Fall Out Boy, Weezer pay homage to Columbus Crew, Historic Crew Stadium Once the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the live music industry, the participants punted their hopes to 2021 and eventually announced rescheduled dates - as well as new ones - in late May. And for the next 90 minutes, Green Day’s frenetic frontman did his part to make up for lost time with a set heavy on the hits that opened with “American Idiot,” ended with “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” and closed with red, white, blue and finally green fireworks.Īnnounced in September 2019, this tour was initially slated to take place last summer and did not include a Columbus date.
“Put your phones away!” Armstrong yelled before emphasizing the fact that, after nearly two years of waiting, this tour had finally arrived.
The rain had held off, the sun was down and the Green Day frontman was just getting the closing set of the Hella Mega Tour underway Tuesday night when he yelled out a command to a crowd that had just watched the Interrupters, Weezer and Fall Out Boy play their styles of rock music for the better part of three hours. Next year, Fall Out Boy will finally face their ultimate challenge: playing before Green Day.It took only a moment for Billie Joe Armstrong to remind those at Historic Crew Stadium what they were there for. If you’ve ever opened for them, they put on a show that’s so epic and engaging, that the audience absolutely forgot about you halfway through their first legendary singalong chorus and an assault of confetti cannons. “Because Green Day is honestly one of the best live bands on the planet right now. “Honestly part of us kind of likes it that way,” he said. Wentz also told the crowd that Fall Out Boy had never opened up for Green Day. “You’ve never repeated yourselves, you’ve never done anything to please the suits.” “Everything you guys do is punk rock in the sense that you’ve never gone the easy route, the obvious route, the safe route,” Wentz said that night. In 2015, the band inducted Green Day into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their paths have diverged over the years, but they remain two of the most popular acts from that generation still on the road.įall Out Boy achieved mainstream success a decade after Green Day and Weezer’s initial surge of popularity, but they are huge fans of both bands.
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Green Day and Weezer both broke through to mainstream success in 1994 thanks to multiplatinum albums that spawned a series of goofy videos that went into heavy rotation on MTV. It’s like you can tell it’s a mix from all over kind of the globe, which is cool and super inspired by seeing my kids that they just listen to song to song to song to song and it’s going from Queen to. “He’s got an incredible sense of melody that’s kind of out there.
“We’ve always been big fans of Fugees and Wyclef,” Wentz told Lowe. But it’s still pretty catchy pop rock.”įall Out Boy wrote their new song “Dear Future (Hands Up),” featuring Wyclef Jean, for their upcoming compilation album Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two. “It’s like The Blue Album but with more riffs,” Cuomo told Lowe. Weezer’s new song “The End of the Game” comes from their upcoming LP Van Weezer, which will arrive next May. “There was, of course, Fall Out Boy and Weezer and now we’re stoked.” They will be followed by Weezer, Fall Out Boy and then Green Day to close out the show.Īrmstrong said the Hella Mega tour was a Green Day idea.”We talked about how we weren’t really wanting to do stadiums and do something that was like throwback to the Monsters of Rock Tour,” he said, referencing a series of metal tours in the 1980s and early 1990s featuring Van Halen, Metallica, Faith No More, Dio and Aerosmith. The Los Angeles-based ska punk band the Interrupters are also on the tour and will play first every night. Weezer, however, have been extremely active ever since their cover of Toto’s “Africa” became a surprise radio hit last year. Green Day have been off the road since their Revolution Radio tour wrapped up in November 2017, while Fall Out Boy have had a largely quiet year with the exception of three festival dates this summer. All three bands, however, will come together Tuesday night for a special preview show at the Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles.
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date is July 17th at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park and wraps up August 29th at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. Green Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy are joining forces for the Hella Mega stadium tour, which will kick off June 13th, 2020 in Paris, France and hit North America the following month.
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