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I just don't understand how this is going to work in the U.S. unless things REALLY rapidly change/get better. I know it's still four months off, but yesterday, the only change from the CDC was that vaccinated people don't have to wear their masks outside in a small group of other vaccinated people. It's going to be really fun being in a pit with a mask on a summer day mingling with people who may not be vaccinated. Are we just going to have to deal with security being the mask police the whole show? That doesn't sound like a good time. And seating won't be much better, either, especially because most of the tickets probably sold before covid and everyone will be seated together. That's how venues sell tickets. I couldn't afford a ticket in 2019 and barely can now. Will anyone buy new tickets, anyway, especially at the 2019 prices? How many refunds will they give? Is it even worth the money they will make (or, rather, is this about not losing as much money as they would if they canceled)? The show I'd attend is in Michigan, which is still a covid hotspot. I'm fully vaccinated, but is it worth going and risking catching a variant the vaccine may not protect against? I can't be the only one asking themselves these questions, and if there's that much stress involved in going to a supposedly fun event, it may not be time for that event just yet. Things are getting better in America, but is it still too much too soon?

I agree with this 100%. I am fully vaccinated, but I'm not comfortable being in one stadium with 30,000 people. Even if it does happen, I'm not going. So since they are not giving refunds I'm out alot of money for a show I technically did not buy tickets for. My tickets were for 2020, not 2021. I hope it happens for anyone who is comfortable going, but for people who are not, refunds should be available.

I've been thinking about this whole situation a lot today, and I'm probably going to get some flack for what I'm about to write, but whatever. I think them coming out and saying they're going ahead with the US stadium shows this year is honestly super irresponsible. Yes, we eventually have to move forward, but I don't think the world (except Aus and NZ lol) are ready for THIS much of a jump. How are they expecting to do shows with 40k (or more) in attendance? There's no fucking way. Every other artist I know has either cancelled or moved their dates to next year. Why should they be the exception? I can appreciate the optimism but like, damn. Even if they CAN go ahead, these will not be sold out shows. There will be thousands of people requesting refunds because they will not be comfortable attending (myself included). Are they really going to play a bunch of maybe half full stadiums? How are they going to make any money off that? I just don't get it. I think they'd be more successful waiting until next year if they're so desperate to make Hella Mega happen. If they move it to next year, I will hang on to my ticket, but if they somehow move ahead with it this year, I will be requesting/demanding a refund. And I think there will be tens of thousands of others like me. TL;DR: this is a dumb decision and they should be postponing to next year if they want to make this the least bit successful.

Yeah, not gonna lie... I have very little desire to be squished up between a bunch of sweaty people who are all heavily breathing in 2021. Maybe next year.

Yes, you especially can hear it in Platypus - "waste of semen" is just pure positive emotion. It touched my heart when I first heard it. Not to mention Take Back.

Here's a picture that's a bit more flattering to make up for the last one. I always feel like I couldn't possibly admire Billie any more than I already do, but he always proves me wrong. The Words + Music podcast made me brim with adoration and love for him. He's so amazing!

This. Just all of this. I'm still surprised at how many acts are booking live shows for the fall. I just don't see it happening. Yeah vaccines are going fairly well in the states but now you have people skipping their second shot because of the symptoms. And some venues are still trying to figure out if there's a way to see if concert goers are vaccinated. I want to get back to shows but I still think we should wait til next year. As many have said even vaccinated some people aren't ready or comfortable with the idea of crowds. I don't think I'm ready yet.

Sorry. after the past year I have very little optimism in me and I’d rather save that optimism for something that can actually happen.

They may be planning to go ahead but other than Florida,Texas etc no States will be at full capacity for stadiums in three months. It's not gonna happen. I get we all wanna see them but there's too many unknowns. Green Day and their Management know this. Will they be offering rapid testing? Requiring proof of Vax? All these things cost extra money. No reason whatsoever to not push it til next Summer.

They cancelled Helsinki 🥲

So I have a couple. First is this screenshot my friend took when we were camping in Pokémon Sword and Shield together and it made us crack up. Even my trainer talks about how beautiful Billie Joe is (my Giratina, in this case). Second is I Googled 420 just to see what came up and I had to take a picture because that's just too many GD references in one place to pass up. A weed shop called 420 Holiday in Longview!

Those words were something that really stuck out to me too. It's incredibly rare for a musician to write straight from the heart like Billie does. It was the sweetest thing to hear how truly selfless and good he is. I never actively noticed that about those songs before, but it seems so obvious now. I always liked them and thought they were really sweet, just never realized how absolutely devoid of negativity and lust they are. Just pure emotion and a desire to make a connection. One thing I wondered about why he changed the lyrics in Basket Case. Was anyone else a little thrown off by that? I wonder why he decided to so that. Regardless, I absolutely loved the songs! I didn't know such a wide variety of GD styles could translate so perfectly to acoustic. This was hands down the best version of Good Riddance I've ever heard and I actually really liked it when I normally don't care for that song. I'd listen to this version any time. @Nightlife so good to see you back! We've missed you! Glad you did what you needed to do for yourself, though. Social media can definitely be a bitch and a half.

Honestly, it's something I'd expect from someone like Ted Nugent, not Green Day.

None of them are really currently "hot" bands, they're all in the legacy acts zone. I don't think them having a brand new album out or not makes a big difference to their appeal as live acts.

That’s a really good analysis of his whole musical outcome. I also feel like that yes we all feel connected to him or other musicians through their songs in different ways but the thing is that for me and I realized that very clearly right after finished listening, we never really know or perceive the person behind those songs even though we feel close to the songs he wrote. There is always a barrier that we don’t see. Like we always see the musician as “that man” behind those songs, and start giving him titles like on a magazine article, like “the man (Billie) who wrote this song, got this many awards, made American Idiot“ etc. and this goes on like that for years in the musicians’ carreer. And when we got an album and start listening, we think like okay there he is, wrote all these amazing songs, so he got to be so talented/gifted etc. we mostly focus on the melodies first and then also try to find some meaning behind the lyrics and something started to appear in our minds but our main focus would be on the product as a listener naturally, and we had no idea about the different stages of that production and producer’s (musician) state of mind during those stages. I think that’s very interesting to think about when you try to switch your perspective in different ways as a listener. And more importantly, finding a common ground not only through the end production (songs)but also the musician’s itself and I think that’s possible when you come to the realiziation of your and musician’s natural being and then when you listen those songs again, everything starts to gain a different meaning. I hope that would make some sense (again lol) Lastly, I wanna share some other listener’s thougths cause think that we also got some similar feelings, here and here

As someone who has pretty serious anxiety and depression issues, I can totally relate to Billie in this interview. The part where he talks about setting ridiculously high standards for himself and working himself into a mental breakdown really hit home. "It was like there was a gun to my head but I was the one holding the gun." Yes, that's a perfect metaphor... I've done that to myself too. I've worked myself so hard that self care went out the window and my health spiralled downhill until I hit a breaking point. I don't know about Billie, but for me (and a lot of other anxiety sufferers I've talked to) it's kinda a vicious cycle. The obsession with work is a way to distract yourself from your mental health problems. When I was working hard and setting higher and higher goals, I didn't have time to sit and ruminate and think about how low I felt. It was a way of avoiding confronting my issues. The problem is that the heavy workload causes stress which feeds the depression and anxiety. Your mind can only cope with so much before it collapses. Billie talks about that feeling a bit: "my panic attacks were going up and up and up" and then resorting to abusing downers to bring himself down from the panic. I don't know. It was an excellent interview and after listening to it, I feel like I can understand Billie very well, on a personal level now.

They changed the order some of the dates originally were in and messed up my travel plan. That will make it more expensive than I had planned for. They cancelled the Helsinki show, but I don't think that will make much of a difference. The date for the show in Norway is also at the same date as I was suppose to see another band. 🙈

For real, no one except for us cared about FOAM anyway. It got a very mixed response and none of the singles were hits

I'm really not sure what to make of this. I never bought HellaMega tickets because way back then, I wasn't sure if I could attend any of the dates... now I know I'm available for the August 5 date in Boston but the prices on StubHub are just wild. And there's no information about capacity or what will happen for current ticket holders.

Oh, there is NO way that Toronto show is happening. We're likely going to be in some sort of lockdown all summer.

Berlin is happening anyway.. and that’s not hell mega

Totally! He summed up the appeal of those songs perfectly, earnestly expressed feelings of love and friendship and nothing mean spirited. Edit: Wow interesting version of Good Riddance! Never heard it so upbeat Another edit: Really enjoyed that. Just cool to hear him talk candidly for a good hour and the songs were great

Listening to this now. Love how he talks about playing 1000 Hours and his description of those early love songs

I could be wrong but my understanding is that COVID is in the “will need annual shot” rather than “eradicate like Polio” bracket.

I guess I just don’t see what the solution is then if our goal is complete eradication. I think eventually we’ll just have to live with it, like we do the flu, or live without gatherings forever. Because people are too stupid to understand that the restrictions they’re complaining about could all be gone if they did their part.

He would agree with you but he’s busy being sick with covid right now the idiot

That's just typical. Fingers crossed it works out for you. 🤞 Because of the changes I'll have to take three trips, instead of two that I originally had planned. I'll make it to the shows somehow, but it wasn't what I needed right now.

Of course, in ideal conditions, there would be a new album so that they can at least try to pretend they're not just cashing in on the fact that people are willing to endure two other bands to see them (and vice versa depending on your choice of band you want to see). But they already sold tickets so I guess the next step is profit. I still hope an asteroid hits Earth in time for this tour to get cancelled.

they play german festivals in this gap Rock am Ring 3rd friday Rock im Park 4th saturday

It will happen one day one day......

I was having a good Wednesday

So originally they had all these Green Day only shows scheduled including all the Asia dates and a few in Europe. With Asia canceled I assume all the rescheduled dates will be Hella Mega and the GD only shows in Europe are also not happening next year? I’d like to see them get HM done in 21/22 and schedule a new Green Day tour around it next year for more cities and dates.

Can't believe I'm going on a trip to Toronto this August then 😍

Still this year

Oh no! It's so easy for everyone to count the words now I hope I had them right last time 😥 Of course I would still be way more reliable than the official lyrics.

Europe just postponed til 2022, will get pasteable notice in 5, US still on for now https://www.instagram.com/p/CONR2psHreb/?igshid=1s0mbix6c4889

Not sure how to insert photos here but just bought a couple of Garbage Pail Kids/ Green Day cards. Never knew these existed, pretty funny. One of them says Barfin’ Billie and the other Green Dave. Same image, you can google them

Yes, so unlike a typical teenage boy that is just out to get his own pleasure from a girl. He’s seeking to give, “to be good to somebody” and to be friends. I’ve never heard crushes and love expressed like that before in songs.

Yes, me too!

Finally I received my CD!

Thread here:

Good to see you!

Yeah it’s not about that though because vaccine immunity isn’t absolute and only is really effective at wiping out a disease when you achieve herd immunity. It’s fine to say screw the people who don’t want shots, but those people will continue putting everyone else at risk when there are outbreaks just like when there are measles and mumps outbreaks despite vaccines. There will continue to be too much community spread for the vaccine to protect everyone fully (and we will continue to need boosters because protection is temporary) and it increases the likelihood of mutations the vaccine won’t protect from. Unfortunately we really are all in this together there’s no getting around that.

Okay, I finally finished listening to this, I even wanted to wait a while to not finish it quickly cause it felt like the most precious thing in the world for me lol But I will definitely go back and listen to it at least a few more times throughout the year anyways. So, I don’t know how to explain my thoughts/feelings on this right now because it was really different for me. First of all, I wasn’t expected those accoustic arrengments would be that great, I mean when I first heard it, I couldn’t believe how phenomenal they were. Of course they were full of emotions, some of them were so soulful and sounded almost like a demo version (WMUWSE :’) Good riddance, Basket Case?? They were all so unexpectedly perfect for me. Okay now, his story telling was not like I expected either, it felt so different like it almost felt like a soul searching experience in a different atmosphere. I think he definitely showed us his most vulnerable self on this but the weird thing is that I didn’t feel like that I was listening to Billie Joe Armstrong himself in a way as a musician, artist or rock star whatever but like a simple human being that was taken aside from all those labels, roles, or the figure we’ve been imagining in our head for years. I don’t know if that makes any sense to you, I actually saw some other people felt similar feelings on the comments of the video I uploaded but I don’t know lol So, yes I burst into tears after finished it but it was weird because yeah I was expected that could happen (even though I’m not even really an emotional type) but not in that way at all, in the last chapters he talked about their induction to rrhof and the importance of the community/scene they came from for him and the last chapter about how he always tries to see things from his younger self’s perspective while writing songs got me actually into tears and I was not expecting that. Listening all his struggles as a song writer/artist throught his carrier was also heartrending but not really unexpected for me, even though his geniune honesty while openning us his every struggle was really striking part of it. So, yeah I basically felt a really powerful humanness connection at the end, and it was definetely one of the most different experiences for me, I can explain it like that I start listening to it by being totally aware of that I was listening to Billie Joe Armstrong, that rock star which I’m a fan of with thousands of other people and this totally started to change towards the end of the chapters and everything in my mind about Billie before suddenly disappeared. So, lastly I think that we all already feel close to Billie in different ways since first we met him (through his songs etc.) but after listening to this we might feel much closer to Billie’s actual soul as a total human being, because that’s what I felt.

Look what I made.

I think the same thing that happened to Green Day Brazil, is happening to me. After 2 months of filling out countless forms, I finally got my account back today. 10 minutes later, before I even got the chance to actually do anything, I get disabled again of "not following community guidelines." Now they're saying that they won't be able to reactivate it. I keep getting the same email. I've probably filled out like 20 forms today. I've replied to almost all of their emails. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous. "Sorry for any inconvenience?" The audacity of them to say that, and then take it all away 10 minutes later. I need help. I don't know what else to do. Can someone please give me some guidance? I know that other people here have been in a similar situation. I know that the instagram help center isn't gonna do shit. I'm just incredibly frustrated, and incredibly pissed off at Instagram. They need to get their shit together. If anybody has any information that can help me, please let me know. I'm desperate.

It's all the brackets and commas that got me, very thorough Edit: Just listened to Popper Punk while reading the lyrics and they're perfectly correct. As they should be for the most important song on the album. Very good.

All done That was quite fun. I feel like I've thoroughly studied the holy text of The Network now.

I cannot BELIEVE how extensively they've written out the Popper Punk lyrics

We can buy the ALL-IN tickets for only $2995 + Fees 😂