Foo Fighters will stream their intimate performance at St. James’ Church in Dublin this Easter Monday, April 6th, offering fans worldwide a chance to experience the stripped-down set that kicked off a recent run of smaller venue shows. The concert, part of the “Other Voices” series, will air at 9:30pm BST on RTÉ 2, with streaming available internationally via the RTÉ Player at 4:30pm EST and 1:30pm PST.
The February 22nd performance saw the band deliver a twelve-song setlist that blended new material from their upcoming album, ‘Your Favorite Toy,’ with established hits. Notably, they opened with “A320” – a track not played live since 2000 – and included recent singles “Your Favorite Toy” and “Of All People.” The set too featured fan favorites like “Times Like These,” “The Pretender,” and closed with the anthemic “Everlong.”
The full setlist, as reported by ReadDork, was: ‘A320’, ‘All My Life’, ‘Times Like These’, ‘Of All People’, ‘The Pretender’, ‘Your Favorite Toy’, ‘Learn To Fly’, ‘No Son Of Mine’, ‘My Hero’, ‘Aurora’, ‘Best of You’, and ‘Everlong.’
This Dublin present marked the beginning of a series of intimate performances for the band, following a subsequent show at The Academy in Dublin, and appearances at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire and Manchester’s O2 Ritz on February 25th and 27th, respectively. The band is currently preparing for a run of European stadium shows, including two dates at Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium this summer.
The upcoming album, ‘Your Favorite Toy,’ is set for release on April 24th. Frontman Dave Grohl described the album as containing “noisy, loud bangers” reminiscent of the band’s earlier perform, in a conversation with Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1. He further elaborated to BBC Radio 6 Music’s Huw Stephens that each Foo Fighters record feels like it could be their last, stating, “Every record has been our last record. So, I kind of feel like at this point you just kind of—you make a record and you go, ‘OK, well, let’s do it again and let’s notice what happens.’”
‘Your Favorite Toy’ follows the critically acclaimed ‘But Here We Are,’ released in June 2023. That album was a deeply personal project for the band, being the first released since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins, with Grohl performing all drum tracks on the record. NME awarded ‘But Here We Are’ a five-star review, praising it as “a beautiful, noisy celebration of brotherhood and a stark, painful exploration of loss.”
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