[pic=The guys posing for pictures.]051513_downloadindependent.png[/pic]To celebrate the 4 year anniversary of 21st Century Breakdown we decided to bring you the first ever performance of the album live as download of the week. This show comes from The Independent in San Francisco on April 7th 2009. The first of four times they played this album live.

The almost 2 1/2 hour audio recording features them opening the gig with "Welcome To Paradise" before going into performing the whole album from front to back (minus "Song of The Century") then going into some of their older hits including a few rarities like "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?". The sound quality is one of the best sounding recordings we have from the tour, with the fact it was their very first show of the tour is a bonus.

Head over to our featured download section to download the 160mb zip file of the MP3's. If you're interested in the FLAC version and many other recordings, you should sign up for our forum, Green Day Community, and check out this topic in the download section.

Got a suggestion for next week's download of the week? Send me an email at liam@greendayauthority.com or shoot me a message over on GDC.