![]() Even the Interrupters set had fans join in chorus with their snippets of Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" and Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It." The grassy field, almost completely covered in rubber flooring, was the one thing tightly masked at the event. "How many of you are at your first concert of the year?" the Interrupters' Kevin Bivona asked as the hot sun bore down on the stage in center field. ahead of (in order) Weezer, Fall Out Boy and Green Day - the capacity concert crowd of more than 35,000 fans looked outwardly enthused and seemed blissfully unconcerned about COVID worries. In short, Minnesota fans were hella-excited for the Hella Mega Tour, the biggest rock show in the Twin Cities this summer.įinally pulling into Target Field a year later than planned, the four-band, 5 ½-hour rock concert seemed to knock all the worries and woes of 2020-2021 out of Target Field like a home run when Nelson Cruz still played for the Twins.įrom the moment opening band the Interrupters took the stage at 5:30 p.m. And they showed up largely unmasked despite the lack of vaccine requirements. They came young and old, despite two of the three co-headlining bands dating back to the ancient 1990s. Next year, Fall Out Boy will finally face their ultimate challenge: playing before Green Day.They arrived early, despite the music falling on a Monday. If you’ve ever opened for them, they put on a show that’s so epic and engaging, that the audience absolutely forgot about you halfway through their first legendary singalong chorus and an assault of confetti cannons. “Because Green Day is honestly one of the best live bands on the planet right now. “Honestly part of us kind of likes it that way,” he said. Wentz also told the crowd that Fall Out Boy had never opened up for Green Day. “You’ve never repeated yourselves, you’ve never done anything to please the suits.” “Everything you guys do is punk rock in the sense that you’ve never gone the easy route, the obvious route, the safe route,” Wentz said that night. In 2015, the band inducted Green Day into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their paths have diverged over the years, but they remain two of the most popular acts from that generation still on the road.įall Out Boy achieved mainstream success a decade after Green Day and Weezer’s initial surge of popularity, but they are huge fans of both bands. Green Day and Weezer both broke through to mainstream success in 1994 thanks to multiplatinum albums that spawned a series of goofy videos that went into heavy rotation on MTV. It’s like you can tell it’s a mix from all over kind of the globe, which is cool and super inspired by seeing my kids that they just listen to song to song to song to song and it’s going from Queen to. “He’s got an incredible sense of melody that’s kind of out there. “We’ve always been big fans of Fugees and Wyclef,” Wentz told Lowe. But it’s still pretty catchy pop rock.”įall Out Boy wrote their new song “Dear Future (Hands Up),” featuring Wyclef Jean, for their upcoming compilation album Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two. ![]() “It’s like The Blue Album but with more riffs,” Cuomo told Lowe. Weezer’s new song “The End of the Game” comes from their upcoming LP Van Weezer, which will arrive next May. “There was, of course, Fall Out Boy and Weezer and now we’re stoked.” They will be followed by Weezer, Fall Out Boy and then Green Day to close out the show.Īrmstrong said the Hella Mega tour was a Green Day idea.”We talked about how we weren’t really wanting to do stadiums and do something that was like throwback to the Monsters of Rock Tour,” he said, referencing a series of metal tours in the 1980s and early 1990s featuring Van Halen, Metallica, Faith No More, Dio and Aerosmith. The Los Angeles-based ska punk band the Interrupters are also on the tour and will play first every night. Weezer, however, have been extremely active ever since their cover of Toto’s “Africa” became a surprise radio hit last year. ![]() Green Day have been off the road since their Revolution Radio 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. All three bands, however, will come together Tuesday night for a special preview show at the Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles. date is July 17th at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park and wraps up August 29th at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. Green Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy are joining forces for the Hella Mega stadium tour, which will kick off June 13th, 2020 in Paris, France and hit North America the following month. ![]()
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