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Thanks, to you and to other contributers, once again, this is a very special thread your developing. You said at the very beginning you are scheduling stories on GDA Instagram. Can I be nosey and ask when finished, will it be generally accessible for fans, like a chronological database or something? Thanks.

On this day 15 years ago (31 October 2009), the Foxboro Hot Tubs played a surprise set at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England, before Green Day came on. They played Stop, Drop & Roll, Mother Mary and Sally. This was such an incredible treat for the fans who thought they were "just" getting a Green Day show. I was 14, it was my fourth show and I was not expecting anything like this. I thought I'd just never see the Foxboro Hot Tubs. Here's what I wrote back then: "It was Halloween. I hung back while my mum looked at merch after Prima Donna. Music was playing inside. It sounded awfully familiar. Was I hallucinating? Because I was sure I could hear Stop, Drop & Roll! I squeezed past people to alert my mum. ‘Prima Donna are playing the Foxboro Hot Tubs!’ My mum stopped. Listened. Then her eyes widened. ‘That’s not Kevin, it’s BILLIE!’ We ran from the merch stand to our seats. In our mad charge down the steps, we knocked over someone’s beer. They just laughed. The steps buckled and we almost fell. Everyone around us looked baffled as we stumbled clapping and singing into our seats. The Reverend Strychnine Twitch, AKA Billie, sprayed Carling beer – a British replacement for his signature Pabst Blue Ribbon – over the front row. His blond head darted all over the stage. Tré wore a leopard print shirt and Jason a fluffy white coat. In Mother Mary, Billie threw down his tambourine to leap into the crowd. Security helped him back up. 'My name is the Reverend Strychnine Twitch and yes, we are the proverbial Foxboro Hot Tubs.’" Another fan who submitted his story for the We Are Revolution Radio book also wrote about this, so I'd like to share that too. The mention of the show is towards the end but I'm including the whole thing because it's a lovely story and it shows how special this was for everyone who realised what was going on (crazily many didn't). More photos: And then Green Day played their show afterwards. My recap: "The intro to 21st Century Breakdown still unleashed butterflies in my stomach. In Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Billie told us, ‘last night in the last song I split my pants. I did that splits thing and my whole butt was hanging out after that.’ It was also the last outing of the leopard print thong. That night, as 21 Guns faded to drum rolls, I expected Minority. Instead, in an explosion of pyros and energy Billie roared ‘MASS HYSTERIA!’ and I was swept up in exactly that; mass hysteria as I screamed along to one of my all-time favourite songs, American Eulogy, that I missed on the second night in Birmingham. In my own blurry video, I’m deafeningly loud as I bellow ‘vigilantes warning ya, CALLING CHRISTIAN AND GLORIA!’ over Billie’s ‘RIGHT HERE IN MANCHESTER!’ It was unreal. Thousands of people were in a shared ecstasy conducted by a tight performance. We watched through moments of quiet while Billie stamped his foot to solos, basking in the band’s talent and energy, religiously echoing ‘heeeeeey-ooooohhhhhh’ as Mike sang his last verse… …and we screamed in unison – ‘I DON’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE MODERN AGE!’ …and the song exploded into its final chorus. ‘I don’t wanna live in the modern world! I don’t wanna live in the modern world! I don’t wanna live in the modern world – MASS HYSTERIA! In the modern world – MASS HYSTERIA! In the modern world – MASS HYSTERIA! In the modern world – MASS HYSTERIA! In the modern world…’ Then the music stopped and 21,000 voices, alone with Billie’s and Mike’s, echoed that we didn’t want to live in the modern world, mass hysteria… until Billie sang like an anthem, ‘nobody likes you, everyone left you, they’re all out without you, having fun!’ over Mike and, as Tré conducted with his drumsticks, we joined him. The world could have ended then and I would have felt the bricks crashing down were healing gold dust. I could hear the sound of my own beating heart. The heartbeat of a kid who was stifled but now impassioned, inspired and ready to smash the silence with a brick of self control." More photos: 18 years ago (31 October 2008), The Saints Are Coming was released as a single. 20 years ago (31 October 2004), Green Day played the Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA on the American idiot Tour. 25 years ago (31 October 1999), Green Day played a second night for the Bridge School Benefit at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. 26 years ago (31 October 1998), Green Day played the Parque Sarmiento in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the Nimrod Tour. It was their first show in Argentina. More photos: 27 years ago (31 October 1997), Green Day played Liberty Lunch in Austin, TX on the Nimrod Tour. 29 years ago (31 October 1995), Green Day played the Metro Centre in Halifax, Canada on the Insomniac Tour. 30 years ago (31 October 1994), Green Day played the Sports Arena in San Diego, CA on the Dookie Tour. 33 years ago (31 October 1991), Green Day played Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark. "The list of now-superstars who have played in Ungdomshuset is very long. They came there before anybody else in Copenhagen knew who Bjork and Nick Cave were and in 1991 an American teenage punk band called Green Day played in the Ungdomshuset before shooting off to world fame." — Nikolaj Heltoft "After the first week, when they discovered that it's a Danish tradition for punks to throw beer at bands they like, their instruments were toast. Luckily - for him - Armstrong had brought Lawrence Livermore's amp instead of his own. Replacing the instruments was out of the question, as they were barely earning enough money to keep everyone fed and traveling from show to show. The band ended up borrowing new equipment every night. 'Seriously,' says Tre Cool, 'I was using guys' kits where the drummer would say, 'If you screw up my kit, I'm gonna stab you.''" 35 years ago (31 October 1989), Green Day played the Los Robles Lodge in Santa Rosa, CA. "We played this show with them, Halloween 1989 in Santa Rosa. Victim's Family and Green Day. It was a benefit. And people wouldn't give Green Day ten bucks for gas to get home in their fucking VW van. This alleged benefit, and people left them stranded with their van." — Ralph Spight Your most iconic quote. Even better than, "I don't know anything about Turkey, Green Day don't play there (despite having been to Turkey)."

Halloween 2009 was my fourth and last show on this leg of the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. We were buying our t-shirts for the night when @solongfromthestars said "Kevin's singing the Foxboro Hot Tubs" and I turned and said "that's not Kevin, that's Billie!" and we literally ran to our seats (me knocking someone's beer out their hand on my way) and we were treated to three songs from the FBHT. It was incredible. I never ever for one second thought I would ever get to see them. I'd been following people's stories about their shows on GDC but could only long to be there! The whole show just had this incredible atmosphere. Tre had dyed part of his hair red for Halloween. This time when we saw the buses leaving on that rainy Manchester night it was really sad because we had no clue when we'd see them again.

I’ll say it again: Green Day playing at Hurricane and Southside limits where they’re allowed to play their own headliner shows in Germany. Once a band agrees to play at a major festival like that, there are often geographical exclusivity clauses in the contract. It’s the same situation as with Rock im Park and Rock am Ring. Because of this, they could only schedule their own shows in the north for summer 2024—in Berlin and Hamburg.

what about Frankfurt in germany? or anything, its been 7 years .. yet again, they have currently 10 cities during their european (festival) tour, with only 3(!) of them being real solo-shows

From Billie's Instagram story

I reckon Hanover ist too close to Hurricane festival.

Good grief. Today the mail person came to deliver the boxset and instead of trying to reach me through the intercom, they just left a notice they had come and for me to go the post office to pick up the parcel on MONDAY (because tomorrow is a holiday, and why even bother on Saturday). They could have left this on Monday this week and I could have picked it up by Tuesday.😭 And it would have been so perfect to get it today precisely because it's a long weekend, I could have consumed the whole thing over these 3 days. Oh well, I'll go continue listening to Black Eyeliner.

It charted on here too.

Yes! I would also add Desensitized to that list. I was really excited to hear a different version of it in the Nimrod demos as well.

Insomniac was insane! I like to time travel on youTube and watch old interviews/Concerts from that era. Their energy was unbelieveable how fast they played songs like stuck with me or jaded. I prefer their 21st shows (and past eras) but damn, it was amazing! Warning was underrated. I loved their goat island show especially the boat part 😂

In summer 2017 they had Hurricane, Southside and Munich. So its still possible but I hope for Cologne, Dortmund, Hannover or something like that 😕

Not in my opinion. Listen to how different it sounds to the other songs and how billie sounds younger. Also sounds like tape.

The main difference between SFTBH and C&V (this also applies to Static Age, the OTHER 2 "lost weezer albums and smile) is that songs from the black hole has a tracklist that it could go off of for Pinkerton 30th and we basically have every track in someform, demo or full band, compared to C&V only having 2 or 3 (depending on when lights out was recorded) songs that are confirmed/recorded around this time

The Insomniac era is my favorite era!! I was told that the band didn't want to make any music videos for that record in particular

Me too! Finally!

Yes: Suffocate, Rotting, Ha Ha You’re Dead!🥰

This is so true. Shenanigans was one of the first GD albums I got after "discovering" them with AI, and I had no notion of what B-sides were back then 😅, and for months I thought it was a normal album, until I read what it was. There are some songs in it that I really love.

Another famous "lost" album is Weezer's "Songs From The Black Hole". Some of the material was recycled for Pinkerton, and most of the other material has been released by peacemeal over the years despite fans wanting a full album, but multiple songs were never officially recorded other than demos. Since both bands are coincidentally managed by Crush, it appears that both Crush and their respective record labels don't have either band under any sort of pressure to release comprehensive versions of the lost albums.

i hope everyone has an amazing halloween!!! (if you celebrate/enjoy it) and if not I hope your day goes very well!! i love them so much

Leipzig?

does anyone have the download link of the Bluray and DVD?

Yes, that's why I thought about Cologne, but maybe you're right about Amsterdam. Another option could be Hannover. That would be directly on their route from Southern to Northern Germany. And they haven't played there since 2010. Well, we just have to wait and see. I'd love to get a headline show in Germany, but don't want to get my hopes too high

That apparently worked in 2017 as well. Cologne might be too close to Luxembourg or Amsterdam in terms of the catchment area, but it could theoretically be an option. They haven’t played there since 2017.

But wouldn't Munich be too close to Neuhausen? Maybe Cologne could be an option instead?