Australia shows kick off to a good start

Dec. 6, 2009 / Comments
[turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/Picture_Vault/displayimage.php?pos=-19387][newsImage]120609_mike_aus.jpg[/newsImage][/turl]Green Day has played two shows in Australia, where they'll be over the next couple weeks, along with New Zealand. JET is opening for them for the Australian dates.

Setlists and photos (for the first show) have been added, so check out the tour page.

A couple of reviews of the shows:
FasterLouder.com
The band were clearly having a great time, playing with the crowd, getting them to sing something in almost every song, even holding a note for 12 bars and encouraging the audience to do the same which, surprisingly they did, and the sound was goose-bump inspirin


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