Green Day confirms March 2020 show in Phl

Five-time Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Green Day (photo) announces its first-ever visit to the Philippines which will happen on March 14, 2020 at the Mall of Asia Arena. Concert promoters MMI Live and Live Nation confirmed that the chart-topping rock band embarks on a global tour titled Green Day Live In Manila 2020.

Green Day has also recently announced a new album called Father of All… along with the title track as its first single. The album is slated to arrive in February 2020 as its first album since 2016’s Revolution Radio.

Formed in 1986 in Berkeley, CA, Green Day is one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time, with more than 70 million records sold worldwide and 10 billion cumulative audio-visual streams. The 1994 breakout album Dookie, which sold over 10 million and achieved diamond status, is widely credited with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock, catapulting a career-long run of No. 1 hit singles.

Entertainment Weekly calls Green Day, “The most influential band of their generation,” while Rolling Stone attests, “Green Day (has) inspired more young bands to start than any act this side of Kiss, and that doesn’t seem to be changing.” In 2004, Green Day released the rock opera American Idiot that captured the nation’s attention, selling more than seven million copies in the US alone and taking home the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. Mojo declared “It’s exhilarating stuff, the kind of record that sets new parameters as to what is possible from a punk rock ‘n roll band in the 21st century.” In 2010, a stage adaptation of American Idiot debuted on Broadway to critical and commercial acclaim.