Green Day announces 2020 stadium tour with Weezer and Fall Out Boy

Green Day, led by the smashing guitarist and singer Billie Joe Armstrong, will perform a 2020 summer tour of stadiums in the U.S. and Canada.

The 20-city Hella Mega Tour will include concerts at San Diego’s Petco Park, Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium, Boston’s Fenway Park and more

San Diego Union-Tribune

Sept. 10, 2019 9:38 AM PT

In one of the worst-kept secrets in recent memory, Green Day has announced its joint 2020 summer stadium concert tour with Weezer and Fall Out Boy.

The Hella Mega Tour will include a July 24 show at San Diego’s Petco Park. Scheduled to visit 19 cities in the U.S. and one in Canada, it opens July 17 at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park and concludes Aug. 29 at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park.

The full list of dates appears below, along with ticket information for the tour, which is being produced by Live Nation and presented by the Harley-Davidson motorcycle company. The North American tour will be preceded by an eight-city tour of Europe that begins June 13 in Paris and concludes June 29 in Dublin.

The tour will follow the release of new albums by all three bands: Green Day’s “Father of it All,” due out Feb. 7; Fall Out Boy’s “Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die — Volume Two,” due out Nov. 15; and Weezer’s “Van Weezer,” due out on a yet to be specified date in May.

Tuesday morning’s announcement of the Hella Mega Tour only came as a surprise to those fans who completely avoid social media and don’t know any other fans of Green Day, Weezer or Fall Out Boy.

Last week, Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong tagged Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo and Fall Out Boy front man Pete Wentz in a comment on actor Rainn Wilson’s Instagram page.

Fans who dug a little deeper discovered a “hidden” Instagram account, @hellamegatour. It features a video of Armstrong performing an acoustic version of Green Day’s “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” with the added lyric: “Wake me up on September 10th.” In the video, he is wearing a shirt with the Weezer logo, the letters “F.O.B.” and the words “Hella Mega.”

The abbreviated video performance ends abruptly when Green Day drummer Tré Cool grabs Armstrong’s guitar and smashes it to pieces. It’s a re-enactment of a memorable scene from the hit 1978 movie “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” in which John Belushi grabs a guitar out of the hands of former San Diego singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop and smashes it to pieces.

Tickets for the Hella Mega Tour go on sale Sept. 20 at 10 a.m. at ticketmaster.com. An online pre-sale for American Express card members begins at 10 a.m. Monday and continues through 10 p.m. Sept. 19.

An online Live Nation pre-sale and a Petco Park pre-sale will be held Sept. 19 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Passwords will be available on ticketmaster.com. Several local radio stations will also hold concurrent pre-sales on Sept. 19; details have not yet been released.

Tickets for the San Diego concert are priced from $29.50 to $179.50, plus service charges.

The ska-punk band The Interrupters is set to open all the dates on the tour.