Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong offered strong advice to ICE agents during the band’s Super Bowl week show Friday night in San Francisco.
“What a (bad) job you have,” said the Green Day singer. “Because when this is over – and it will be over – Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Donald Trump, they’re going to drop you like a bad (bad) apple.
“Come over to the other side of the road.”
Green Day was talking about the FanDuel Party Powered by Spotify — one of Super Bowl week’s corporate-sponsored concerts — but the event doubled as a warm-up gig for Green Day performing during pregame festivities at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Sunday.
Sunday’s performance by the East Bay band — featuring guitarist Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool — celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Super Bowl and will be used as the anthem to usher generations of Super Bowl MVPs onto the field at Levi’s Stadium.
Green Day sounded powerful during the Pier 29 gig, opening their set with “American Idiot” and then blasting classic fan favorites like “Longview,” “Welcome to Paradise” and “Basket Case.”
Counting Crows, another East Bay platinum-selling act, was also on the bill. However, the band’s short 25-minute set was very lackluster, performed without the energy or intensity that fans would expect from Green Day.
Post Malone Review by Kyle Martin
Post Malone, born Austin Richard Post, wasn’t Saucin’, Saucin’ on stage Friday night as ‘White Iverson’ at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Festival Pavillion. Instead, he rocked the Bay waters with his beautiful Dallas, Texas music and the boot scootin’ pop music he’ll embrace.
The crowd, decked out in boy’s hats and boots, cheered him on and even danced to train beats from his latest 2024 album, “F-1 Trillion,” such as “What Don’t Belong To Me.” And rocking the soft stuff, like his song “Losers,” Bud Light in hand.
Aside from nine friends in the band (including a fiddle player), and a pack of Camel Crush cigarettes Posty smoked all night, he was joined on stage by surprise guests T-Pain, who played “Buy You a Drank,” and Western Music Hall of Famer Dave Stamey, who sang his acclaimed “Buckarooo no Manne.”
Maybe Posty — decked out in what appears to be both diamond-studded grills and a belt buckle — is “no better” in this new, pop-country light (he did, much to the delight of the crowd.)
Residents of San Francisco’s Fort Mason opening Super Bowl weekend celebrations certainly seem to think so.
Review of Olivia Dean by Nollyanne Delacruz
Across from the home field of the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park, the crowd turned to British singer-songwriter Oliva Dean who belted out R&B hits at Uber’s The One Party at Pier 48.
His opening act was Nigerian American singer and rapper Collins Chibueze, known by the stage name Shaboozey. The Virginia-born artist warmed up the crowd with heavy drum beats and a string medley of guitars and violins taken straight from a Western film score.
A few standout songs were “Amen,” a Grammy Award-winning song about Chibueze’s plea for forgiveness as he tries to escape his dark habits, and a rock-influenced cover of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” originally sung by Bob Dylan. He closed his set with his hit song “A Bar Song (Tipsy);” a furious, banger, shower of whiskey that spat into the air like a fountain.
The special Uber One concert was Dean’s first performance since winning Best New Artist at the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 1. He started his set with “Nice to each other,” cheering the crowd as they sang along to his famous line, “I don’t want a boyfriend!”
Dean followed with “Lady Lady,” “Close Up” and a few other songs from his new album, “The Art of Loving,” but also titled his 2023 album “Messy” with “Carmen,” a song honoring his grandmother’s journey from Guyana to the United Kingdom.
Dean noted how enthusiastically the crowd sang along to his songs, which featured his hits “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” and “Man I Need.” Her final song of the night was “Dive,” from her debut album as she sent the audience feeling open to giving and receiving love.
