NASHVILLE |DATE: MARCH 27, 1998
FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/ AMANDA CAGAN
GREEN DAY TO LAUNCH NEW NORTH AMERICAN DATES
FOLLOWING SOLD-OUT SWINGS IN JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA;
"MTV LIVE FROM THE 10 SPOT" AIRS APRIL 17
LIVE FROM SAN FRANCISCO;
BAND SET FOR "LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN" ON MAY 7
AND "HOWARD STERN SHOW" ON MAY 8;
NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO "REDUNDANT"
SET FOR LATE MARCH RELEASE
Upon completion of sold-out tours of Japan and Australia, GREEN DAY will launch the next leg of their North American tour April 30 in Houston, TX.
Before this trek kicks-off, the band will make a special appearance in San Francisco at a top-secret location on April 17, which will air live as a "MTV Live From The 10 Spot" concert special.
Once the tour is underway, they'll make two special stops in New York City: the first on May 7 to appear on the Late Show With David Letterman, performing their Top Five smash "Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)." Next, they'll make an appearance on Howard Stern's national radio show the morning of May 8.
Meanwhile, in late March, GREEN DAY—BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG (vocals, guitar), MIKE DIRNT (bass, vocals) and TRE' COOL (drums)–will release "Redundant," the third track from their gold-plus NIMROD album. While in Los Angeles recently, the group shot a video for the song with director Mark Kohr, who's lensed many classic GREEN DAY videos including "Basket Case," "When I Come Around" and "Time Of Your Life."
"Redundant" has been touted as one of the highlights on the album by various members of the media. Greg Kot recently described the song in Rolling Stone as one with "…chiming, Byrds-ian guitars and soaring vocals." Parke Puterbaugh, writing in Stereo Review magazine, took note of the "twelve-string chimes amid the deliberated unfolding of `Redundant'…," adding that "such changes of pace in an eighteen-song program are not only welcome but necessary, counterbalancing the semiautomatic pop-punk onslaughts. No one since the Ramones has married the two disputant genres better…"
Beyond the critical acclaim for NIMROD , the album won "Outstanding Rock/Pop Album" at the California Music Awards that were held March 7 in San Francisco, CA.
Check out GREEN DAY worldwide at any of the following cities:
DATE CITY VENUE
Sat 3/14 Tokyo, Japan NK Hall
Sun 3/15 Tokyo, Japan NK Hall
Tue 3/17 Nagoya, Japan Diamond Hall
Wed 3/18 Nagoya, Japan Diamond Hall
Thu 3/19 Osaka, Japan Imp Hall
Fri 3/20 Osaka, Japan Imp Hall
Sun 3/22 Tokyo, Japan Blitz
Mon 3/23 Tokyo, Japan Blitz
Fri 3/27 Melbourne, Australia Festival Hall
Sat 3/28 Canberra, Australia Australian National Univ.
Tue 3/31 Sydney, Australia The Round House
Wed 4/1 Sydney, Australia The Round House
Thu 4/2 Sydney, Australia The Round House
Fri 4/3 Wollongong, Australia Wollongong Univ.
Sat 4/4 Brisbane, Australia University Festival Site
Sun 4/5 Honolulu, HI Andrews Field
Thurs 4/30 Houston, TX Bayou Place
Fri 5/1 Corpus Christi, TX Texas Sky Park
Sat 5/2 New Orleans, LA State Palace Theatre
Sun 5/3 Memphis, TN Beale Street Festival
Mon 5/4 Panama City, FL Spinnakers
Tues 5/5 Jacksonville, FL University of North Florida
Wed 5/6 Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blues
Sat 5/9 Asbury Park, NJ Convention Center
Sun 5/10 Schenectady, NY Union Ballroom
Tues 5/12 Portland, ME Maine Civic Center
Wed 5/13 Burlington, VT Memorial Auditorium
Thurs 5/14 Buffalo, NY Funhouse
Fri 5/15 Rochester, NY The Dome
Sat 5/16 Washington, DC RFK Stadium
Mon 5/18 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
Tues 5/19 Grand Rapids, MI Orbit Room
Wed 5/20 Cincinnati, OH Bogarts
Fri 5/22 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheatre
Sat 5/23 St. Paul, MN TBA
Mon 5/25 Pittsburgh, PA TBA
Wed 5/27 Detroit, MI 7th House
Thurs 5/28 Hershey, PA Star Pavilion
Fri 5/29 Philadelphia, PA East Center
Sat 5/30 New York, NY Jones Beach
Sun 5/31 Boston, MA Great Woods
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GREEN DAY TO LAUNCH NEW NORTH AMERICAN DATES FOLLOWING SOLD-OUT SWINGS IN JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA
