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At this point I don't believe they have another album up their sleeve, they're just saying that in the future they'll release stuff on their own schedule.

This is awful news for Swmrs. Hope they all make a speedy recovery.

This has to go here too, this pic of Billie Joe is fabulous! Look at that arm - thank goodness for a short sleeved shirt. I love his hair like this, I know everyone doesn't but it just shows his beautiful face structure off so well, and that one curl...… and you can see it's a natural tan. 😍 😍

The jacket belongs to the other guy, they did a swap for the photo. So Billie is basically stealing sparkly jackets now 😂 he's like a magpie

New photo of Mike defying gravity again from Kevin & Bean's Last Breakfast:

I was so pumped for new music all summer with Matt's teasing, but now I don't feel very excited. I'm trying to figure out why. Maybe because the release cycle is so ridiculously long that it has burnt me out. Maybe because the music isn't what I thought it would be. I liked FOAM but Fire, Ready, Aim was very flat to me. I guess I expected something new and challenging from GD. Maybe my life is just busier. Whatever the reason, I wish the release wasn't so stretched out.

Our rock god.... 😂😂 it’s why we love him 😍

That curl. I love it but then I also want to run my fingers through his hair to brush it out of his face. He really does look gorgeous. I love how in the interview Billie E mentions that hes gorgeous and he gets all flustered and embarrassed. And his eyebrows really are on fleck!

I think he’s bored... This is better than Bieber, at least

Very hot Billie a Joe in second one

So this came in the mail today. GD really needs to add more long sleeve t-shirts on their website. And how about put out some Golden Bull merch?

It's not like the man even needed to crouch.

Aw he’s such a kid, even the way he tramps down that lane to the pins. So pouty 😄

It's my 10 year anniversary of first seeing Green Day too. Before 21st Century Breakdown was released I remember desperately searching for news about the Tubbies shows. I was really excited for everyone who had got there. The internet wasn't what it is now back then so it was a struggle to find things on places like Photobucket and Myspace. Then when I knew they were going to play 21CB in full at the Fox Theatre I started looking at the $1000 tickets on Ebay! Which of course was completely out of reach. There were no cheap flights then either and I couldn't take time off work or take my daughter out of school. So when I finally saw Green Day in Birmingham on 27 October it was just surreal. It was like I was dreaming - like it wasn't really clear and there was mist over it. When they played Give Me Novacaine I just completely freaked out because it was and still is one of my favourite Green Day songs! It was that and Homecoming that got me into Green Day. At the time I hadn't thought of looking up setlists and didn't expect them to play that at all. Me and my daughter were screaming "Christian's crying in the bathroom" at each other! I distinctly remember the toilet paper gun and Tre doing his "marching" beat in Minority and it being blown up on the screen. My daughter had bought a poster that I ended up holding and I was waving it around all night! That poster with all its creases is still on our wall. They were recording Murder City for greenday.com so we got to hear that as well. Then after the show Tre tweeted about creeping on fans going back to their cars and Billie about people having sex in the hotel. Everything was drenched in sweat. I'd had some new shoes on and danced so hard it ripped my toenails off and gave me blisters! There was blood everywhere too. I had to have bandages on my feet for the next few shows. Sorry if that's TMI! I can't find the other tweet from Billie - my computer just keeps giving up every time I try to go back that far! I don't know that anything can ever really top seeing them live for the first time after seeing them on Bullet in a Bible, because it was so magical. Although the icing on the cake was that we were then at the Halloween show in Manchester a few days later. I was buying merch before Green Day's set when my daughter shouted to me "mum, Prima Donna are playing Stop Drop & Roll!" And I shouted "that's not Kevin, IT'S BILLIE!" We literally ran and I nearly fell down the steps and knocked somebody's beer onto them! Then after all that time looking for news about the Tubbies, I actually got to see them. I never thought I'd ever, ever get to see the Foxboro Hot Tubs. Unreal. Just unreal. I remember that Glasgow was the first show of the UK leg and Billie had dyed his hair blond. It was so exciting and looking at the pics from the Glasgow show made me realise I was actually going to see them soon! Some pics: Please credit this blog if reposting these photos: https://www.mariagloriaharvey.com/blog

Made a post in error - here's a photo to make up for it:

Another fancy-ass jacket for our favorite frontman: They must have upped the wardrobe budget for this album just for Billie's jacket collection.

Danny Zuko called, He want's his duck bill back.

Just seen the pictures and the video from the shoot and he looks great And its nice to see that lesser-spotted Rev Rad tattoo

It's awkward when she says it because she's younger than his own kids. (She's right though ofc)

"Mike Dirnt" just got autocorrected to "Mike Diva" and I was like no mate, that's Billie

...and still didn't get them all

That walk. My god, he is a dork. 😂🥰

I was just thinking that I miss the days when this and the other picture threads used to be busy with @Laly and others posting every day. Does anyone know what happened to @Laly ? The board is so quiet these days. Every time I post in here I feel bad that I don't add pics to the Mike, Tre and band photos threads but they're just so inactive. Anyway, here's a few more Billie pics: You can see Jason smiling in the background of this one:

Just realised that this time 10 years ago I was seeing Green Day for the first time. That's insane! There are bits I remember and bits I don't. I remember the build up of the drunk bunny and Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? Then just being unable to take it in when they ran onstage. I vaguely remember the confusion when the "sacrifice" was unsuccessful and Billie "sacrificing" Jakob instead. I remember the flashing gas mask in The Static Age and before Give Me Novacaine, when Billie announced he was "officially fucking English as of now!" My clearest memory is probably the moment I recognised the intro to At the Library. No one around us knew what was going on or why me and @Rumpelstiltskin2000 were going insane! I can still feel myself wheezing from all the jumping and singing. For a long time I had a perfectly clear memory of 21 Guns and how beautiful the piano bridge was, but that's sort of an echo in my head now. I loved seeing King for a Day. It was magical somehow. Then I didn't expect the band to come back for Last Night on Earth and that was so exciting. I met my fiancee that night, too! We're from opposite sides of the world but that show happened to bring us together. So most of all, I remember the whole thing with this warm, fuzzy feeling around distant images of stage lights that (yes, I'm going to say it) changed my life. Billie "sacrificing" Jakob. Please link to my blog if you repost it!

They've had great album art with Dookie, Nimrod and Insomniac, then AI was this really distinct aesthetic with the grenade logo. 21CB is really cool too and in hindsight, Revolution Radio wasn't that bad.

Green Day could really learn a thing or two on how to make amazing album art from Tame Impala. Just saying 🙂

Yes, Laly was lovely. I really hope she's OK whatever she's doing these days. There's so many people who just aren't on GDC anymore. It's sad.

I would actually rather he be like Serena Williams than Bieber!

What they do have is anywhere from seven (according to the first KROQ interview) to “a baker’s dozen” (according to the last breakfast show) of completed songs no one has heard yet and my guess is they’ll release some of those in the near future like they did with the Longshot EPs on Soundcloud. They will probably all sound very similar to the stuff on the FOAMF album.

I wonder that frequently. We used to talk a lot on here. Definitely one of the GDC members I was closest to.

Damn it was also my 10 year anniversary of seeing them the first time on the 23rd. Totally brilliant show and so awesome to meet loads of GDCers that I'm still friends with today. Getting to see Green Day live with my sister was amazing but meeting everyone and the community spirit there made it extra special, I can thank GDC for that Will also be my 10 year anniversary of seeing FBHT on the 1st . I never would have been there if it wasn't for GDC and my Green Day friends (probably wouldn't have even known about it nor had the balls to go to London with no guarantee of a ticket without the encouragement and help of great people). It was the best show I'll ever see and I'll remember it forever.

I had a dream that Green Day had to cancel the whole tour!

@solongfromthestars great article and what a balanced approach you have been able to take. Hats off to both you and your mum. 👏👏👏 I am nearly ages with your mum but without her major health problems and gigs have become seriously hard work in the last few years. I have noticed of late that I am subjected to more and more ageists comments which, frankly, make me crazy. I feel like telling those people that sex was not invented in the last 20 years, nor was punk or rock music or many other things, e.g. exercise and gyms for women were largely fought for by our generation. However, thankfully there are always people who’s behaviour is so awesome, they makes up for those others. I have no idea how your mum manages to do what she does, but I wish her many more great gig experiences and kudos to you too for recognising how awesome she is, supporting her and highlighting these issues. 🦄🦄

Gosh, @solongfromthestars made me realise it’s just past my ten year anniversary seeing them for the first time. I was a fan but more casual, had a complete nightmare with tickets but OMG they were fantastic. I couldn’t believe they were actually there, on stage in front of me, I couldn’t seem to get enough! Billie Joe had the shock of blonde hair, shot my son smack in the chest with the water canon (so proud) and they were just fantastic. We had seen many bans by that time and just couldn’t believe how good these guys were, all the usual stuff everyone says, their energy, passion, it was wonderful. Been mad about them ever since. ❤️

that's sad though… considering their budget, it wouldn't be a problem to get an artist to create interesting album art for them. Lady Gaga had fucking Jeff Koons to design an album cover for her. I don't like his art, it's just an example. I should have said Warhol and Velvet Underground... anyway, I think it would be really cool if they teamed up with a visual artist. Not neccessarily someone as super famous as Warhol or Koons, but an artist who makes interesting stuff and maybe can bring a little extra publicity or at least create a cover that draws attention.

Their emphasis on album art seemed to decline along with the interest in albums and with most people getting the music digitally the album art is smaller than a postage stamp anyway. Since 2012 they may have just decided not to spend too much energy on it.

i wish they would too, every album cover up until 21CB was actual art. Once 21CB came around they said “hey let’s have a almost as bad of an aesthetic than blink 182”. maybe im just a stickler but i prefer legit art and thought put into every nook and cranny from my favorite artists.

Just trying to find some more striped pants photos!

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but i'm just gonna write it cause I need to get it out of my system. If you guys haven't heard, Chile has been in a full blown out chaos since Friday. It started out as a student's manifestation because of the raise of metro fare prices and in a matter of hours, it escalated into police brutality over the evasions, protests and riots all over the country over the social inequality of our socio-economical system and a declaration of state of emergency with military police on the streets and curfew time, which we haven't seen since the dictatorship in 1973-1990. Over the last days, I've been a part of the manifestations and it has been so horrible living the military repression that was taught to me in school and that my parents feared during the Pinochet years, especially because Chile has always been hailed as one of the most stable countries in Latin America and just 5 days ago, the president referred to our country as an "oasis in a convoluted continent" (goes to show you how thin the veil of democracy is). But underneath all that, there has been years of social discontent, class disparity, institutional distrust and political inefficacy that's been brewing inside of us that just exploded, without any kind of civic organization or political agenda, just everyday people going out in the streets because we had enough. During this last days, I've tried to listen to many of the albums that usually comfort me when I'm in this kind of mood; Parquet Courts' "Wide Awake", IDLES' "Joy as an Act of Ressistance", even American Idiot didn't work, but then I put on Revolution Radio and it just clicked. While I've never been a RR hater, I did criticize it at the moment for not being topical enough. I wondered why Billie didn't write Say Goodbye more explicitly about the BLM movement, or why Revolution Radio and Troubled Times sounded so lyrically empty. And it's just so funny how this three songs have been the only ones that have comforted me during this past week, and what I thought was just buzzwords took life on its own while I ran away from teargas and the police. I thank them for this now, because now I realize that repression isn't about a particular subject, it's a global issue that shares a common language that they expressed perfectly in this songs, and that the revolution against the establishment isn't always contingent, perfectly articulated or even rational, like it's usually romanticized in the dystopian movies. I used to say that those songs were a "fuck you just because", but damn if I don't feel like that after watching my family, friends and everyone surrounding me being screwed over for decades. So yeah, this one goes out to Revolution Radio, thank you for being the anthem that I needed for this moment in my life, because even though I'm scared shitless about history repeating itself, I'm also hopeful because I still see the spark in my people and I know that this has just begun. In any other time, I might have put it off another day, but not today.

This is the exact show I was thinking of. I cringe when I hear Jeff here.

I've only just realised Billie says "that was pretty tasty" after Sex, Drugs & Violence on Demolicious. Also I didn't notice Jeff's vocals live but they ruin most videos from this show Glad I watched it tho because I get way too excited about spotting myself in the crowd and my smiling face is lurking

I never even noticed until you said Anyway few more Billie's here:

I didn't pick this up the first time I saw it like an idiot, but now I finally have a copy on vinyl: