Mike Dirnt, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Tré Cool of Inexperienced Day Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Is Inexperienced Day about to unleash the Hella Mega Tour half 2?
Inexperienced Day – Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool – gave followers a cause to stay up for 2024 throughout a secret present on Thursday, October 19. The band performed on the Fremont Nation Membership in Las Vegas, filling the 850-person capability venue, as a part of the thirtieth anniversary celebration of their breakthrough album, Dookie. Someday through the present, Armstrong, 51, mentioned, “I’ve a giant announcement. It’s actually large. Get your cameras prepared.”
The announcement, per Rolling Stone, is that in 2024, the band will go on a U.S. stadium tour with The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and the brand new band maintaining punk alive, The Linda Lindas.
To date, there hasn’t been an official announcement of this hypothetical tour — particulars about what cities, dates and when you’ll be able to beg Ticketmaster to allow you to purchase tickets stay unknown. Us Weekly has reached out to Inexperienced Day’s camp for a remark about this proposed punk/rock extravaganza. Within the meantime, Inexperienced Day additionally introduced that they would be the headline performer on Amazon Music Reside on October 26. The live-streamed live performance sequence airs after Thursday Night time Soccer, and Inexperienced Day has “ready a career-spanning set that can draw from their in depth catalog and contains new surprises.”
This tour between these three ‘90s icons – and icons-in-the-making, The Linda Lindas – could possibly be seen because the non secular successor to The Hella Mega Tour, which noticed Inexperienced Day tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer. It was initially set to run from March to August 2020, however the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on these plans.
Jimmy Chamberlin and Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Photographs
The Australia and New Zealand leg of the tour, as was the only real Canadian date, had been canceled. The proposed present in Moscow was additionally axed after Russia invaded Ukraine. In the end, the truncated tour commenced in 2021 earlier than wrapping up in 2022.
Spiritually, Inexperienced Day’s Vegas present was a second to rejoice the band’s previous and future. This 12 months, they noticed their main label debut, Dookie, turning 30, and the band commemorated this event with a particular tremendous deluxe field set. The 6xLP / 4xCD re-issue contained the band’s Woodstock ’94 efficiency, a set of demos, and a set of outtakes.
“It’s not fairly the anniversary,” Armstrong advised the Vegas crowd, as Dookie was recorded in the summertime of 1993 and scheduled for launch early within the following 12 months. “The file got here out in February 1994, so in October of 1993, we had been simply scared s–tless,” he added.
Lucia de la Garza, Mila de la Garza, Eloise Wong and Bela Salazar of the Linda Lindas Emma McIntyre/Getty Photographs
After performing Dookie in its entirety, Inexperienced Day spent an hour enjoying a few of their deepest cuts from their 30+ 12 months catalog, based on Rolling Stone.
Additionally they debuted “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” a brand new tune the band has been teasing on its Instagram with Night time of the Residing Useless — impressed black-and-white clips of zombies attacking people.
Rancid Dave J Hogan/Getty Photographs
The subject material appears to harken to the political themes of their beloved 2004 album, American Fool, and if it heralds a brand new album, it might be Inexperienced Day’s first since 2020’s Father of All Motherf—kers.
“The American Dream Is Killing Me” is scheduled for a launch on October 24, one week earlier than Halloween.
