Green Day to Play 30 Years of Hits With 2024 Saviors Tour, Celebrating ‘Dookie’ and ‘American Idiot’
Saviors of summer touring, Green Day are promising to bring the heat (or at least add to it) with concerts that celebrate two big anniversaries — their 1994 breakout album, Dookie, and Grammy-winning 2004 album, American Idiot — alongside songs from their upcoming 14th album, Saviors. They’re previewing that record, out Jan 19, with a new video for “Look Ma, No Brains!” The opening acts on the tour certainly seem like no-brainers, with the Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, and the Linda Lindas set to take the same stadium stages as the trio.
“We’ve never been more excited to unleash new music than with Saviors, a record that’s meant to be rocked live, together,” the band collectively said in a statement. “So let’s thrash. We’ve got some amazing friends who are coming along for the ride!”
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The two-minute clip, which contains a warning for flashing images, shows the band in black and white performing for an audience of a nurse and a catatonic-looking patient getting shock treatment. There’s a Wizard of Oz twist at the end.
The North American leg of the trek, officially The Saviors Tour, kicks off July 29 in Washington, D.C., and will run through Sept. 28 with a gig in San Diego, a few hundred miles south from where they formed. Tickets go on sale next week, with presales beginning Tuesday and a general on-sale starting at 10 a.m. on Nov. 10 on the band’s website.
A couple of weeks back, Green Day played Dookie — which they recently re-released as an expanded box set —in its entirety for an 850-person–capacity crowd at Las Vegas’ Fremont Country Club. “For a band to be able to keep the rambunctious crowd without the help of mainstream songs shows why Green Day still sits at the top of the pop-punk pyramid,” Rolling Stone reported. “After a breakneck 29-song set, Green Day capped off the evening with ‘Revolution Radio’ and cult classic ‘Homecoming.'” The gig, which included the first live performance of the Saviors track “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” was where frontman Billie Joe Armstrong also announced the tour.
The Saviors Tour dates:
Jul 29 – Washington, DC @ Nationals Park
Aug 1 – Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre
Aug 3 – Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Music and Arts Festival*
Aug 5 – New York, NY @ Citi Field
Aug 7 – Boston, MA @ Fenway Park
Aug 9 – Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park
Aug 10 – Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium
Aug 13 – Chicago, IL @ Wrigley Field
Aug 15 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre **
Aug 17 – Minneapolis, MN @ Target Field
Aug 20 – Kansas City, KS @ Azura Amphitheatre **
Aug 22 – Cincinnati, OH @ Great American Ballpark
Aug 24 – Milwaukee, WI @ American Family Field
Aug 26 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion **
Aug 28 – Atlanta, GA @ Truist Park
Aug 30 – Nashville, TN @ Geodis Park
Sep 1 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PNC Park
Sep 4 – Detroit, MI @ Comerica Park
Sep 7 – Denver, CO @ Coors Field
Sep 10 – Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater **
Sep 11 – Arlington, TX @ Globe Life Field
Sep 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium
Sep 18 – Phoenix, AZ @ Chase Field
Sep 20 – San Francisco, CA @ Oracle Park
Sep 23 – Seattle, WA @ T-Mobile Park
Sep 25 – Portland, OR @ Providence Park
Sep 28 – San Diego, CA @ Petco Park
*Festival date
** With support from Rancid and the Linda Lindas only
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