GREEN DAY, FALL OUT BOY, and WEEZER, three of the biggest acts in rock music, announced they will be heading to Australia to tour here together for the first time ever on The Hella Mega Tour. The stadium tour kicks off on November 8 at Perth’s HBF Park, before heading to Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on Wednesday November 11, followed by Bankwest Stadium, Sydney on November 14 and concluding in Brisbane on November 17 at Suncorp Stadium.
GREEN DAY, FALL OUT BOY, AND WEEZER
HELLA MEGA AUSTRALIAN STADIUM TOUR
Special Guest – The Beths
PERTH HBF PARK – SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8
MELBOURNE MARVEL STADIUM – WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11
SYDNEY BANKWEST STADIUM – SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14
BRISBANE SUNCORP STADIUM – TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17
Five-time Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Green Day have today released their thirteenth studio album Father Of All… on Reprise / Warner Music Australia. 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.
Their 1994 breakout album Dookie, which sold over 10 million and achieved diamond status, is widely credited with popularising and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock, catapulting a career-long run of #1 hit singles.In 2004, Green Day released the rock opera American Idiot which captured the nation’s attention, selling more than 7 million copies in the U.S. 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.”
Throughout their career, Green Day have had ongoing ARIA chart success and gold and platinum accreditations for many of their releases with #1 debut in Australia for Dookie and American Idiot and #2 for 21st Century Breakdown and last album Revolution Radio. Nimrod and Uno! both debuted at #3 with Insomniac, Warning and Dos! all debuting in the top 10. The band have a cumulative total of over 16x platinum albums across their catalogue in Australia alone.
Multi-platinum selling, Grammy-nominated Fall Out Boy recently released their album Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two. Fall Out Boy’s seventh studio album M A N I A debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 in January 2018 and garnered a GRAMMY nomination for Best Rock Album. Fall Out Boy have sold a staggering 500,000 albums and had 350 million streams in Australia.
Multi-platinum, GRAMMY award-winning Weezer’s new single ‘The End of the Game’, produced by Suzy Shinn, will be included on their forthcoming 14th studio album, entitled Van Weezer, due out in May 2020. The inspiration for this album derives from the deepest roots of Weezer – metal! What has metal got to do with Weezer, you ask?
The Beths are one of the most in-demand live acts on the planet. Last year alone they joined Death Cab For Cutie on their UK/European tour, followed by a North American co-headline tour with Bad Bad Hats and an appearance at SXSW. They have played major international festivals including The Great Escape, Pukkelpop, Green Man, and Splendour In The Grass. Their 2018 debut album, Future Me Hates Me (Dew Process), was heralded as one of the year’s stand-out music releases, with Pitchfork naming it “one of the most impressive indie-rock debuts of the year”.