![]() Dookie, Green Day’s third record, needs no introduction. The band’s 16-year run has had its ups and downs, but the ups always stuck and the downs never fell too far. Bullet commemorates this success while creating a moment all its own. Their last studio effort, 2004’s American Idiot, was a grab for greatness, a punk rock opera with lofty aspirations and richer rewards - a Grammy for Best Rock Album and sales over nine million. It’s incredible to think how far they’ve come from their roots as silly street punks with three chords and a Clash record. Playing for 130,000 people over two days, Green Day have performed what must be the largest punk rock gig in history. Recorded at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England, in June 2005, the Bullet in a Bible CD/DVD captures Green Day at an astounding height in their career. Superimposed at his side, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool hover above a crowd of thousands as if messiahs over water. On the back cover, an image of a larger-than-life Armstrong, dwarfing the festival stage behind him, pointing to the sky like Pete Townshend. A silhouette of lead singer and guitarist Billy Joe Armstrong poses before an arena audience that seems to extend into infinity. This is also the story of a serendipitous encounter, almost a century later, and the piecing together of Elvas’ experience through the rediscovery of his trusty battlefront Bible.At first sight of the cover, it’s evident Bullet in a Bible is a new kind of Green Day album. Now he had it back to front in his pocket, which means that, because it was a New Testament and Psalms, the bullet went through Psalms, and then Revelation, and then went through all of Paul’s epistles and stopped at John’s Gospel.”īullet in the Bible tells the story of Elvas Jenkins: from outback Australia to Egypt from the scrabbly hills of Gallipoli to the Western Front from a home-grown romance to the story of a miraculous escape, it traces the beauty and tragedy of a life caught up in the times, and of the life that might have been. “A bullet struck him right here – in the Bible that he carried in his breast pocket. To mark the occasion, in this episode of Life & Faith, Natasha Moore brings you extracts from a 2015 documentary about one particular Australian soldier – and how the ripple effects of this one life (and death) reflect the unfathomable cost of the war for a whole society. But the futility of the long war, and our knowledge, looking back, of what was still to come, make the anniversary a muted one. The relief on the faces of those captured in photos from 11 November 1918, celebrating in the streets, is palpable. The centenary of the end of World War I is not an easy one to know what to do with. Andy Crouch on Technology and Humanity Open submenu Close submenu.Bites on the Bible Open submenu Close submenu.Big Questions Open submenu Close submenu.Human Dignity Open submenu Close submenu.For the Love of God Open submenu Close submenu. ![]()
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