Random Green Day News - 2024

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

 

[jengd]

21 hours ago, Montclare said:

Green Day Rules Boxscore Report With Biggest Tour of September — And of the Band’s Entire Career

Paywalled, but the main notes- 

• Across Green Day’s 12 shows in September — 11 at stadiums, plus an amphitheater show in Austin, Texas — the band sold 415,000 tickets at an average ticket price of $114.71, combining for earnings of $47.5 million
• The Saviors Tour kicked off in June with a $33.8 million run in Europe
• In September, Green Day hit a high for its entire North American leg, with $5.7 million and 47,800 tickets at SoFi Stadium
• A June 29 show at London’s Wembley Stadium ($7.9 million; 76,000 tickets) topped the entire tour. It was also the highest-grossing and best-attended night of the band’s entire reported Boxscore history.
• Green Day’s 25 top-earning concert engagements all come from this year’s tour. In all, The Saviors Tour grossed $132.4 million and sold 1.2 million tickets, easily ending as the band’s highest-grossing and best-selling tour ever.

In another thread, we were talking about Never Mind The Buzzcocks (game show in UK) and Courtney Love was on.  She said they made £1M on merch before the show started at Wembley! 

[billy1986]

Wow….so this tour grossed more than Dookie/Insomniac/AI/21st Century Breakdown!!!! Wow hope we get a live dvd or something. 

[pacejunkie punk]

11 minutes ago, billy1986 said:

Wow….so this tour grossed more than Dookie/Insomniac/AI/21st Century Breakdown!!!! Wow hope we get a live dvd or something. 

I’m still hoping for that Wembley show

[Montclare]

Green Day: American Saviors

(one Billy misspelling and forgetting Kevin 😤)

[Little Boy Named Booze]

Well well well. Britt deleted her instagram story. She reposted the Billie Joe post saying he was voting for Kamala but of course she needed to say something and be against his choice.

It was online for a couple of minute only. I don't think the two of them are getting along so well.

[Cris.]

2 hours ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

Well well well. Britt deleted her instagram story. She reposted the Billie Joe post saying he was voting for Kamala but of course she needed to say something and be against his choice.

It was online for a couple of minute only. I don't think the two of them are getting along so well.

We were discussing this in the Instagram Pictures thread. I for one missed any stories she quickly deleted directly referencing Billie's post. But even without that, just the timing she chose to record herself ranting about "how can people be supporting the Democrats/Kamala" was telling enough. And I think it's obvious there are tensions there. I remember all the wives used to share a good amount of pictures all three together during releases and tours, and I haven't seen anything like that during the Saviors cycle. At most I think Trè's wife has shared a couple pics with Adrienne, but that's about it. It's quite sad. 

[Little Boy Named Booze]

52 minutes ago, Cris. said:

We were discussing this in the Instagram Pictures thread. I for one missed any stories she quickly deleted directly referencing Billie's post. But even without that, just the timing she chose to record herself ranting about "how can people be supporting the Democrats/Kamala" was telling enough. And I think it's obvious there are tensions there. I remember all the wives used to share a good amount of pictures all three together during releases and tours, and I haven't seen anything like that during the Saviors cycle. At most I think Trè's wife has shared a couple pics with Adrienne, but that's about it. It's quite sad. 

Oh thank you I didn't see it in the Instagram thread. Sorry to the mods 🫶

[Mar]

On 10/24/2024 at 1:07 PM, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

Talking of the car don't forget you can enter to win until 6 November. The draw is on 7 November 

Green Day posted about it on X too

 

Yeah, my dumbass will be driving 2 hours just to go to this and it'll probably rain and I'll win nothing and just spend too much money there but 🤷‍♀️ 😂

[pacejunkie punk]

 

[billy1986]

Leave Britt alone she’s not in the band she can have her own opinions different than the band, she had cancer give her a break. If there is a rift between her and her own husband’s band or fellow wives over politics that’s pretty pathetic….I’m sure everyone is fine she just might be busy…she’s posted clips of being back stage on the most recent tour. She’s Mike’s wife have respect. 

[Gwen Stacy]

1 hour ago, billy1986 said:

She’s Mike’s wife have respect. 

I lose respect for people who support fascists, that's just me tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

[billy1986]

And this is why everyone hates each other. I think Brit seems cool and has the right to believe what she believes in. Doesn’t mean people who disagree are fascists

[Gwen Stacy]

I'm not saying anyone who disagrees with my personal opinions is a fascist. What I am saying is that there is one major political party in the US headed by a fascist, Billie was expressing support for the party not headed by a fascist, Brit was giving him shit for that, and I think that was dumb to do she shouldn't have. When you're part of a family of a band whose key principles are openness and inclusion, maybe don't air your catfights with the frontman in public?

I also didn't say she doesn't have the right to have shitty opinions, I did say I've lost respect for her because of her bad takes. I don't have to respect her just because of who she happens to be married to.

Anyway, I'm done. If you really want to we can continue this in DMs.

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Nvm

[Cris.]

9 hours ago, billy1986 said:

And this is why everyone hates each other.

I agree with this.

5 hours ago, Gwen Stacy said:

When you're part of a family of a band whose key principles are openness and inclusion, maybe don't air your catfights with the frontman in public?

And also with this.

My 2 cents on this, drawn from personal experience: never forget the people "on the other side" are as human and as complex as you are. I come from Venezuela where we have a dictatorship that started as a democratic populist movement. I was quite an activist against this, involved in many peaceful protests, in norganized student groups, etc. Now I'm in France with a touch of PTSD, my sister had to flee to the US, etc. It's a shit show. But now that I am physically, mentally, and emotionally distanced from that mess I can see that a huge mistake all of us in the opposition made was to never really try to understand why people who liked Chavez / Maduro liked them, to never really try to empathize with them and just understand where they were coming from, without judgement, without reducing them to a label. If we had done that we could have reached them so much sooner, when it was not too late.

In Brit's case she's made it perfectly clear where she's coming from. She's very concerned about what she puts in her body, particularly about the COVID vaccines. A very understandable stance, especially for someone who survived cancer at a relatively young age. And back in 2021 there were very strict vaccine mandates, and we (I include myself here) got very self-righteous about the absolute need for everyone to get the vaccine, and that everyone who didn't was either self-fish, or didn't care about elder/sick/immunocompromised people, or were just stupid for not understanding the science.  There was, and in some ways there still is, a lot of shaming against people who didn't want to get the vaccine, which is not at all a good way to persuade anyone to get the vaccine, but has quite the opposite effect. The more aggressive people get about it, the more people who are afraid or doubtful about the vaccine will recoil, and it become a vicious cycle. I remember she has shared plenty of times messages people have sent her that have been extremely hostile, to the point of telling her they wish she was dead, or that they hope she gets cancer again. When that is the treatment you get from some of the people who support one party, it's no wonder you are going to run in the opposite direction, especially when in the opposing party no one is treating you this way. So in her mind I don't think she's supporting a fascist guy, she is supporting the party that didn't implement vaccine mandates, the party where people haven't shamed her or wished her harm just because she didn't want to get a vaccine she didn't understand, the party that she thinks is most likely to put tougher regulations on vaccines, etc. This is true not only of her but of many many people who are supporting Trump right now and who are/were supporting RFK Jr. I think if people look at this particular section of Trump supporters through that more understanding lens, and engage in a frank dialogue with them, without judgement, without shaming, without calling them fascist / fascist supporters, you are way more likely to get through to them. And in the end, this election is so close that it might very well be that section of the population who will ultimately make the difference in the votes.

All that said, it was pretty unnecessary for her to go so publicly against Billie after he made his endorsement. She has shared political content and has made her opinions clear plenty of time and no one from the band has come publicly after her. Now Billie is making his opinion clear, let him be just as they have let you be. IMO that response was just a way to start conflict, whether it was intentional or not.  

Rant over, sorry.

[That Dude]

Let's all write in votes to get Fink as President.    With the caveat that his face never be revealed because...ya know, Batman and stuff.    

[Mollyluna]

38 minutes ago, Cris. said:

I agree with this.

And also with this.

My 2 cents on this, drawn from personal experience: never forget the people "on the other side" are as human and as complex as you are. I come from Venezuela where we have a dictatorship that started as a democratic populist movement. I was quite an activist against this, involved in many peaceful protests, in norganized student groups, etc. Now I'm in France with a touch of PTSD, my sister had to flee to the US, etc. It's a shit show. But now that I am physically, mentally, and emotionally distanced from that mess I can see that a huge mistake all of us in the opposition made was to never really try to understand why people who liked Chavez / Maduro liked them, to never really try to empathize with them and just understand where they were coming from, without judgement, without reducing them to a label. If we had done that we could have reached them so much sooner, when it was not too late.

In Brit's case she's made it perfectly clear where she's coming from. She's very concerned about what she puts in her body, particularly about the COVID vaccines. A very understandable stance, especially for someone who survived cancer at a relatively young age. And back in 2021 there were very strict vaccine mandates, and we (I include myself here) got very self-righteous about the absolute need for everyone to get the vaccine, and that everyone who didn't was either self-fish, or didn't care about elder/sick/immunocompromised people, or were just stupid for not understanding the science.  There was, and in some ways there still is, a lot of shaming against people who didn't want to get the vaccine, which is not at all a good way to persuade anyone to get the vaccine, but has quite the opposite effect. The more aggressive people get about it, the more people who are afraid or doubtful about the vaccine will recoil, and it become a vicious cycle. I remember she has shared plenty of times messages people have sent her that have been extremely hostile, to the point of telling her they wish she was dead, or that they hope she gets cancer again. When that is the treatment you get from some of the people who support one party, it's no wonder you are going to run in the opposite direction, especially when in the opposing party no one is treating you this way. So in her mind I don't think she's supporting a fascist guy, she is supporting the party that didn't implement vaccine mandates, the party where people haven't shamed her or wished her harm just because she didn't want to get a vaccine she didn't understand, the party that she thinks is most likely to put tougher regulations on vaccines, etc. This is true not only of her but of many many people who are supporting Trump right now and who are/were supporting RFK Jr. I think if people look at this particular section of Trump supporters through that more understanding lens, and engage in a frank dialogue with them, without judgement, without shaming, without calling them fascist / fascist supporters, you are way more likely to get through to them. And in the end, this election is so close that it might very well be that section of the population who will ultimately make the difference in the votes.

All that said, it was pretty unnecessary for her to go so publicly against Billie after he made his endorsement. She has shared political content and has made her opinions clear plenty of time and no one from the band has come publicly after her. Now Billie is making his opinion clear, let him be just as they have let you be. IMO that response was just a way to start conflict, whether it was intentional or not.  

Rant over, sorry.

Thank you for all the background information. I really appreciate your posts and explanations because they make me consider things from a different perspective. 

[Little Boy Named Booze]

Brain Stew playing before going to intermission at SNF

[That Dude]

 

[PhuzzyPhriend]

Look what just got announced! Green Day and Fall Out Boy BOTH headlining this is making my life LOL. God I wish I could go to Mexico LOL.

[Paola17]

Just now, PhuzzyPhriend said:

Look what just got announced! Green Day and Fall Out Boy BOTH headlining this is making my life LOL. God I wish I could go to Mexico LOL.

 

The Friday bill...

You're telling me I get Green Day, kpop (Seventeen), a Japanese rock band (One OK Rock),  Juanes... as the main folks. There's other names I recognize, but those are the main ones that stood out to me.

[Cris.]

18 minutes ago, Paola17 said:

The Friday bill...

You're telling me I get Green Day, kpop (Seventeen), a Japanese rock band (One OK Rock),  Juanes... as the main folks. There's other names I recognize, but those are the main ones that stood out to me.

I saw Massive Attack this year at Rock En Seine at their show is quite... trippy? Very interesting (and very political too). Definitely a very good line up for that day! I'm very excited for anyone who can go to this!

[Cris.]

My friend shared this video with me about Trè's drumming style, and I really enjoyed watching it (even as a non-musician). I'm not sure if it's been shared here before or not, but here it is: 

 

[That Dude]

Well this threw me off:

 

I think I knew he had a song called that, but I still thought thus was a cover.