European Tour Dates Announced

Good news for all the European fans out there, the official dates and venues have been announced. Tickets on sale and available May 1st – May 5th. As usual, if you want to have to advantage and perhaps buy ‘em before the general public does, become a member of the Idiot Club. Those are 20 bucks well spent.

SEPTEMBER

28 Lisbon, Portugal, Atlantico Pavilion     (Tickets available May 1st)

29 Madrid, Spain, Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad (Tickets available May 1st)

OCTOBER

01 Barcelona, Spain, Palau Sant Jordi  (Tickets available May 1st)

02 Toulouse, France, Zenith (Tickets available May 5^th)

04 Paris, France, Bercy     (Tickets available May 5^th)

05 Cologne, Germany, Cologne Arena   (Tickets available May 2^nd)

07 Berlin, Germany, 0₂ World Arena (Tickets available May 2^nd)

08 Hamburg, Germany, Color Line Arena    (Tickets available May 2^nd)

09 Copenhagen, Denmark, Forum  (Tickets available May 4^th)

11 Stockholm, Sweden, The Globe (Tickets available May 4^th)

12 Oslo, Norway, Spectrum  (Tickets available May 4^th)

16 Rotterdam, Netherlands, Ahoy  (Tickets available May 2^nd)

17 Antwerp, Belgium, Sportpalais    (Tickets available May 2^nd)

19 Glasgow, Scotland, SECC  (Tickets available May 1st)

20 Belfast, Northern Ireland, Odyssey Arena (Tickets available May 1st)

21 Dublin, Ireland, The 0₂ (Tickets available May 1st)

23 London, England, The 0₂ (Tickets available May 1^st @10am)

24 London, England, The 0₂ (Tickets available May 1^st @10am)

26 Sheffield, England, Sheffield Arena     (Tickets available May 1^st @10am)

27 Birmingham, England. LG Arena (Tickets available May 1^st @10am)

28 Birmingham, England, LG Arena (Tickets available May 1^st @10am)

30 Manchester, England, MEN Arena    (Tickets available May 1^st @10am)

31 Manchester, England MEN Arena   (Tickets available May 1^st @10am)

NOVEMBER

03 Munich, Germany, Olympiahalle  (Tickets available May 2^nd)

06 Vienna, Austria, Stadthalle  (Tickets available May 2^nd)

08 Zurich, Switzerland, Hallenstadion    (Tickets available May 4^th)

10 Milan, Italy Datchforum        (Tickets available April 30^th)

11 Bologna, Italy, Futur Show  (Tickets available April 30^th)

12 Turin, Italy, Palaolimpico     (Tickets available April 30^th)

Press Release Below:

GREEN DAY LAUNCH FIRST EUROPEAN TOUR IN FOUR YEARS

MULTI-PLATINUM BAND HIT THE ROAD IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM, 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN, TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 2009

Burbank, CA — Reprise Records’ Grammy^®Award-winning rock band Green Day will hit the road for their first European tour since 2005 beginning on September 28th, 2009, in Lisbon, Portugal. The tour, which launches after the band complete the first leg of their North American tour in August, will criss-cross Europe through the fall and finish up with a show in Turin, Italy, on November 12^th.

Green Day are touring in support of their long-awaited eighth studio album 21st Century Breakdown , which will be released globally by Reprise Records on Friday, May 15th, 2009. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been at work writing, arranging, and recording 21st Century Breakdown since early 2006 with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins). The first single, “Know Your Enemy” was released globally to radio and digital retailers on April 16^th. The video premiered globally, including on MTV and VH1’s international channels, on April 24^th.

Green Day recently performed 21st Century Breakdown in its entirety during a series of warm-up club shows for hometown fans in California’s Bay Area. In its review of a show at Oakland’s Fox Theater, U.S. magazine Rolling Stone commented that the band, augmented by guitarists Jason White and Jeff Matika, and keyboardist Jason Freese, had the “Quadrophenia-like hang of 21st Century Breakdown ’s classic rock melodies and lifetime-punk drive down solid” and that the album is “rock opera in which the rock always comes first.” “21st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s best album,” the reviewer concluded, “and at the Fox, they proved that the rock opera can be as punk as a Clash 45.”

21st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s first studio album since 2004’s two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which went to No. 1 in nine countries (including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, and Australia), spent six weeks atop the European chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide.

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