How do you prepare for a Green Day show?

[Hermione]

I get everything single thing prepared way in advance like a military operation because I'm a stress head. The food and drink and everything else I'm gonna bring and the clothes I'm gonna wear, all planned long in advance and laid out ready to go. And then go to bed at 7pm so I can wake up at 3am and get the earliest train. I don't like leaving anything to chance when it comes to a Green Day show!

I did jump on a train to London for the Foxies with, like, NO notice and no preparation though. Stressful! But it all worked out perfectly anyway.

[Katarina.]

Like a week before the show I listen to Green Day's music all the time, starting with their first album and so on. Then around one or two days before I start thinking what to wear and what to bring with me, as in what kind of bag (I can throw away), food, drinks and things like weird sunglasses for Billie. And going to bed early of course. But most of the time I end up getting things or changing my clothes at the last moment

[Guest]

You GDC and get excited.

[st.idiot]

I will be staying up the night before with my best friend, and we will be cranking Green Day all night and dipping every food item in Nutella before consumption.

nutella is. AHMAHZAING

[Holly]

Make lists of everything even slightly involved. Jump up and down and go all squeemish and cry-y at the thought of it and how excited I am. Countdown the days/hours/minutes/seconds even when its over one hundred days to go. Plan out everything for every single possibility.

I also make plans of when I should drink in accordance to when I'll be able to use the toilet and what the latest time is I'll allow myself to drink before I actually go in but I never carry them out, I just end up sipping my drink a lot to try and keep me hydrated but not need the toilet.

I basically just plan every little detail and check it over a million times and then don't actually need any of it.

[Undómiel]

Haha, I don't drink anything and go to the toilet about a gazilion times cause I'm so scared I'm gonna need in the middle of the show

AAAAAnnnndddd... queue for AGES, eat rubbish whilst in the queue (McDonalds - I love you), pack about six different outfits and stress about which one I'm actually going to wear (I know it's trivial but to me it's important), listen to all 250 Green Day songs on my iPod with my best friends and most importantly get completely over-excited at least 100 days before the actual gig and annoy everyone with talking about it for ages...

[coghlan351595]

pretty much listen to every green day song and watch other concert videos to pump me up for it.

[OverjoyedAndroid]

Well, I just went to my first concert last night, and I basically just sat around muttering like a crazy person coming up with the idea of a perfect concert in my head. When I got there, I had to wait outside, so I listened to the soundcheck, recorded some stuff, and when Billie said something random that I could hear, I would reply. It was funny because he said "I said Ay-Oh!" during the soundcheck, and I said it back, and he kept going on with that with me screaming it back, and at the end I could've sworn I heard them laugh. Basically if you're close to the band you make an awesome poster, and if you're on the lawn, bring decent binoculars(I was on the lawn and I took my best binoculars and when Billie Joe pulled his pants down I had a close up on it! WOOOOHOOOO!!!!)

[Smoothed Out]

spray my hair green without ruining my clothes and attempt to stay calm and collected it never works though

[siobhan409]

Sleep out in the street the night before, talk to everyone til 4 in the morning, try and get some sleep, get woke up by security at 6 in the morning. Dont drink too much water because if you need to pee and you spent 26 hours queuing to get to the barrier the is no way in hell you are going to get back to the barrier. But you also don't wana pass out. Its all tactics

Oh and Green Day and Redbull are not a good mix.

[bollard_11]

Nothing at all. It's not a huge life changing event, it's just a gig

[whatsername..x]

Sleep out in the street the night before, talk to everyone til 4 in the morning, try and get some sleep, get woke up by security at 6 in the morning. Dont drink too much water because if you need to pee and you spent 26 hours queuing to get to the barrier the is no way in hell you are going to get back to the barrier. But you also don't wana pass out. Its all tactics

Oh and Green Day and Redbull are not a good mix.

ahh, it seems like you've had alot of practice haha* I'd love to be able to just make conversation with everyone in the queue, most of the times when I've tried, people just look at me like I'm weird, would be so great to make a load of friends at a gig. And yeah, totally agree with the water thing, luckily so far I've never needed to run out to pee, but I am proper gagging for a long drink after the show!!

Your tattoo's awesome by the way!!

[coghlan351595]

Really? I actually start listening less as the shows approach so I'm not burned out.

Well I dont listen to green day as much as I used to anymore. I like finding new bands and listening to them.

[SixtiesJunkiie]

i prepare a few days in advance, listening to every single album.

[NoVaCaInE!]

make endless lists about anything and everything.

Exactly.

And I usually spend the time leading up to it freaking out over various things. Basically I cant relax until Green Day are on stage

[siobhan409]

ahh, it seems like you've had alot of practice haha* I'd love to be able to just make conversation with everyone in the queue, most of the times when I've tried, people just look at me like I'm weird, would be so great to make a load of friends at a gig. And yeah, totally agree with the water thing, luckily so far I've never needed to run out to pee, but I am proper gagging for a long drink after the show!!

Your tattoo's awesome by the way!!

Then you are talking to the wrong people. Not everyones a dick. If im ever at a show youre at ill come say hi

[BringMoreKnives]

Listen to their music really loud, Start singing GD songs when in line for the tickets with my bff, Screaming "Platypus".....

[madddie]

Get myself worked up. Make lists. Travel. Queue. Write on flags. Buy water guns, hats and fake boobs.

Before the gig at Wembley and Ali got our faces painted

Eat chocolate.

Hide chocolate in my make up bag in case I get hungry.

Andddd if you're in Glasgow.. drink lots of Irn Bru

This list could go on forever.

[whatsername..x]

Then you are talking to the wrong people. Not everyones a dick. If im ever at a show youre at ill come say hi

Ah thankyou!! that's really nice I should actually do northern shows too as I'm a yorkshire lass aswel

[Alllllli.]

Get myself worked up. Make lists. Travel. Queue. Write on flags. Buy water guns, hats and fake boobs.

Before the gig at Wembley and Ali got our faces painted

Eat chocolate.

Hide chocolate in my make up bag in case I get hungry.

Andddd if you're in Glasgow.. drink lots of Irn Bru

This list could go on forever.

<3

This.

You forgot chat to Joan Jett a little bit. And freak out a little bit.

[siobhan409]

Ah thankyou!! that's really nice I should actually do northern shows too as I'm a yorkshire lass aswel

Next time i am at all the european shows. Apparently theres an arena bein built in leeds if they play there everyone can stay at mine haha. You should deffo come up north, better than the smelly south lol

[madddie]

<3

This.

You forgot chat to Joan Jett a little bit. And freak out a little bit.

Oh yeah thats a must too

There are so many things we do haha.

Get scary flights by myself, the mean man I was next to didn't even let me have the window seat!! What the hell! Haha.

[Rachel Nimrod Armstrong]

The night before the 3 Green Day shows i have been to i can never sleep lol! I get TOO exited and stay up all night watching Green Day vids

But i always have to travel on the train to see Green Day soo i blast their songs all over and get exited lo!

i act like a lil kiddie

and i also have to go over every Green Day song..i mean like sing them to make sure (wierd i know lol!)

[siobhan409]

Oh yeah thats a must too

There are so many things we do haha.

Get scary flights by myself, the mean man I was next to didn't even let me have the window seat!! What the hell! Haha.

I second that flying on your own is crap. Especially when your 'gig hungover' and the plane is full of screaming kids. Then walking round paris on your own getting leered at by horrible men. The things we do for our band

[mallorymaloney]

Nothing at all. It's not a huge life changing event, it's just a gig

... Does not compute.