Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer are teasing more dates for their upcoming Hella Mega Tour. The three acts will hit the road together later this year, with legs in North America and Europe already confirmed.
All three groups tweeted the same three emojis on Wednesday (February 5th) — an Australian flag, a New Zealand flag, and a face with a hand over its mouth. Screenshots of those tweets were then shared by the official Hella Mega Tour Twitter account.
The Hella Mega Tour kicks off its European run in Paris on June 13th before launching its North American leg in Seattle on July 17th. The tour comes as Green Day and Weezer prepare to release new LPs. Green Day’s Father Of All Motherf**kers arrives on Friday (February 7th), while Weezer’s Van Weezer surfaces on May 15th.
Meanwhile, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong admitted in a new interview with Spin that the new LP's title is not a reference to the recently impeached Donald Trump, nor is the album overtly political.
Armstrong explained, “I think this whole record, the point was to make Green Day more danceable . . . There's so much toxic s**t in the ether right now. I didn't want to write songs that would contribute to that. So, for us, it was like, 'Okay, instead of doing some opus or something like that, let's find a new direction we haven't gone into.'”