“Get drunk, get sweaty, have sex,” he urged the crowd after blazing through his 2000 hit “Minority.” Then, really getting into the spirit, he went more specific - “Use your vagina! Use your penis!” - before appearing to realize how many cameraphones were beaming his words to the outside world. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong was equally moved by the air of intimacy. “Basically this, with less suits buying expensive drinks.” “People ask what it was like” when the band started out, he said. With a capacity of around 500, the Whisky - packed tight Tuesday with fans who’d lined up to pay $25 for tickets (and, of course, with plenty of music-biz insiders) - offered a warm reminder of the old days, as Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy observed during his set. That was the idea at work Tuesday night when Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer crammed into the tiny Whisky a Go Go for a surprise concert meant to herald the massive tour the three alt-rock bands had announced earlier in the day.Ĭalled the Hella Mega Tour, the road show will visit open-air ball parks in the United States and Europe next summer, including stops in each act’s hometown: Dodger Stadium for Weezer, Chicago’s Wrigley Field for Fall Out Boy and San Francisco’s close-enough Oracle Park for Green Day, whose early single “Welcome to Paradise” happily described the “cracked streets and the broken homes” of its scrappy East Bay stamping grounds. The inquest was also told the junior officer did not believe Finch would "use those terms" that were included in the unsigned confession.Before the stadiums around the globe, a sweatbox on the Sunset Strip. "That should explain the misunderstanding of the difference in the two reports," Mr Nicholson said.Įarlier, the inquest was told a former junior police officer at the time, who is also due to give evidence, had revealed to Detective Sergeant Gray that he witnessed detectives organising the extraction of Finch's confession in the original interview. However the inquest was told the Coroner's office had only advised the staff member to make "presentation and formatting changes", not to remove details. Queensland Police Service lawyer Michael Nicholson confirmed Detective Inspector Hansen had not spoken directly to Magistrate Ryan, but someone from his department had liaised with the "coronial team" about the report, and were told they needed to "cut that down". "It's not something that I have ever given a direction about in relation to any police report," Mr Ryan told the court. Coroner denies directing policeĭuring that hearing, State Coroner Terry Ryan told the inquest any inference he instructed the Queensland Police Service to remove the paragraphs was "incorrect". "I believed the material was relevant," she told the inquest. The inquest heard that Detective Sergeant Gray "wasn't comfortable" with the decision, and after getting independent advice she ultimately submitted her original report to the coroner's office, which contained the information about Finch's interviews.
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