Boy appears on stage with Green Day

He is just eight-years-old but already little Oscar Elliott is rocking with the best of them after appearing on stage with one of the world's biggest bands.

The youngster was inadvertently guest of honour at a Green Day gig at London's O2 arena when he was invited on stage by the band's front man.

Oscar, who was at his very first concert, was lifted towards the stage by the crowd before landing in front of the punk band's lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong.

With his father, Jason Elliott, in the crowd, Armstrong whispered something unintelligible to Oscar then pushed him over as explosions lit up the stage and the crowd went wild.

“It was obvious it was set up but it was just fantastic,” Mr Elliot, 40, said. “Half way through the concert Billie Joe stopped in the middle of a song, East Jesus, when he said 'I need a child, bring me a child.'”

I was whistling and shouting and he said 'bring that child now.'

“I was trying to explain to Oscar that things like that just don't happen. Now he thinks it's the coolest thing in the world and his friends can't believe it.”

Oscar and his father were sat at the right of the stage towards the front when the excitement began.

The little boy was then delivered safely back to his seat by security guards where the pair enjoyed the rest of the show.

Mr Elliott said the family, from Wicklewood near Wymondham, had discussed whether Oscar was old enough to go to the concert on Saturday, October 24, but decided to give it a chance.

Oscar, a pupil at Wicklewood Primary, who lives with his mother, father and 10-year-old sister, said he was very excited to have been on stage at such a big gig.

He said: “While the drummer and guitarists were playing a bit on their own, the singer came over to where we were sitting and said he was looking for some children, and picked me and another boy.

“When the drummer shouted one, two, three, four, the lead singer pushed us back and lots of fireworks went off. It was really exciting. He had told us beforehand that he was going to push us and the stage would open, and I was more worried about the 25,000 people watching than being pushed. All my friends think it's really cool.”

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