EXCLUSIVE: Full stream of Green Day's new album

GREEN Day haven't released their new album, and frontman Billie Joe Armstrong admits to "total sexual frustration" waiting to go live.
The punks got some of that frustration out with several secret shows on their home ground - Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco - in early April.

Green Day wrapped touring on their mammoth American Idiot in early 2006, then entered the studio to begin work on 21st Century Breakdown not long after.

The new album's first single, Know Your Enemy, is out now, with the album to follow on May 15.

The band begin touring proper behind 21st Century Breakdown on July 3 in North America.

The band are likely to play a small run of Australian arena shows in December - not the stadiums required by their huge American Idiot show.

Bigger ain't always better for pocket dynamo Armstrong, who, when asked if he grows a few extra feet when he steps on stage, replies: ‘‘I hope so, because I'm not very tall''.

Boom, tish.




And a tip for those queuing for tickets already: put your phones away.

Green Day are sick and tired of looking out into the audience and seeing your phone camera pointing back at them.

‘‘It's like everyone wants to film things now, everyone is a director,'' Armstrong says.

Bassist Mike Dirnt reckons his frontman had a good solution at the San Francisco warm-up show.
‘‘Billie said ‘Come over here guys', and me, Billie and Tre went and stood at the front, and Billie goes ‘All right everybody, pull out your phones, everybody take a picture, get it over with. Now put your f---ing phones away and let's get down to playing rock 'n' roll'.''

Did the crowd do as they were told?

‘‘A couple of snappy Susans,'' says drummer Tre Cool.

‘‘For the most part,'' reckons Armstrong. ‘‘I think there was a little bit of YouTube goin' on...''