Green Day are celebrating 30 years of Dookie and 20 years of American Idiot on a stadium tour this year, and their new album Saviors (out 19 January) straddles those era-defining releases. Covering inequality and the alt right, it’s as political as American Idiot, while references to dating apps and free weed chime with Dookie’s slacker vibe. Saviors also reunites them with longtime producer Rob Cavallo for the first time since 2016. “It was crazy. I texted Rob one day and he replied saying ‘you wanna make rock’n’roll history again together?’” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong explains. “I was like, I was just texting to say hi … but fuck yeah, let’s have some fun!”
You recorded most of Saviors at RAK Studios in London. What’s your favourite thing about the city?
