May
19
Tue • 2009

Webster Hall

New York, NY, USA
25 Songs
2 Sets
May 18, 2009 May 20, 2009
View on greendaylive.fm

Set 1:

  1. #1 21st Century Breakdown
  2. #2 Know Your Enemy
  3. #3 East Jesus Nowhere
  4. #4 Before The Lobotomy
  5. #5 Last Of The American Girls
  6. #6 Murder City
  7. #7 ¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)
  8. #8 The Static Age
  9. #9 21 Guns
  10. #10 American Eulogy
  11. #11 See The Light

Set 2:

  1. #12 American Idiot
  2. #13 Jesus Of Suburbia
  3. #14 St. Jimmy
  4. #15 Longview
  5. #16 Coming Clean
  6. #17 At The Library Fan request
  7. #18 80
  8. #19 Basket Case
  9. #20 She
  10. #21 Surrender Performed as the "Midwest Medley" combined with Bastards Of Young
  11. #22 Bastards Of Young Performed as the "Midwest Medley" combined with Surrender
  12. #23 King For A Day
  13. #24 Shout
  14. #25 Minority
Show Notes
"MySpace Music today announced The List concert series will feature Green Day performing live in New York City on Tuesday, May 19. The band will perform at Webster Hall for a small group of lucky fans, mere days after their new Reprise Records’ album 21st Century Breakdown hits stores on Friday, May 15.
The List is a live concert event where MySpace users are provided a chance to see the biggest bands by responding to a series of blogs and bulletins posted from the program’s official profile at http://www.myspace.com/thelist. Fans across the world will then be able to watch the performance when footage of the entire show is presented on MySpace Music shortly after the concert. The List is presented by Sunkist. Past shows have included My Chemical Romance, The Roots, LCD Soundsystem, Smashing Pumpkins, Taking Back Sunday, and Serj Tankian.
Approximately 300 MySpace users will be granted admittance to the special Green Day concert for free thanks to The List presented by Sunkist. Additionally, a portion of the tickets to this concert will be sold to the public beginning on Saturday, May 9."

NME: "Green Day played another small scale show in New York last night (May 19) in front of just over 1,000 fans.
Just one day after another tiny show at Bowery Ballroom, the punk superstars played a ‘secret’ MySpace gig, held at Manhattan‘s Webster Hall, that saw them storm through a two-hour set which was divided into two halves; one of material from new album ’21st Century Breakdown’ and the other of classics and requests.
Rather than play the whole of the new album as they have done recently, Green Day chose to play a select number of tracks, all of which were rapturously received by the 1,400 strong crowd despite the fact the album has only been available since Friday (May 15).
Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong encouraged crowd participation from the very start and pulled up a fan to sing a chorus of current single ‘Know Your Enemy’.
Later on, a member of the crowd responded to the line “I just want to bum a cigarette” in ‘Murder City’ by actually throwing him one, which the frontman duly lit up before quipping “Hmmmm, I love PCP.” After around 50 minutes, the band closed the first half with a soaring version of ’21st Century Breakdown’ closer ‘See The Light’.
The loudest cheers of the night, however, were reserved for the second half of the set which even featured ‘At The Library’ from their very first album ‘1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours’.
At one point, Armstrong pulled out another fan out of the moshpit to sing the entire second verse of ‘Longview’ and also took personal requests from other members of the crowd.
After almost taking the roof off with a rendition of their breakthrough smash ‘Basket Case’, the trio also threw in a medley cover version of Cheap Trick‘s ‘Surrender’ and The Replacements‘ ‘Bastard Of Young’.
Despite being drenched in sweat by the end, Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool rarely stopped grinning at each other, least of all during the anthemic finale ‘Minority’."