Last time I heard about this ‘secret’ LA soon-to-be-happening Green Day show, was Sunday when Billie Joe Armstrong tweeted:
‘Aaaah yes. Here we are again. The not so secret show in LA area will be some time this week. Hash tag whatever’
This week? Excited fans, I am sorry for you, but it seems that the show has been cancelled, at least for now! According to the LA Times, which got its hands on a cancellation notice, the ‘massive’ show was supposed to happen in the streets of Burbank, near Green Day’s record label siege, Warner Bros. Records.
The original request was for a private event, reserved for Warner employees, friends and family, but since Armstrong announced it on Twitter to his +330,000 followers, there is no way this could have stayed private,… even I would have tried to go for sure!
Burbank is a quiet residential small town close to LA, and authorities got suddenly scared at the idea to be overwhelmed by the crowd; they even suggested more traditional venues to Green Day, but Joy Forbes, Burbank's deputy city manager, said this was not what the band was looking for. As a result, the permits were denied by the city for safety reasons.
Armstrong had also tweeted that that clothes were optional and that people would be welcomed to bring their own booze! I already see the scene from here, tens of thousand of half-naked Green Day fans getting drunk in the streets of good old well-behaved Burbank, that could have been interesting,… but the ‘surprise rock’ n’ roll sex party’ has been cancelled. It is weird that Armstrong and his band haven’t thought about it beforehand, what were they thinking, they are not newbies in this game!
Green Day will be releasing three separate albums, Uno!, Dos! and Tré!, two months apart this fall and winter, and of course they were expecting to play some of these new songs, which Armstrong described to Rolling Stone as ‘something punchier, more power pop – somewhere between AC/DC and the early Beatles’! Err, this combination seems so wrong in the first place.