During a June stop in London on his band Green Day’s Hella Mega Tour, front-man Billie Joe Armstrong stunned the audience by declaring he would renounce his U.S. citizenship. He was speaking in reaction to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that overturned Roe v. Wade.  Armstrong told the crowd: “Fuck America. I’m fucking renouncing my citizenship. I’m fucking coming here,” adding that the state of the country was too broken for him to remain.

The next evening, he continued the criticism in another U.K. show, reportedly shouting “fuck the Supreme Court of America” before a performance. His comments turned what had been a routine rock show into a pointed political statement, underscoring his deep frustration with the ruling and its implications for rights in America.

At roughly the same time, pop‐star Olivia Rodrigo used her set at the Glastonbury Festival in the U.K. to directly condemn the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe. She invited Lily Allen on stage and dedicated Allen’s song “F*** You” to the five justices by name: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. Rodrigo told the crowd she was “devastated and terrified” by the decision and warned that “so many women and so many girls are going to die because of this.”

Together, these high-profile performances transformed major U.K. concerts into platforms of cultural and political protest. Armstrong’s dramatic renunciation and Rodrigo’s blistering rebuke of the court indicate how the Roe decision ignited responses far beyond traditional activist spaces—and how artists are repositioning live music as a stage for social commentary.