Offspring again at the Milan Forum: Punk Rock is back pop

For offspring the concert of September 29th It is not only a new passage in Italy, one year after the Ama Music Festival, but above all marks their return to Assago forum After twenty -one years since the last time in the historian Milanese building. It is therefore a return that it does not only have the weight of nostalgiabut who carries aprecise inheritance: that of a band that in 1994 with “Smash” transformed the melodic hardcore from the language of the underground to successful phenomenondelivering to punk rock the opportunity to get pop without losing strength. Between the stands and the parterre they are, side by side, different generations: who forty years ago had the age of Dexter Holland and Greg Kriesel (now no longer in formation), Californian boys with the desire to give voice to a angular and fast sound, and those who have grown later with that energy that has not gone out over time, until they arrived at the recent revival that has brought Pop Punk and related to Voga.

Before them, at 8pm, i Simple Plan open the evening with a set that tip tip on the collective memory of those who in the early 2000s discovered pop punk between middle and high school. From “I’m do anything” to “shut up!”, From “Welcome to my life” to “I’m Just a Kid”, the songs they leverage memoriesthat the public embraces without hesitation, with choirs and raised hands. The writing on the Canadian training frontman t-shirt summarizes the spirit of the set: “I’m just an adult. And life is a nightmare“, With the word” Kid “barred to update the generational anthem. Nostalgia mixes with the enthusiasm of the youngest Among those present, who know the songs thanks to the social networks and the revival that has rekindled attention since 2020. AND A generational bridge that prepares the ground for offspringas if to remember that their lesson was collected and revisited.

During the break, the forum does not remain silent: On the screens scroll games that entertain the public, from the “Like A Like Cam” to the “Trivia” on the offspring, to the “Kiss Cam” – with inevitable reference to the offspring – and the Headbanging contest. Then at 9.30 pm the lights go out and with “Come Out and Play” and “All I Want” starts the pogo. The circles pit open, and the band immediately shows that ability to turn on the audience that has accompanied them for decades. Between “Want You Bad”, “Staring at the Sun” and “Original Prahkster” you cross the years in whichwith albums as “American” and “Conspiracy of One”, The offspring punk rock has become capable of imprinted in the collective memory Thanks to direct refrains and immediate riffs. There is little room for new songs, including “Looking out for #1” from the latest album “Superchrged“of 2024 (here our interview and our review); and that’s okay. Even if Some songs of recent workslike the title track of “Let the Bad Times Roll” of 2021 (here the night interview and our review), It would not have been bad to hear them live.
Next to the bearing columns of the original group of Garden Grove, the frontman Dexter Holland and the guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wassesman with his inevitable two -tone hair, there are bassist Todd Morse and the drummer Brandon Pertzborn, now an integral part of the frenzy and speed of the band.

The concert is not only celebration of oneselfbut also dialogue with history. In the middle of the concert, Dexter and Noodles They attack “Paranoid” of the Black Sabbathand the public responds with choirs by invoking Ozzy. In homage to the musician who died last July 22, he then leaves A cover of “Crazy Train“, In an engaging and successful execution, faithful to the original, which transforms the forum into a single choir, with the energy of a tribute that does not sound accessory but central. Therefore follows a Tribute to the Ramones with “I Wanna Be Sedated”and even a caught deviation with “In the Hall of the Mountain King” played by Noodles, to testify to the desire for the offspring to play with the codes and stir references, even if these are TikTok trends. It is in this space that The band confirms its ability to remain current despite a now historical narrative.

The closure is entrusted to the hitsstarting from “Why Don’t You Get a Job?” and “Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)”, passing through “The Kids Aren’T ALIGHT”, before the encore that sees “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid” and “Self Esteem” unleash the public In a noise of voices and jumps. The legacy of the offspring is not just that of having brought the punk rock outside the underground, but to have made it a shared space For several generations, a language that continues to make everyone vent and sing.

Scaletta Simple Plan

I’m do anything
Shut up!
Jump
Jet lag
Addicted
Your love is a lie
Nothing Changes
Welcome to My Life
Summer Paradise
THANK YOU
What’s New Scooby Doo?
Where I Belong
I’m Just in Kid
Perfect

Offspring Scaletta

Like out and play
All I Want
Want You Bad
Staring at the Sun
Looking out for #1
Original Prahkster
Hammerhead
Genocide
Make it all right
Bad Habit
Paranoid – Black Sabbath cover
Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourne cover
In The Hall of the Mountain King – Edvard Grieg cover
I Wanna Be Sedated – Ramones cover
Gotta Get Away
Drum Solo
Gone Away
Why Don’t You Get a Job?
Pretty Fly (for a white guy)
The Kids Aren’T ALIRIGHT
Encore

You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid
Self Esteem