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Europe Tour Recap: Week 7

Jimmy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:41:26 EST

Green Day continued their '21st Century Breakdown' tour in Europe this week with three dates in three different countries. BurnleyCitizen.co.uk posted up their review of Green Day's show last week at MEN Arena in Manchester on there site.

'Even though its 21 years since Green Day played their first gig in California, its good to see everyones favorite punk brats refuse to grow up.'

Read the full review by clicking here.

Munich, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Zurich, Switzerland (Photos Coming Soon).

Munich, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Zurich, Switzerland.

Set lists for this weeks shows can be found on Setlist.fm.

New book about Bay Area Punk

Andres — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:28:43 EST

A new book titled "Gimme Something Better" was released earlier this year which chronicles over two-decades of music coming from the Bay Area punk scene. They talk about Gilman Street where Green Day got their start, as well as many aspects about the scene, "music, progressive politics, divine decadence and smart ass wit of Bay Area punk."

The authors of the book interviewed Billie Joe, along with members of other bands like the Dead Kennedy's, Avengers, NOFX, and Rancid.

Delfina, from Nothing Wrong With Me put up some quotes from the book.

The book is available from Amazon from under $13, and you can read excerpts on their site, Gimme Something Better.com

Last day to vote for Green Day, Mmmm Cake

Andres — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:16:20 EST

Today is the last day to vote for Green Day against Paramore. Right now, Paramore is in the lead - voting closes at midnight. Vote now! - and you can vote multiple times (Fuse suggests "Vote hard, Vote Often"). Pass the link on to any friends on Facebook/MySpace/Twitter, etc.

We got this photo in from Will, who got this 21CB cake on his birthday. Pretty awesome.

Live Music Video for 'Murder City'

Andres — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:33:32 EST

Filmed at the LG Arena in Birmingham, England a couple weeks ago.

UPDATE by Jimmy: You can now download this video in MP4 (iPod format) over on the Download of The Week page by clicking here.

Free Concert At Nokia Plaza

Clover — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:17:32 EST

Do you live in or near Los Angeles, California and want to see Green Day play for free? Good news then, because Green Day is playing at the Nokia Plaza on Monday, November 23 at 6 PM. Tickets are absolutely free, so hurry and be sure to reserve tickets to ensure you can enter the main viewing area.

Live in Tokyo EP, Download 'Know Your Enemy'

Andres — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:23:15 EST

Green Day has made a track from the "Live in Tokyo" EP available through Google and Lala.com. For those of you that don't know, Lala is a music service that allows you to stream and purchase music. Google recently teamed up with Lala to allow song previews to be played directly on Google search pages when you search for an artist. As a matter of fact, for the introduction of the new features, they showed that searching for "Green Day" brought up some tracks.

Yesterday, Green Day made "Know Your Enemy" Live from Tokyo available on the service. You can listen to the track by searching for Green Day in Google (or click here). Or you can get the track for .89 cents directly on Lala.

Great news for those of you that wanted the EP but didn't want the more expensive CD import; The upcoming EP is also now available to pre-order through iTunes, for $4.99. It will be released November 10th.

EMAs Performance Review and Hot Press Article

Clover — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:08:46 EST

MTV has a review of Green Day's performance at the EMAs, which you can read here. The first sentence of the article sums up Green Day's performance nicely: "The 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards kicked off with plenty of pyro, tons of crunching chords and a nearly exposed backside - all courtesy of Green Day."

Billie Joe was recently on the cover of Hot Press. Click on the following thumbnails to enlarge the images. Thanks to Isabel from our forums for the scans!

Relevant Articles
Green Day Kick Off 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards With Fiery Set - MTV.com

Green Day to perform at the American Music Awards

Andres — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:03:45 EST

Green Day will be performing at the 37th Annual American Music Awards later this month, which will be broadcast on ABC at 8pm eastern on November 22nd. From MTV.

The band is also nominated for Favorite Alternative Rock Artist, against Kings of Leon and Shinedown. You can vote for Green Day right here.

Green Day in NME Mag, UK Stadium Tickets on sale

Clover — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:51:01 EST

Green Day is in the newest NME Magazine, with a review of the bands gig at the O2 in London October 23rd. They also have a short piece about their announcement of the 2 stadium shows in the UK next summer.

Don't forget, tickets for those shows are on sale today at gigsandtours.com, TicketMasterUK, TicketLine or you can call the box offices for the Manchester Lancashire County Cricket Ground and London Wembley Stadium.

Vote for Green Day!

Courtney — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:04:39 EST

By request of several GDA vistors, I've been asked to tell you to please vote for Green Day on Fuse Best of 2009. They are currently winning, but barely. So, yeah. Vote. Now. That is all.

Green Day at the EMA's , Best Rock Award

Andres — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:36:02 EST

Green Day was at the EMA's earlier and picked up, as Billie Joe called it, the "Best Cock Award". You can watch their lovely awkward acceptance speech on YouTube.

They also did a really kick ass performance of "Know Your Enemy" and "Minority". You can watch the video below, or download the video (it's 110MB). Thanks to Roby for the link

Video removed after copyright claim from Viacom.

You can also view photos of the award show in the Picture Vault.

Green Day to Play Carson Daly on New Year's Eve

Courtney — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:29:39 EST

Hey everyone. In case you've forgotten, it's me, Courtney. :) I'm sorry I haven't been around lately, I've been dealing with some personal issues. Just to let you guys know, Nimrod of the Week will resume again this coming Sunday. I put it on hold for 2 weeks because I've been busy, plus I haven't had many entries. So get your entries in to me if you want to be a nimrod!

In case you missed it, here is a new photo session that I added to the Picture Vault a few days ago. It was taken in London, England on November 1. Enjoy.

Last but not least, Green Day was just confirmed to be ringing in 2010 with Carson Daly. Not many details were announced yet, but you can check out the article that confirmed this here.

Big Cheese Interview, Art, Tre at the EMA's

Clover — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:59:19 EST

Big Cheese Magazine has an interview with Mike Dirnt posted on their site. I haven't had a chance to listen to it, but it's supposed to be around 30 minutes long. You can listen to it here.

They also have a Billie Joe poster included in the newest issue of the magazine (#116).

Disorder Magazine recently went to the Art Exhibition in London and posted some pictures of the art.

The band is performing tomorrow night at the EMA's in Berlin. Tre posted the picture to the right on Twitter with this:

'Backstage at MTV EMA's. I was just repeatedly asked to not take pictures. -tre'

Idiot Club Presales for UK Stadium Shows TODAY

Andres — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:03:01 EST

GreenDay.com just posted info for the Idiot Club pre-sale information for the June 2010 UK stadium shows in London and Manchester. Idiot Club members will be able to purchase their presale tickets TODAY November, 4, 2009 at 15:00 GMT.

To get yours, you have to be a member of the Idiot Club and logged into Idiot Club.com at that time.

They didn't announce how many tickets they'd have available, only that they'd have a "limited amount". Good luck to those of you getting your tickets today.

Foxboro Hot Tubs Reviews

Clover — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:21:51 EST

Check out NME's website for an article about the Foxboro Hot Tubs gig in London, which was November 1st. Here's a snippet of what NME had to say:

As the night wore on, the band continued to goof around with Dirnt telling the audience: "The only reason you're here is you didn't go to church yesterday."

Rolling Stone also had a few things to say about the Foxboro Hot Tubs here. Enjoy a quote from the review:

Keeping with the trick-or-treat spirit, after exhausting that initial cavalcade of songs, the band next performed the title song "Stop, Drop and Roll" four more times consecutively, claiming each time they'd played it better than before.

Relevant Articles:
Green Day play secret Foxboro Hot Tubs gig in London - NME
Green Day Revive Foxboro Hot Tubs for Surprise London Show - Rolling Stone