{"id":804090,"date":"2020-02-12T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/billie-joe-armstrong-on-his-iheart-festival-meltdown-as-a-piece-of-theatre"},"modified":"2020-02-12T04:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T11:25:00","slug":"billie-joe-armstrong-on-his-iheart-festival-meltdown-as-a-piece-of-theatre-it-was-pretty-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/billie-joe-armstrong-on-his-iheart-festival-meltdown-as-a-piece-of-theatre-it-was-pretty-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Joe Armstrong On His iHeart Festival Meltdown: \u201cAs A Piece Of Theatre, It Was Pretty Amazing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quite the positive take.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was a rare moment – a moment where the whole world witnessed an unravelling rock star in real time. The moment was the 2012 iHeart Music Festival, and Green Day<\/strong> were on the line-up.<\/p>\n

Due to a scheduling issue, Green Day had their set cut short by 20 minutes, which resulted in a rage-fuelled outburst from Billie Joe Armstrong, where he famously shouted, “I\u2019m not fucking Justin Bieber, you motherfuckers! You gotta be fucking joking, this is a fucking joke. I got one minute, one minute left. Oh now I got nothing left, now I got nothing left. Let me show you what one fucking minute fucking means!”<\/em><\/p>\n

This moment has often been referenced as a mental breakdown, which saw the frontman enter rehab<\/a> two days later for treatment for substance abuse – but Billie Joe remembers it a little differently (and more positively). <\/p>\n

Speaking to Q<\/a> about their new album ‘Father Of All…’, Billie Joe addressed the 2012 outburst, calling it “a piece of theatre”.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I thought it was more negative than it was,”<\/em> he shared. “Now, I think it was one of the most punk rock moments of the last 10 years. I should have taken it as that instead of a nervous breakdown. I know it gets pretty dark for other people that were involved, like my wife and my kids, but as a piece of theatre, it was pretty amazing.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Quite a positive way of looking at it, all things considered.<\/p>\n

Green Day’s new album ‘Father Of All…’ is available now – check it out below:<\/p>\n

via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quite the positive take. It was a rare moment – a moment where the whole world witnessed an unravelling rock star in real time. The moment was the 2012 iHeart Music Festival, and Green Day were on the line-up. Due to a scheduling issue, Green Day had their set cut short by 20 minutes, which resulted in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 00:04:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}