{"id":1948830,"date":"2025-08-08T07:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1948830"},"modified":"2025-08-08T07:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:24:36","slug":"silly-goose-frontman-jackson-foster-arrested-for-pop-up-concert-at-chicago-gas-station-after-lollapalooza-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/silly-goose-frontman-jackson-foster-arrested-for-pop-up-concert-at-chicago-gas-station-after-lollapalooza-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Silly Goose frontman Jackson Foster arrested for pop-up concert at Chicago gas station after Lollapalooza gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2Fnewspress-collage-i8gwabm6g-1754632269870.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261754617917\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A rap-rock band\u2019s frontman was arrested for throwing a pop-up concert at a gas station just days after their <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DM_I_wSOW6C\/?hl=en\">\u201clegendary\u201d Lollapalooza performance <\/a>\u2014 despite claiming he had a deal to host the gig. <\/p>\n<p>Silly Goose frontman Jackson Foster, 23, was seen being handcuffed at a BP gas station in Chicago, Ill. on Saturday and taken into a police cruiser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat am I being arrested for?\u201d Foster asked the officers in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Foster walked through a crowd of cheering fans and yelled, \u201cThey\u2019re only getting me, not the rest of the guys!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Silly Goose frontman Jackson Foster was arrested during a pop-up concert at a gas station. <span class=\"credit\">sillygooseatl, \/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The arrest happened two days after Silly Goose performed at Lollapalooza\u2019s opening on Thursday, where an estimated 115,000 people attended each day.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWas I the only artist who played Lollapalooza and then went to jail?\u201d Foster later <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNA_kA7uLle\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\">wrote in an Instagram post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Foster was the only member of the band to be arrested for the impromptu performance.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the Atlanta-based band, which has 95,000 monthly Spotify listeners, received permission from the gas station manager to perform at the location for an hour in exchange for $100 nightly. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did the same thing last year and we had an arrangement with the dude who runs the gas station,\u201d Foster <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/q101-morning-crew-podcast\/jackson-foster-silly-goose-on-lollapalooza-arrest-legal-trouble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Chicago Q101<\/a>. \u201cAnd he was cool with us playing there and we would just give him a couple of hundred bucks each night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Foster insisted that the band \u201creceived permission from the manager\u201d to perform. <span class=\"credit\">sillygooseatl, \/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe went to go do the same thing this year. He said we were all good and that we could play at the gas station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foster said the gig went well across the first two nights of the Lollapalooza weekend, but the band clashed with police on their third night playing at the gas station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were playing and the cops showed up. I don\u2019t know if (the manager) changed his mind or what happened, but all of a sudden we stop playing, I get off the van and I\u2019m put in handcuffs and brought to the police station,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first, in the beginning of the set, the guy who worked there was standing in front like in the crowd smiling. When the cops got there, I saw the cars pull up and we kept playing. When they walked over to the van, we stopped playing. I never saw (the police) walk behind and talk to the guy at first. I\u2019m sure they talked to him because I think he signed something for us to go to jail. I\u2019m not really sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Video posted on social media showed Foster being handcuffed and taken into custody. <span class=\"credit\">sillygooseatl, \/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police claimed the incident was much more serious than how Foster described it.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cunruly\u201d crowd\u2019s \u201cpartying and mosh-pitting\u201d allegedly blocked off the parking lot and sidewalk, according to police reports <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/lollapalooza\/2025\/08\/05\/atlanta-band-silly-gooses-singer-arrested-after-impromptu-performance-at-loop-gas-station\">obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral people were surrounding a van with a band on top playing music at an extremely high volume,\u201d the police report added.<\/p>\n<p>The general manager of the gas station alleged that there was no agreement between the business and the band, according to the Sun-Times<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The crowd at the gas station was acting \u201cunruly\u201d and \u201cmosh-pitting,\u201d according to police records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. <span class=\"credit\">sillygooseatl, \/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Foster insisted that the band was trying to \u201craise awareness\u201d for their upcoming album set to be released Oct. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Foster was charged with criminal trespass to property.<\/p>\n<p>The band has a series of shows booked in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom between September and November 2025, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p>Silly Goose launched a fundraiser to hire an attorney for Foster and has raised $5,658 of its $8,000 goal as of Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am worried that can affect getting to Europe this winter and in the future,\u201d he told the radio station.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rap-rock band\u2019s frontman was arrested for throwing a pop-up concert at a gas station just days after their \u201clegendary\u201d Lollapalooza performance \u2014 despite claiming he had a deal to host the gig. Silly Goose frontman Jackson Foster, 23, was seen being handcuffed at a BP gas station in Chicago, Ill. on Saturday and taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1948831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[314469,24402,340524,308694,21741,340525,305388,29901],"class_list":["post-1948830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-atlanta","tag-bands","tag-bp","tag-chicago","tag-entertainment","tag-gas-stations","tag-illinois","tag-singers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Silly-Goose-frontman-Jackson-Foster-arrested-for-pop-up-concert-at.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}