Dave Grohl has mirrored on the day he broke his leg on stage as Foo Fighters returned to Sweden for a present precisely 11 years later.
It was in the course of the second track (‘Monkey Wrench’) of a gig at Gothenburg’s Ullevi Stadium on June 12, 2015 that the frontman fell from the stage and broke his leg in an accident that in the end compelled the band to cancel their Glastonbury headline set that 12 months, in addition to a pair of reveals at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Tonight (June 12), 11 years to the day since that fateful present, Foo Fighters discovered themselves again in the identical nation for a gig on the Strawberry Area in Solna as a part of their ‘Take Cowl’ tour.
The irony was not misplaced on Grohl, who took a second whereas introducing the track ‘Stroll’ to keep in mind that day. “I fell off the stage and I bust my fucking leg,” he stated. “That was 11 years in the past immediately. Similar day! How fucking bizarre is that. Coincidence? I don’t assume so!”
“So, tonight,” he continued, “I’m gonna sing this track actual fucking exhausting, as a result of actually, I feel it was my favorite Foo Fighters present we’ve ever had in our fucking lives. As a result of we saved enjoying, we completed that fucking present for you. So we’ll sing this track for you.”
The band solely stopped enjoying for a couple of minutes after Grohl’s fall, and remarkably, he rejoined them for the remainder of the present, after briefly leaving the stage to get a forged placed on his leg.
They returned to the stage only a few weeks in a while July 4 in Washington DC, with Grohl sitting in a throne along with his leg propped up.
Florence + The Machine ended up getting into their headline slot at Glastonbury 2015, with Foo Fighters lastly topping the invoice in 2017. Throughout that present, Grohl thanked each Florence and his surgeon James.
“I’m about two years late tonight, I’m sorry. Site visitors was a bitch,” Grohl stated. “However I watched [Florence’s] present on my laptop computer as I used to be sitting in a wheelchair with a damaged leg, and it seemed stunning. And my good friend Florence acquired to headline that 12 months, and I’m very completely satisfied that that occurred, as a result of you realize what? I assumed she ought to have been headlining anyway.”
Foo Fighters’ present tour will see them play two nights in Liverpool on June 25 and 27, and can even embody their pageant appearances at Mad Cool and NOS Alive pageant. Help throughout numerous dates will embody Royel Otis, Inhaler, IDLES, Otoboke Beaver, Fats Canine and Die Spitz. Get any remaining tickets right here.
They launched their new album ‘Your Favourite Toy’ in April, which NME gave 3 and a half stars, noting: ‘Your Favourite Toy’ is a couple of extra tracks of that depth away from being probably the most important Foo Fighters report since 1997’s ‘The Color and the Form’,” we wrote. “For now, no less than, they’ve remembered that no-frills punk, performed quick and loud, fits them significantly better than middle-of-the-road dad-rock.”
