Foo Fighters have announced a special London show this September.
The Glastonbury headliners, who are set to release their new album ‘Concrete and Gold’ on 15th September, will play the O2 in celebration of the venue’s 10th birthday.
Taking place on 19th September, tickets go on sale at 12pm today for O2 Priority users, with general sale available from 4pm.
Foo Fighters claim to have “probably the biggest pop star in the world” on their new album ‘Concrete and Gold’ – which the band are also calling “the hugest thing we’ve ever done”.
Dave Grohl has revealed the guest spot to Annie Mac on her BBC Radio 1 show.
“We have a bunch of guests that we haven’t told anybody about,” Dave explains. “Some will really surprise you. There’s one who’s probably the biggest pop star in the world, and I’m not kidding, sings back ups on one of the heaviest songs on the record. We’re not telling anyone who it is.”
“Without telling anybody we’ve been in the studio for the last six months,” he continues, “and we made the biggest sounding Foo Fighters record we’ve ever made. I’m not just saying that, basically I said to Greg [Kurstin] – I wanna make a record that sounds like Motorhead doing Sgt Peppers, and he was like ‘Okay’. And so we recorded an 11 song record with him.
“Honestly, I think it’s going to take a lot of people by surprise. Every band says it’s the best record they’ve ever made, but wait ’til you hear it, it’s definitely the hugest thing we’ve ever done. It was so hard to keep it a secret for so long.”
“We were one block away from Queens of the Stone Age while they were making their record, so every day we would sneak over to each other’s studies and steal donuts and coffee. We were listening to each other’s records just like, you know what? Rock’n’roll is alive and well. With these two records, honestly, QOTSA and Foo Fighters should just join forces and take over the world right now.”
“The album’s called ‘Concrete and Gold’, it’s 11 songs, it was produced by Greg Kurstin. The first song is called ’T-Shirt’; you gotta be careful, when it kicks in – just don’t be driving when you hear it for the first time.”
The band are also holding their own festival, Cal Jam 17 this October at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino.
Conceived “in the spirit of the original California Jam,” the bill includes Queens of the Stone Age, Liam Gallagher, The Kills, Royal Blood, Japandroids, Wolf Alice, Bully, Circa Waves and Babes in Toyland, amongst many, many others.
A press release also promises “camping, carnival rides, a water park, attractions, a mobile recording studio and so much more.”
https://t.co/PYBY7hU7Jr #CalJam17 pic.twitter.com/mRP2Mpwg4J
— D.C. JAM (@dcjamfest) June 20, 2017
The full track listing for ‘Concrete and Gold’ is as follows:
1. T-Shirt
2. Run
3. Make It Right
4. The Sky Is A Neighborhood
5. La Dee Da
6. Dirty Water
7. Arrows
8. Happy Ever After (Zero Hour)
9. Sunday Rain
10. The Line
11. Concrete and Gold