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Its about time. Been waiting for Green Day here in Napa. I've lived here my whole life. Super exciting. The festival is over a decade old. We've had multiple acts re-headline some 5 times some of them. I'm amazed it took them this long to book a freakin world famous band, that literally got their start down the road. True story. Green Day played here in late 1990, right down the road at the legion hall. 🙂

I’d be happier with a live album of this past tour rather than this concept tbh.

To all of you who are going tomorrow: have fun!! Some videos would be nice! As long as you don’t have to put your phones away…😉

Please use this thread to talk about Green Day's show at BottleRock. Exact date is TBA.

Thanks! I signed up for the text link and made my password on FGT. Do you know when the one day tickets will typically be up for sale or when you think Green Day will announce the day they are playing? I think today I remember the post saying is just for the 3 day ones.

Bring layers and rent a locker. Warm/hot days with cold and windy nights. Skip the sandals and go for closed toed shoes. you’ll do a lot of walking around. Clear bags only. They’re super strict about this and I've seen a ton of people be turned away. Non Smoking Policy is strict. Don’t even try to bring your tobacco products, vapes, etc in your bags or pockets. People told to toss cigarettes and chew cans, vapes. Bring a blanket to sit on, and if you plan to see the headliners that night, plant yourself in your desired spot a few hours ahead of time and take turns with your group getting food and drink/using the restroom.

you buy the tickets on https://www.bottlerocknapavalley.com/ They offer layaway. No Que just buy the ticket, they are only sold thru the official website no Ticketmaster sales. You can wait to buy single day tickets if available for the day Green Day performs, they will announce it later. The hours are 11:30 to 10pm everyday. You can sign up to get a code for for early access to 3 day tickets. Go to Frontgate tickets and create an account and add your payment information to it. Once the general sale goes live, be right on time, choose the desired tier and quantity, fast-track through the cart, and settle the payment. I have seen many lose out of their tickets to someone who is faster to pay their payment. Even if the tickets are in your basket, that doesn't mean that they are secured, so have your payment information set up so that you don't miss out on your tickets.

Cool! I'm a couple hours from Napa so I'm going to try to go to this. I'll just get a one-day ticket. How does that work? When buying the ticket, do we have to choose which day? Do we know which day Green Day will perform?

On this day 8 years ago (13 January 2017), Green Day played in Bologna, Italy on the Revolution Radio Tour. This is one of the only decent gig photos I've taken with my Peasant 500 phone It was even colder that day. The streets were literally ice. I forgot my blanket in Turin (RIP) so there was no way I was camping out. I think we got there at about 9–10AM and were 88 and 89 in the queue. People were falling all over the place on the way in. It was a great show though. A photo of the queue: More photos of the show: 20 years ago (13 January 2005), Green Day played Boulevard Of Broken Dreams on TV Total in Cologne, Germany. More photos: 24 years ago (13 January 2001), Green Day played the Austin Music Hall in Austin, TX on the Warning Tour. 33 years ago (13 January 1992), Green Day played in Hamburg, Germany. 24 years ago (13 January 1991), Green Day played a house party at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl and Kathleen Hanna were there.

Joining this debate way too late, but I cannot refrain from a good discussion, sorry. No, absolutely zero issues with this. Actually, I think it's great that they're going precisely because of the disregard of UAE authorities for gay rights, women's rights, and so on. Even if they don't openly comment anything during the concert and even if Billie refrains from kissing any male band members during the show (which for their sake I hope they do refrain from doing these things), just performing songs such as Coming Clean or Bobby Sox during the concert is already a way of creating a space for LGBTQ people during the concert and sending the message that there's nothing wrong with who they are. Exposing the people there to the message that is inherently embedded in Green Day songs is way more beneficial, in my opinion, than Green Day choosing to not to play there would be. Cultural isolation would just be more harmful to the process towards more rights and freedoms for oppressed groups. If Green Day decided not to play in the UAE because their government is oppressing LGBTQ people and women, it would have absolutely zero effect in the government. I can guarantee you government officials would lose zero sleep over this. The only people who would suffer are fans in the country or in the region who have no other opportunities to see the band. I know that if Green Day had decided not to play in Venezuela because the government is autocratic, women's rights are undermined, and gay rights at best don't exist, at worse gay people are persecuted, and there is heavy censorship and repression against opposition, the Venezuelan government wouldn't have even noticed, but me and all the other fans at the show, and specially those who were not as privileged and couldn't afford to travel to another country to see them, we are the ones who would have been crushed by that (not to mention that from comments in their Twitter account and during the show Green Day seemed to be pro-Chavez, but I choose to forget that 🙃). All that said, I think it's up to people and activists in the UAE to voice how they'd rather be supported - they know their situation better than any of us do. If activist groups there are or were asking Green Day to cancel the show to boycott the government there, then that's another story and I think in that case Green Day should indeed support their request. But I don't know if such thing has come up. Now, the other side of the coin for me is how those of us who don't live in the region, specially EU and US based folks, who have plenty of opportunity to see Green Day in other countries, and would actually have to travel to the UAE for the show, choose to engage with this show. I wouldn't go to this show because I wouldn't want to spend any money in the country that could translate to more tax income to the government there. I'd rather see them anywhere else. But I don't judge anyone who might decide to go, because I also know the impact we have as individual is quite limited (again UAE government won't loose any sleep over loosing that tax I would have paid for the hotel), and you could also argue that exposing locals to individuals with different beliefs and mindset is positive for keeping the country moving towards a more inclusive model.

On this day 15 years ago (12 January 2010), Green Day played the IMPACT Arena in Bangkok, Thailand on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. More photos: 20 years ago (12 January 2005), Green Day played the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands on the American Idiot Tour. More photos: 24 years ago (12 January 2001), Green Day played Aerial Theater at Bayou Place in Houston, TX on the Warning Tour. 32 years ago (12 January 1993), Green Day played McGregor's in Elmhurst, IL. More photos:

Or they are really just passing on something they heard 🤷‍♀️ I mean, even I, a fervent Green Day fan back in 2009, didn't remember the whole Hillside Dance debacle and that suspected name. So for a troll to dig up that very obscure piece of trivia 15 years later seems unlikely.... they either really are a long time observer of the fandom and with a really good memory (and then why troll? and also, starting a harmless rumor online is hardly trolling), or they really heard this rumor going around. Doesn't mean the rumor itself has to be real though. My hope for the end of the Saviors tour is that they release a full live show, or a compilation from several shows mounting up to a full setlist - I choose to believe this is what the rumor they heard was about