Green Day — Pinkpop Festival, 2010

Full concert video of Green Day at the Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf, Netherlands, in 2010. The Californian trio formed in 1987 — Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool — delivers a two-hour-plus live set driven by the 21st Century Breakdown album, then mid-world tour. Headlining one of Europe’s largest festivals, the performance runs through the band’s punk rock anthems, from « American Idiot » to « Boulevard of Broken Dreams », taking in « Holiday », « Basket Case » and « Minority ». The Dutch crowd responds en masse, turning the Landgraaf field into a vast singalong. This live recording captures the stagecraft and showmanship that made Green Day one of the acts credited with reviving interest in punk rock in the late 1990s. Between improvised covers, crowd interplay and multiple encores, this 2010 live in concert stands as a complete document of stadium-era Green Day at the peak of its popularity.