 
Green Day are one of the most loved bands on the
planet today and since they formed 24 years ago
they have gone from strength to strength and achieved
so much more than what they set out to achieve
when they first started out, during the later
part of 2009 they did a massive tour across the
UK playing all your big arenas including two shows
at the o2 Arena in London and then during the
summer of 2010 they came back to the UK to play
some of their biggest shows ever at London Wembley
Stadium and Manchester county cricket ground and
during this touring cycle they also played pretty
much every major city across the world with millions
of fans heading out to see them.
Back in 2005 Green Day also played two sold out
shows at Milton Keynes Bowl which at the time
was noted as the biggest high of the bands career
and months after the shows Green Day released
‘Bullet In A Bible’ which was a full
live album and DVD package of the second Milton
Keynes show and in my eyes is the best live package
released by any band ever, well Green Day are
now back with a new live offering called ‘Awesome
As Fuck’.
‘Awesome As Fuck’ is an live CD/DVD
package which was recording during the whole ‘21st
Century Breakdown’ tour cycle and the CD
features 17 songs that were played during the
tour cycle and each and every song on the album
is recorded from a different city and country
from London, England all the way to Brisbane,
Australia and pretty much everywhere else in-between
in the hope of interesting a wider variety of
fans.
The quality of the live album is fantastic it
starts with ‘21ST Century Breakdown’
which was recorded in London then it moves on
to ‘Know Your Enemy’ which was recorded
in Manchester then it moves on to ‘East
Jesus Nowhere which was recorded in Glasgow and
so on throughout the 17 tracks included but the
good thing about the album is that throughout
you hear the crowds screams and vocals which is
normally kept to a minimal during most live albums
but the whole crowd participation is a main thing
when it comes to the whole Green Day experience
and secondly despite each song being taken from
a different city it has been mixed so well that
each track follows on from the last with no waiting
moments or dodgy gaps.
The track listing in my opinion is a lot weaker
than the track listing for ‘Bullet In A
Bible’ and that is because this time it
is mostly focused on the whole ‘21ST Century
Breakdown’ album but at the same time there
are some classic songs on offer such as ‘American
Idiot’, ‘When I Come Around’,
‘Geek Stink Breath’ and not to forget
the new track ‘Cigarettes And Valentines’
which has that big Green Day vibe throughout.
The DVD featured in the package is taken from
a concert filmed in Tokyo Japan, so if you are
expecting it to be a song from each and every
city like the CD then you might be slightly disappointed
and secondly some of the footage is very shaky
and amateur looking, but on the plus side it features
pretty much everything that you would of experienced
on the ‘21st Century Breakdown’ tour
and also features some behind the scenes antics.
If you attended a show on the ‘21st Century
Breakdown’ tour then ‘Awesome As Fuck’
really is a must have purchase for you also if
you are a hardcore Green Day fan then you seriously
need to pick this up as we all know how long it
takes Green Day to bring new material out, but
if you are new to the whole Green Day experience
I would recommend starting with ‘Bullet
In a Bible’ or ‘International Superhits’.
4/5
Review by Trigger
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