5 Seconds of Summer
Snippit from "Long Way Home" mentioning Green Day:
The band mentioned Green Day's influence in a recent interview with the New York Times,
"Calum Hood: When I was about 14, I got on the bus, and my sister’s friend’s brother handed me a burnt CD that said “American Idiot,” and that was pretty much the first time that I fell in love with music. I couldn’t stop listening to it. I saw an acoustic guitar sitting around the house, and I picked it up.
Ashton Irwin: It wasn’t just their music that influenced me, it was the attitude behind it. When I was a kid, I sort of felt like it wasn’t all right to be what I was. And they told me it was.
Have you met the frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong?
Hemmings I haven’t. It’s probably better that I don’t, because I’d probably cry."
Ashton Irwin: It wasn’t just their music that influenced me, it was the attitude behind it. When I was a kid, I sort of felt like it wasn’t all right to be what I was. And they told me it was.
Have you met the frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong?
Hemmings I haven’t. It’s probably better that I don’t, because I’d probably cry."
5SOS also paid tribute to the band on the recent Kerrang American Idiot album playing the title track.
