Billie Joe Armstrong says it was an “honour” to carry out with “fairly superior younger girl” Billie Eilish.
Billie Joe Armstrong has hailed Billie Eilish ‘a reasonably superior younger girl’
The 52-year-old rocker’s band Inexperienced Day duetted with the ‘Birds of a Feather’ hitmaker on their 2009 observe ‘Final Evening On Earth’ on the FireAid profit live performance for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires on the Kia Discussion board on January 30.
And pop punk veteran Armstrong has now spoken about being an enormous fan of the 23-year-old pop megastar and the way they bonded over their shared title.
He informed Billboard: “It’s humorous, when [Eilish] first began popping out, I noticed some footage of her on Instagram – I noticed some merch, and there was a headscarf that mentioned ‘Billie’ with an ‘ie’, and I mentioned, ‘I’ve to have that!
“After which so she despatched me a bunch of merch that had ‘Billie’ on it, and I used to be like, ‘Sure!’”
He added: “I noticed her play a few instances and he or she was implausible, and also you simply knew one thing particular was gonna occur along with her. However the truth that we received to play collectively… she’s a reasonably superior younger girl, and it was an honour to have the ability to share the stage along with her.”
The pair beforehand interviewed one another for Rolling Stone journal in 2019, throughout which the ‘Boulevard of Damaged Goals’ hitmaker defined why he’s so drawn to the ‘Unhealthy Man’ hitmaker’s music.
He informed her: “I do know this sounds [weird], however I all the time gravitate towards music that feels like freedom.
“And that’s what I get out of your music. It’s like an earnest individual that’s expressing themselves and incorporating new sounds. A few of it feels like jazz to me, if that’s cool to say?”
In the meantime, the FireAid concert events have raised greater than $100 million for these impacted by the devastating catastrophe in California.
The gigs had been held on the Inuit Dome and Kia Discussion board, with Woman Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, Joni Mitchell additionally among the many superstars performing for the trigger.
The large sum comes from ticket and merchandise gross sales and donations from the general public in addition to hefty contributions from stars together with the Eagles and U2, who handed over $1 million {dollars} to the aid fund.
Los Angeles Clippers proprietor Steve Ballmer and his spouse Connie Snyder pledged to match all donations made all through the night time.
In an announcement about how the funds will probably be used, FireAid’s organisers mentioned: “The FireAid Grants Advisory Committee, composed of longtime L.A.-region philanthropic leaders with deep relationships within the non-profit group, have been working to determine key areas of want, for optimum influence. Led by the Annenberg Basis, the committee has been listening day by day to affected communities, assessing native useful resource gaps to make sure support reaches these most in want, and researching the dealing with of different fireplace disasters, comparable to these in Maui and Northern California. The primary part of grants are anticipated to be awarded by mid-February.”
More cash has additionally been raised by the Grammy Awards, which introduced in round $9 million on the night time of the ceremony, in addition to $15 million from MusiCares occasions which had been held within the week main as much as the massive present.
