Green Day have revealed details of their upcoming projects, saying they‘ll “erase the rules”. with the album they went back into the recording studio to start work on last month and a movie.
Billie Joe Armstrong has spoken to MTV about the “special projects” they’ve been working on after taking a short break from promoting their smash hit ‘American Idiot’ album, saying the material they’re currently working will probably be the rock trio’s next release.
"Everything that we do is contributing to something that we're going to put out. We don't have a solid idea yet, it's just the beginning, but the beginning ideas that we have are really exciting,” Billie says.
Giving fans a taster of what to expect from their next album, he says: “"For us, everything that we do is completely, 100 percent passion- and energy-driven, so however we're going to come out with our next album, just be certain it's going to be an event, not just putting a record out.”
"At this point, to put a record out with like 12 songs on it and turn it in sounds a bit boring for us. So we want to definitely make something that is well thought-out and [that] all of our blood is put into."
"We've headed back to the same [mentality as ‘American Idiot‘], and that is what we really gotta do: Erase all the rules and go in and be productive. Be creative but be productive. And if [we] got nothing, record something and just enjoy what we do," the band’s drummer Mike Dirnt adds.
Billie added that the band are also working on a movie based around ‘American Idiot’, "It's definitely unfolding," he says. "Every single week there's more ideas about doing a film for American Idiot, and it's definitely going to happen."
