Green Day delivered a triumphal headliner last night at the Coachella Festival in Indio, California.
Surprisingly, the performance was the coachella debut of Green Day, although front man Billie Joe Armstrong came with the replacement in 2014. Green Day wasted little time to build up her place in Coachella and offered a list of the Kraft packet house set with hits worth decades.
The political punks started their performance with “American Idiot”, the title track from her 2004 album from Grammy. Although the song was originally designed as a complaint by George W. Bush's Iraq war policy, the band updated the melody to aim at Donald Trump.
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It was one of several political messages during the set of Green Day. Later, Armstrong sang, when he carried out “Jesus of Suburbia”, “away in pain like the children from Palestine, an indication of the continuing conflict of this country with Israel.
Despite these references to important current events, the Green Day made sure that they do not fully spoil their performance with political comments. The set list – which you can see below – contained hits from your entire career, including “Holiday”, “Longview”, “Welcome to Paradise”, “Korb Case” and the recent single “One Eyed Bastard”. The group also mixed short homages to a few classic rock acts during the set -Black Sabbaths famous “Iron Man” riffs were added to “Hitchin 'A Ride”, while Green Day played the intro to Tom Petty's “Free Fallin'” before he ended up in “Wake Me Up when September ends”.
Coachella was the first of several important festivals that the Green Day will be overturned this year. The band should also perform at Welcome in Rockville, Bottlerock, Minnesota Yacht Club and Oceans.
Watch the Green Day “American Idiot” at Coachella 2025
Watch Green Day “When I come by” at Coachella 2025
Watch Green Day “Wake Me Up when September ends” at Coachella 2025
Green Day, 04/12/25 Coachella Set List
1. “American idiot”
2. “Vacation”
3. “You know your enemy”
4. “Boulevard of broken dreams”
5. “An eye component”
6. “Longview”
7. “Welcome to paradise”
8. “Hitchin 'A ride”
9. “Brain pot”
10. “St. Jimmy”
11. “21 cannons”
12. “Minority”
13. “Korb case”
14. “When I get around”
15. “Wake me up when September ends”
16. “Jesus of suburb”
17. “Bobby Sox”
18. “Good liberation (time of her life)”