The Bravery

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The Kaiser Chiefs ended their stint on Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown Tour on August 7th, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Friday's show ended with a bang, but audience members may have had an added treat. Nick Hodgson drummer for the Kaiser Chiefs recalls his reaction, "Brad Pitt was there. It was totally cool. We met Brad Pitt."

Hodgson tells Spinner that he bumped into the star when Pitt was coming to the show with his two young sons. "He had his kids with him. There were a couple security and that, but he was just sat in the normal seats." 

Although the star was very friendly and remained modest, he admits that his bandmates felt super starstruck, "we had a photograph taken just like regular nerds. We had the camera set to video so we had to call him back. He was cool. It's not the first time that's happened."

Green Day gave the Chiefs a traditional goodbye hazing for their last night on tour with the punk legends. "Every time when they have supporting bands, the final night they sort of prank the band. We got off really lightly I think. If you look at You Tube, there's some support bands that have had bad things happen to them, but Green Day organized a Louisiana/New Orleans old time brass band and they got them into the arena last night."

The brass ensemble held out until the British natives performed their last song, "I Predict a Riot". The drummer laughs about the shenanigans the Oakland trio pulled on them, "when we started 'I Predict a Riot,' this band came on and then Green Day came on, and they were playing cowbells. It was a shock. I just wonder whether the people of New Orleans think that's our regular type of performance."

Don't think the craziness stopped there! On top of all the madness, the last prank was definitely the cherry on top! "Toilet Paper. They T.P.'d us They covered our drums, instruments. It was live on stage. We got T.P.'d."

A quick search on You Tube did not result in any video from the Kaiser's prank, however it did come up with two clips from the prank Green Day pulled on The Bravery.

We at Nimrod Street were very lucky to see Kaiser Chiefs opening up August 5th, they really are awesome live. Definitely a must-see if you get a chance to experience them!

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Resident Nimrod, Emily (Evasgreenday) wrote in about her experience at her first ever Green Day concert taking place at the Mellon Arena, Pittsburgh, PA on July 22nd, 2009. Emily tells us the show was everything but a major letdown.

Here is what she had to say!

"The new Green Day CD, "21st Century Breakdown" has been a huge hit, me personally I am a huge fan of the new CD so seeing the guys on a world tour made me thrilled.

The show in Pittsburgh, PA (where I am from obviously) was fantastic. The band was at its best with a great opening band The Bravery, I do suggest them by the way, but the show in general was incredible.

Some of the sets that  they played were, "Song of the Century", "21st Century Breakdown", "Know Your Enemy" and "21 Guns" just to name a few from the new album. But the new album wasn't the songs that stole the show they played their beloved classic songs from CD's as far back as, "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" and "Kerplunk". The one song that surprised everyone yet a welcome one was "At the Library".

So moving on from what songs they played and to the stage performance in general! Here in Pittsburgh they were very charismatic and energetic giving the fans in the crowd were just about feeding off the energy, but the lack of moshing was pathetic.

Like back in the American Idiot tour they had the fireworks making it feel perfectly like the Green Day performances we know and love. The show was very much like the ones for "American Idiot" meaning for instance the placement of the songs and the same songs in general other than some of the first two CD's. Except surprisingly there was no "Wake Me Up When September Ends", making a few fans complain but in its place the performance for "21 Guns" was fantastic to the point about half the stadium was crying.

They put a lot of effort in the back drop for them and I wont spoil it for those of you yet to go but all I will say is every so often look over at the backdrop it is really cool. In the wise words of my other friends it was shiny...OK maybe not really shiny but it was bright.

Billie Joe Armstrong this time had a few tricks up his sleeve this tour, he is calling kids up to help with the show some are playing guitar, some are singing, some are just up there to bounce around like idiots which works just fine.

Seeing as this is just the beginning of the tour I don't want to wreck the surprise of being there yourself but I will say I give it four out of four stars. The show is amazing and be prepared to catch some things "wink". If you don't have tickets I suggest trying to get them because this tour will beat the other tours."

Sounds awesome! Can't wait until August 5th when I myself get to go to the Orlando, FL Concert! Thanks Emily! Can't wait for the pics!

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Bassist Mike Dirnt speaks to radio station, 107.7 The End about the band's new album, "21st Century Breakdown", their producer Butch Vig, side band Foxboro Hot Tubs, and Internet piracy! Listen to the interview here.

Tre cool sits down and chats it up with Rolling Stone about their stellar evening performing on Saturday Night Live. Cool says quote, "At the afterparty, we were standing on the ice rink in Rockerfeller Center where the ice usually is, and there was about an inch or so of water, and it was cool to see all these dudes in their new sneakers and chicks in their rad $400 Manolo shoes just cruising around in two inches of water and not giving a fuck. There were people dancing and Will Ferrell showed up in a Gucci Jumpsuit with gold chains and money rings and shit, and it was pretty wild."

On June 23rd look for the new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen soundtrack featuring Green Day's, "21 Guns". Should be great! Check out GreenDay.com for more info!

Also, Green Day's North American tour officially starts July 3rd, 2009! It'll start off at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington where supporting act, The Bravery. After that, Kaiser Chiefs will take the reigns of opening for our guys in Green, when these guys are done, Franz Ferdinand will be the last openers on August 8th in Houston, Texas. Tour officially ends August 25th in California. Read all about it at CelebrityCafe.com!

Here's a clip from The Colbert Report that was apparently left out of the show. It features Billie Joe playing on a keyboard and sitting in Stephen Colbert's chair. It's pretty rad!