Billie Joe Armstrong Has Written Six New Green Day Songs While In Quarantine

Amid the cancelled/postponed tours and lack of band activity due to the coronavirus pandemic, Green Day have still been able to keep busy while self-quarantining at home – from frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s participation in the fundraising iHeartRadio Living Room Concert For America, to the release of the band’s new Otis Big Guitar Mix EP last Friday. Unsurprisingly, this extra free time has also afforded Billie Joe the chance to write new music – something he’s doing constantly anyway. And, as he exclusively tells Kerrang!, there is now plenty of fresh Green Day material to be recorded with his bandmates Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool once we’re all allowed out into the world again. Read this next: 20 things you probably didn’t know about Billie Joe Armstrong ...