Posted: December 15th, 2009 - 8:23am by Ben Chapman

Green Day, currently on tour promoting 21st Century Breakdown in Australia and New Zealand, canceled tonight's concert in Melbourne after front man, and Casey Affleck look-a-like, Billie Joe Armstrong experienced symptoms consistent with food poisoning.

"Although Billie-Joe was determined to perform tonight it became apparent… that he would be unable to take to the stage - particularly in light of the lengthy 2.5-3 hour show the band traditionally perform,'' Green Day’s touring company said in a statement.

The concert has been rescheduled to tomorrow night and representatives said all tickets remained valid and anyone unable to attend tomorrow night should seek a refund from their original place of purchase.

I was a big Green Day fan in grade 9 when they released Dookie. There was something about the fake British accents and dirty sounding guitars that drew me in (along with millions of other teens). In a so-very-clichéd-way, they never revisited the greatness of their first album. And they became irrelevant for a while when "Time of Your Life" became the most overplayed graduation song of all time (narrowly beating Alphaville’s Forever Young and Sarah McLachlan’s I Will Remember You).

Canceled concerts are never cool. In 2000 I had tickets for what I believed would have been the best concert of my life, Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine at the then-named Molson Park in Barrie, Ontario. One of the Beasties fell off his bike and broke his arm. They never rescheduled and Rage broke up shortly after. Damn.