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Green Day hits holiday radio festivals
Just days after unveiling its first batch of 2001 headlining U.S. tour dates, Green Day has announced plans to perform at a string of four holiday radio festivals in the States later this month, according to a band press release. The group will be joined at the cheekily named shows by a rotating roster of high-profile acts that will include Fuel, Papa Roach , Moby , Deftones and others.
After wrapping up its European tour in Ireland on Dec. 11, Green Day is scheduled to return to the U.S. for a Dec. 13 performance in Fairfax, Va., at the WHFSmas Holiday Nutcracker. The event will also feature Fuel, Disturbed, Good Charlotte, Moby and Lifehouse.
Green Day then heads to Seattle on Dec. 14 to perform at the KNDD 9th Annual Deck the Hall Ball, where they will again be joined by Fuel and Moby, as well as Papa Roach, Orgy and Eve 6.
The pop-punk trio's hometown Live 105 Not So Silent Night follows on Dec. 15 in San Francisco. Papa Roach stays on board and Disturbed returns to the fold, while Deftones and A.F.I. add their names to the mix.
Green Day will finish spreading holiday cheer on Dec. 17 in Universal City, Calif., at the 11th Annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas. The group’s performance will cap off the third and final night of the event, during which they will share the stage with Everclear, Disturbed and Linkin Park. Performances by Deftones, Incubus, Moby, Papa Roach, Weezer, At the Drive-In, Coldplay, Fuel and 3 Doors Down are also scheduled over the course of the mutli-day festival.
A holiday break follows before Green Day kicks off its U.S. tour in earnest on Jan. 11 in Dallas. The group’s latest album, “Warning” (Reprise), was released in October, and its first single, “Minority,” spent six weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart, according to the group’s publicist. The album’s title-track is slated for release next, and a video for the song--set to hit television next month--was recently shot in San Francisco.
