The Utter Awesomeness that was Green Day

It has been over a week now and I am still mildly shell shocked at the sheer impossible brilliance that was Green Day's two-hour, fifteen-minute set at the Manchester Evening News Arena.
Oh my God. I've been to a lot of gigs in my numerous years on this planet but that Friday's really did top them all. They were phenomenal, the most incredible live band I have ever seen.
The day started with me meeting up with Mr B and H in Manchester in the afternoon, where my chief bridesmaid and I polished off a bottle of white wine between us and conspired to get Mr B in guyliner before the night was through.
Just a few short hours later and having met up with Da Boy, our feminine charms paid off and we adorned Mr B with black kohl. Awesome! And I still refuse to let him forget!
He did, however, resist our other plot to get his hair messed up, a la Billie Joe. That's for another day though...
Da Boy, as expected, did manage to resist me attacking him with H's eyeliner pencil, the same way he has done for the past six years! I reckon I might have to give it up as a bad job with him, I'm never going to convince him. Good job he's so damn hot without it!
Anyway, I digress...
Then, of course, Green Day hit the stage and all four of us were just blown away. Even Da Boy, who likes the band but isn't that arsed about them, said he thought they were amazing. The sound was just immense and Billie Joe's voice was well on form. I know I adore that man with a fairly large portion of my heart, even with the newly bleached blonde hair, but he was just astounding.
Music aside, the whole thing was just high octane entertainment from start to finish.
Nobody was allowed to even consider sitting down (apart from the miserable gits behind Mr B and H but who had a shit time because of it!), the delectable Billie charging up and down the stage and yelling orders at the massive crowd like a mini dictator, demanding that we clap, yell, sing, scream and "hey-oh" like a man possessed.
Involved, I think is the best way to describe it, not least with the half a dozen or so people he dragged up on stage to do everything from sing Longview to be 'saved' at the end of East Jesus Nowhere.
I have never seen any band with as much energy, they were all just non-stop and Billie Joe was like the bloody Duracell bunny! It was over two hours of full throttle showmanship and musical awesomeness. (Serious value for money too, when you compare it to the just over one hour, including the encore, we got at Avenged Sevenfold last year.)
Despite the fact that I am mildly obsessed with them, I was a bit skeptical of all the things I kept reading in things such as Kerrang saying it was the greatest live show on earth right now.
But I was wrong. Quite simply, nothing can match Green Day on stage right now and I doubt any gig I go to in the future will ever be able to top that one.