Green Day dusted off the Nimrod deep cut during a stop in Chile
Green Day fans in Santiago, Chile got to witness a historic performance on Saturday night. The Billie Joe Armstrong-fronted group revived a catalog classic, “Haushinka,” for the first time in 28 years during a performance at Parque Estadio Nacional.
The group snuck in the Nimrod deep cut into the set list, playing it for the first time since a show in Boise, Idaho in 1997.
“I think that’s the first time we do it since 1993, maybe,” Armstrong said onstage. (He was off by four years, since Nimrod didn’t come out until 1997.) “And we do it because Santiago is special to us.”
“From Berkeley to Santiago… Haushinka lives!!! First time playing this one since ’97,” the group wrote on Instagram, sharing the video of the performance. “Thank YOU Chile.”
Green Day typically performs two songs off of Nimrod: the massive hit “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” and “Hitchin’ a Ride,” to which they incorporate a riff off Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” Back in 2022, the group revisited Nimrod to celebrate the album’s 25th anniversary, and dropped demos from the recording sessions, including “You Irritate Me,” “Tre Polka,” and a cover of Elvis Costello’s “Alison.”
The Santiago show marks the band approaching the end of their two-year The Saviors Tour, which is currently taking the band to different parts of South America. The group is set to play Buenos Aires on Sept. 3, before shows in São Paulo on Sept. 7, Curitiba, Brazil on Sept. 12, and Paraguay on Sept. 15.
The group will return stateside for a trio of music festivals at the end of September, before a closing show at Yaamava Theatre in San Bernardino, California on Sept. 30.
