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Foo Fighters’ Chris Shiflett announces Edinburgh gig

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Foo Fighters’ Chris Shiflett announces Edinburgh gig

Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett has shared new single This Ol’ World and also announced a UK tour – including a show at La Belle Angele in Edinburgh. You can listen to the single and get details of the tour below. This Ol’ World is everything a country song should be: infectious, upbeat and beautifully melancholic. “This ol’ world has lost its mind”, Chris chants, the call and response of the two electric guitars cleverly…

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The 1975 announced as latest headliners for Glasgow Summer Sessions

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The 1975 announced as latest headliners for Glasgow Summer Sessions

Indie darlings The 1975 have been confirmed as the third headliner for 2019’s Glasgow Summer Sessions – and they’ll top the bill on the festival’s second weekend on August 25. The band join the already announced Foo Fighters and The Cure in what is shaping up to be great festival. The Matt Healy-fronted band will be joined at Bellahouston Park by Twin Atlantic, You Me At Six, Pale Waves, Ten Tonnes, and No Rome. Tickets…

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Dave Grohl not ruling out future Nirvana shows

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Dave Grohl not ruling out future Nirvana shows

Just weeks after Nirvana reunited to perform at Foo Fighters’ CalJam festival, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic have said they’re open to the prospect of more shows from the grunge icons. During the closing night of the LA festival, the surviving members of the legendary Seattle band reunited on stage. It was only the second time they have performed together since Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994. Grohl, Pat Smear and Novoselik performed six tracks – with Joan…

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Watch: Nirvana reunite live on stage in LA

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Watch: Nirvana reunite live on stage in LA

Rock legends Nirvana reunited to perform at Foo Fighters’ CalJam festival on Saturday night – and you can check out the setlist and footage below. Last week, the Foos hinted on social media that a comeback performance could happen. “What else could we have up our sleeves???” Stay tuned…” they posted ahead of the event on Twitter. During the closing night of the LA festival, the surviving members of the Seattle legendary band reunited on stage….

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Dave Grohl says he still gets “chocked up” singing Everlong

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Dave Grohl says he still gets “chocked up” singing Everlong

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl says he still gets emotional performing some of Foo Fighters’ biggest hits on stage. Chatting about the mega-selling US rock band’s 1997 hit Everlong, former Nirvana drummer Grohl told Rolling Stone magazine that even after decades of touring he still gets “chocked up” when singing the fan favourite. “There are nights where you’re thinking about what toppings are on the pizza on the bus and whether you need to do…

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Foo Fighters to perform at BRIT Awards for the first time

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Foo Fighters to perform at BRIT Awards for the first time

Stadium-rock behemoth Foo Fighters have been confirmed to perform live at The BRIT Awards 2018. The multi-million-selling US band, who are four-time BRIT Award-winners, will play at the glitzy ceremony for the very first time next month, with this year’s awards show due to take place at The O2 in London on February 21. The Foos join UK heavyweights Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and Stormzy as confirmed performers at this year’s BRITs, with Grohl…

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Listen to new Foo Fighters song, Soldier

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Listen to new Foo Fighters song, Soldier

Foo Fighters have released Soldier – a brand new song that will feature on a benefit compilation to support Planned Parenthood. You can listen to it below. The track – an outtake from the recording sessions for Concrete and Gold, the Foos’ recently-released ninth studio album – will appear on the ‘7 inches for the Planned Parenthood compilation, alongside songs from Scottish electro act Chvrches, St Vincent, Bjork and Sleater Kinney. The compilation also includes…

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Foo Fighters announce ‘biggest sounding’ album yet

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Foo Fighters announce ‘biggest sounding’ album yet

Foo Fighters have announced that they’ve spent the past six months secretly recording their ninth studio album. The rock band have been working with pop music producer Greg Kurstin (Adele, Pink) on the album, which frontman Dave Grohl has already described as being “the biggest sounding Foo Fighters record ever.” In an open letter, Grohl said: “Remember that ‘break’ we were taking? Well…we lied. We just spent the last six months secretly making a gigantic…

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