Watch Green Day offshoots The Coverups perform Sweet's 'Fox on the Run' in London

They were also joined on stage by Courtney Love

Sweet in 1976 and Billie Joe Armstrong in 2024
Author: Scott ColothanPublished 28th Feb 2024

Green Day covers project The Coverups performed a rapturously received 24-song set in front of 600 fans at The Garage in London last night (27th February).

Consisting of Green Day members Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt alongside touring guitarist Jason White, audio engineer Chris Dugan on drums and tour manager Bill Schneider on bass, The Coverups formed in 2018 and until last night they’ve only performed live in the United States.

Their sold-out show at The Garage last night was just their inaugural concert on these shores, and they play an even more intimate show at The 100 Club on Friday (1st March).

The Coverups’ anthem-laden set at The Garage opened with a blistering rendition of The Plimsouls’ ‘A Million Miles Away’ and culminated with an encore of Misfits’ ‘Where Eagles Dare.’

Midway through the set, Billie Joe and co. introduced Hole singer Courtney Love to the stage and she shared vocals on covers of Cheap Trick’s ‘He’s a Whore’ and Tom Petty’s ‘Even the Losers.’ She later returned to belt out a second Cheap Trick cover, ‘Surrender.’

Courtney Love

Elsewhere, The Coverups performed renditions of Sweet’s ‘Fox on the Run’, Nirvana’s ‘Drain You’, David Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust’, Bryan Adams’ ‘Summer of ’69’, The Clash’s ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go’, The Strokes’ ‘Last Nite’, and many more.

You can watch them belt out Sweet’s ‘Fox on the Run’ right here:

Green Day perform four huge stadium shows in Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin and London this June alongside a headline gig at Isle of Wight Festival.

The non-festival dates will see Green Day perform ‘Dookie’ and ‘American Idiot’ in their entirety to celebrate their 30th and 20th anniversaries respectively.

The Coverups’ setlist at The Garage, London:

A Million Miles Away (The Plimsouls)

I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones)

Ready Steady Go (Generation X)

I Think We're Alone Now (Tommy James & the Shondells)

Message of Love (Pretenders)

Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams)

Walking Out on Love (Paul Collins Beat)

I Fought the Law (The Crickets)

Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) (Buzzcocks)

I'm So Bored With the U.S.A. (The Clash)

Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)

Dancing With Myself (Generation X)

He's a Whore (Cheap Trick)*

Even the Losers (Tom Petty)*

Neat Neat Neat (The Damned)

Drain You (Nirvana)

Last Nite (The Strokes)

American Girl (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)

Love is for Losers (The Longshot)

Fox on the Run (Sweet)

Rockaway Beach (Ramones)

Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash)

Surrender (Cheap Trick) (with Courtney Love)*

Encore

Where Eagles Dare (Misfits)

* with Courtney Love

The real names of 100 rock stars, including Mike Dirnt and Courtney Love:

Cozy Powell’s real name: Colin Trevor Flooks


Alex Lifeson’s real name: Alexandar Živojinović

'Lifeson' is a semi-literal English translation of the Yugoslavian surname Živojinović, which means 'son of life'

Ginger Baker's real name: Peter Edward Baker


John 5’s real name: John William Lowery


Yngwie Malmsteen’s real name: Lars Johann Yngwie Lannerback


Rudy Sarzo’s real name: Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont


Eric Carr's real name: Paul Charles Caravello


Vinnie Vincent’s real name: Vincent John Cusano


Tina Turner’s real name: Anna Mae Bullock


King Diamond’s real name: Kim Bendix Petersen


Joey Tempest's real name: Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson


Michael Monroe’s real name: Matti Antero Kristian Fagerholm


Mikkey Dee’s real name: Micael Kiriakos Delaoglou


Jonathan Cain’s real name: Jonathan Leonard Friga


Nikki Sixx's real name: Frank Ferrano


Steven Adler’s real name: Michael Coletti


Axl Rose's real name: William Bruce Rose


Bon Scott's real name: Ronald Belford Scott


Fish’s real name: Derek William Dick


Eddie Vedder's real name: Edward Louis Severson III


Peter Criss’ real name: George Peter John Criscuola


Freddie Mercury's real name: Farrokh Bulsara


Flea's real name: Michael Peter Balzary


Perry Farrell's real name: Perry Bernstein


Geddy Lee’s real name: Gary Lee Weinrib


Mick Mars' real name: Robert Deal


Tré Cool's real name: Frank Edwin Wright III


Courtney Love's real name: Courtney Michelle Harrison


Pat Smear's real name: Georg Albert Ruthenberg


Gene Simmons' real name: Chaim Klein Witz


Spike’s real name: Jonathan Gray


Iggy Pop's real name: James Newell Osterberg, JR.


Alice Cooper's real name: Vincent Damon Furnier


Slash's real name: Saul Hudson


Mike Dirnt's real name: Michael Ryan Pritchard


Ronnie James Dio's real name: Ronald James Padavona


Brody Dalle's real name: Bree Joanna Alice Robinson


Skin's real name: Deborah Anne Dyer


Nicky Wire's real name: Nicholas Jones


Amy Lee's real name: Amy Lynn Hartzler


Bill Wyman's real name: William Perks


Izzy Stradlin's real name: Jeffrey Isbell


Paul Stanley's real name: Stanley Eisen


Vince Neil's real name: Vincent Neil Wharton


Duff McKagan's real name: Michael McKagan


Jack Black’s real name: Thomas Jacob Black


Lemmy's real name: Ian Fraser Kilmister


John Paul Jones' real name: John Baldwin


Joan Jett's real name: Joan Larkin


Eric Clapton's real name: Eric Patrick Clapp


Siouxsie Sioux's real name: Susan Janet Ballion


Rachel Bolan’s real name: James Richard Southworth


David Bowie's real name: David Robert Hayward Stenton Jones


Little Richard's real name: Richard Wayne Penniman


Sid Vicious' real name: John Simon Ritchie


Ace Frehley's real name: Paul Daniel Frehley


Lou Reed's real name: Louis Firbank


Joe Strummer's real name: John Graham Mellor


Marc Bolan's real name: Mark Feld


The Edge's real name: David Howell Evans


Meat Loaf's real name: Marvin Lee Aday


Steven Tyler's real name: Steven Victor Tallarico


Ozzy Osbourne's real name: John Michael Osbourne


Jon Bon Jovi's real name: John Francis Bongiovi


Joey Belladonna’s real name: Joseph Bellardini


Jack White's real name: John Anthony Gillis


Bono's real name: Paul David Hewson


Sting's real name: Gordon Sumner


Billy Idol’s real name: William Michael Albert Broad


Geezer Butler’s real name: Terence Butler


Pat Benatar’s real name: Patricia Mae Giraldo


Bo Diddley’s real name: Ellas McDaniel


Muddy Waters’ real name: McKinley Morganfield


Stevie Nicks’ real name: Stephanie Lynn Nicks


Doro’s real name: Dorothee Pesch


Sebastian Bach’s real name: Sebastian Philip Bierk


Joe Perry’s real name: Joseph Pereira


Jimi Hendrix’s real name: James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix)


Zakk Wylde’s real name: Jeffrey Phillip Wielandt


Maynard James Keenan’s real name: James Herbert Keenan


Blaze Bayley’s real name: Bayley Alexander Cooke


Biff Byford's real name: Peter Rodney Byford


M. Shadows' real name: Matthew Charles Sanders


Syd Barrett's real name: Roger Keith Barrett


Chris Jericho's real name: Christopher Keith Irvine


Ginger Wildheart's real name: David Leslie Walls


Paul Di'Anno's real name: Paul Andrews


Phil X’s real name: Theofilos Xenidis


Peter Green’s real name: Peter Allen Greenbaum


Nicko McBrain’s real name: Michael Henry McBrain


Noddy Holder’s real name: Neville John Holder


Steel Panther’s real names

Michael Starr: Ralph Michael Saenz, Satchel: Russell John Parrish, Stix Zadinia: Darren Leader, Spyder: Joe Lester.

Lexxi Foxx’s real name: Travis Haley


Jet Black’s real name: Brian John Duffy


Buddy Holly’s real name: Charles Hardin Holley


Elvis Costello’s real name: Declan Patrick McManus


Rikki Rockett’s real name: Richard Allan Ream


Blackie Lawless' real name: Steven Edward Duren


Maxim's real name: Keith Andrew Palmer


Rat Scabies' real name: Christopher John Millar


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