all felt so surreal. It didn't feel like I had seen them at all. But when my friend who I saw them with both times came to visit me for a couple of days (she lives far away) it made me feel so much better. Sure, we'd texted and chatted about the concert and stuff, but to be able to talk about the concerts and watch videos that she'd filmed with her cellphone, and talk about how bad we felt afterwards when it was over face to face made me forget about the bad feelings and now I'm just so happy that I've seen my favorite band.

A week after that, they announced the stadium tours, and we'll see them in France together. FUCK it's gonna be awesome. I'm so lucky to look forward to a Green Day concert again!

[greendaygal89]

my post gig depression only went becuase i booked tickets to see them at wembley lmao !!

[Sister of Grace]

Im actually alright now when the European tour is totally over and I've seen the band twice on this tour. They will be back and I've got tickets for the stadium shows. So it's all good life goes on, right? I used to have bigger problems when it comes to feeling down after gigs though.

[Good-Riddance]

Well, when it's standing my legs ache for quite a while..

And any concert, when I'm trying to get to sleep after it I can't cause I get this buzzing in my ear xD

Also some words of advice:

Never go to a concert in the rain. Worst experience of my life.

[Comedy & Tragedy]

I saw them at their Dublin show, and I couldn't sleep that night.

I got to sleep at about 4, and I was supposed to get up for school at about 6:45

As you can imagine, I didn't go into school that day.

Later that day, I had ballet, and I could not concentrate one bit (funny enough, another girl in my ballet class went to the concert and she seemed fine...)

I actually thought I was the only one who had these feelings after a concert, so I'm glad I'm not just weird, lol!

I just really could not believe it, I saw my heroes live. The shock was too overwhelming. too much...

[Nova-Caine]

Starting to come down now, need me a GD fix sooooooooooooooooooon, how the hell I am going to cope when they fuck off for another 4-5 years at the end of next year I have no idea

:/

[Isabel]

Starting to come down now, need me a GD fix sooooooooooooooooooon, how the hell I am going to cope when they fuck off for another 4-5 years at the end of next year I have no idea

:/

That part of my brain is just not allowed to think about such things. I just can't let myself wonder about how long they'll be gone for after the summer. In a strange way, part of me never wants June to come because the idea of knowing that I'll see them again is just so exhilarating; and knowing that it's going to come and go as quickly as Rocktober just breaks my heart

[justcause]

Starting to come down now, need me a GD fix sooooooooooooooooooon, how the hell I am going to cope when they fuck off for another 4-5 years at the end of next year I have no idea

:/

Just because 21CB took that length of time doesn't mean the next one will - it could come really fast.

[Isabel]

Just because 21CB took that length of time doesn't mean the next one will - it could come really fast.

I can't see that happening to be honest. :/

[Maddy.]

I cried. A lot. I still do when I listen to the audio and the vids and stuff.

[justcause]

I can't see that happening to be honest. :/

Why not?

[Isabel]

Why not?

Because if you look at the pattern of previous album releases, not to mention all the things they did between 2006-2009. I'd say they got a good kick out of doing all that, so what's to stop them delving into it further?

[justcause]

Because if you look at the pattern of previous album releases, not to mention all the things they did between 2006-2009. I'd say they got a good kick out of doing all that, so what's to stop them delving into it further?

If I was Green Day, I'd be horrified to think that I had an observable, predictible pattern. I'd be kicking my ass to break out of that pattern - I would be raging against and defeating whatever it is that gets between me and the thing I love above all - performance. And I sure as fuck wouldn't want to be waiting another five years to do it.

[Isabel]

If I was Green Day, I'd be horrified to think that I had an observable, predictible pattern. I'd be kicking my ass to break out of that pattern - I would be raging against and defeating whatever it is that gets between me and the thing I love above all - performance. And I sure as fuck wouldn't want to be waiting another five years to do it.

Well it's not that they deliberately have a pattern, it's just the way it happened with the last couple of albums. The transition between Warning and American Idiot was pretty tough for them and they nearly broke up. There was doubt over whether or not they had lost their creative spark and their confidence dipped, I think. So it took a good while to get going again and write new and different material.

Then between American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, they were definitely busy little bees! Between the collaboration with U2, Working Class Hero, Habitat for Humanity, Tre going to Cuba, Mike back-packing around Europe, NRDC, Foxboro Hot Tubs, etc. etc. it was obviously going to take longer than expected to get around to releasing the new album (Even though they started writing in January 06)

It seems as though they don't have much of a consistent schedule when it comes to releasing albums, they probably just get down to it when they're good and ready

[farley drexel hatcher]

If I was Green Day, I'd be horrified to think that I had an observable, predictible pattern. I'd be kicking my ass to break out of that pattern - I would be raging against and defeating whatever it is that gets between me and the thing I love above all - performance. And I sure as fuck wouldn't want to be waiting another five years to do it.

Yeah, I don't think the next album will take as long either. I think once they get the idea and they're no longer touring fulltime, they'll just do it. Billie had mentioned himself the idea of just putting out a quick EP of songs, and he mentioned how frustrated he got when he wasn't touring toward the end of making 21CB. I think ultimately they'll do what happens naturally, and this time around I don't see them taking as long. I don't see them needing to.

But that's just me XD

[colour_me_stupid_]

I say let Green Day take as long as they like for the next album. Their music, their pace. The wait is painful, but we have 9 albums to keep us going while we do wait, and the wait will be so worth it.

But in reply to not wanting June to come, I hear ya. It's possibly going to be the month of the 3 things I'm looking forward to most, my 18th, Wembley and now maybe Slane. (Fuck the Leaving )

What the hell will I do with myself after?

[Juliette]

I don't think their next album will take as long - I mean, they were already recording some demo stuff when they were in Glasgow right ? So they must at least have an idea.

If not there's always FHT which they said they'd like to do something with again, and aren't The Network supposed to have a new album out ?

Honestly like seeing how much fun they're having at the moment it's hard to imagine they're gonna have another 5 year gap. Maybe that's just wishful thinking.

[Sarahnade.]

After Green Day, it really sucked. I didn't know what to do with myself. It feels like a dream; like it never even happened. And so much happened that night. I was so close. Billie caught something from me, sprayed me with the squirt gun, and we made eye contact a lot. And now...it's all gone. :/

I saw Taking Back Sunday last Friday, and it was so amazing. Being on the floor at that show was so intense. So much moshing and pushing, I barely survived. But I was so pumped and energized. Afterwords, I wanted to do it all over again! And now I'm going through concert withdrawl. It would be wonderful to see GD again - that's all I want.

[Tiffx]

I'm definitely suffering from a bit of post concert depression.

As soon as Billie came on for the acoustic encore last night I got this sinking feeling and felt kind of bummed out. I was on such a high throughout the whole show, my face literally hurts from smiling so much and my voice is dead, but it's hard dealing with the post concert feelings. On my way home I was listening to Nimrod but I had to turn it off because just listening to them made me feel nostalgic and depressed.

I'll be seeing them again in Sydney, but right now I have this Green Day hangover. I actually feel exactly like I do after I've had a big night out drinking, minus the throwing up. My whole body hurts, I have bruises and I keep re-living last night in my head over and over again.

I really don't know how I'm going to cope after the Sydney shows are over.

[Tre_Gina]

For the week after the shows in Rocktober I was on such a high - telling everyone about it, looking at photos and videos but then it hit me that I may not see them again for years which made me sad, so I was so happy when the UK stadium shows were announced as I can now look forward to that.

Everyday though I think about those gigs and how emotional I was when they first came out onstage and at the end when Billie sang time of your life.

Nothing can compete with that feeling.

x

[g l o r i a]

After my concert, it was all I talked about for weeks. And to this day, ask me about it and I will never shut up.

But it's such a downer knowing that you have to wait to see them again.

I'm generally a really happy person, but I was a vegetable after my concert.

For a week I did nothing but talk to people who went to the concert and listen to Green Day.

They just make me really happy. <3

[P3AC3MAK3R]

Im still watching all my concert videos every day and wishing i was there again .. i hate waiting fot tour dates its te most painfullest feeling ever !! I really hope the come back to australia this year im going to get a job asap (may cause you have to be 14 9 months) so then i can save and im planning on going to every concert in aus i really hope they come i could handle noing that there playing gigs around the world and i cant be there!!