Green Day To Play 'Dookie' & 'American Idiot' In Full On 'Saviors' Tour

Green Day have revealed that on their upcoming tours of North America, Europe and the UK, they’ll be performing Dookie (released in 1994) and American Idiot (2004) in their entirety.

While the American punk rockers are playing their classic albums in full, it’s still a tour in support of their new album, Saviors, which was just released today via Reprise Records.

In the US, Green Day will be joined on tour by The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Lindas, while UK and Europe fans will see them perform with Nothing But Thieves, The Hives, Donots, The Interrupters and Made Of Ace.

Green Day made the announcement about performing Dookie and American Idiot in full on their upcoming tour via social media, where they wrote:

🚨BIG NEWS🚨 Each night of The Saviors Tour we’re playing both Dookie AND American Idiot in full AND a bunch of your other favourites new and old all summer long 🤯 allll fueled by Monster Energy 🤘 You're not going to want to miss this one!!

Can we have this tour in Australia, please?

Last month, Green Day hinted at plans to tour Australia in 2025. The bombshell news hit while singer Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool appeared on Sunrise while promoting Saviors, where Armstrong revealed that the trio are hoping to land down under next year.

“We haven’t been to Australia in years,” Armstrong said. “We definitely want to come back — maybe 2025. Every time we go to Australia it’s hard to leave.”

The lead-up to Saviors was preceded by the singles, One Eyed Bastard (a surprise release), The American Dream Is Killing Me, Look Ma, No Brains! and Dilemma. Today, Green Day dropped the single Bobby Sox, a song that began as a love letter to Armstrong’s wife that turned into a universal anthem for the LGBTQIA+ community.

“Bobby Sox is one of my favourite songs on the album,” Armstrong said in a press release. “It’s the Nineties song that we never wrote. It started out being a song I wrote for my wife, but as it materialised, I wanted to switch it up and added, ‘Do you wanna be my boyfriend?’ on top of ‘Do you wanna be girlfriend?’... So, the song becomes a kind of universal anthem.”

You can listen to the new song below.

For Saviors, Green Day reunited with producer Rob Cavallo, who produced the band’s mega-successful albums American Idiot and Dookie.

The band said about their new album, “Saviors is an invitation into Green Day’s brain, their collective spirit as a band, and an understanding of friendship, culture and legacy of the last 30 plus years. It's raw and emotional. Funny and disturbing. It’s a laugh at the pain, weep in the happiness kind of record. Honesty and vulnerability. What is Saviors about, you ask?”

“Power pop, punk, rock, indie triumph. Disease, war, inequality, influencers, yoga retreats, alt-right, dating apps, masks, MENTAL HEALTH, climate change, oligarchs, social media division, free weed, fentanyl, fragility...

“What would Andy Warhol do? What would John Waters do? What would Quentin Tarantino do? What would GREEN DAY do?”