Inexperienced Day‘s music has been banned from two Las Vegas radio stations after Billie Joe Armstrong referred to as the town “the worst shithole in America.”
Armstrong’s feedback stemmed from his beloved Oakland Athletics’ upcoming transfer to the Sin Metropolis. Like many, Armstrong is incensed about his hometown MLB staff’s unceremonious relocation to Las Vegas and proprietor John Fisher’s obvious disregard for the staff’s deeply loyal fanbase. The A’s simply performed their remaining sport on the Oakland Coliseum this previous Thursday (September twenty sixth) in entrance of a sell-out crowd, ending a 57-year run within the Bay Space regardless of followers’ ongoing pleas for Fisher to “Promote the Crew.”
Armstrong put in his two cents on the matter throughout Inexperienced Day’s live performance at Oracle Park in San Francisco on September twentieth.
“We don’t take shit from folks like fucking John Fisher,” Armstrong mentioned on stage, [via KRON 4] earlier than including: “I hate Las Vegas. It’s the worst shithole in America.”
Whereas his pointed remarks echo the ideas of many A’s followers — the NFL’s Raiders additionally relocated to Las Vegas from Oakland in 2020 — these in Vegas didn’t take too kindly to the private assault on the town, and now two radio stations have banned Inexperienced Day’s music due to it.
KOMP 92.3 in Vegas took to Instagram to declare that it has “pulled any and all Inexperienced Day” from its playlist. “It’s not us, Billie…it’s you,” learn the submit hashtagged #vegas4ever.
One other Vegas station, X107.5, posted on its web site that “Sin Metropolis heard” him “loud and clear” and that “X107.5 isn’t having it.”
“In response to Armstrong’s inflammatory feedback,” the web site learn, “the station is banning all Inexperienced Day music, efficient instantly.”
Noon host Carlota knowledgeable listers on-air Wednesday (September twenty fifth) that “all the station was sanitized from Inexperienced Day songs.”
“Possibly he [Billie Joe] ought to check out the town and the folks concerned in that transaction than speaking smack concerning the metropolis of Las Vegas,” she mentioned. “And hey, I hate to say it and as a lot because the Raiders suck however once they had been in Oakland, they had been value a billion or two. Now they’re value six. It was enterprise choice and the A’s need a few of that and I don’t blame that.”
Armstrong has been an outspoken opponent of the A’s transfer. Again in August, the Inexperienced Day frontman vandalized the Athletics emblem within the clubhouse on the Rogers Heart, house of the Toronto Blue Jays. He even filmed himself committing the act, spray portray a “B” over the “A” within the emblem. You may see that submit beneath.