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That was wild. Incredible seeing Billie in such a legendary venue in my own country. Even when we were splayed on the amps and stage, me and everyone around me was smiling and laughing. I'd normally roll my eyes at someone inviting themselves onstage but Maddie was amazing when she got up there! And I will gladly wait in the rain all day just to see Love is for Losers any time. I won't spam it like I did last time, but I will say LOVE IS FOR LOSERS! Again! In my country Billie "forgot" those lyrics again, by the way. Summer of '69 was another highlight. What an anthem. Billie's reaction to an "I can sing Bowie" sign was "yeah I can sing Bowie too" which was hilarious but then he gave the fan a chance to sing anyway. If I had to choose, I think the Garage show was my favourite of the two, but of course I almost loved them both equally. For anyone who cares (not me, I must admit), the songs Courtney Love sang were professionally recorded. The reaction to her here was definitely cooler than the one at the Garage, haha. We were speculating the guest might be Tiffany but no. Also! The staff of the 100 Club deserve praise for being so kind, patient and acknowledging the time fans spent queuing. They took responsibility for the queue when private security tried to move us on, and I think if any drama had gone down they would've handled it. Very rare to get that from venue staff. Whoever gave me the Coverups pin badge because I was at the front of the queue, thanks! On another note, I got my Big Camera in, so photos are coming along with a GDA recap of both shows I'm on the National Express home right now though and I might fall asleep before I can edit and post any. The lighting was also terrible for photography and I was trying not to be too obvious (felt a bit rude), so I don't know how many of my photos are any good but yeah I'll share them anyway.

I don’t think these results mean the singles should’ve been different. I love their single choices (TADIKM pulled me back in so fast and with such force it’s kind of amazing), I just think fans typically gravitate toward deeper cuts. I’m sure us overplaying the singles as they were dropped also influences our current favorites (although honestly I played Dilemma nonstop and still feel just as strongly about it now, but that’s not the typical single overplay experience lol).

I high-fived BJA and Jason when they came off the stage! Plus I gave Courtney a fist-bump! UNREAL!

Dilemma no 3 up from 8 last week on Kerrang chart.

I don’t know if this needs a new thread, but Billie and Tre (not sure about Mike) are at the Brit Awards tonight. My friend was watching the carpet livestream and caught this for me:

I skipped around this interview a bit (this Eddie gentleman seems very nice but is quite a talker), but I listened to most of the back half and it was a great interview. Billie sounds so happy in general and excited about the tour, and indicated there’s some sort of set change between Dookie and AI? Definitely piqued my interest. He also had some lovely stuff to say about staying in a band for so long and remaining friends/resolving conflict (not “keep the fights clean and the sex dirty” for once ). Really enjoyable listen. Billie is such a friendly interviewee.

Here's some pics that have been added to the GDA on Tumblr

“I hope I’m not disappointing.” Billie PLEASE. 🥹

From Mike's Instagram story With the blonde hair Billie looks like his Mom on this photo

I've put the videos I took on YouTube, mostly from Tuesday, one from yesterday. Username is 148whitney

Billie and Tre at the Brit Awards today More on Tumblr https://greendayauthority.tumblr.com/

Big shout out to the lady who threw daffodils on stage with a St David’s Day message to the band. I’m so, so chuffed that BJA put your flowers on his mic stand!

Not a "real" Green Day thing but last year I got myself, my sister and brother (also big Green Day fans) some pint glasses that say "King For A Day" on them that were meant to be Father's Day gifts lol. I just broke mine and I'm gutted, hopefully they'll do them again this year.

The stream was me. It looked like it had frozen and my phone was ridiculously hot so I stopped it. Plus I wanted to just enjoy the rest of the show

As I'm turning 26 tomorrow, it's at the same time around 15th anniversary of me being Green Day fan for life. I decided to look back and write my thoughts about ''me as a green day fan'' and this came out to be long message. Sorry about that. I remember those old teenager magazines hyping up for 21st Century Breakdown and I remember loving Know Your Enemy so much. Once Green Day Rock Band was released, that was how I was introduced to American Idiot tracks and I remember how lonely Billie Joe looked when performing Wake Me Up When September Ends. That track ended up being the first of dozens of songs I'd learn on guitar, a story that I already shared on ''calling all guitar players'' thread. I've said many times how Trilogy is my favorite era from them and how I absolutely adore those albums to death. It helps that I was there to witness it from start to finish and to this date it's still the only time I had a chance to attend to Green Day concert in 2013, since that was the last time they'd visit this country. They were supposed to do so again in 2020, but thanks to COVID, they never did so. Lucky me. Anyways, those secret shows were ridiculous hype and I don't think Green Day can nor will ever reach that kind of hype again. For those who were not there, imagine your favorite band suddenly out from nowhere coming to play 17-18 new songs in a fucking bar after all of those stadium shows. People were posting those shitty quality recordings to YouTube and I remember how Wow! That's Loud was named as 8th Avenue Serenade. It was a fever dream to even imagine them releasing all those songs and there they were announcing not one, not two but three fucking albums in span of 4 months. Let Yourself Go (live from Red 7) was released around the same time and I remember watching it as 14yo teenager thinking ''fuck this man is hot'' and once I saw Billie Joe absolutely shred on that guitar, I was amazed by his skills. I knew he was a good guitar player but I had never seen him play solos on live setting. Needless to say, this was the peak hype from me when it comes to Trilogy albums. Around the time Uno! dropped, I was in hospital. Looking back it was kinda funny how Billie was in rehab and I was in hospital and neither of us didn't quite expect our circumstances to be like this once Uno! was released, but it didn't matter. Once I got my hands on that CD, I knew from the start that Let Yourself Go was gonna be my favorite track. During later years I'd discover my love towards to Kill the DJ and Rusty James, but Let Yourself Go will always be my favorite track from Uno! and that's no shade towards to Nuclear Family and Stay the Night. They're both great tracks aswell, but that kind of emotional connection is harder to achieve. It also doesn't help that Let Yourself Go had the best live performances from this era with MTV VMA 2012 performance still being one of the best performances I've seen to this day. Dos! was leaked on YouTube like week or two before the release date and I joined to many others thinking ''what the fuck was this'' and sure enough, Nightlife quickly rose to top of ''worst green day songs ever'' lists. I used to think so too, but when I turned 18 and discovered what alcohol is, I realized how much damned fun that record is when you've drank few beers and you're playing them on guitar. Nightlife is still not that much fun to play on guitar, but goddamn that track absolutely slaps when listening the album from start to finish. Nowadays it's my absolutely favorite album from them and I'm pretty sure that will never change. Tre! was supposed to be released in January 2013 but it was dropped month earlier in December 2012 due to Green Day being on sudden hiatus. I wasn't that interested with this album due to all the hype dying with Billie being in rehab, but I looked forward to 99 Revolutions at the very least since the snippet I had heard (from some movie credits that I can't recall now) sounded great. Sure enough, song turned out to be good and Dirty Rotten Bastards was great aswell. Otherwise it would take me years to properly re-listen this record again and that's when I started to adore tracks like Brutal Love, 8th Avenue Serenade, Missing You, Sex, Drugs & Violence and Amanda. I still hate The Forgotten and DRB doesn't do much to me nowadays, but it's a great record despite it not being rock and roll banger like first two albums were. Seeing them live in 2013 is the greatest day of my life. I've been married, I've achieved many great things in my life and I've been in crazy parties, but nothing matches the feeling I had when Billie Joe looked me right in the fucking eyes. If you don't know what kind of country Finland is in summer time, it's very bright and it doesn't get dark during nights. Green Day started playing like 9PM and when it was time for Holiday and ''TURN OFF THE LIGHTS'', Billie just mentioned how it's not dark in here. Everyone was just having good time and I got to hear all my favorite tracks live. Murder City, Stop When the Red Lights Flash, She and of course all the classics. They ended the show with Brutal Love which I'm grateful about because I never cared about Good Riddance anyways, but seeing how they completely abandoned 99 % of Trilogy tracks since that tour, I'm a lucky motherfucker. If this was the only time I'd ever see them perform live, I definitely have no regrets. I will never appreciate Revolution Radio. I've always seen it as ridiculous downgrade from Trilogy albums and it's been mixed so poorly that even the decent tracks (Bang Bang, Outlaws) are impossible to listen without my ears starting to bleed. Although this is the album that many fans declare as ''return to form'', I never saw it that way and it just sounded.. too real? Where were the dumb fun tracks? Their live performances from this era never sounded as good as they did on 99 Revolutions Tour and setlists didn't have any Trilogy songs outside of one performance of Amy and Nuclear Family. For me, I just wasn't mature enough for this album. I had just turned 18 and was all about Trilogy tracks. I'd love to re-visit this record once someone has finally mixed it properly, but I doubt I will ever fully appreciate Revolution Radio as what it is. When FOAM era came around, that was my first era on this forum. I always adored Fire, Ready, Aim but to this day I still think ''what the fuck is this'' when it comes to Father of All. I kinda get what they were trying to do with that song, but I just don't understand the lyrics at all. Meet Me on the Roof was much better performance when it comes to those falsettos. Stab You in the Heart and Sugar Youth are definitely the best tracks on the record, but even those songs have ridiculous lyrics. Seriously, ''Mano y mano in the stereo without a cure'' is just nonsense and I love it. I've grown to appreciate Junkies on a High and Take the Money and Crawl, but at the same time I surprisingly don't see Graffitia as a great song anymore. You can blame Billie for that since his awesome acoustic version he produced for Welcome to my panic podcast was 1000x better than FOAM version. Go listen it if you haven't, those acoustic renditions are so good. Between FOAM and Saviors they just decided to release their worst song ever. Legendary Here Comes the Shark. I'm gonna admit, this was the point where I saw Green Day being so out of touch with what their fans want. I of course now know that this track was just for NHL deal they made, but they didn't try with that track at all. Cocaine sniffing, most overused lyrics of all-time and chorus that just sucks. The most AI-generated Green Day song ever. Atleast the music video was refreshing. To this day I don't see anything good with that song. I guess instruments are kinda cool, but then I remember those vocals.. Saviors is their best album since Trilogy and it's not even close. Corvette Summer has became top 10 Green Day track and singles were so fucking good. This is what I'd call return to form. Awesome, high-energy tracks with questionable lyrics all over the place. I love it. This is what Green Day is for me. So much dumb fun. I'll save proper thoughts to album discussion thread, but I just had to mention how much I love this album. After 15 years, I'm convinced that I will be a fan of this band for the rest of my life. I can go back and listen every single record (except RR) from start to finish and that's not something any other band can offer to me. Tomorrow I'm celebrating my birthday by listening all Trilogy albums from start to finish and enjoy few beers. Life is good with this band. Forever.

Something to look forward to after last night’s awesome show. ❤️

I keep reading that as "Trump Nation" and do a double take every time. 😬

Interview with NME

they got called the american Busted by the host lmfao

Billie and Tre are at the Brit Awards apparently? Looking very snazzy, I must say. https://www.instagram.com/p/C4BlcGfC-8b/?igsh=eGk0azhtOWNmOXJl

I was kicking myself because I couldn't remember which Stuart and the Avenue was your username on GDC. Thank you so much 💚

I agree. But also I wouldn't put it past Billie to actually mean it that way as well haha

I just came to this thread to say this lol! Also this song really grew on me I'm blown away by this, never even considered it was anything but a random sound

I think they add it later. I just listened on SiriusXM for now. Check next week I liked the story he told about Rick Nielsen flinging picks across the stage. Other than that he didn’t really say much that was new

Bang Bang is, well, a banger. One of my favorite single choices of theirs ever.

Chris Dugan just posted this Just heard from the line there's 50+ people there now and it's freezing!

Love the "bankrupt the planet for assholes in space" line

Some pics of Tre from bubukittyfk "Lately"

TADIKM is easily one of the best lead singles they ever had. The song has the perfect topic for a lead single to gain attention and it has many different parts so it stays interesting throughout listening (I mean, an interlude, a bridge, a solo and a third verse?? How many Green Day songs do have all of these four? 😍)

There’s something about the mixing and the vocal delivery in Father to a Son that bothers me. The way Billie says “father to a son” sounds weird, maybe too nasal, I don’t know. But it’s probably my least favorite ballad of theirs, even The Forgotten I would rank higher. My top 3 Saviors songs are Suzie, Goodnight Adeline and Strange Days.

Yeah I really enjoy the music but the lyrics just feel like they're lacking something. They're clearly from the heart but too vague to grab me. "A place you want more than I could give" is good. But overall the lyrics don't feel like they warrant that grand level of music.

Singles aren't choosen for fans... They don't use to be the most deeper, soffisticated or original songs... Except jesús of suburbia

Bobby Sox Strange Days Are Here to Stay and it goes between Susie Chapstick and Corvette Summer. But also I'd rank Bobby Sox in my top 10 GD songs in general.

Been a variation of the nickname for decades, I guess it's just a more "fun" way of saying it.

If only they promoted this properly it would get to number 1 on some charts.

When Revrad forst came out I thought it absolutely banged. Then 8 played it to death for a while. Still listened to some of my faves in playlists but not the full album for a good while. Then played it in the lead up to Foam coming out and loved it all over again. Rinse and repeat in the build up to Saviors. I think it's as underappreciated as warning tbh. And Ordinary World in one of my favourite songs Green Day have ever done - though I think forever now would have been a better closer to bring the album full circle. What about you?

Cool! That person that had it before you must have been awesome. Got my ¡Tre! CD last night 🥳

My sister saw this at an estate sale and picked it up for me.

No it doesn't...

According to Billie's IG story, he wants to play this song in empty mall. Sounds fitting.

So how far is Coma City from Murder City? Trying to plan a vacation here 😆

From where I come from in the UK we're renowned for not pronouncing the "h" at the beginning of our words or within them Probably why I heard it as "here" and not "air" Love the BTS video

The lyric is “a gunshot, gunshot heads.” I know Mr. Armstrong has an aversion to pronouncing H’s, but I hear absolutely no attempt at forming this word.

I really like how the first and second verses have entirely different melodies, I feel like that's not too common in this genre

I love the line "We are the last of the rockers making a commotion". It's not meant that way in the song, but when you think about it, Green Day really is one of those last big rock bands, rock is a dying art form nowadays. And they are definitely still making a commotion!