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FOO FIGHTERS FRONTMAN Dave Grohl dedicated the last song of the band’s surprise set on Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage to their late drummer Taylor Hawkins.
The US rock band stormed through a number of hit songs during the hour-long performance – their first time at the world-famous festival since 2017.
There had been high speculation that the Foo Fighters would take to the main stage today from 6.15pm in a slot which was billed under the name The Churnups.
An hour before the slot, the band posted a photo of flags within the festival crowd, one with the phrase Churn It Up brandished across it, and tagged the post #Glastonbury2023.
Kicking off with All My Life, Grohl told crowd: “We only have one hour so we gotta make sure we fit in all the songs we can.”
They went on to play a collection of hit songs including Best Of You and The Pretender.
Finishing off the latter, Grohl said: “You guys knew it was us this whole time, you knew it.
“We’re not good at secrets.
“Well, it’s nice to see your faces again, it’s been a long time. This is another beautiful day, another beautiful audience.”
Foo Fighters then launched into My Hero, prompting the thousands-strong crowd to belt out the chorus.
Later on, Grohl took a pause to introduce the band members, including Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and Rami Jaffee, before welcoming his daughter Violet to the stage – who he described as his “favourite singer in the world”.
He also made special mention to drummer Josh Freese, who he said was “the man who helped us to be here today”, following the death of Hawkins last year.
The drummer died suddenly in March aged 50 while the group were on the South American leg of their world tour.
The band subsequently announced they were cancelling all of their upcoming tour dates “in light of the staggering loss”.
Ahead of their last song of the night – Everlong – Grohl said: “Well it’s nice to be here for 58 mins and 30 seconds.
“We usually play this one as our way to say goodbye because we never like to say goodbye because I figure that if you guys come back we’ll come back soon.
“But I already know we’re coming back for a whole f****** tour but I would like to thank every one of you for sticking around for the last 28 years.
He added: “I would like to dedicate this song to the Mr Taylor Hawkins.
“So let’s sing this one loud, we’re missing Taylor.”
He earlier told crowds: “You’ve got a long night ahead of you, you know that right, there’s a whole other rock show.”
“We could do this all f****** night, you know what I’m saying.”
Also due to perform on the mainstage today are British rock bands Royal Blood and Arctic Monkeys.
The Sheffield band’s headline slot was thrown into question earlier this week when they announced frontman Alex Turner had acute laryngitis, forcing them to cancel their show in Marlay Park, Dublin, on Wednesday.
However, festival co-organiser Emily Eavis confirmed this morning that “they’re on”, which was welcomed with uproarious applause.
“It was a little bit close there for a minute and we were thinking about whether we should have a serious back-up plan in place, but no, thankfully they’re on, so that’s great,” she added.
It will be the rock band’s third time headlining the festival after topping the bill in 2007 and 2013.
The group are currently on a world tour and since the start of the year, they have performed hits across Australia, Asia and the UK from their back catalogue including I Wanna Be Yours, 505 and Do I Wanna Know?
Earlier today, Irish musician Hozier also confirmed that he would be the surprise act at 7.30pm on the Woodsies stage, previously named the John Peel stage.
The singer-songwriter, full name Andrew Hozier-Byrne, said he was “thrilled” to be performing at the festival again in a “not-so-secret set” on Friday evening.
Eavis also appeared to accidentally confirm rumours that Rick Astley and Blossoms will play a secret set tomorrow.
When asked about if their set was confirmed, she said: “Yep” before catching herself and asking if the show was being broadcast live.
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Might get some decking in the garden.
Think I’d prefer an ole holiday in the sun.
A hottub? I hear they’re eV en throwing in some cheap fags too.
Its easy to claim that when you screw your own people everyday but hey the banks are alright!!!!!!so dont worry!
This government is full of shite just like the last.
The books are well cooked especially when the goldman sachs were involved.
Were catching up to Jay Z .
Credit where credit is due… we’ll done Enda :-)
Well*
Did you get burnt on that apartment in Bulgaria Bobby?
Are you serious? Any recovery in this country is down to 2 things : Foreign Direct Investment and Corporation tax incentives ……..and us, the taxpayer paying their property tax, TV licence, Car tax, USC, bin charges, water charges , VAT etc ( oops is that more than 2?
Has everyone forgotten how much in debt we are? 195,488,422,000 euro at last count
Enda is right about 1 thing i have enough of this government.To many lies to much corruption time to move on https://youtu.be/27UL3tZW1bk
Could I suggest sorting out the messes that are patients on trolleys and the homeless with our re-found wealth.
The health department is being given an extra €665 million as a “supplement”. That could buy trolleys for everyone in the country. But guess what, the money tends to magically disappear…until we discover scandals of health consultants earning €500k etc etc
We definitely spend enough on health. It needs to be spent in better ways, and spending bigger won’t solve any problems it’ll just feed the appetite
Unions will not allow the change that needs to happen.
I used to think the HSE was a money pit filled with bureaucratic incompetence, lack of transparency/accountability and a focus on everything but an efficient health service.
Then I spoke to people who work within it. Now I know.
Jane, i fear the recession that has just past was our only hope to drive through change. Now, the unions will be bought off year after year.
Fantastic news. Now the big question arises, will these fools waste this money?
We definitely do NOT need to lock in higher salaries and pensions for public sector workers, already the highest paid in Europe. This must be resisted at all costs. And we must not pour more money down the health black hole, which just goes on higher consultants salaries and precious little results.
Invest in infrastructure, capital projects, public housing and eliminate the USC.
Not a matter of if Cal, it’s when. Our successive governments don’t know when to budget even in a surplus so it’ll be a spend fest with the election coming. Promises for all and country down the pan in 10 years time again. It would be great to say it won’t happen this time but there’s a reason boom and bust cycles happen unfortunately
Spending is fine, as long as its not on public sector salaries and pensions which are locked in for years and very difficult to reduce come the next recession. Spend money on anything else i say.
They already are (wasting the countrys finances). Apart from wasting it on themselves, alan kelly is blindly and cluelessly throwing 1.5 billion per year into irish water, it would have cost less to just fix the water system (don’t mention the politicians debt tax), and from what he said on rte last night, the amount of money he’s cluelessly thrown at the homeless crisis would buy a hotel in dublin and convert it into temporary accomodation. The guy as aspirations but he has absolutely no skills or competency to do his job.
Public service salaries and pensions hard to reduce Cal? They’ve already cut public service salaries three times since 2009 and also reduced pensions. How much easier do you want it to be? As for being the highest paid, maybe once upon a time, but no longer and Ireland is also one of the most expensive countries in the EU. It is easy to trot out tired old clichés. Every public body has lost loads of staff especially administrative staff. But workloads haven’t declined. Quite the contrary. Try to book an appointment in the HSE in any hospital without the much loathed administrators and see how far you get.
Big Question @Cal.. haha, course they will. Everything else you say is spot on.. That could do a lot but by time they pay the consultants, mess it up, pay them again, pay their “mates”, keep the public sector happy, there will be nothing left.. Should cut the USC by a lot more that was mentioned int he budget.. Temporary charge me arse.
Any chance that some of this money will trickle down to the HSE, schools, roads etc so it will actually be of some use to the people who put it there? Or will it just go on bonuses, brown envelopes & ‘consultants’
HSE? Throw more into that money pit? Are you mad? All the HSE problems could be removed by cutting unnecessary staff and money waste. Everybody who works in the HSE knows that…..except those who aren’t needed themselves and the unions would never admit it……
Or maybe if you are collecting more money than you need, don’t take so much. Governments aren’t supposed to turn a profit.
Why not Norway has been running a profit for decades.
Alien I don’t think you’ve quite grasped the difference between a current surplus for a country that owes tens of billions, and a profit!
Norway has oil…lots of it.
8th biggest crude oil exporter
Won’t someone think of Nigeria…
Not in this context.
In the context of oil?
They didn’t elect a female minister for energy did they?…
All it took was Mass homeless, health service a joke. Thousands below the poverty line to achieve this.
ah the auld good news prior to an election propaganda. Let us never forget the €200bn or so that we owe as a country, or around €57,000 per head!
these articles should always mention that….for balance, of course!
Wooooooooooohooooooo!!!!!!!
They take the credit,..
We’re all going on a date with Joan apparently. Now THATs kidnap!
They take all our money too.
More fantastic news for the government and further proof that they have us firmly on the right track as we head to the election.
Ha ha, good one. FF were in a similar position during the late nineties and especially the noughties and look where they’re wreckless spending and ineptitude got them. It’s a time for prudent investment not splashing the cash
Give everyone in the country who is a citizen regardless of age colour or creed 1000 euros…and let us share in the wealth if only for the sake of illusion…..
Wonderful idea. How aren’t you in a position of power already?
No ways. I paid more tax than the average person. Progressive tax systems will not be regressive when it suits the masses.
Maybe because of his maths… That would cost over €4.5 billion.
I am not sure.I have considered the Mossad as being responsible for my lack of political success.That thought may be sourced in an LSD flashback I may or may not have had. I cannot remember which it is.To be honest I have not got a clue ….What do you think ?…..Is it like an image thing?? CIA involvement in plot considered low risk….?…we are all doomed….
…probably just the maths, Alan.
And yet we are 3 billion more in debt than we were at the end of 2014. Its not working guys.
Can’t bear to look at Burtons smug puss and slap labour on the back while at the same time people are struggling to make ends meet including the people who are working
Yet families are homeless and those who need a break from caring for the disabled can’t get respite
More BS. In A&E waiting 6hrs, seems to be 1 doctor on, waiting with my 5 year old.
Get comfortable Alan. It’s shocking.
15 hrs wait in limerick 2 months ago.
Creative accounting much, huh…..well it is the time of year for fairytales, i suppose.
6 months of fairy tales incoming… Santa Clause is an empirical matter by comparison to what’s coming.
Brilliant! And how did these morons achieve this “success”. They just went off and raised taxes and introduced austerity to fill the gov bank account while at the same time crippling hundreds of thousands of people financially. while they also pay themselves exorbitant unjustifiable salaries, expenses and pensions. If thats their measure of success, then they shouldn’t be in politics. Hopefully the next gov will have some level of left wing qualities and will have some decent values and will remove the ridiculous political pensions that these criminals are making off with.
If the next government has left wing qualities, we will go down the same path to disaster that Greece has.
A lot of us are already there Cal thank to this disgraceful bunch.
Who told you that Cal?
Damn… It’s first time in over 4 years that the government has finally found it still had €20 left over after the bills have been paid.
And it’s already gone to your head…
They are shouting praise on the amount of money thats going into the state bank accounts through crippling taxes while at the same time opening food banks for thousands of people around the country. Thats disgusting behaviour. Get these clowns out now.
PAYE, PRSI, USC, VAT, WATER CHARGES, BIN CHARGES, PROPERTY TAX. . . .
How on earth did our wonderful caring Government help us all through this crisis ?
All the charges paid in every developed country. Bin charges were here long before this govt.
Corporation tax up 24%..yea right .just after the bad publicity about corporations not paying proper tax..and we’re expected to believe this shite?
No Derek of course you’re not meant to believe facts if they contradict your worldview. The Revenue are clearly having us on. Corporations are clearly not paying more tax even though the receipts say otherwise. Just keep pretending and then base your decision on what you wish to believe rather than what’s actually happening. What could possibly go wrong?
Derek….that’s 24% of 2%.
In the black? Feckin racists.
Our external debt remains at $264,000,000,000 – over 103% of GDP and in the top 30 of highly borrowed countries. The temporary surplus is nothing to get carried away about…
In terms of debt per capita – we’re in the world’s top 15! At about $52,000 per person. We have a VERY long way to go – and the odd surplus should be taken in context….
Obviously the best gov results ever before the election. Massive debt created by a couple of hundred incompetent politicians, then lumped onto the ordinary people while the same politicians get away scot free and fully expect our vote of confidence again in the upcoming election. Mad stuff!
Yes Adrian. But we continue – time after time – to vote in these incompetent politicians. In recent years, FF, FG, LB. Many were not only incapable, but also crooked. Now some are even considering SFIRA to run our country…
Ger, all that matters is the annual interest repayments, not the nominal debt. As we can borrow quite cheaply, the annual repayments are becoming more affordable.
It seems like as long as the gov bank account is raking in the money and the politicians are paying themselves ridiculous money, the gov sees this as a “success” regardless of the welfare of the citizens of the state.
Let’s use it to inflate public sector salaries
Taxing the hardworking to death
All those people living in B&B’s, hostels, hotels and walking the streets without a home should feel proud to have contributed all they have to this fantastic recovery in the Government coffers……………hang on a minute, WTF!
Wise up people this will go towards the bailout debt that was not ours in the first place.
Where the hell does that €41 billion go, would love to see a breakdown of who gets what!
Paragraph 4. Does that mean bonuses?
I wonder to whom these one off payments go and how much?
Great news that there is a surplus. Goes to show that having a reliable government will restore confidence in the country! We would never have seen that we could have this level of success five years ago.
The Public Sector unions will be all over this like a cheap suit. Get ready for all manner of pay demands relaxing of austerity measures, reversing of productivity measures in the LRA, reinstatement of ‘bank time’, new social partnership agreements. Having Howlin, a labour man, in charge of public expenditure is like having John Gilligan appointed governor of Mountjoy.
Imagine how much in the black Ireland would have been if money wasn’t wasted on Irish Water.
Just proves they have no idea how much to expect
Great, can I have some of MY money back so?
It is gone in asset buyout scenarios now…
Why have i an ingling feeling that FG and Lab have been withholding this money from people who needed for maybe 2 3 years so they could look good for the GE while some people were living on the streets but that dies not worry FG as long as they are voted in, people can die as long as FG and Labour get in.
People out there who may vote FG Lab please do not for the sake of it, think hard and vote with your conscience.
Michael – that’s just the national debt. The total external debt is $60 billion more. This country will not be out of the mire – for, at least, a couple of generations. Yet we continue to blame everyone else. The World Bank, ECB, EU etc. And seem unwilling to accept that it was us – who elected our crooked/incompetent/mediocre politicians, who made the disastrous decisions on our behalf…
They made bad decisions due to a lack of knowledge and cop on and then were told by greedy and inept people who run the World Bank, ECB, EU etc as well what to do, when they were inept and greedy themselves…
The ECB told the banks have our cheap Euro with cheap interest rates on borrowing the Euro and told the banks have more and more in order to have the Euro increase on the international markets to increase its value as a currency. The banks loved it as did those who borrowed…
Most of the staff behind the Euro came from Goldman Sachs as did Dragi…
They might use it to build housing
Great news indeed. Just imagine how much we’d be in the black if we applied the same tax rules to the tax avoiders our govt. is so afraid of?? Sorry for saying this and no disrespect meant to black people but our spineless govt. is an ‘uncle tom’ bunch of whip crackers to US commercial enterprise.
I got none of it back
Corruption,I mean corporation tax up and none of them can explain it.last few months in government and a sudden windfall of good news.lies,lies,lies,and families living on the streets, patients dying,for fg,lab,to look good to the electorate coming up to GE.
I suppose these useless politicians know they don’t have the skills to deal with the issues they are employed for like homelessness, rent controls, hospital overcrowding and providing adequate public services, so its easier for them to just collect the taxes, make the economy look good and then try and spin and trick the public into thinking they’re successful.
Yay were rich again !
Afraid not…. http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/debtclock/ireland we lose €303 a second.
That can pay off some of the 195,489,000,000 euro that we owe
Ask your mother paid shill ..
No it wasn’t.
Has anyone got the latest update on the total cost of the bailout?
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