Greenday's 'American Idiot' musical is set to head to the UK in 2012.

The production, which has recently finished a run on Broadway, will commence an eight venue tour from October 2012 and stop off at the following venues:

October

9-13, Southampton Mayflower Theatre
15-20, Cardiff Millennium Centre
22-27, Edinburgh Playhouse
29-31, Glasgow Clyde Auditorium

November

1-3, Glasgow Clyde Auditorium
5-10, Dublin Grand Canal?Theatre
12-24, Manchester Palace Theatre
26-30, Birmingham Alexandra Theatre

December

3-8, London HMV Hammersmith Apollo

Tickets go on sale from 9am on December 9.