GREEN DAY are rush releasing their new album - as the FOXBORO HOT TUBS. The punk trio confirmed they were masquerading as FHT in a recent interview, and they're having so much fun trying to outwit fans with their new moniker, the band will release its new album under it's alter-ego. The album, titled Stop Drop + Roll, will feature six tracks the band posted on line - as Foxboro Hot Tubs in December (07). Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong tells Rolling Stone magazine the new act allowed Green Day to record quickly. He says, "We write songs as we go, on the fly, fast and spontaneous." No release details were available as WENN went to press.
Iam so exciting about this. i just hope that it wil sell internationally and i can have a copy over here in england!! tel u wot i going to go to HMV and Zavvi in my hometown and ask them!!!!
Missing nine-year-old Shannon Matthews has been found alive 24 days after she disappeared.
Police smashed their way into a flat about a mile from her home in Dewsbury to find the youngster concealed in the base of a divan bed.
West Yorkshire police said a 39-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of abduction at the address in Lidgate Gardens, Batley Carr.
Relatives were elated at the news. Shannon's aunt Amanda Hyett said: "We've all heard the news. It is great news."
A West Yorkshire Police statement said: "As part of ongoing investigations, detectives and specialist search officers attended a house at Lidgate Gardens, Batley Carr, Dewsbury.
"During a search of the house, officers located Shannon Matthews who was found concealed in the base of a divan bed.
"A 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of abduction at the address and is currently in custody at a West Yorkshire police station. Shannon is currently in the care of West Yorkshire Police."
A woman neighbour in Lidgate Gardens, who did not want to be named, said rumours in the street suggested that the man who occupied the flat where Shannon was found lived alone.
The woman who lives downstairs from him tipped off police after hearing footsteps, she said.
Shannon had not been seen since she disappeared after a school swimming trip in Dewsbury on February 19.
oh my god i just heard last nite that heath ledger was found dead at his apartment. i thought he was a fantastic actor and will surley be missed. r.i.p.
"IT'S GENERATION ZERO, BUT YOU GOTTA START AT ZERO TO GET TO SOMETHING"
It's been nearly four years since Green Day released 'American Idiot'. Although they've been working on it's follow up - which their label insists emerge in 2008 - for a year, details still remain scant.
However NME has spoken to people in the band's camp who said producer Linda Perry has worked on some tracks after impressing the band with her recent efforts with Courtney Love. We also managed to speak to frontman Billie Joe Armstrong before the band knuckled down in the studio and he told us the trio were "working on three different albums... on about 30 songs." Here, are some directions the band could be considering:
ANOTHER POLITICAL OUTBURST
"There's an idea floating round that we've been toying with, doing something that has more of a story behind it," said Armstrong, hinting the band's rock opera days aren't over. With the 'American Idiot' story resolved by that album's end, it seems they might have to broaden out. It's worth noting that 'American Idiot' was released to coincide with the last US Presidential election and, with another elction imminent and George Bush's Iraq issues still ongoing, Green Day have plenty of material.
"This war has to finish before something new blossoms. There's no draft - that's why none of the kids give a shit" Armstrong said last year. "They'd rather watch videos on youtube. There is so much information out there with no power to it. Everything's in transition including our government. Next year, it's someone else in the White House. It's Generation Zero, but you gotta start at zero to get to something."
A '60S PSYCHEDELIC ALBUM
One of the strangest reports NME heard claimed Linda Perry has been making the band listen to the 'Nuggets' box sets - an influential series of compilations of '60s US garage rock and psych bands such as The 13th Floor Elevators and Electric Prunes. Stranger still, she'd made Armstrong grow his hair, which could explain the Foxboro Hot Tubs mystery. At the start of December, an unknown psychedelic-tinged band released six-track EP 'Stop Drop And Roll!!!' as a download with a vocalist suspiciously similar to Armstrong. Not only are the 'Tubs listed as being from San Francisco (as are Green Day), fans also noted that their artwork features a goat in a Martini glass, an image which appeared on their 2003 alias The Network. The trio denied any involvement but Green Day fans should get hold of 'Mother Mary', It rules.
A PUNK ALBUM
Armstrong has admitted that "there's a lot of straight-up punk songs that are flying around." A similar collection of songs existed during the gestation of 'American Idiot' and had the working title of 'Cigarettes and Valentines' but the band concocted a tsory about the master tapes being stilen from the studio, prompting the change of direction that turned them into global superstars. They later admitted that they thought the original songs were a bit boring, but could a return to their roots form the basis of 'Green Day 7'?
My Chemical Romance will finish up their campaign for 'The Black Parade' with a live DVD, before starting work on a "punk-rock" fourth album.
The band's October show in Mexico City - which saw them wave goodbye to their costumed alter-egos The Black Parade - will be released on DVD in March. They had planned to take The Black Parade format with them to their Australian dates last month, but decided to revert to their own identities after filming the Mexico show.
Gerard Way told NME: "When we're playing as 'The Black Parade' it's more methodical. There's definitely more rock theatre. But we're not afraid to rock out. We were suppossed to go to Australia and perform as 'The Black Parade', but in Mexico we decided not to. We've got a lot of great memories - it was a hard step that record, a lot of lessons were learned. We didn't wanna put on those uniforms any more, we wanted to be ourselves."
Meanwhile, the band are already well into writing for the follow-up to 'The Black Parade', having premiered an all-new song on their November UK tour. Way explained: "We haven't told anyone the title yet because i noticed that if you change the title later, kids get pissed off. So it's called 'New Song' right now. It's one of those songs that just spills out of you and you're inspired. It's nice because it's a return to punk rock music. It feels like a rock song.
Way said that, having done away with their theatrical stage show on their most recent dates, album four would most likely follow suit. "I think (the next album) will definitely be stripped down. i think the band miss being a rock band," he declared. "That doesn' mean we won't explore really crazy ideas on the next albums, or do something even crazier. it doesn't neccessarily mean we'll start to take steps backwards creatively. But it felt, in a live sense, this is what we do great live. And we're better musicians for having written and played 'The Black Parade'. To have that to play with a live sense is really thrilling. We can cut loose more.
The new song, with a chorus line that goes: " someone out there loves you", is markedly more optismistic that most of the bands outputs so far.
"t's letting somebody know something and it's knowing yourself, and it's a great thing to know" said Way. "It's completely different direction, thematically, than what we;re used to. We have stuff with a lot of hope in it but not like that. It's written from a different kind of place. It's not written a place of sceptism at all"
Way went as far to admit that this new outlook is a consequence of his recent marraige to Lyn-Z, from the band Mindless Self Indulgence. "Absolutely", he agreed "it's a direct result of learning something; learning something amazing. that's what's suppossed to happen to you as an artist and that's what's supposed to happen in your life. It's one of the benefits of being a songwriter, you can show all you colours as they come out. It's a really special song to me."
I have heard some great news, Christina Aguilera and her husband, Jordan Bratman have welcomed a baby son, Max Liron Bratman into the world. Liron means 'my song' in Hebrew and Max is 'the greatest'. I am a huge fan of Christina Aguilera ande i congratulate her and her husband and wish them all the luck in the world.
AGE/BIRTHDATE : 34; born December 9, 1972 HOMETOWN : Willits, California, USA EYE COLOR : Blue NATURAL HAIR COLOR : Brown HEIGHT : 5'6 (?) MARITAL STATUS : Married his long time girlfriend Lisea Lyons in March of 1995. They divorced sometime after. In May 2000, he married Claudia. In 2003, he and Claudia broke up. CHILDREN : Ramona, born January 1995 to ex-wife, Lisea Lyons; Frankito ("Little Frank"), born 2001 to Claudia. FAMILY : Tre grew up with his father and 2 siblings. He now lives in Oakland, California with his ex-wife, Claudia, and son, Frankito. WHEELS : A SUV. INSTRUMENTS : Drums, the accordion, and the guitar. OTHER BANDS : Tre has also played with The Lookouts and Samiam.
Frank Edwin Wright III was born December 9, 1972 in Frankfurt, Germany, making him the youngest member of Green Day. He lived in the Mendocino mountains, California with his dad and his 2 older siblings. His dad, a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, decided the move the family there to insulate them upon his return to the United States. Tre's closest neighbor was none other than Lookout! Records owner Lawrence Livermore, who also owned the punk band the Lookouts. At age 12, Livermore recruited Tre to join The Lookouts, and that's when Livermore gave him the name of Tre Cool (which means Very Cool in French). After Green Day's first tour around the country (following the release of 39/Smooth), John Kriftmeyer decided to leave Green Day. Looking no farther than Gilman Street, Billie Joe and Mike recruited Tre, who was already a 5 year veteran of the Gilman Street scene. Tre decided to drop out of high school his sophmore year. However, he did pass an equivalency test and earned his GED, and he even began taking classes at a nearby community college. He had to drop out of college however, when the demands of Green Day's touring intensified. Tre's father, who owns a small trucking company, overhauled a used bookmobile, and even served as the driver on three seperate tours. "I watched them go from a bunch of kids to a group of musicians with work eithic," says Tre's father, Frank Wright. "On their first tour or two, it was more of a party than anything else. I still scratch my head and say, 'How in the hell did they make it?' They used to practice in my living room here -- a lot of the songs they did on Dookie. You hear it coming together, and you don't expect people are going to go out and buy it. But when it does, you just say, 'Wow, that's so cool.'" (Rolling Stone, January 26, 1995)
Tre had a daughter named Ramona in January of 1995, then he married his long time girlfriend Lisea Lyons in March. Him and Lisea are divorced now, but Tre remarried in May of 2000, to Claudia. Claudia and him have a son named Frankito, which means "Little Frank". Tre and Claudia divorced in 2003, but they still live together with Frankito in Oakland, California. Recently, Tre has been linked to Donna C., drummer of The Donnas, however they are no longer together.
"Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible."
"I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents."
(Talking about Mike taking a shit off the hotel balcony): "She was so pissed, so she was gonna make us leave the hotel..but she didn't. big mistake!"
"It's, like, an ok tour bus and all, but people see book mobile on the side and come up and ask us if we have any book to sell. I mean how stupid is that....books? We don't even read."
"They should legalize pot, do it!! Do it!!"
"We kick ass now. We've seen a million faces and we rocked them all."
"I wanna survive an avalanche, I wanna be one of those people a dog finds burried uder a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation."
"I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone."
"Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music."
"You'd think we were really good at writing songs or something."
(To LAUNCH.com on the US's action after the WTC bombings): "I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense and it's definitely one option. But, personally, I prefer peace. You know, maybe I'm just being ignorant and shortsighted, you know, it's true I'm not running the government, I'm not running the United States. I just don't think that killing people is a good way to remedy people dying. Martin Luther King Jr., said that you can murder a murderer but you can never murder murder itself."
(On Who's Most Accident Prone): "It used to be Mike, but lately I've been catching up."
(On MTV): "I don't see anything on it, all I see is shows. There is never anything on it. Just MTV talking about how cool MTV is."
"Mmm, you can almost smell the burning pork...Hey, you ever thrown rocks at cops?"
"You know, I knew the day that George Bush was elected president that we were in deep, deep sh-t. I knew it. I was like, 'Well, some sh-t's gonna hit the fan now,' 'cause, you know, the Bush family's been in the politics business for way too long to not have crazy enemies."
"``Satan. Satan, Satan,'' he chanted. ``That's what's different. We're all firm believers in Satan now. We think Satan is cool. ``How the fuck do you think a band like Green Day got popular?'' (talking about how he doesn't belive they sold out)"
"I want to wash your grandmother.
"Lets count the waves...one, one thousand, two one thousand"
"I don't understand what Billie just said so, I'll talk about chickens...."
"It's good to have some offspring...oops..shouldn't say that word, can you edit it out?"
"It was the pile of shit I ever saw." (on the MTV Video Music Award's in '95)
"You can't fuck with us now. We did it. We pulled it off." (talking about the record that was stolen and how they created a better album anyway)
"I can suck my own."
"Life is like breakfast you just mix all ingredients cause in your stomach it will all come together.
"I told my dad yeah I’m going to be a drummer and he said well of you can rub your stomach at the same time as you pat your head at the same time you’re standing on one leg and kicking the other one out in a circle and say the pledge of allegiance. And I did all that just like bam you know?"
"The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap."
"We've made a lot of people feel good about the fact that they're lonely, loser geeks."
"Nothing beats a good riot."
"There are nice guys trying to be assholes and assholes trying to be nice guys. I am an asshole tying to be a nice guy."
"Never run in the rain with your socks on."
[Asked: If he's a romantic regarding a line in Church On Sunday] "What? Please! No... Man, I'm hard! I listen to Limp Bizkit man, gimme something to break!"
"Throw mud at each other... See how many stupid things you can do to each other all at one time."
"I thought it all up in my head. God, I know. Genius, right?"
"I want someone to rob a bank in the name of Green Day. I want them to make masks of our faces and rob a fucking bank."
"I'm new school with an old flavor in a new time in an old period of place."
"I kind of became everyone's weird uncle. I was drunk all the time, wearing a fucking leopard g-string."
"With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!"
"What do you mean we walked around dressed like girls? They were our own clothes, they just happened to be dresses..."
[Asked: What's one of the secrets to keeping the band together?] "Circle massage... we like to massage each other."
[On participating on Tony Hawk video game] "For somebody who doesn't know how to skateboard, I'm going to be ripping it up."
[2005 VMAs] "We met Mr. Scrappy, we saw the boys in Good Charlotte — we've seen a lot of gold teeth."
"My name is George W. Bush." [boos] "My name is asshole." [cheers]
"You know the Rolling Stones...Well, we're a little bit better than them. They were here in Toronto practicing. We were there. Keith Richards, who's at least 60, had the biggest joint I've ever seen. Of course, I smoked it!"
"How old are you?" Fan: "18." Have you ever been laid?" [fan is speechless] "Well, you're gonna get laid tonight!"
"If I'm into something I have to make sure it gets done. If I do drugs, I make sure that pile of fucking speed is done before the night is over."
"We have fun onstage. I'm not going to be this fucking melodramatic smashing pumpkins moron."
"[Our 'Waiting' video] was totally a failure. [MTV] doesn't show any videos anymore. If we had a booty video - if we had, like, McG, with girls shaking their ass in the video -- it would probably get played. Actually, I am just really bitter right now."
"Yeah fuck me! I wish all of you could fuck me."
"You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing?"
"My mom's got a cute ass! Total MILF."
"Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No more problem."
"If you can actually remember a good prank, then it never happened."
"A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!"
"I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman."
"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational; I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot."
"There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it."
"We put the fun back in dysfunctional."
"Punk rock is dead...and I fucking killed it."
"School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, and nobodies perfect, so why practice?"
"You say it to my face, you might be pickin' yourself off the ground."
"When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think he's listening to at that time? Think about it."
"Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1%, lie about it."
"What? You can heckle me if you want, it's okay I won't understand!" (at a foreign concert)
"A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. You're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?"
"Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God."
Copy which one is your favourite?!! chose as many as u want!
"I believe in individuality, being yourself, and to hell with what anybody else thinks about you."
"The older I get, the more I try to make my anger have a direction instead of just sort of wallowing in it."
[On being a sex symbol] ''It's weird. I mean, I consider myself kind of an ugly guy.''
"When I was a little kid doing air guitar to my favourite records, I never thought I'd be doing it with an actual guitar in font of 60,000 people."
"I write a lot about being a loser because I was conditioned to think that way."
"All problems are all the same essentially, they're just packaged differently the older that you get."
"My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it."
[On sexual preference] "I really don't think you have to tell anybody about that. It's only sexuality, it doesn't have a lot to do with you as a person. I've never had to tell my mother about what I am. She's seen me kiss other guys and I'm married so I don't know what I would classify myself as...human? I garuntee everybody fantasizes about the same sex. It's only human."
[On the band's near breakup] "It was stuff like Tre telling me 'Welcome to Paradise' was a shitty song, and me getting pissed when they made fun of me."
"I may be immature, but I am responsible."
"I think I've always been bisexual."
"I'm not really educated enough to write about AIDS, but I could certainly write about losing someone who's close to me. I'm more the type of person who would write about how ignorant and stupid people are about something like AIDS."
"I fucking hate college students, to tell you the truth, because they've been able to go to school, get an education, live in the dorms, and get a free ride from their parents. I'm also envious, because I never had that opportunity to learn. I wrote a song on the new album called 'Brat' about waiting for your parents to die so you can get your inheritance. Which my son will probably be singing one day himself."
"The fucked-up thing about being famous and having money is that if you complain about something, people are like, 'What the fuck are you complaining about? You don't have to work a real job. You don't have to worry about money, or a place to live.' I feel like I don't have anyone to vent my frustrations to because they won't understand."
"Take Armatage Shanks, for example. When I wrote that song, it was right before Dookie came out, and I was really at odds with myself. I was like, man, do I really want to do this? A lot of the time I was thinking about suicide, how it's so easy to kill yourself, but so hard to stay alive. I was in a break-up with my then-girlfriend, a total, raving punk rocker who didn't approve of me being on a major label. She moved down to Ecuador, saying she couldn't live in a world with McDonald's and such. It was fucking me up pretty bad."
I think we're actually a very friendly band. How many other bands stop shows if they see a kid falling in the pit? A lot of bands don't care about that. I want everybody to have a good time at a concert. I don't want anybody getting hurt. That's punk, playing a show, having a party, having a good time.
"School for me, was holding me back from what I really wanted to do. I wanted to be in a band and I wanted to be a punk."
"I never thought that being obnoxious would get me where I am now."
"I hate celebrities. I really hate them"
"I actually have less friends now than I ever had." (awh!)
The Green Day's of Christmas: The Holiday Tribute to Green Day
Catalog #: VIT-9466
Release Date: 10/23/2007
Details:
Sick of dreaming of a white Christmas? Ready to send Rudolph to a jingle jail? Or take a blow-torch to Frosty? Then these holiday versions of your favorite bands have been made especially for you. We’ve taken rock’s biggest and baddest songs and shaped them into Christmas instrumentals that would make Irving Berlin blush. This Christmas, ask for something that’s really gonna rock your bells.
Have you been a bad boy or girl this year? Worried that Santa's going to bring you a bag of coal? Maybe he’ll bring you some dookie instead. Green Day's patented pop-punk is as timeless as any classic Christmas carol. These all-new holiday versions prove it. Instead of fast licks of guitar solos, you will be getting the jingle of bells and horns. From now on, you'll be singing about the Green Days of Christmas.
FULL NAME : Frank Edwin Wright III 
