I was at Ullevaal Stadium about 12:30 PM, more than eight hours before the concert... and there were already 2-3 hundred people there waiting!
About half past two, the security-people put up metal fences, and everybody ran for it! I was lucky to get in the front of one of the queues separated by the fences. There we had to stand squeezed into each other until about 4 o'clock! It was not that bad, actually, even though it was very hot. We could hear Green Day doing sound checks from inside the stadium!
When we finally were let in to the stadium, I ran like hell, seriously, to the stage! And I was one of the very first to reach it, there was only ONE person in front of me! I was honestly barely hanging on while waiting inside the stadium. It was torture, standing squeezed into people in the sun and the heat for three hours. (And I mean REALLY squeezed. I almost didn't get my jacket off, because there was NO room around me to move) I'm surprised that I didn't pass out, I felt like I almost did several times. Luckily, there were nice Røde Kors-people who gave us water! Without them I would have had to leave my awesome spot right in front of the stage. Or well, three hours of torture is worth it, seeing Green Day and Billie Joe SO CLOSE. Damn!
They let several people up on the stage during the concert! They got to sing and dance with and hug Green Day... Ond one girl was kissed by Billie Joe Armstrong! On the mouth! I died! And one boy (named Benjamin) got to sing Longview. The whole song. Together with Green Day. I died again.
The Setlist:
1. Song of the Century
2. 21st Century Breakdown
3. Know Your Enemy
4. East Jesus Nowhere
5. Holiday
6. The Static Age
7. Give Me Novacaine
8. Are We The Waiting
9. St. Jimmy
10. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
11. Hitchin’ a Ride
12. Welcome to Paradise
13. When I Come Around
14. Iron Man / Sweet Child of Mine / Highway to Hell
15. Brain Stew
16. Jaded
17. Longview
18. Basket Case
19. She
20. King For A Day
21. Shout (The Isley Brothers)
22. I Can’t Get no Satisfaction / Hey Jude
23. Extraordinary Girl
24. 21 Guns
25. Minority
Encore:
26. American Idiot
27. Jesus of Suburbia
Encore two:
28. When It’s Time
29. Wake Me Up When September Ends
30. Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
They did 30 songs! I filmed two of them:
I love this song! I'm so happy that they did it live!
(A lot of screaming all over the place, of course. And I'm not actually holding the camera still, but who can blame me! Green Day, I died!)
Good Riddance (Time Of My Life):
Oh, God. The ultimate concert experience. Everyone sang the lyrics with him, 25 thousand people! It was the most awesome moment ever. And I was so insanely happy, because I love Green Day and all their songs, especially this, but at the same time I knew that with this song it would all be over! So I started crying.
