Ten months following the sudden loss of life of drummer Taylor Hawkins, the Foo Fighters have introduced their first full live performance with out him. The Dave Grohl-led group will on Could 26 headline the primary of the three-night Boston Calling pageant at Harvard Athletic Advanced in Allston, Mass. The Foos have been initially scheduled to carry out on the occasion in 2022 however canceled after Hawkins died in Colombia on March 25.
No additional info has been revealed concerning Hawkins’ alternative behind the package or what are anticipated to be extra Foo Fighters stay performances this 12 months. The importance of right this moment’s announcement was likewise not talked about in any of Boston Calling’s promotional supplies.
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The surviving members of Foo Fighters reassembled twice final September to shut out epic, star-packed tribute concert events for Hawkins in London and Los Angeles. At them, the group was backed by a sequence of drummer mates, together with Rufus Taylor of Queen/the Darkness, Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron, Queens of the Stone Age’s Jon Theodore, session veteran Josh Freese, blink-182’s Travis Barker, and even Hawkins’ teenage son Shane.
The Lumineers and Paramore are the opposite headliners for Boston Calling, which additionally options the one east coat look of the 12 months by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Alanis Morissette (in her first Boston-area present in additional than a decade), Queens of the Stone Age, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Nationwide, the Flaming Lips, Bleachers, Maren Morris, the reunited Walkmen, and Niall Horan.
Different up-and-coming acts on the invoice embody Fletcher, the Linda Lindas, Genesis Owusu, and Pleasure Oladokun, plus regional artists akin to Neemz, Q-Tip Bandits, GA-20, Juice, Alisa Amador, and Mint Inexperienced. Tickets go on sale Thursday (Jan. 12) in quite a lot of configurations through Boston Calling’s web site.
Final 12 months’s Boston Calling was headlined by Metallica, the Strokes, and 9 Inch Nails, the latter of whom stepped in to interchange the Foos. The pageant didn’t happen in 2020 or 2021 as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
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