Green Day & SXSW: Band To Return To The Live Stage

Green Day Returns
FILE - This Sept. 21, 2012 file photo shows Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day on stage at the iHeart Radio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. Green Day has canceled its upcoming performance in New Orleans. The band was scheduled to headline the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience at City Park on Oct. 27 but a spokesman for the group announced Tuesday the performance was being canceled. The announcement comes less than a month after the band's front man Billie Joe Armstrong headed into treatment for substance abuse. (Photo by Eric Reed/Invision/AP, file)
FILE - This Sept. 21, 2012 file photo shows Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day on stage at the iHeart Radio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. Green Day has canceled its upcoming performance in New Orleans. The band was scheduled to headline the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience at City Park on Oct. 27 but a spokesman for the group announced Tuesday the performance was being canceled. The announcement comes less than a month after the band's front man Billie Joe Armstrong headed into treatment for substance abuse. (Photo by Eric Reed/Invision/AP, file)

Green Day is back, and headed for Texas.

The band is set to make its first live appearance at Austin's South by Southwest festival on March 15, months after Green Day canceled tour dates, citing Bille Joe Armstrong's "well-being" as a concern. The SXSW show will be the band's first since Armstrong had a major onstage meltdown at Las Vegas' iHeartRadio Music Festival and entered rehab.

Green Day's South By Southwest live performance at the Moody Theater will be accompanied by screenings of "Broadway Idiot," a documentary about the adaptation of the band's "American Idiot" album for the Broadway stage, and "¡Cuatro!," a film about the band's recording of the "¡Uno!," "¡Dos!," and "¡Tré!" albums.

Earlier this year, Armstrong took to his Instagram account to write a note to Green Day's fans, thanking them for their support and promising Green Day's return to the stage. "Without further ado, the show must go on," Armstrong wrote. "We can't wait to get on the road and live out loud! Our passion has only grown stronger."

One week after Green Day performs at South by Southwest, the band will head out on the road to continue touring. The tour kicks off on March 28 in Rosemont, IL, and hits cities on the East Coast and Canada before heading to Europe.

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