Fire Breaks Out During Green Day’s Coachella Set After Pyrotechnics Hit Tree

Green Day‘s fiery Coachella set is drawing backlash, and never only for their politically charged lyrics.

The legendary punk rock trio, identified for his or her electrifying performances, got here below fireplace Saturday evening after a palm tree ignited attributable to pyrotechnics used throughout Inexperienced Day’s headlining set on the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Pageant in Indio, California.

In a video obtained by People Magazine, flames will be seen engulfing a palm tree as festivalgoers gathered round, surprised by the blaze. The incident sparked swift outrage on-line, particularly given California’s historical past of devastating wildfires, together with a wave of destruction close to Los Angeles earlier this yr.

“After all of the California wildfires, they’re utilizing pyrotechnics??! It is effective. They’ll host a profit live performance,” one individual wrote sarcastically within the feedback.

One other person added, “Can’t imagine they’re allowed to launch fireworks when it’s like 100 levels in LA.”

A 3rd chimed in, “They simply set all the Coachella on fireplace,” whereas another person quipped, “For this reason we will’t have good issues.”

One viewer even likened the second to a infamous music catastrophe: “Flashbacks of Woodstock ‘99 however with palm timber.”

Along with the fire-related controversy, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong reignited political dialog throughout the band’s efficiency of their hit track “American Fool.”

In a clip obtained by Billboard, Armstrong altered the lyrics to take a direct jab at President Donald Trump, singing, “I’m not part of a MAGA agenda,” as an alternative of the unique “I’m not part of the redneck agenda.”

This is not the primary time the Inexperienced Day frontman has made his political beliefs clear. Earlier this yr, Armstrong carried out the identical revised lyrics throughout ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve,” simply weeks earlier than Trump’s inauguration.

Plus, throughout a live performance on March 1, Armstrong requested the group, “Don’t you need politicians to close the f-ck up? Don’t you need Elon Musk to close the f-ck up?”

The gang erupted in cheers, as Armstrong added, “Don’t you need Donald Trump to close the f-ck up?”

“Nah nah nah, I’m not going to get indignant. F-ck that sh-t,” he concluded.

Through the subsequent track of their set, 2004’s Jesus of Suburbia, Billie Joe Armstrong stored the political jabs coming. He altered the unique lyric “Am I r-tarded, or am I simply overjoyed?” to “Am I r-tarded, or am I simply JD Vance?” a pointed swipe on the vp.

The lyric tweak got here at a second when worldwide headlines had been nonetheless buzzing about Donald Trump’s latest Oval Workplace blunder, the place he didn’t recall the that means of AUKUS, the safety pact between Australia, the U.Ok., and the U.S., throughout a press convention on Thursday, February 27.

That diplomatic misstep was adopted by a tense alternate the subsequent day between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, sparking contemporary considerations in Australia about the way forward for its alliance with Ukraine.