Green Day performing at the Manchester Arena (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
The UK and Ireland shows which Green Day would’ve been gearing up for at the end of this month have been rescheduled to next year.
Part of the Hella Mega Tour with Fall Out Boy, Weezer, the shows at the London Stadium, John Smith’s Stadium in Huddersfield and RDS Stadium in Dublin will now take place between June 25th-30th 2021 – a delayed part of Green Day’s promotion behind their recent album Father Of All…:
“The titular opener sets its waspish tone, a heavy-riffing pit rouser with just a hint of soul in Billy Joe Armstrong’s falsetto harmonies,” our review reads.
“In places it’s gloriously loud and dumb: I Was A Teenage Teenager sounds like Billy Joel having OD’d on energy drinks, while the previously mentioned Stab You In The Heart sounds like the fiery chops of a woke Little Richard, the ‘anonymous’ target getting hazed with, ‘Baby infidel in a dirty magazine/Telling dirty lies, everybody can see/Kick it in the head and now I wanna see you dead/With a switchblade edge to the chest’.”