Green Day Perform ‘She’s A Rebel,’ ‘Extraordinary Girl’ for First Time in Nearly 20 Years

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Green Day at Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve in Hollywood, California - Credit: Gilbert Flores/Penske Media/Getty Images
Green Day at Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve in Hollywood, California - Credit: Gilbert Flores/Penske Media/Getty Images

Green Day’s pop-up show at Anaheim’s House of Blues on Tuesday night left their set list a complete mystery. The concert was announced with only 24 hours notice, with no prior appearances in the past month for the audience to base their expectations. The surprise set allowed the band to unexpectedly revive two American Idiot deep cuts for the first time in nearly 20 years.

The discography deep-dive portion of the set list kicked off with something of a fake out. Green Day launched into “Give Me Novacaine,” which they last performed in 2017. They followed the record with the two songs that follow it on the official album track list: “She’s a Rebel” and “Extraordinary Girl,” which haven’t been performed by the full band since 2005. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong last performed them solo 14 years ago.

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The Anaheim audience was also the first to see Green Day’s latest album Saviors performed from top to bottom. This meant live debuts of “Saviors,” “Goodnight Adeline,” “Coma City,” “Corvette Summer,” and more.

The performance functioned as something of a test run for Green Day’s forthcoming headlining tour. The Saviors tour will find the band running through both American Idiot and Dookie in their entirety each night. “What a fuckin’ moment it’s going to be,” Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “We’ve never done anything like this before. And there’s a really good chance we’ll never do it again.”

Speaking about the specific formatting of the set list, in regards to which album they’ll lead with, Dirnt added: “We still need to put our heads down and do real work to figure that out. Before every tour, we do a lot of preproduction, a lot of thinking about how it should look and feel and sound, because it really matters to us. That’s the fun, but it also really keeps us on our toes.”

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