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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 🙂

I think it's a phrase that originated from makeup bloggers when eyebrow tutorials became fashionable. I only know all this because I had to google it when girls around me started using it. Not that I need to watch eyebrow tutorials. (seriously thank god for whoever decided that thick eyebrows are cool now, it's very nice to not have to pluck half of my brows out haha) Yeah, he has very nice eyebrows. Very symmetrical and nicely shaped.

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.

Finally some good looking not orange Billie

Maybe they can do something cool with the Father of All artwork. Like do some performance art with a horse and a girl and some vomit. On second thought, maybe not.

I recently went on this huge Theory / rant in the MOOTIK thread. In a section, I talked about how regardless of MOOTIK existing, I believe there is some tension and things happening with Warner, that they can't discuss. I think this album cover is supposed to look like trash. I think Warner could have pushed them to market on the Nostalgia of AI, or wanted them to sound more like AI. Essentially, they wreck the cover as an FU. Also, the whole cover is just AI, mostly, so it would be super tongue in cheek. I also noticed rainbows and unicorns being trendy recently. Its possible this was brought up to them as am idea by Warner. Then, as an FU to Warner, it is puking rainbows on AI.

He must have been having such a shitty game that he decided it was time to cheat 😂

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

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.

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.

It might sound a bit sad to some people but honestly, that show was one of the best days of my life. It got overshadowed by the stage invading but that's not what I remember when I think back. I just think about getting the tickets in the training room at work (and the CEO walking in and being like "The Longshot? Who's that?"), then taking off from my new job and suddenly being on this street in Washington DC, not really able to take in that I was about to see The Longshot... then we were on the front row and there was no barrier and we were so close. Billie randomly blessed us with these amazing songs we then got to hear live and they played FELL FOR YOU and I freaked out so much it made the band laugh It was like seeing Green Day for the first time. I wish someone had saved the Instagram live. I never got to see it. Also you chilling off on the train to Baltimore after getting knocked out was a highlight. (That's my contribution for the random fangirling)

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:

Indeed...seriously though, it's admirable how down-to-earth he was. I don't know, the way he talked about being unsure about the future isn't something I'd expect from a guy who just went from living a punk lifestyle to being set up for life at only 22. Maybe it's because I haven't read/forgot about many interviews from back then, but it surprised me that Dookie era Billie who bragged about doing speed and literally swung his dick around was so humble The bit where he talked about aging musicians also made me wonder about what would '94 Billie have to say about his contemporary self haha

I found this awesome ultimate edition on discount, I had to grab it I really wish they will make something similar for the new record, it’s just great to have a booklet of this size, and to have both vinyl and CD in the same box. And they need to release this fucking record soon cause I’m spending way too much money on GD stuff to compensate

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