The biggest punk rock band in the world recently celebrated their 20th anniversary, having released Sonic Highways, their eighth album, on CD, download, vinyl and eight-part documentary TV series (with supporting world tour). It’s a far cry from the demo cassette of unused songs Dave Grohl recorded on his own in 1995, just to help him get his mind off the death of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain. But everything the band has done from that day forth has carried the same basic attitude: enough talk, let’s just do it.
Norwich is the third of Radio 1’s Big Weekends to have played host to the Foos. Their first was Sunderland in 2005 (around their 10th anniversary, aptly enough), and their second was about 70 miles due west, in Carlisle, 2011, and experience has taught us one thing above all. He may be the nicest man in rock, but don’t think that means Dave won’t blow faces clean off, the first chance he gets.
The biggest punk rock band in the world recently celebrated their 20th anniversary, having released Sonic Highways, their eighth album, on CD, download, vinyl and eight-part documentary TV series (with supporting world tour). It’s a far cry from the demo cassette of unused songs Dave Grohl recorded on his own in 1995, just to help him get his mind off the death of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain. But everything the band has done from that day forth has carried the same basic attitude: enough talk, let’s just do it.
Norwich is the third of Radio 1’s Big Weekends to have played host to the Foos. Their first was Sunderland in 2005 (around their 10th anniversary, aptly enough), and their second was about 70 miles due west, in Carlisle, 2011, and experience has taught us one thing above all. He may be the nicest man in rock, but don’t think that means Dave won’t blow faces clean off, the first chance he gets.
