A week on from kicking off The Saviors Tour, Green Day have already made some exciting setlist tweaks.
Following a couple of absolutely mega festival sets in Spain, the trio headed to the LDLC Arena in Lyon, France last night (June 5) to properly start their own headline portion of the tour.
And while they kept the bulk of their original 34-song setlist the same – including full run-throughs of Dookie and American Idiot – they also added several big-hitters from this year’s 14th album Saviors (which is handy, given the tour is named after that record, and fans had been calling for more of this fantastic new material).
After opening with The American Dream Is Killing Me and then going straight into all of Dookie, a six-song break between their 1994 and 2004 classic LPs saw Billie Joe Armstrong and co. yet again play Know Your Enemy, but then go into a Saviors segment of all the singles: Look Ma, No Brains!, One Eyed Bastard, Dilemma and Bobby Sox.
Then, everything that came after was once again the same – Brain Stew, into American Idiot in full, before a two-song encore of Minority and Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life). So that now makes this set a whopping 37 songs long!
Speaking to K! late last year about the tour and their setlist plans, bassist Mike Dirnt enthused, “I’m excited about the fact that people are excited about Dookie and American Idiot’s anniversaries. I mean, the fact that we’re launching a new record at the same time as those albums having their anniversaries is a strange anomaly, but also really awesome. And it gives us an opportunity to put together one hell of a show. We can deviate from it – we can do whatever we want to do – but, man, there’s a lot of friggin’ fun songs to play!”
Check out the incredible LDLC Arena setlist below:
1. The American Dream Is Killing Me
Dookie
2. Burnout
3. Having A Blast
4. Chump
5. Longview
6. Welcome To Paradise
7. Pulling Teeth
8. Basket Case
9. She
10. Sassafras Roots
11. When I Come Around
12. Coming Clean
13. Emenius Sleepus
14. In The End
15. F.O.D.
16. All By Myself (orchestral version)
17. Know Your Enemy
18. Look Ma, No Brains!
19. One Eyed Bastard (tour debut)
20. Dilemma
21. Bobby Sox (tour debut)
22. Brain Stew
American Idiot
23. American Idiot
24. Jesus Of Suburbia
25. Holiday
26. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
27. Are We The Waiting
28. St. Jimmy
29. Give Me Novacaine
30. She's A Rebel
31. Extraordinary Girl
32. Letterbomb
33. Wake Me Up When September Ends
34. Homecoming
35. Whatsername
36. Minority
37. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Check out some fan-shot footage from Lyon below: