Bass player; rock musician
Bassist and backup vocalist for the punk band Green Day.
Plays in a side band called The Frustrators, which is on the record label that band mate Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day co-owns.
Married his girlfriend Anastasia in 1996
Has a daughter, Estelle-Desiree. (b. April, 1997)
The pressures of Mike being in Green Day were too much for him and Anastasia to deal with, so they separated.
Earned his trademark last name from the sound that he had made in high school. He would play Air Bass Guitar, making a dirnt, dirnt, dirnt noise. From there, it stuck.
His nickname for his daughter is Hero.
He and his girlfriend, Brittney, have welcomed their first child together, a boy named Brixton Michael Dirnt, on October 11, 2008. He weighed 8 lbs.
Lives in Los Angeles, California.
(October 2008) His band, Green Day , is in the studio with Butch Vig, recording the follow-up to their 2004 classic "American Idiot".
She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.
