Foo Fighters’ new album Your Favorite Toy doesn’t drop until April, but Dave Grohl and company have already shared quite a few teasers, whether in the form of an official single or a series of brief snippets on Instagram. The Foos are currently in Ireland right now, where they played the yet-to-be-released album track “Of All People” live for the first time.
Firstly, last Sunday, Foo Fighters debuted “Of All People” in a small church during a taping of the Irish TV series Other Voices (they also played their Godzilla soundtrack song “A320” for the first time in 26 years), but we’ll have to wait for the episode to air before we can see that. The show has some powerful significance to Grohl, though, because it’s filmed in Dingle, West Kerry; the story goes that after Kurt Cobain died in 1994, Grohl went to Kerry to grieve and drove past a kid wearing a Nirvana shirt, prompting him to go back to the US and start another band.
Anyway! After announcing a series of short-notice pop-up shows in the UK and Ireland over the weekend, Foo Fighters played a to another small crowd in Dublin last night, where they did “Of All People” again. Jason Falkner is still filling in for the injured Pat Smear, and the band will back in the UK/EU in June to play stadiums. (“The UK loves rock ’n’ roll music, it just does,” Dave Grohl said on Graham Norton last Friday.) See a clip from the pit below.
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