Green Day is playing a surprise set tonight at "The Independent" in San Francisco. It was just announced earlier today, and there are no tickets available. A few people mentioned that it was announced on a local radio station. Looks like they wanted something small and intimate, so a few hundred lucky people will get to see the band mark their come-back.

Update 4:13am EST: The show ended a bit ago, was just over 2 hours. People who attended said it was a really awesome show. They opened with Welcome to Paradise, and played nearly all songs off 21st Century Breakdown, followed with older material for the last hour. Macy's Day Parade, Who Wrote Holden Caulfield, etc. Any photos we're coming across are being put up in the Picture Vault. teiwaz was awesome enough to post a few videos from the show, which you can view here.

Update 6:04am EST You can find short but sweet videos of many of the new songs on this YouTube page. View them before they're taken off. East Jesus Nowhere sounds pretty damn good, of what we can hear of it. We're getting in some details about the setlist, visit the forum to read what we have.

At the start of the show, the band poses on stage for photos to be taken by people with cellphones, then Billie Joe says "now put the fucking things away". Video


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