So, people who know me know that my favourite band is Green Day. They have been a part of my life for over ten years and they have gotten me through some bad times.
When i was in school i would get bullied for my weight: I have never really been bothered about the way i look but these people in my class really made my self esteem plummet to a very low level. Everyday after school i would come home and listen to Green Day and they would instantly make me feel better and ready to face another day.
My parents and grandparents just think it's a phase, that i am obsessed with them...and they are probably right. The only person in my family that never thought that was my uncle David. He loved them too, along with a lot of other music. We watched Bullet in A Bible together and i could see that he was just as amazed by their live presence as i always have been. The day 21st Century Breakdown was released I heard him playing it loud from his bedroom so i ran upstairs and listened to it with him. It was an amazing moment. I remember telling him about going to see them for the first time, and where everyone else wasn't interested, he seemed to hang on my every word and was excited for me - telling me that he was jealous that i had got to see them before him.
The day he died was one of the worst days of my life, the pain still hasn't gone away. At his funeral, the lyrics for Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) were running through my head: 'It's something unpredictable but in the end it's right, i hope you had the time of your life' - i have no idea why. To this day i cannot listen to that song without feeling a sad an sick feeling in my stomach, but it makes me happy in the sense that i remember all of the times i spent with him talking about music. I still have the picture he drew for me of the Heart hand grenade in pride of place on my wall.
Seeing Green Day live is an amazing experience. It is like no other concert experience you will ever have, and i have people back me up on that! I have been able to see them twice (hoping to see them again on their next tour - hopefully next summer). Throughout the show they make you feel included, they show you how much you mean to them and they play their hearts out every night. 16/06/10 was the best night of my life...it is going to be a very hard night to top!
Billie Joe Armstrong is my hero, his lyrics really stick with me. He has taught me how to be an individual and he has shown me that as long as i am happy i shouldn't have to give a damn what anyone else thinks.
The fact that they are bringing three albums out has made me the most excited i have been for a long time. Without being too cheesy, if anything were to happen and they were to split or whatever, i really don't know what i would do. People reading this will just think i am a crazy fan but they just mean so much to me and they have been with me for so long. I would just feel so lost without them.
There aren't enough words to describe how much i wanna thank them for just existing!
There aren't enough words to describe how much i wanna thank them for just existing!
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