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Green Day will play as iHeartRadio ALTer EGO on January 17th at KIA Forum in Inglewood. This show will be broadcasted on iHeartRadio Rock and Alternative stations and on iHeartRadio.com https://www.instagram.com/p/DPyrZ0ZDO7l/?igsh=cTd6djVpYmxmNGhk

FOAM 6-year anniversary boxset/tour?! Hell yeah!

Billie was a special guest at Dua Lipa's show in San Francisco last night, performing Wake Me Up When September Ends with her https://www.kerrang.com/billie-joe-armstrong-green-day-wake-me-up-when-september-ends-dua-lipa-san-fransisco-radical-optimism

I'm Seb, I'm 35. I'm from Chile. I have been a fan since 2004. The release of Saviors found me in a really weird spot in my life. Things have been working out decently the last few years but since the beginning of the last year I started to feel that I needed a shake to lift me up. The thing that Green Day released Fancy Sauce, and it induced me such a FOMO that I cried like 50 times in the month of release with that song. They announced the tour, playing Dookie and American Idiot, and I said: "Is ok, they have it done before, is not THAT special" Then the first happened. And it was a kick in the balls. Then I told myself that I needed to see them ASAP. Originally the idea was starting to save money to see them in Europe the next cycle and having some money to see them in Chile and Argentina when they the time comes. It turns out I end up buying a VIP ticket to the second Vienna show in December of 2024. It was jarring. I totally lost my mind. I didn't knew anybody in Europe AT ALL, even if I was talking heavily with someone from Spain who helped me to organize the travel, I didn't know a single person. Then I said to myself: "it would be very sad if I miss the first date" so I went into a two month search for a ticket. I like to see the band as close as I can, but this was a sold out show, so I would buy any ticket at any location if the chance was there. And happily I found one in a late night in February. A seat ticket in the middle of the arena. It could be worse. But it was that or miss the show. No brainer. Time passes. The dates are getting near. They announced south america. Instant buying for the shows in Chile and Argentina. No questions ask, even if I found them expensive, very close to the european prices. You know, YOLO in a nutshell Then the flight to Madrid was really long. My head was rushing all the time. Then Barcelona, that's probably the worst airport in the whole world, to finally get to Vienna. Got into my hostel, that was a terrible choice, but the city was really nice. The first show of Vienna gave me the most shocking surprise of my life. They played 86. Billie Joe announced the song and I fell into my knees, crying like a little kid, realizing that a dream was coming true. I barely got to see them playing the song. I could hardly sing. But that was probably the happiest time of my whole life. The show was flawless, even if they didn't play so much of Saviors sadly. Second show, I arrived early to get in CAS line and it was a very very very sweet afternoon speaking with likeminded people. I remember realizing that I didn't remember that I could speak english that well. I remember sharing with a girl from Romania, called Meike (I'm really sorry if I got your name wrong) and we had a blast talking about videos and registering things. I remember meeting @solongfromthestars and @Cris. too. The show itself is easily the best show I've ever lived. Not only setlist wise, since I got to see Forever Now and Stuart and the Ave with little snippet of Redundant. But also was a very nice crowd. To me, that I come from a country who likes to be messy in shows, and I have been in very hard crowds in Argentina, it was a really really nice change of pace. Loved the show as whole. Easily the best day of my life, even if I have seen the band before (4 times, my first show was in 2010) The whole experience is unmatched. I got to see them later in Chile and Argentina. Chile got the deepest cut of whole tour, Haushinka. It was such a surprise. Somebody was playing the drums before the show. Then I heard a known fill. It was Haushinka. And I said: "no fucking way" And it was Nobody knew the song in the moment. But it was awesome. Argentina was a rough show, I fell off in the middle of the crowd and nobody noticed. I depleted my energy trying to stand up again and I had to leave my close spot. But they played an extended setlist, including Coma City and The Grouch. So it was alright. I left a lot of details out, but I'm really glad this tour happened. I made very very very nice friends, an amazing feat considering the fact that I'm not that fond of people and I never expected to do it in this stage of my life. I pushed my boundaries of what I believed it was possible to make. And I'm so grateful that Green Day once more was part of another personal development. I can't stress it enough. So I started saving already. I cannot wait to repeat. We all die young someday.

I‘m Elke from Germany, age is not important.😉 I only discovered GD with the release of Saviors (which I deeply regret…), so the Saviors tour was the first tour for me. In 2024 I saw two shows, Nuremberg (Rock im Park) and Berlin. Nuremberg as the „first contact“ was amazing, and somehow I ended up in the - admittedly quite tame - moshpit. It was a lot of fun and I only got out of there for a while when Billie wanted a wall of death.😂 Berlin was great, too, of course but somehow I don’t remember much. I seem to have spent the evening in a kind of daze… I remember that there was a light rain and that the atmosphere was magical somehow, but sadly not many details. In 2025 it began in Vienna. At the first show there, I (and my husband) had front of stage tickets and a great evening. But you know: the second night is always better than the first! I went alone, I had a VIP ticket and I queued for the first time in my life. It was a great experience to see and get to know so many like minded people in the queue, including some from the GDC.😃 With the help of the VIP ticket I managed to get front row. It was awesome to be so near to the band and be able to see everything in detail. One of the deep cuts was Forever Now, and I love love love this song so much! It was one of the best nights of my life. About two weeks later we went to Luxembourg. And this was special, too. First it was nice to see that a lot of those crazy fans from Vienna were there again. Besides Luxembourg is a charming place in itself, and this combined with the hype of GD fans everywhere and extraordinary heat (hottest week of the year) made for an atmosphere never to forget. The show up on a hill in the city was perfect. I was extremely happy. …and felt quite depressed during the following days when seemingly everyone went on to Amsterdam for the next show. For which I didn’t have tickets. Feeling left behind in still horribly hot Luxembourg wasn’t nice. But then we went on to Belgium to see GD one more time at Rock Werchter. This is a pleasant festival. We really enjoyed the atmosphere, and finally at 11 pm GD came onstage and everyone went crazy. What a night! My highlight was them playing Saviors, my favorite song of the album. Slight post concert depression for the following weeks until the South America tour began. Then at least I could watch all those fan videos on Instagram and get hyped up about the question what deep cut had been played. And now? As a relatively new fan I‘ve never experienced a time „between eras“. What to do now? I decided that I somehow had to fill this void they left behind and bought an electric guitar. You are never to old to start learning an instrument….

Sooo while looking for more information about the Dookie dog, I found a listing for the Kerplunk Girl with a 2026 release date https://www.popmarket.com/green-day-reaction-figures-kerplunk-girl/840418802021?srsltid=AfmBOopJHyO1Oi__4Z_kX9Ql8v_Wmq3epR89B-GCEex6rgQ8iLoWhA0s Seems like there will be more figures soon

So remember when I said I usually steal Riot Fest posters? I nabbed one that was still hanging around on a pole. I didn't go this year but I still wanted one!

I got my sister a Tre Funko Pop for her birthday cuz he's her favourite and it's also the best design of the GD Funko Pops imo. And I got my brother (their birthdays are 5 days apart) a green Dookie shirt. Also bought myself a Kerplunk patch like this and it's on my backpack

So if they're doing figures based off album covers...that means we're getting a FOAM unicorn, right?!

I wish they'd do soft toy/plushie type ones that look like the dog costumes from the tour, it would be cuter

From Dua Lipa https://www.instagram.com/p/DPwhWT1j3HC/?img_index=3&igsh=MXJhMXVxcWt2bTQxNw==

Haha, he stood away from performing for exactly 14 days😆 this mean makes music and performs like he breathes. It’s so nice to see he wasn’t burned out by Saviors Tour, and that he still wants to do stuff like this randomly. Can’t wait for the next chapter ❤️

they gotta save stuff for the 50th anniversary

I'm Justin (aka Lark), 23 from New York, now in Florida. I'm a newer fan (started listening in 2018, first show was Hella Mega in 2021), but these shows have been unforgettable experiences. Each show has its own crazy backstory. There was coercion, deception, broken glass… but I won't go into all of that. Here's the lighthearted version: I made it into the Fremont show in Vegas when they announced the tour. I knew right then and there it'd be something special. The moment tickets went on sale, I scored 2 for the Citi Field show. Months later, the day came and it was awesome! I hate to say it, but all of Dookie in a stadium was way cooler than in a club. By this point though, I had relocated to Florida. Seeing all the videos on socials made me crave more. So I bought a ticket for the Atlanta show and flew up there for a night. Just as amazing. When it was announced they were headlining Rockville… I wanted to say it was a no-brainer, but it took a lot of deliberation. I don't like festivals. I don't like the heat. I didn't even have a car to make the hour-drive to Daytona. But I bit the bullet, rented a car (which was a whole ordeal in it of itself), and rounded out my Saviors Tour experience at Rockville. These shows have been awesome. I feel honored to say I was a part of it.

I just noticed Billie’s up to 3.1M followers on Instagram. He only had 2M for the longest time.

I had the honor of seeing this speech in person (my first green Day show!) and it felt so special. Not only was it the first show of the 99 Rev tour, it was right after Billie's stint in rehab and you could just feel all the love. He looked so touched that the fans waited for him and supported him during a rough time. I often think back to this moment when I'm feeling down.

Absolutely, not a yesterday band of long past, long forgotten era, with occasional comeback show regurgitating same old, same old. GD are unique, timeless, and still getting noticed by old and new fans alike, through making new awesome music and wowing audiences with electric live shows. Even though been very unlucky not to win anything recently, after 30+ years they are still being nominated for awards.

So happy to see that the biggest stars of the new generation love Green Day. (Billie Eilish, Post Malone and now Dua Lipa...) ❤️

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPvK2hRjHNY/?igsh=MnJvN3huN2QxOHI4 Yesterday Billie was onstage with Dua Lipa! Seems to need a stage somehow…😂 Edit: Added the YT link. I have the feeling he missed his guitar. Just standing there when not singing...

Suffocate shouldn't be here... Should be with desensitized in disc 1 of nimrod 25 Also in the japanese 2001 tour they played and recorded live church on Sunday and fashion victim, both lacking on this edition

And how much you’re going to hurt and for how long afterwards. 😂

Not possible because I‘m doing that already!🤣

Thank you! Right now I have the impression that my hands are too small.😅 But I hope that more practice will solve that problem. Besides I‘m doing it just for fun. And it really IS fun!😃 I’ve been thinking of those lyrics too…😂

And what an amazing album and brilliant follow up to Dookie. A mere 20 months later following the '94 awesome tour. And then just as you thought things might slow down a tad, the jaw dropping Carry The Banner album is released at end of '94 by Pinhead Gunpowder. Holy shit. Then as anticipation and excitement grew Geek Stink Breath was released in September '95. And then the album. 14 amazing songs. So difficult to choose favourites but if I had to Stuck With Me and the emotional 86. So lucky to live through it, I knew I'd done the right thing, and given my life to GD. ❤️ Love this video

HAPPY 30th INSOMNIAC

This KILL THE DJ PROMO CD from Denmark. It has 4 versions of this song. Kill the DJ Denmark Promo

I'm Jack, 32 and from the UK. I started really getting into the band during the run up to 21st Century Breakdown and I've been an avid listener ever since, I definitely feel like I've grown up with them, each era or album cycle is tied to the changes in my own life through the years. I've been lucky enough to see them live 8 times, 2 of those being on the Saviors tour, at Wembley Stadium and Download Festival. At Download Festival during Wake Me Up When September Ends it began to rain perfectly in time with the lyric 'here comes the rain again' and it was just one of those moments you never forget. The crowd reacted and Billie was looking up at the sky, it made an already poignant song even moreso in that moment. Both shows were amazing experiences and it's just always such a fun time seeing them, whenever they come back, I'll be there.

Now I really want all of them, but in plushie version 😭

Here a few from my recording. I'll be posting more very soon

New Dookie dog action figures available for pre-order! https://a.co/d/hdpbK5S

I remember when me and a bunch of other GDC folk did a watch party of this and decided to play a drinking game. Take a shot every time Billie curses. We didn't last 5 minutes

When you hear Q101 play Nice Guys Finish Last and you blast it like it’s the first time you’ve heard it. Songs hit different on the radio! Happy 28th birthday Nimrod!

Green Day continues live performances in 2026 too. Saviors era is never over or is it a new beginning? https://www.instagram.com/p/DPynHreDRhB/?igsh=ZG1lMjVpd2xmZ2dz

This one motivated me to get on my big wheel... No wait, my bicycle. Or was it my scooter? Maybe my Tonka Truck? Anyway I went down to the strip and smashed it up against a window. Ended up with a pet rock. Worrying.

apparently Church and Fashion were remastered also Dont Want To Know has never been (widely) available on streaming

Billie twited onces that he wish than suffocate and desensitized were on nimrod, so for something different, It would be great to have both final versions in nimrod 25 disc 1 (not bsides), as Billie wishes

Thanks for that. 1.5x is well better. It's restored my sanity. lol. They are very good though. Currently listening to Stuck With Me. These GD podcasts are also available on Amazon Music.

Oh wow didn't realise there were so many demos coming! I wanna hear Blood Sex and Booze!

I don't understand why they put Outsider, Suffocate, Scumbag (and Poprocks for that matter) on here as they are the exact same versions as the ones on Shenanigans Also no demo of Warning, Waiting and Minority - that's criminal 😂

Highly encourage this for anyone who doesn't want to listen to our insane ramblings lol. Maybe I'll start adding timestamps to the episode descriptions.

You could skip the first fifteen to twenty minutes. That’s usually some personal banter, funny but not concerning the song. AND I often listen to them while doing some boring housework. Makes this work much more enjoyable!

As yes, the Green Dudes. I still listen to those guys quite a bit - and got mentioned in one of their shows. I shouted them out in the comments section of the youtube video of the song they were going to be covering, and sure enough they saw it. I don't remember what song it was, but yeah. I'm in there somewhere.

That really changes but right now most of Kerplunk. As mentioned sometime ago, I‘m listening to the Green Dudes podcast and at the moment I‘m in their Kerplunk section…

Short/reel they posted on the left, original video on the right. Safe to say this is an AI upscale

It deserves an anniversary box set with all it's b sides

No it’s weird that they haven’t released this like they did the last one in 2017. It makes me wonder if we’re ever gonna see it 😕

After living through the release of another awesome GD record and witnessing another amazing live tour, my mind suddenly remembered another amazing album released not too long ago. No, not FOAM, but GD BBC Sessions released December 2021. It consists of live recordings for the BBC from 1994 to 2001 held at the Maida Vale Studios in London as you know. There's nothing to compare seeing GD live and being there. But the next best thing is GD live in the studio. And I really love this one. Songs from Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning. 16 tracks in all on the record. Although two other tracks from 1998 sessions, "One of My Lies" and "Scattered" where not included. But can be downloaded. You can almost feel you are there in the studio sensing the electric atmosphere and knowing that the band are really enjoying themselves. But the best way to explain and share this feeling is from an article from Steve Lamacq, which was part of an insert that came with the gatefold cover. This album is one of my most treasured GD records. GREEN DAY – BBC Sessions It’s really quite difficult now, given the phenomenal success they’ve achieved, to conjure up images of Green Day before they were famous. Mind you I do vaguely remember that they played an early London show in 1993 at the Dome, a vintage, dimly lit, boozer of a venue in the north of the capitol. The next day, I was sat in the offices of the music paper The New Musical Express when my friend and writer colleague, Simon Williams, arrived looking strangely unkempt muttering about what an odd morning he’d had. Williams lived in a slightly worn-out looking shared house with a collection of nurses, one of whom. Aidan, also happened to be in a Slint-style punk band called Joeyfat. “I went to go to the kitchen, but the door to the front room wouldn’t open,” Williams opened. Turns out there was a band sleeping on the floor in there, wedged up against the door. Impressed by this, I asked who they were. “Oh, some of Aidan’s mates… I think they’re called Green Day?” Out of curiosity, I went out and bought the album Kerplunk and then repeatedly kicked myself for not having been to the gig. Fast forward 18 months and I was rifling through the post at my new job, hosting a radio show called The Evening Session, when an envelope fell open revealing an advance cassette of an album called Dookie by the same Green Day. It was the record that would change everything. The record some of us had been waiting for. The Evening Session was a two-hour show on the national pop station Radio 1, which sort to champion the ever-rising tide of alternative music from across an array of genres. Airing Monday to Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. – and at its height luring an audience of 2 million listeners a week – we’d already has success with the burgeoning Britpop bands of the time like Blur and Oasis and new urban artists Massive Attack and The Prodigy. The missing part of the jigsaw – especially as a former punk rock fanzine writer – was where American rock music would venture next, following the fractured implosion of the Grunge movement. The answer came in that envelope. Since The Dome, Green Day had returned to the UK a couple of times winning new friends on both occasions. They just needed the right record. Two days later I arrived back in the office waving the cassette in my producer’s face as if I’d invented penicillin or was declaring world peace, and pleaded with her to book Green Day for a session the next time they were in the UK. Tucked away in a sleepy, but desirable North London back street, lies one of the most influential recording complexes in the world: the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios. A former indoor ice rink, the BBC had taken over the huge but anonymous looking building in the 1930s where it had primarily housed its classical orchestras until the launch of pop station Radio 1 in the 1960s. From then on, its seven studios played host to a who’s who of rock bands, with most of the biggest names in music recording there. The Beatles, Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Joy Division, Nirvana…all of them, plus hundreds of others, has passed through the building on route to fame or obscurity. In fact, by the 80s and 90s, the “Maida Vale session” had become a rite of passage for any aspiring artist looking to promote a new record or unleash new songs onto the radio. Maida Vale became a kind of Holy Grail. Big or small the sessions followed the same routine. Load in late morning or lunchtime; set up and sound check. And then bash through four songs, which would be mixed at a casual sprint in the early evening – possibly interrupted by an excursion to the local pub, the Truscott Arms. It was here, to this grand, labyrinthine sprawl, that Green Day came for the first time in June 1994, to record their debut session for us. “I remember it was very much an old school session,” says the BBC’s Mita Adhikari, who produced their first appearance. “We recorded the songs live, followed by a few overdubs, hardly anything, and it was done. Although they were a very three-way unit, Billie Joe was definitely the unspoken leader. Tre liked to clown about, and Mike was the guy who was sort of serious, but everyone took notice of him when he spoke because he had a very dry acid wit.” Green Day, though no one probably knew it at the time, had found a new home away from home. The pace and spontaneity of the BBC sessions suited them perfectly. There is no time to muck about. Some bands struggle in the session environment; they hate being rushed and miss the gloss and sheen that a weeklong recording session gives them. Green Day, however, absolutely thrived, as you can hear on these recordings. They sound like you’re in a good rehearsal room with them; nosily intimate and unselfconscious. The first session was broadcast a full three months before Dookie was released, unveiling “Basket Case” and “She” to radio listeners for the first time. It went down a storm. The songs sounded infectious and impulsive, and the performance was just what you want a session to sound like; it was in the moment, yet still ultimately timeless. As soon as they were finished, they loaded their gear back in the van and went off to play London’s prestigious Astoria 2 later the same night. Buoyed by the first session, they returned to Maida Vale around the release of their next three albums. With no gig to play after the second session, they agreed to stay on and perform live to air for us later that night. Just to check that the transmission line to Maida Vale was working, I prefaded the studio, to hear them happily thrashing along to the records we were playing on the show before they came on. By the 90s, it was customary for bands to simply turn up and record their required four-song set. Green Day, though, brought back the spirit of the late 70s and early 80s John Peel sessions where artists would also use the free studio time to record or rehearse new tracks. During the second session, they played around with, in Billie Joe’s own words, “an unreleased song called ‘Good Riddance’,” while also admitting on air that they’d recorded but discarded a new song during their first session. ME: “Is it true that you recorded a song and then got the engineer to throw it away?” BILLIE JOE: “Yeah, he erased everything. But I found the title for the first song here… I went to the bathroom and saw the words ‘Armitage Shanks’ (famous UK urinal manufacturers) and that’s what we called it.” Interestingly, they didn’t record ‘Good Riddance’ for the Nimrod session, but did do a great version of ‘Nice Guys Finish Last,’ complete with the F-Word, which I’m surprised they got away with. Famously one inhouse engineer once lectured an up-and-coming Britpop band about the language they could use, revealing tersely: “Shit, OK. F---er… no good.” The final session, you’ll note, comes sometime after the album Warning was released. But there was a good reason for this. Off the back of Nimrod’s commercial success. Radio 1 decided to pitch in properly and we broadcasted the band’s low-key UK album launch gig at Kings College in London on September 14th, 2000 instead. We couldn’t not let them do a session though at some point. And I’m glad they came back. For one, it includes a terrific version of ‘Church On Sunday’ which sounds like a punk rock E-Street Band in full flow. And secondly, it would have been like having a photo album with four pages missing. Because hard though it is to remember Green Day before they were famous, these sessions are evocative first-hand reminders of some important moments in their career. They are wonderful, unedited, snapshots of the time. -Steve Lamacq

I remember that like it was yesterday, haha! We really have to do something like that again! Though preferably a drinking game that doesn't risk alcohol poisoning. Nah, this was on Discord. Although, personally. I'd be totally happy if we invited more people.

I just saw how much Green Day make from their Youtube channel: 68,000 - 203,000 a month. They are ranked #4,400 out of every channel on the site. For comparison, I make 100 a month and am ranked 7 millionth or so, which ain't bad considering there are 115 million channels or so, haha.