Here's a great Q&A with Tre from Canoe Jam! Music. Here's an exciting quote about the new tour:
We're switching it up; we're not doing the same songs we did on the last tour. We're adding songs that people didn't get to hear last time and we haven't played in years. And we're playing the newer stuff -- basically mixing from all the records. That's a physical feat in itself, playing all those songs. There's 20-something songs, maybe 30.
Tre, as always, is very entertaining. Read the article to read about the "woman inside him" and some other great stuff.
The world tour kicks off tonight!! Hope all of you going to Seattle show have a great fucking time. Come back here and email us with your reviews/pictures/set lists, etc.
We've added two new people to the team to help with the picture vault, Jordan (TheBullwinkle) and Robin (billiejoe1), they've been working with Courtney on uploading a shitload of pictures to the Picture Vault. Around 300 photos have been added in the last 3 days. You can view them all by by clicking here.
Happy 15th Anniversary to Billie Joe and Adrienne Armstrong.
A local newspaper from Mankato, MN - where Adrienne lived during her college years, and where she met Billie Joe during one of Green Day's early tours - posted a really great interview with Adrienne.
She talks about living in Mankato, meeting Billie Joe, how their relationship got started, and the work she's up to now.
A few of the facts I learned from there: She graduated college in 1993 with a degree in Sociology; Billie Joe proposed to her only 2 weeks after she moved to California with him; She no longer does any work with Adeline Records; She was a manager at the Mankato Pier 1 during college, before moving to California. Read the article for more.
The GDA Wristbands are now available for purchase. Remember that if you want some, you have to order before July 7th! All the details can be found right here.
Tickets for Australia and New Zealand shows sold out quickly yesterday, so the band has added more dates for the region.
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 - Brisbane Entertainment Centre - All Ages Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au
Saturday, December 12th, 2009 - Acer Arena, Sydney - All Ages Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne - All Ages Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au
Friday, December 18th, 2009 - Vector Arena, Auckland - All Ages Ticketmaster (09) 970 9700 or www.ticketmaster.co.nz
It was made official today that 21st Century Breakdown has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. 21CB now becomes the 9th Green Day album to be certified gold, meaning it's sold over 500,000 copies in the US. Not too surprising considering the album sold over 200,000 copies in it's first 3 days of sales. But, a wonderful milestone none-the-less.
Over in Australia, to help combat ticket scalpers, the ticket company (Ticketek) required fans to line up at the venue box office to get the best tickets. There was a 2 ticket per person limit, over 50 people were lined up with sleeping bags at 2am waiting to get one (or two) of the limited 300 tickets that went on sale at 9am this morning. I applaud their dedication, I'm sure it will all be worth it in December when Green Day takes the 21CB tour down to Australia. Full story from the Daily Telegraph.
KITS Live 105 in San Francisco will be giving away Green Day tickets and an iPod Touch tomorrow. They'll be at Serramonte Ford in Colma/Daly City, CA July 1st from 6 - 8pm. If you're from the Bay Area head out for a chance to win some tickets.
Any other local contests you've heard giving out Green Day tickets? Send us an email so we can help get the word out.
Our new banner up top comes from our newest graphic designer, Vlad. We're happy to add him to the team.
The world tour kicks off this Friday. I'm going to see them in Philadelphia next month, and again in Phoenix in August. Full list of dates can be found here. Don't forget that you can click the green icon on the right side of each date to take you to a specific thread to discuss that show. People are using these to plan or talk to other fans also planning for that show.
Green Day will be at the West Acres Mall Hot Topic in Fargo, ND doing a Meet and Greet on July 10. You can go to that store now to buy 21st Century Breakdown and any Green Day shirt to qualify and pickup a wristband that'll get you into the Meet and Greet on July 10th. Supplies are limited. The ad for the even can be seen here.
As mentioned last week, we will be selling some GDA wristbands. We've updated the Wristband page with details. To summarize, we'll only take orders from July 1 - July 7, and payments can only be made online via PayPal (you don't need a PayPal account, just a valid debit/credit card). Sorry, no mail orders. We will ship internationally (outside the USA). $3.50 each for US orders, $4.50 each for International orders (the added $1 is for shipping). Shipping is included in those prices. Orders will be shipped July 25th. Visit this page for all the details. On July 1 that page will be updated with the purchase links to order.
Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been a little MIA the past few days.
Green Day's Myspace just posted up a "Behind the Scenes" of the 21 Guns music video. Over 1000 "squibs" or those little explosions meant to mimic gun fire, over 2 miles of cable, and Tre blew up in Billie's mouth.
Starting next Wednesday, July 1st, we're gonna be selling some wristbands from GDA that say "Green Day Community". This started off as something on our forum, people wanted something to show they were part of this community at Green Day shows, or just for the hell of it. More details will be posted here early next week. For now, you can visit this page for some pictures and details of the wristbands.
The winners in our wallpaper contest have been chosen, they are St.JimmyRules and Cheyenne. Visit the contest page to view their entries, along with the runners up (Hayley Sheets and walkingalone_x3) and all the wallpapers that were submitted. We are now working on a new wallpaper section.
As mentioned in the last post, Green Day are on the cover of EQ Magazine. Here are the scans of that article, posted originally on the forum by GreenDayCastaway1039. The article takes a very technical in-depth look at all the equipment Green Day used during the recording of 21CB. They also have some fun little facts, like the static noises that start or end some of the songs were taken directly from KCUF. Green Day bought a pirate radio transmitter and started playing the new music over it on a station they made up, titled "KCUF" months before anyone had heard the new album. The lucky few who were close enough to pick up the signal got the chance to hear the new stuff before anyone else, of course Green Day never mentioned what was playing.
Green Day is on the cover of both Kerrang and EQ magazines.You definitely need to read the Kerrang article, where the band answers questions from both fans and some other musicians. The guys give some very classic, quote-worthy answers. Here are all the scans. Thanks to die_in_tradegy for posting these on the forum.
We'll have the EQ scans up here tomorrow. If you can't wait, you can read them on the forum.
I have another update soon, but right now, I have to take the time to say HAPPY 23RD BIRTHDAY ANDRES, THE BEST SITE ADMINISTRATOR I'VE EVER HAD! Now you're getting old like me. :) I better shut up before I embarrass him.
The Picture Vault is back online! Luckily, Andres and I were able to restore everything back to what it was before. Plus I added more pictures throughout the albums, plus stills from the new 21 Guns video. Thank you to everyone over at GDC for your help. If you see any pictures that aren't working, don't worry, I know about them and I'm working to replace the file. Thanks for your patience!
Australian newspaper "The Courier Mail" has an interview with Tre Cool about the "calm before the storm". He talks about the bands downtime now after doing their burst of promotion for the new album, and less than 2 weeks before the kickoff the world tour.
Green Day also did a very entertaining interview on "Rove Live", an australian TV show over the weekend. Click here to watch the interview on YouTube. Some tidbits to look forward to: "Tre definitely swallows", "Who's that kid with Madonna", and you gotta love Mike's glasses and Tre's hair. It's a very funny video, check it out.
The Transformers 2 soundtrack is out tomorrow, which includes 21 Guns on there. Visit Amazon for the list of other artists included.
I think the video is pretty amazing, I'm really happy with it. I'm glad they decided not to go in the direction of a war-theme, it was too obvious. I like the characters, the gunfire, the intensity of it. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the video, so leave a comment by clicking here.
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A local newspaper from Mankato, MN - where Adrienne lived during her college years, and where she met Billie Joe during one of Green Day's early tours - posted a 
It was made official today that 21st Century Breakdown has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. 21CB now becomes the 9th Green Day album to be certified gold, meaning it's sold over 500,000 copies in the US. Not too surprising considering the album sold over 200,000 copies in it's first 3 days of sales. But, a wonderful milestone none-the-less. 
Green Day also did a very entertaining interview on "Rove Live", an australian TV show over the weekend. 
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