Billie Joe Armstrong played at ‘The Garage‘ in London last night and was joined on stage by a surprise guest – Courtney Love. Also in attendance were Green Day lead singer Billy Joe’s side project, ‘The Coverups’, and they performed songs by Cheap Trick and Tom Petty.
Last night (the 27th of February), 600 fans were treated to one heck of a show indeed.
The Coverups, who are a cover band, are comprised of Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong and touring guitarist Jason White, plus Bill Schneider and Chris Dugan on bass and drums, respectively – played a hit-packed 24-song set in north London, having only announced the show just last week.
As if that wasn’t enough of a treat, they were joined on stage midway through the show by Courtney Love — who said she’d been “living in a cave in Birmingham for about nine years”.
Lead singer of ‘Hole’ and a legend in her own right, Love joined the Coverups on stage and lent her signature vocals to covers of Cheap Trick’s He’s A Whore and Tom Petty’s Even The Losers, before she came back out again for another Cheap Trick cover, Surrender.
In an eventful night, The Coverups took on a number of hits from The Ramones to Nirvana and threw in a bonus performance of Love Is For Losers by another of Billie Joe’s projects, The Longshot.
Courtney Love made a surprise appearance at The Garage in London last night with Billie Joe Armstrong’s side-project The Coverups, performing songs by Cheap Trick and Tom Petty. https://t.co/1YqfbcBCz4 pic.twitter.com/fEi1svdooq
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The Coverups will be playing again at the 100 club on Friday night, and who knows, fans might just be in for another treat.
The setlist in full:
- A Million Miles Away (The Plimsouls)
2. I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones)
3. Ready Steady Go (Generation X)
4. I Think We’re Alone Now (Tommy James & the Shondells)
5. Message of Love (Pretenders)
6. Summer of ’69 (Bryan Adams)
7. Walking Out On Love (Paul Collins Beat)
8. I Fought The Law (The Crickets)
9. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) (Buzzcocks)
10. I’m So Bored With the U.S.A. (The Clash)
11. Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
12. Dancing With Myself (Generation X)
13. He’s A Whore (Cheap Trick) – with Courtney Love
14. Even The Losers (Tom Petty) – with Courtney Love
15. Neat Neat Neat (The Damned)
16. Drain You (Nirvana)
17. Last Nite (The Strokes)
18. American Girl (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
19. Love Is For Losers (The Longshot)
20. Fox On The Run (Sweet)
21. Rockaway Beach (Ramones)
22. Should I Stay Or Should I Go (The Clash)
23. Surrender (Cheap Trick) – with Courtney Love
Encore:
- Where Eagles Dare (Misfits)
Green Day themselves will be back in the UK this summer as part of the ‘Saviors’ tour, where they will be playing ‘American Idiot’ and ‘Dookie’ in full.
Tickets can be found here.
