Green Day - 2010-06-16 - Lancashire County Cricket Club, Manchester, UK

What a superb way to spend a beautiful summer's evening! The band were on stage for a whopping 2 hours & 45 minutes, and that was 2 hours & 45 minutes of spectacular quality.

An excellent setlist was supplemented by Billy Joe's usual crowd interaction and he once again had the near 30,000-strong crowd eating out of the palm of his hand. The songs that were played covered all but the earliest part of their career and all were delivered as if the band's lives depended on it. A truly awesome experience!

As you can imagine, with me only being 20m from the stage, the crowd were quite boisterous and vociferous throughout the show. This obviously comes across on the recording, but gets noticeably better as the show goes on, particularly after I managed to move away from one tone deaf youth! Once Green Day got into the "old school" section, the extra vocals were then provided by my mate Sam, but thankfully he disappeared into a mosh pit after a few of the songs!  :-)

Now for the bad news: I started recording when the drunken rabbit came on stage, but somehow it paused before the band came on. I can only think that I didn't lock the remote and the pause button was pressed at some stage. All this meant that I didn't actually start recording until I checked the levels just before the 4th song of the set, East Jesus Nowhere. Sorry!

Anyway - enjoy! :-)

Green Day - 2010-06-16 - Lancashire County Cricket Club, Manchester, UK - FLAC
779MB RAR archive, FLAC format

Green Day - 2010-06-16 - Lancashire County Cricket Club, Manchester, UK - MP3
254MB RAR archive, variable bit rate MP3s (min. 245 kbps)

Setlist:

Unfortunately, the first 3 songs of the set are missing from the recording-:

- Song of the Century
- 21st Century Breakdown
- Know Your Enemy

01. East Jesus Nowhere
02. Holiday
03. The Static Age
04. Give Me Novacaine
05. Are We The Waiting
06. St. Jimmy
07. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
08. 2000 Light Years Away
09. Nice Guys Finish Last
10. Burnout
11. Coming Clean
12. Geek Stink Breath
13. Hitchin a Ride
14. Welcome to Paradise
15. When I Come Around

Rock Medley:-
16. Iron Man
17. Sweet Child of Mine
18. Highway to Hell

19. Brainstew
20. Jaded
21. Longview
22. Basketcase
23. She
24. King For a Day
25. Shout Medley:-
- Shout
- Teenage Kicks
- (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
- Champagne Supernova
- Hey Jude
- Shout (reprise)
26. 21 Guns
27. Minority
28. --encore break #1--
29. American Idiot
30. Jesus of Suburbia
31. --encore break #2--
32. When It's Time
33. Wake Me Up When September Ends
34. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

(Photo courtesy of the wonderful Shirlaine Forrest Photography)

(Download links updated on 27th January, 2013)