Mar 1, 2010 11:36 am # Check out the awesome music videos for "Stop, Drop and Roll!" and "Mother Mary" on YouTube. Hurry before Warner decides to take them down again! They should've been released, in my opinion. Enjoy!
Feb 18, 2010 9:56 pm # ~Some videos from the PINHEAD GUNPOWDER show are finding their way on to YouTube. Here is one from the sing-a-long at the beginning of the show. Also, Gilman tweeted updates throughout the night. If you use twitter, please follow them @924GILMAN.
Feb 17, 2010 7:29 am # ~Our warmest NWWM birthday wishes to Billie Joe Armstrong. Happy 38th Birthday Billie.
Feb 17, 2010 7:25 am # ~The Daily Swarm reported, but has yet to be confirmed, that Green Day will be included in the lineup for Lollapalooza this year, to be held at Chicago's Grant Park August 6-8.
Feb 13, 2010 11:44 am # Last night Billie Joe and Jason White hooked up with their sideband Pinhead Gunpoweder to play some gigs at 924 Gilman Street, Green Day's old stomping ground. It was a benefit concert for a friend of thiers who has breast cancer. You can check out Pictures and Video here on the Green Day Authority.
Personally, I think Billie wears a dress pretty well. :D Great to see them out again!
Feb 3, 2010 8:21 am # ~The AI cast and Green Day recorded a video for 21 Guns at Studio 880. AI tickets go on sale for the general public on Feb 14th.
I don’t know why I’m so tickled by this, but it’s just so damn cute! It’s like a punk rock fairy tale.
As you know (I posted about this a couple times in the sidebar, and here’s the full story if you missed it), the Free Press of Mankato, MN has launched a campaign to bring Green Day to play in their town, where Green Day has a cool little history. They played there in their early days, before Dookie, and they went there primarily, it seems, because Adrienne lived there at the time, and uh, one of the boys just couldn’t stay away. I remember Tre mentioning this in Behind the Music (I think that’s where it was). He said Billie Joe kept suggesting that they should go on tour to Minnesota, and Mike and Tre were like, “Why Minnesota? Hmmm…? Oh… Adrienne!”
I’m nowhere near Minnesota so it doesn’t affect me personally if Green Day play there or not, though I’m certainly rooting for the folks in Mankato and hope they get their wish. What I think is just so sweet and interesting are all the stories that people have been sending in to the Free Press reminiscing about Green Day’s times in Mankato. You can read them all on Amanda Dyslin’s blog. One of my favorites is this one:
I guess my big Green Day story involved playing on a street corner with Billie Joe once while he was in town. I was actually playing Green Day songs with a few of my friends in front of the Barmuda Triangle trying to make a few bucks off of drunk people when he came out of a bar with Adrienne (who I only casually knew) and he jumped in and played along. He was so drunk that he couldn’t hit the high notes in the chorus of “Christie Road” — that was funny.
I can imagine Billie Joe doing that even now if he got the chance.
There are also some terrible-quality videos (hey, it’s more punk rock that way, right?) of a show Green Day played at a farm in 1992, and stories about that event as well. You can see enough to tell that the crowd — and it was quite a crowd — is absolutely loving it. The videographer tried to take some close ups of Tre, but all you can see is a funny halo of green hair.
And in the latest post, Amanda Dyslin got an email from Adrienne. Keep up the good fight Mankato!
June 17, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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Warner Bros UK just sent out an update. They write that Green Day are currently in the UK, where they filmed an episode for Abbey Road today and will be recording one for Zane Lowe tomorrow. Update: According to Green Day World, the Abbey Road special will be shown (in the UK) on 4Music on May 14 at 9pm and 11pm. “It will then be broadcast at midnight on Channel 4 the same evening, and as part of Channel 4’s T4 on May 17th (1pm) and again on May 23rd (11.30am).”
Also, the new Green Day Game has just been launched. Answer new questions every day about the band to win prizes, and you can get bonus points for referring your friends.
And The Sun in the UK will have the live stream of 21st Century Breakdown a week early, along with Rhapsody and MTV/VH1.
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Green Day will be in Germany in the next few days. For Green Day’s itinerary, and info, check the Events Calendar.
Update: audio and webcam photos from today’s radio interview were posted on GDC. [Download] (To be honest it’s a bit annoying to listen to because it’s simultaneously translated from German.)
May 5, 2009 at 11:51 am
[ Category: News, Contests ]
Germany’s NRJ radio and Energy TV posted a short video interview with Green Day. (Actually, only Billie Joe talks. The other guys just nod sagely…) They’re also having some promotions for German fans to win tickets to see Green Day in the US and Germany. Look for those on Energy.de.
————————- Update: Another short interview video is on MySpace. [Via GD.com]
I seem to remember reading a whiff of a rumor about this, maybe that Green Day had met with some theater producers to discuss a theatrical, Broadway-style, production of American Idiot, but I have to admit I never thought it would come to pass. Yet, here it is, and the news is from The New York Times so it’s a more than reliable source.
The punks are invading the theater. A new musical production adapted from American Idiot, the best-selling album by the punk band Green Day, is scheduled to make its debut in September at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in California.
The article says that Michael Mayer, a Tony Award-winning Broadway director, is a big fan of American Idiot, and even had the album on his mind when working on earlier projects. He envisions the possibilities for a theatrical adaptation, with full-scale production, of this album that we all loved so much and know so well. It’s pretty thrilling.
The guys seem quite excited about it too: “The project is also causing some shock to the band members, who acknowledge that they had grand aspirations for American Idiot but perhaps not quite this grand.” Billie Joe also comments, in the article, that they now have done what The Who was able to do, whose Tommy and Quadrophenia made it to the stage as well, but surpassed the Clash, who never had a musical made of any of their albums:
“I guess maybe we’re a bit more fruity than the Clash.” Ah, you gotta love Billie…
MTV just sent out a press release saying that the video for “Know Your Enemy,” the first single from Green Day’s eagerly-anticipated-with-loving-drool-hanging-off-our-chinny-chin-chins album (uh, my words, not MTV’s), will premiere on MTV to worldwide audiences on April 24, 8pmET/PT (international times will be announced locally).
This is the “first global cross-channel video premiere for MTV and VH1 networks,” says MTV. “Green Day is one of the world’s most successful bands with hard core fans from The US to Japan, and only MTV can connect them on literally hundreds of platforms.”
Video Static says the video’s director is Mathew Cullen. MTV published an announcement as well, here, with more info. It says the video is being shot this weekend!
Okay, I’m eagerly awaiting!
——————– Update: MTV interviews the director, Mathew Cullen, here.
~It’s official: GreenDay.com’s splash page now reads: 21st Century Breakdown, coming May 15th. News of the release date spread quickly. Here’s a few examples: New York Times, Billboard, Spin.
Green Day will be the cover story of the new Q Magazine. Billie Joe is quoted as saying, “I wanted to start saying things in songs that I could be really proud of – that wasn’t just songs about masturbation.”
They also posted an online photo gallery of the Green Day guys at work in the studio. See all the photos here. A big thanks to Lisa for the info!
———————– Update: The scans of the magazine are now posted on GDA.
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