Two albums that define punk rock, Dookie, and American Idiot, are getting the royal treatment for their 30 and 20 year anniversaries.
Global rock superstars Green Day – Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool – have officially shared details of the Australian leg on their massive 2024/25 global stadium tour – The Saviors Tour, presented by Live Nation and Triple M.
In their biggest live undertaking to date, the band has confirmed they will play Dookie and American Idiot in full, along with tracks from the new album Saviors and cuts from their vast collection of hits. With special guest, revered Californian rockers, AFI, who make a welcome return to Australia for the first time since 2017, this tour is set to be epic.
The Saviors Tour kicks off at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on March 1, followed by Engie Stadium in Sydney on March 3, and concluding at CBUS Super Stadium, Gold Coast on March 5.
The Saviors Tour
- Marvel Stadium, Melbourne | 1 March 2025
- Engie Stadium, Sydney | 3 March 2025
- CBUS Super Stadium, Gold Coast | 5 March 2025
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Let’s start with Dookie, the 1994 certified Diamond album. As Green Day’s third album, Dookie took on a life of its own, making Green Day one of the most loved and most hated bands of the time. As the first album under a major label for the band, the album which included songs about jerking off, stoner paranoia, teenage burn-out and confusion became a commercial success, selling its first million copies within six months of an eventual 27 million sales. The record spawned five successful singles and won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album. It’s an album that brought us ‘Longview’, ‘Welcome To Paradise’, ‘Basket Case’, ‘She’ and ‘When I Come Around’. Not shying away from the angst, the juvenility of pop punk and the “f**k you” attitude of the genre, Dookie collected a dedicated fanbase of fed up teens and pissed off a lot of elders.
It’s a trend that re-emerged a decade later with American Idiot. The political-fed album spoke again to a generation of tired, fed-up and frankly crippled youth in a country that was going through some heavy political woes. The titular track became an anthem that is still prevalent in America’s current political climate, underscored by bleeding guitars and back-breaking drum beats. As their seventh studio album, American Idiot brought back the bands fight and status in the pop punk world. The album spawned five successful singles: the titular track, ‘American Idiot’, ‘Holiday’, ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’, punk rock opera ‘Jesus of Suburbia’ and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year winner ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’. It’s a juggernaut that keeps on churning 20 years on.
As they undertake their celebratory Saviors album tour, which also features the band’s 14th studio album, including first single ‘The American Dream Is Killing Me’ and ‘Look Ma, No Brains!’, it looks like Green Day still have a damn lot to say!
Get on board and grab a ticket to what is bound to be a euphoric, chaotic and damn-right riot of a time!
Artist pre-sale runs from Monday, September 16 – Thursday, September 19 – Gold Coast from 1pm, Melbourne 2pm and Sydney at 3pm. Vodafone & Commbank Mastercard pre-sales run from Tuesday, September 17 – Thursday , September 19 – Gold Coast from 10am, Melbourne 11am and Sydney at 12pm. Live Nation pre-sale runs from Thursday, September 19 – Friday, September 20 – Gold Coast from 11am, Melbourne 12pm and Sydney 1pm. Westfield Reserved Tickets begins on Friday, September 20 – Gold Coast commencing at 12pm, Melbourne at 1pm and Sydney at 2pm.
General public onsale begins on Friday, September 20 – Gold Coast commencing at 12pm, Melbourne at 1pm and Sydney at 2pm.
Tickets and more information at greenday.com and livenation.com.au
