Green Day have launched a 24/7 YouTube channel called “Green Day TV,” which streams the band’s music videos, live performances, and over 100 hours of previously unreleased footage.
As reported by Rolling Stone, the band announced the news with a Wayne’s World-style promo clip, billing it as a constant stream of live footage, music videos, unearthed VHS tapes, deep cuts, and, in their own words, “probably some stuff that should’ve stayed in the archives.”
Alongside the archival dump, Green Day TV will run new original programming, including a series called “Transmission Unknown” spotlighting up-and-coming bands, plus interviews, comedy sketches, and cartoons and short films, all hosted by drummer Tre Cool. The channel is also promising trivia, giveaways, and surprise merch drops.
At the time of the announcement, Green Day TV was streaming raw single-camera footage from the band’s 1994 show at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club — the gig where Billie Joe Armstrong first introduced the crowd to “She,” a track that would go on to appear on Dookie.
The channel launch comes ahead of Green Day’s move into cinemas, with their new film Nimrods set to hit cinemas on August 14th. Directed by Lee Kirk, the film is based on the band’s early years grinding it out in a van before Dookie turned them into global stars.
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“I’ve always wanted to do a Green Day film,” Armstrong told The Hollywood Reporter.
“God, ever since the beginning, just all my heroes have always done films, whether it was Rock ‘n’ Roll High School by the Ramones or the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night, the Who’s Quadrophenia. I just wanted to do the same thing.”
