The band, led by Billie Joel Armstrong haven’t toured the UK fully since 2009, but have played ‘one off’ shows and festivals since.

The band will only be playing three shows in the UK, going to Leeds, Manchester and London. Although, according to the Green Day Authority, many fans believe that the band is going to be announcing more tour dates in the very near future, as soon as this week. It is certainly possible that the size of this European tour could grow, or that the band could come back later in the year after tours elsewhere in the world.

The first single from the new album, Bang Bang, is out now. Describing the track in an interview with Rolling Stone, Billie Joe Armstrong said it is ‘about the culture of mass shooting that happens in America mixed with narcissistic social media.’ When asked Armstrong about the album’s title track, he revealed that the Black Lives Matter movement played a part in its writing process. “I was in a car coming from Brooklyn to Manhattan and there was these protesters for Ferguson holding up traffic all the way back across the bridge,” he began.

The band haven’t released an album in four years, with the last being the trilogy albums ‘¡Uno!’, ‘¡Dos!, ‘¡Tré!’ which didn’t do too well.

Tickets for the tour will be out on 9 September. The dates for both UK and European shows are below:

10/01/17 – Turin, Palapitour
11/01 – Firenze, Mandela Forum
13/01 – Bolonga, Unipol
14/01 – Milan, Forum
16/01 – Zurich, Hallenstadion
18/01 – Mannheim, SAP Arena
19/01 – Berlin, Mercedes Benz Arena
25/01 – Oslo, Spektrum
27/01 – Stockholm, Globe
30/10 – Cologne, Lanxesse Arena
31/01 – Amsterdam, Ziggo
03/02 – Paris, Bercy
05/02 – Leeds, First Direct Arena
06/02 – Manchester, Manchester Arena
08/01 – London, O2 Arena