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Gregarious post-grunge rockers fronted by Dave Grohl

As a musician, singer-songwriter, producer, director and documentary filmmaker, Ohio-born Dave Grohl is a man of many talents. He rose to fame as the seventh and longest-running drummer of grunge idols Nirvana, having performed with the band from 1990 until frontman Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994.

Unsure of what to do next, Grohl started making music on his own. He even recorded a demo at Seattle’s Robert Lang Studios, playing all the instruments himself and working with producer Barrett Jones (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Melvins). Grohl credited the project to “Foo Fighters”, a term coined by the US Air Force during World War II to explain strange phenomena in the sky, because he’d been reading lots of books on UFOs. Mainly, he wanted the demo to sound like it came from a group instead of just one guy.

Grohl did return to drums again, recording the soundtrack for the film Backbeat that chronicles the early days of The Beatles and also playing with other bands including an incendiary performance with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers on Saturday Night Live. He later turned down an offer to join them permanently, instead deciding to transform his Foo Fighters solo project – which had immediately generated label interest – into a full-blown band.

Taking on the role of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist as well as chief songwriter, Grohl recruited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith, both from emo pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as Germs founding member and Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear. The quartet hit the road in spring of 1995 for their first tour.

Buoyed by the success of the lead single This Is A Call, the Foo Fighters’ eponymous debut album came out early that summer on Capitol Records via Grohl’s own Roswell Records imprint and spawned three more singles: Big Me, I’ll Stick Around and For All The Cows.

A huge success, the band spent the rest of the year on tour promoting it, including a trip overseas to make their first UK appearance at Reading Festival.

In mid-1996, Foo Fighters headed into the studio to start work on their second album and their first as a real-life band. It turned out to be a trying time with Goldsmith ultimately walking out, later to be replaced by Alanis Morissette’s touring drummer Taylor Hawkins. Grohl’s personal life was also in turmoil, with his first marriage to photographer Jennifer Youngblood ending. This anger and confused emotional core seeped into 1997’s The Colour And The Shape, a more lyrically introspective record than the Foos’ debut. Certified platinum in the US and several other countries, the album went on to win numerous awards as well as generating four UK Top 25 singles: Monkey Wrench, My Hero, Everlong and Walking After You.

The Foo Fighters’ line-up went through more changes with Smear leaving in late 1997. Franz Stahl, a former bandmate of Grohl’s from Scream, came on board. Although he toured with Foo Fighters and helped record a couple of songs for film soundtracks, he too departed in 1999.

This left the trio of Grohl, Mendel and Hawkins to hash out Foo Fighters’ third album, 1999’s There Is Nothing Left To Lose. A more melodic collection of songs featuring the hit Learn To Fly, it led to the band’s first Grammy Award for Best Rock Album and firmly established Foo Fighters as one of the hottest alt rock acts of the decade.

The '00s proved to be another stellar decade for the band. Chris Shiflett – of the punk groups No Use For A Name and Me First And The Gimme Gimmes – joined as lead guitarist, and the Foo Fighters really gelled as a four-piece while experimenting with a whole new array of sounds and styles.

Two of their next three albums – 2002’s One By One and 2007’s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace ­– won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album. In between those, Foo Fighters also released the double album In Your Honour in 2005. The first disc saw the band at their anthemic, hard-rocking best on songs including Best Of You, while the second disc boasted mellower acoustic numbers such as Friend Of A Friend, a solo performance by Grohl of a track he wrote in 1990 about his experiences joining Nirvana. 

The Foo Fighters’ seventh album, 2011’s Wasting Light, not only brought guitarist Smear back into the fold, but also yielded yet another Grammy. In a bid to recapture the grittiness of their early work, it had been recorded in the Grohl’s garage in Encino, California using analogue equipment. Preceding the album’s release, Foo Fighters unveiled the rockumentary Back And Forth, which chronicled the ups and downs of the band’s history.

Following nearly two years of festival performances and extensive touring, Grohl planned to take a much-needed break. What’s more, he had just added filmmaker credits to his resume in early 2013 after debuting Sound City – a documentary paying homage to the venerable San Fernando Valley recording studio by the same name – along with its accompanying soundtrack Sound City: Real To Reel at Sundance Film Festival.

However, a month later while collecting Foo Fighters’ third BRIT Award for Best International Group, Grohl changed his mind. The very next day, he’d teamed up longtime contributor and touring keyboardist Rami Jaffee and producer Butch Vig (The Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Nirvana’s Nevermind) to record a new album.

Sonic Highways arrived in 2014, with every song recorded in a different American city. To complement the album and commemorate the Foos’ 20th anniversary, Grohl directed an eight-part TV series, filmed in each of those cities, to capture the experiences and local scenes that inspired the sound and lyrics.

While touring the world in 2015 to support Sonic Highways, Grohl fell off stage in Gothenburg, Sweden and broke his leg – somehow managing to finish the concert in a seated position. After a dream induced by his pain medication, Grohl self-designed a guitar-themed throne so he could sit comfortably while shredding on stage, which allowed Foo Fighters to complete their tour as well as record the five-song Saint Cecilia EP in Austin, Texas. Conceived as a gift of gratitude for their fans, the free-to-download EP was also dedicated to the victims of that November’s terrorist attacks in Paris.

Returning to a simpler way of doing things, Foo Fighters merged hard rock with pop sensibilities on their 2017 album Concrete And Gold, which featured a couple of unlikely collaborations in Justin Timberlake on Make It Right and Boyz II Men’s Shawn Stockman on the title track.

Foo Fighters notched up a fifth BRIT Award for Best International Group in 2018. Before collecting the prize, Grohl, Hawkins, Mendel, Shiflett, Smear and Jaffee made their debut performance at the ceremony, playing The Sky Is A Neighbourhood on the roof of a makeshift house constructed in The O2.

While returning to the studio in 2019 to start recording another album, Foo Fighters also began releasing a series of EPs containing elusive live tracks under the umbrella name Foo Files.

The band had elaborate plans to celebrate their 25th anniversary in 2020 by revisiting the same stops from their very first US tour in a Dodge van. Billed as The Van Tour, those shows had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

That November, the Foo Fighters revealed the lead single Shame Shame from their 10th album, Medicine At Midnight, which arrived in early 2021 and featured the tracks No Son Of Mine and Waiting On A War. In April, Grohl premiered his latest film project, a documentary called What Drives Us, in which he interviewed 200 rock stars about their early days on the road living out of vans.

In June 2021, the Foo Fighters played a concert at Madison Square Garden that was the first full-capacity arena show in New York City since the start of the pandemic. The following month, as part of US Record Store Day, they released the disco-themed Hail Satin album under the Dee Gees moniker (a combined pun on both the brothers Gibb and Grohl’s initials) that included four Bee Gees covers plus other live tracks. On their ensuing dates, the band trolled a protest by the Wellsboro Baptist Church by playing You Should Be Dancing from the back of a truck.

Grohl’s memoir The Storyteller, penned during lockdown, came out in October 2021 and celebrates music as well as offers a collection of life stories from the revered rocker. In 2022, the band released the horror comedy feature film Studio 666.

Tragedy struck the Foo Fighters in March 2022 with the death of their much-loved drummer Taylor Hawkins. Twin benefits were planned in London and Los Angeles featuring his remaining bandmates alongside a massive line-up of Hawkins' favourite musicians and closest friends.

In 2023, the Foo Fighters returned with their 11th album, But Here We Are. The band announced Josh Freese as their new drummer for live shows at a live-stream event in June 2023. That same month, fresh off a surprise Glastonbury appearance, they also announced that their Everything or Nothing at All UK Tour was on its way, including six stadium dates in Manchester, Glasgow, London, Cardiff and Birmingham in summer 2024. 

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1. Ticket sales are limited to 6 per household, per show for the presale and 8 per household, per show for the general on sale (a maximum of 8 tickets per household can be booked per show). Only tickets purchased through approved agents are valid. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission.

2. Ticket resale is permitted at no more than the price you paid (face value + booking fees). Please only use Ticketmaster's Fan-Fan Ticket Exchange or the artist’s official resale partner – please see the artist’s website for more details.  Selling tickets through unauthorised resale platforms will breach our T&Cs and those tickets may be cancelled.

3. This ticket is a personal, revocable license and, at all times, remains the property of the Promoters. This ticket must be surrendered to the Promoters upon request.

4. This ticket is sold on behalf of the Promoters to the Consumer. Business or traders are specifically prohibited from purchasing for this event. Any who do so will have their tickets cancelled.

5. All ticket sales data will be manually forensically examined and any evidence of the use of aggressive software, multiple identities or any other unlawful practice will be passed to National Trading Standards E-crime team and Police. This may lead to tickets being cancelled.

Reviews

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 based on 214 reviews
  • Rating: 2 out of 5

    Poor venue for such an epic gig

    by Dougal7878 on 09/07/2024Villa Park - Birmingham

    The venue is not fit for a large scale gig. Many of the staff were non speaking English and would simply point to someone else to help you. No staff knew exactly what you could and couldn't do. Only Aston Villa employees actually knew anything. The conversion of males toilets to ladies was disgusting, embarrassing and a waste of time. A poor and disappointing venue gig for such a great band.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Awesome

    by Mumcooks on 07/07/2024Principality Stadium - Cardiff

    Having never seen The Foo Fighters before, so was soooo excited to see the band. We listened to the playlist on Spotify on our way to the gig, which totally put us in the mood for the gig. The Foo Fighters were Awesome, they went beyond my expectation, so entertaining. Was on my feet dancing although I had seat for there entire set. Would love to see them again Please come back to Cardiff!!!! Not sure about Wet Leg, but missed The Himalayas which I was gutted about as got held up on our way in, really wanted to see them. One other thing about merch There needed to be more larger sizes for the t-shirts held on the mech stands as only one option for my hubby and there were no hats for sale on the mech stands we went to inside the stadium 😔 Have checked out the your mech website there are no hats for sale on there 😔 Sorry moan over We LOVED LOVED LOVED the show. PLEASE Come Back to the UK and Tour 🤘🤘

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Amazing!!

    by Gia on 05/07/2024Villa Park - Birmingham

    absolutely amazing night! and my tickets were easy to find and access, amazing concert, and amazing venue. however the food and drinks stands were selling stuff at very expensive prices. but thats to be expected really. overall though, an amazing concert, its a night i will never forget!!!!

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Awesome gig

    by SeeJayEss on 03/07/2024London Stadium - London

    Excellent show. Great crowd control both on the way in and especially on the way out. More Merchandising stands would be good. Please advertise or announce when the band are due on so that the crowd can plan their time at the event.

  • Rating: 4 out of 5

    Great gig, awful venue

    by Chrispy on 02/07/2024Villa Park - Birmingham

    £221 for platinum tickets. A platinum ticket was just a seat in the stand. I don't see why the markup was so large. Music was great, the set list was extensive and the band were phenomenal. Villa Park is incapable of catering for events of that nature. The security staff were ill informed and impolite. The bar was incapable of serving drinks to the audience (25 minute queues for a drink). They ran out of beer at most concessions. Would I see Foo Fighters again? In a heartbeat. Would I attend Villa Park again? Absolutely not.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Fantastic as always

    by Patti on 02/07/2024Villa Park - Birmingham

    This is the 3rd time I have seen the Foo Fighters. As always they are brilliant. I wasn't sure how they would be with their new drummer after the sad death of Oliver Taylor Hawkins, they did not disappoint. I will definitely see them again.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Epic night of rock

    by Steve on 02/07/2024Villa Park - Birmingham

    Amazing night Dave and the band played just short of 3 hours with great surprise with Geezar Butler for paranoid. Shane did well on his track. Atmosphere and sound was amazing. Loudest outdoor concert every been too. Villa park is an amazing venue for Rock. Do need to improve the drink queues though this let's it down more pre pored drinks both inside concourse and outside and pitch bars would be reccomend in future to filter queues much quicker as 50 mins in a queue is crazy. Please come back to Villa Park.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Villa Park

    by AGSTER on 30/06/2024Villa Park - Birmingham

    5 stars for the band! FOO FIGHTERS were amazing! However, the venue was lacking in so many ways, taking forever to actually get into the ground, queuing for ages to get drinks, by 7.30 no cola and no spirits! 9pm queues fo r cold drinks ridiculous and most had sold out, not even any water available and finally the queue for toilets beyond! Very poor organisation all-round....would think again before buying tickets for this venue! FOO FIGHTERS WERE AMAZIBG THOUGH, BRILLIANT 👏

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    The gig was amazing,

    by Liz on 30/06/2024Villa Park - Birmingham

    The gig was amazing from start to finish but the venue was not prepared, running out of beer and only serving wine in certain areas. There were far to many people in the venue, would not visit Villa Park again I would much rather travel 🙄😁 the gig was amazing xx❤

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Incredible performance

    by Jane on 30/06/2024Villa Park - Birmingham

    An incredible and at times moving performance, the whole band has so much energy - nearly 3 hours non stop entertainment . Josh Freese is a brilliant drummer and seems completely at ease with the band - he had big shoes to fill. They all clearly miss Taylor and it was great to see Shane Hawkins joining them at the end. First time I had seen them, I don't think it will be the last somehow. Amazing