Green Day add huge outdoor gig to 2017 UK tour

Band confirm another show for July of next year

Green Day have announced details of a new outdoor show as part of their 2017 UK and Ireland tour.

The band, who released their twelfth studio album ‘Revolution Radio’ in October, had already been scheduled to play gigs in London, Manchester and Leeds during February, before returning for Belfast and Dublin gigs in June as well as a massive outdoor show at London’s Hyde Park as part of the British Summer Time series in July.

Now Green Day have confirmed a Glasgow date at the 35,000 capacity Bellahouston Park show for July 4. Tickets for that show go on sale from 9am tomorrow (December 9).

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See their full UK/Ireland 2017 tour schedule beneath:

Leeds, First Direct Arena (February 5, 2017)
Manchester, Manchester Arena (6)
London, O2 Arena (8)
Belfast, Ormeau Park (June 28)
Dublin, Royal Hospital Kilmainham (29)
London, Hyde Park (July 1)
Glasgow,Bellahouston Park (July 4)

Read more: Why Green Day are the ‘greatest living punk band’

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Green Day have told NME that they’re inspired by their fans’ “expectations of them to be great”, as they discuss what goes into putting the setlist together of their upcoming tour. Watch our video interview with the band below.

|You know it’s great, we’re playing songs off ‘Nimrod’, ‘Kerplunk’, the new record, ‘American Idiot’, songs that are off ‘Insomniac’ that we haven’t played in over 20 years,” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told NME. “We played these shows for the hardcore fans in the theatres and clubs and we just had a blast, and you could tell because the energy in the crowd was energising us.”

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“They expect us to be great, and we have to live up to that. We just put as much passion as we can into what we do. We write the record together, we make the record together, and it’s our record at the point. When it’s finished, on the day it gets released, it doesn’t belong to us any more. It belongs to the fans.”

Mike Dirnt added: “We have a thing where either we’ll work it out at soundcheck, or we’ll just make a mess, make something memorable happen on the spot. That’s the one thing about this band – we just jump into stuff, even if it’s in the middle of a show.”

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