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Billie's bangs right now are killing me! I am so fucking happy! He's finally wearing them down for the first time in forever and it looks sooooo good, even with the blonde. 🔥😍I really hope he keeps this style for a while. I think I would lose it if he dyed it black again and put on just even a tiny bit more eyeliner. He looks like he stepped right out of 21CB right now! Now, excuse me while I go scream.

Some pics from the show from Green Day's Instagram story From Alice Baxley's Instagram story

"Groovy times in KC!!! Electric crowd!!! Thank you!!"

This is my mood today: (This small scene lives rent free in my head)

I really love the short sleeved black shirt. 😍 I prefer this to the red shirts tbh.

I think I am going to die! Billie is wearing his bangs down! I've been silently begging for this! 😭 I can't handle how absolutely, spectacularly, outstandingly beautiful he looks right now! The only thing that would make it better is more eyeliner and black hair, but I am also loving the blonde with this hairstyle. I didn't think I would! God, I hope he continues with this hairstyle. It's been so long since it's been like this and I am loving every single second of it!

On this day 7 years ago (21 August 2017), Green Day played in Cuyahoga Falls, OH on the Revolution Radio Tour. More photos: 11 years ago (21 August 2013), Green Day played Brixton Academy in London, England on the 99 Revolutions Tour. I took these shitty phone pics: Billie had ripped up his shirt before the show and changed into the black and red stripy one before the encore. I remember him singing Let Yourself Go like his life depended on it. Brutal Love was the highlight. I admittedly don't remember much else because I was having an awful day (personal stuff, nothing to do with the show), but I do remember crying during that beautiful performance of Brutal Love, partly because it moved me so much and partly because I knew it would probably be a long time until I saw Green Day again. More (decent) photos: 14 years ago (21 August 2010), Green Day played in Montreal, Canada on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. Billie forgot the lyrics to Platypus, but they played it! They also played F.O.D. which was a big deal at the time. According to setlist.fm, they soundchecked Church on Sunday. More photos: 15 years ago (21 August 2009), Green Day played in Las Vegas, NV on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. More photos: 19 years ago (21 August 2005), Green Day played in San Antonio, TX on the American Idiot Tour. 23 years ago (21 August 2001), Green Day played in Berlin, Germany on the Warning Tour. Today I learned that they often played Platypus on that tour. 26 years ago (21 August 1998), Green Day played (setlist incomplete) Bizarre Festival in Cologne, Germany on the Nimrod Tour. More photos: 30 years ago (21 August 1994), Green Day played a second night at Lollapalooza in Dallas, TX on the Dookie Tour. 33 years ago (21 August 1991), Green Day played in a bedroom at 202 Samford Avenue in Auburn, AL. About 30 people attended the 40-minute show, but after it ended, more people arrived and were disappointed to hear it was already over. The band's money and clothes were stolen from their van at the show prior, so everyone pitched in to help. They stayed in Auburn for another day. Ken Sanderson of Prank Records, who booked the show, believes they completed some songs from Kerplunk while Billie Joe played his acoustic guitar on the porch.

Pics from last night Check out the GDA article for more pics https://www.greendayauthority.com/news/6180/

Oh you're right I had just googled it and answer must've been out of date. They were born 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010. But they've been a band since 2018 so still crazy! So awesome and it's great that Green Day are still supporting the "all ages" thing after coming up at Gilman Street.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-8irQaP7iw/?igsh=MTNpcjZxY21tNXk3Zg==

I recently listened to Saviors from top to bottom and I still love it six months later. Some songs I've cooled on like Father to a Son, but overall the album is still fantastic and is their strongest work in a while. Glad that the album still resonates months after its release.

Yes. I'm a fellow Chris and we have a numbering system. But I'm not sure what # Dugan is.

On this day 15 years ago (22 August 2009), Green Day played in Phoenix, AZ on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. They played The Judge's Daughter! Although Billie forgot the lyrics. More photos: 23 years ago (22 August 2001), Green Day played in Hamburg, Germany on the Warning Tour. 26 years ago (22 August 1998), Green Day played V98 Festival in Chelmsford, England on the Nimrod Tour. Yes, that was the notorious thong performance. More photos: 32 years ago (22 August 1992), Green Day played in Reno, NV on the Kerplunk Tour.

Vinyl Box Set is up for preorder on Amazon now. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCG95J5H

I'm surprised they haven't released it here in the states yet.

They’ve teased some new partnerships with 7 Eleven and Speedway they’ll be announcing soon https://www.instagram.com/stories/punkbunnycoffee/3439929408225689758?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=MXkxNzIzaDFyMW93cg==

Only excited for "new titles demo songs" and we are the champions live... Rest IS released years ago

It seems the girl who played Good Riddance is also in a band and her name is Ruby Leigh. Some pics here https://www.instagram.com/rubyleighofficial?igsh=ZzJ6aTFrbDNwN3Zh From Alice Baxley's Instagram story

So according to Alice Baxley’s story, Billie pranked the LL’s by imitating one of their members and wearing cat whiskers at the end of the show. It sounds like they’ve been trading pranks back and forth all tour. Billie’s such a funcle 😂 I love the relationship he has with them it’s very cute

New stickers on my beers mini fridge New vinyl

Wow I heard they were teens but had no idea they were that young! They're 17, 14, 13 and 11, that's crazy.

Just had my mind absolutely blown at The Linda Lindas drummer still being in middle school/about to be a freshman. That's INSANE.

Okay then, they could be playing Baby Shark for the rest of the show and I'd be happy as a clam 😂. And I am bummed to have missed Brutal Love and Forever Now as closers 😢. But so they did swap Good Riddance here and there for something else. You'd think they could swap it for Fancy Sauce now 😅

Don't even tempt me with *NSYNC covers! They could play a mean The Game is Over 😄 iirc, Forever Now was the closer during the RevRad days. It was amazing; I remember getting chills during the final solo at Wrigley!

As usual, GD is a religious experience. 7 years was too long to see them again.

I prefer Bang Bang to Know Your Enemy (although I actually love both), but I hope they don't get rid of Know Your Enemy because if they're going to bring a fan onstage, that takes up the least time and as Cristhyne said, it's the most democratic option since anyone can sing a few lines. Also, so many people hate Know Your Enemy that at least fans aren't ruining a song that everyone cares about? It was lovely when Billie let that bloke play Dilemma in Glasgow because it was so unexpected, but I'd much rather hear the band than fans most of the time. I'm not fussed either way about King for a Day or Hitchin' a Ride. I've never hated them but I didn't miss them either. As far as I'm concerned, they could switch literally anything in the setlist with Fell For You, Angel Blue, Rusty James, Stop When the Red Lights Flash, Wild One, Stray Heart, Wow! That's Loud, Brutal Love, Missing You, 8TH AVENUE SERENADE or X-Kid. I'd take anything from the trilogy. Or Suzie Chapstick or Meet Me on the Roof. Or Still Breathing or Forever Now again. And, I mean, if Green Day ever feel like covering The Longshot, I'd gladly take that too. But at the end of the day I keep going to hear the exact same setlists and never complain, because why would I complain when they put on such a good show that four hours of King for a Day would probably entertain me? So whatever. 8th Avenue Serenade though.

Just got home, it was an incredible show! They had a fan come up and play guitar for Good Riddance. I know how special that is since it wasn’t part of the show and she did an amazing job. The audience loved it. I’ll have more to write later after some sleep but in case any of you had a shadow of a doubt: the boys still bring the magic.

I live in Salt Lake City and came to this show because Chicago is awesome. Green Day for life!!!! I really wish they would play Fancy Sauce and can’t stop listening to Saviors.

Between Linda Lindas and Rancid I was coming back from the bathroom I met Kevin! He was so nice and gave me and my sister picks!!

This. This is the right answer.

I didn't like a lot of the Saviors tour merch but I did pick up the Chicago poster and patch. I also got this awesome print of Green Day from an artist I really like Matthew Lineham. He does these cool prints, pins, and ornaments of new wave and alternative artists and he did one of Green Day! I also picked up the Robert Smith one. Check out his work here: https://www.mlinehamart.com/ And I picked up some Punk Bunny coffee from my local store It's good!

Chris Dugan?

So my perspective is very different from many of you but if I tell you my first gig was Siouxie and the Banshees in a nasty little club in 1976 it will explain a lot. I knew Basket Case and loved it and was always kind of aware of Green Day but I was a married, working mum with elderly parents needing assistance so actually just had no time to be involved in music like I had been as a teenager and was pretty pissed off with the current music scene that I was hearing on mainstream radio. Just as AI was released, my niece came to stay and watched MTV all the time so suddenly I was hearing this album which seemed so different and was so huge and the band looked so different I could hardly believe it was the same guys. I loved the music but was not suffering any of problems so many Green Day fans have endured but I can completely see how they feel and the music still speaks very powerfully to me. I regarded myself a fairly casual fan, l had gone back and acquired their whole back catalogue, until we went to see them on the 21CBD tour which I say I am till getting over 😂😂. I completely agree with @Gwen Stacy re Green Day conquering the world TWICE and hope one day BJ gets the recognition he deserves for his songwriting. Forgot to say I am in the UK!

So cool! I just came here to post this same article. 😂

My story probably needs trimming for the GDA article, but I wanted to share the full one here. It’s cathartic to look back on your long relationship with this album, innit? Maria, 29 Nottingham, England I still remember the day I discovered Green Day: April 7th, 2007. I was 12 years old, alone at home, looking at ‘blends’ on Piczo and I scrolled past a Fall Out Boy one, but the lyrics on the next one intrigued me: ‘I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known…’ My house was usually silent except for video game music at the time. No-one wanted to be reminded of my abusive dad who was a DJ. I almost felt like I was doing something wrong when I typed in ‘greenday I walk alone’ on radio.blog.club. But this song was unlike anything my dad played. I liked the soundtracks to my video games, but I couldn’t really relate to an incompetent detective agency employed by Dr. Eggman. I could relate to this. I was a lonely emo preteen being called everything from ‘terrorist’ to ‘sand [n-word]’ and being ‘stoned’ because ‘P*kis deserve it’ at school, so of course my heart leapt when I heard a beautiful voice singing ‘sometimes I wish someone out there would find me.’ And as I played it again and again, I felt like someone had found me. I felt understood. I felt like I mattered. The next song I listened to was Wake Me Up When September Ends. I could relate to that, too, wishing I could just sleep through my troubles and wake up when they were over. I didn’t really get the title track, but I enjoyed playing it loud when my mum was out and so quietly I could barely hear it when she was at home. I watched the music video over and over just because it was cool. I cried to Whatsername like having a crush on Shadow the Hedgehog was actually soul-destroying, because the song painted such a visceral picture that I could feel something I’d never known. Holiday and Letterbomb were rousing anthems that made quiet little me want to stand up for myself and leave my town for a place where I’d feel human. I was listening to Green Day all the time now, so I nervously asked my mum if I could have some headphones. She was surprised, but asked my grandpa if he could pick some up on his way to ours and he arrived with a pair of Canada 3000 headphones from the charity shop. Soon my mum was worrying about how loud I was playing Green Day through those shitty headphones – I’d discovered a few Warning and Shenanigans songs at this point – but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Blasting those songs was like therapy. I wasn’t really sure why I was learning to play the drums, but now I had a purpose. I wanted to be like Tré. I wanted to play Green Day. Then I watched a video of them performing American Idiot at Milton Keynes and rushed into the living room, waving my drumsticks and yelling that Green Day were so good live, even better than they were on the albums, and Tré was the best drummer in the world. I had to see them live one day. My Green Day obsession was so infectious that all my friends, both online and offline, were listening to them, too. This phase wasn’t showing any signs of ending, so my mum took me to Selectadisc in Nottingham to buy my first Green Day album. I wanted American Idiot, but ended up choosing Bullet in a Bible when the bloke working there started fanboying with me over how incredible Green Day were live. I watched the DVD almost every day after school, but still listened to tracks that weren’t on it on radio.blog.club so often that my mum took me back into Nottingham – to Virgin Music, this time – to buy American Idiot. That day was the first of many times I listened to American Idiot in order. My mum was intrigued at this point. I was an easily distracted kid with unmedicated ADHD and many of my phases didn’t last, but not only had I been blasting Green Day for months – I was actually listening to 9 minute songs over and over. So she asked me to play her something other than Boulevard of Broken Dreams. She quite liked Homecoming. I don’t remember when she heard Give Me Novacaine, but that was the moment when she too fell in head-over-heels in love with her daughter’s favourite band. We started watching Bullet in a Bible and listening to American Idiot in full together. She hardly had the energy to talk about drumming or astronomy (another long-term obsession of mine) after long days working hard to support us both, but we could just sit there and listen to Green Day together. It was an escape for both of us. Seeing American Idiot transformed into a Broadway musical will forever be one of my most cherished memories. I’ll never forget listening to Are We the Waiting from Row F in the St. James Theatre and feeling that whole album like I’d never felt it before. The city lights of New York were coming down over me, skyscrapers, stargazers in my head, and Nottingham was the dirty town burning down in my dreams. I had found the place where I felt more than human; the place that taught me that I’d still matter even when I went home. And I’ll never forget looking up at Billie Joe as St. Jimmy with tears in my eyes as he sang ‘you taught me how to live.’ I can still recall exactly how my heart glowed as I thought, ‘wow, mate, you really, really did,’ because honestly, American Idiot did teach me how to live. I’d be a completely different person if I’d never heard it. I don’t know if I’d even be alive. There are many things – even other musical artists – in my life other than Green Day now, but I might not have discovered any other music if I’d never heard American Idiot, because I’d still be sitting in silence. Now I’m 29 and I no longer want to burn down my town, but I’ll scream ‘I’m leaving you tonight’ at the top of my lungs. I can still feel how I felt at 16, watching the scene when Johnny and friends board the bus to the big city in Holiday, and I can still feel how I felt when recalled that at 19, holding the National Express ticket that was my own great escape. However, it’s Homecoming I can really relate to now. I’m lucky to live in a privileged country and for better or worse, it’s home. Shadow the Hedgehog has been replaced by a real Whatsername. Maria’s Version goes ‘I ran away and then you took a different path,’ but damn, it ‘seems like forever ago’ and there’ll always be a time when I wake up in the ‘darkest night’ and remember it all (too well). So many Green Day songs represent completely different things to me now, but when I heard the first chords of American Idiot in Lyon this year, I was my 12 year-old self again – and I couldn’t believe my ears and eyes. My dream had come true. I was still alive and I wasn’t just hearing the title track. I was hearing the whole album live in full, standing on the front row when there was no way I could’ve stood in the pit at my early shows. And I wasn’t just hearing the album, I was reliving all it had ever meant to me in the best way possible. I’d overplayed Boulevard of Broken Dreams to the point I didn’t remember the last time I willingly listened to it until I got home from Lyon. I couldn’t have imagined that song ever moving me again, but hearing the intro played as it’s played on the album – on Bullet in a Bible – did something to my soul. I’m actually playing it a lot now, reliving everything just through that one song. And finally, I don’t think there could have been a more full circle moment than Billie taking my England flag in Holiday at the Isle of Wight Festival. That flag started going to shows with me in Paris in 2010, and Holiday was my anthem in the years I felt like I didn’t belong in England. It’s tough shit for the people who made me feel that way, because I am English, by half of my blood and by birth, and I handed our flag to my favourite band on national television. I usually say that 21st Century Breakdown is the album that changed my life, and in many ways it is, but it all started with American Idiot. 'You taught me how to live,' indeed.

Those lips (from the GMA performance). ❤️ Also thighs 🔥

My parents recently asked, "Does he ever age?". My answer was no

Damn looking straight out of 2004 and still just as hot!

Short sleeves?! Yesss finally! PLEASE Billie wear short sleeves at the SF show

I’ve been screeching about the short sleeves oh my GOD.

Short sleeves in Missouri! https://www.instagram.com/p/C-uIwKmNH_u/?igsh=c3k5OGdkcHc2NzVm 😍😍