Green Day surprised fans with a new song during their set at Festival d'été de Québec on Sunday night.
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Green Day fans online were quick to notice that the live debut of "1981," which they dropped in between their 2000 Warning track "Minority" and a cover of Operation Ivy's "Knowledge" towards the tail-end of their headlining Festival d'été de Québec performance, had previously been teased by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong back in 2022.
Green Day's most recent studio album, Father of All Mfers, was released in early 2020, although they seemed to be teasing a new project called '1972' last year following the release of their 16-track BBC Sessions which dropped in December.
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Check out Billie Joe's original tease above as well as Green Day's full 2023 Festival d'été de Québec setlist below.
Green Day - Festival d'été de Québec 2023 set list:
American Idiot
Holiday
Know Your Enemy
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
The Grouch
Longview
Welcome to Paradise
Hitchin' a Ride
Rock and Roll All Nite (KISS cover)
Brain Stew
St. Jimmy
When I Come Around
Waiting
Stuart and the Ave.
21 Guns
Minority
1981
Knowledge (Operation Ivy cover)
Basket Case
King for a Day
Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
Wake Me Up When September Ends
Jesus of Suburbia
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
The band is set to play another pair of festivals this fall with Louder Than Life in Louisville, Kentucky happening this September, and When We Were Young in Las Vegas, Nevada this October.
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