{"id":2448515,"date":"2019-09-10T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=882156"},"modified":"2019-09-10T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:14:09","slug":"green-day-weezer-fall-out-boy-announce-2020-hella-mega-stadium-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/green-day-weezer-fall-out-boy-announce-2020-hella-mega-stadium-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Day, Weezer, Fall Out Boy Announce 2020 \u2018Hella Mega\u2019 Stadium Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green Day<\/a>, Weezer<\/a> and Fall Out Boy<\/a> are joining forces for the Hella Mega<\/em> stadium tour, which will kick off June 13th, 2020 in Paris, France and hit North America the following month. The first U.S. date is July 17th at Seattle\u2019s T-Mobile Park and wraps up August 29th at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. All three bands, however, will come together Tuesday night for a special preview show at the Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Green Day have been off the road since their Revolution Radio<\/em> tour wrapped up in November 2017, while Fall Out Boy have had a largely quiet year with the exception of three festival dates this summer. Weezer, however, have been extremely active ever since their cover of Toto\u2019s \u201cAfrica\u201d<\/a> became a surprise radio hit last year.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles-based ska punk band the Interrupters are also on the tour and will play first every night. They will be followed by Weezer, Fall Out Boy and then Green Day to close out the show.<\/p>\n

Armstrong said the Hella Mega<\/em> tour was a Green Day idea. \u201cWe talked about how we weren\u2019t really wanting to do stadiums and do something that was like throwback to the Monsters of Rock Tour,\u201d he said, referencing a series of metal tours in the 1980s and early 1990s featuring Van Halen, Metallica, Faith No More, Dio and Aerosmith. \u201cThere was, of course, Fall Out Boy and Weezer and now we\u2019re stoked.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Wentz made a slightly different historical comparison. \u201cI remember, in the 1990s, there was this one summer, and Guns N\u2019 Roses [and] Metallica went on the stadium tour and my parents didn\u2019t let me go to it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I feel trapped in that forever and we wanted to recreate that memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

To promote the tour, all three bands released new songs. Green Day\u2019s song \u201cFather of All\u2026\u201d comes from their upcoming album of the same name,<\/em> which arrives in February. \u201c[The album] is only 26 minutes long, so it\u2019s the shortest record we\u2019ve made, I think since Dookie<\/em> or Insomnia,\u201d<\/em> Billie Joe Armstrong told Zane Lowe on Apple Music\u2019s Beats 1. \u201cI realized I hate long songs.\u201d<\/p>\n