Foo Fighters have returned to playing packed venues, having recently headlined Lollapalooza and Madison Square Garden.
Frontman Dave Grohl told NME about the challenges of touring in a post pandemic world: “For the two-and-a-half hours onstage, it feels amazing. It’s the other hours of the day that pose a bit of a challenge because of all the new requirements and restrictions and guidelines. You have to be really careful out there. When you’re travelling with a crew of 60 people from state to state and venue to venue, you try your best to stay within your band bubble because the wheels could fall off at any moment. You wake up every day and cross your fingers and hope that we make it to the stage that day.”
Foo Fighters are playing it safe by following the government mandates and self-imposing additional ones to assure the show goes on. The band is requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to attend their shows.
Grohl & company aren’t taking anything for granted these days: “When you’re onstage… we’re playing like that quite possibly could be the last show. It’s great! When we hit the stage, a lot of the nerves go away because you’re back with the people, so it’s all right.”
The Foo will continue to tour the US for the rest of 2021 before heading to the UK in 2022. Unfortunately their only Louisiana appearance was cancelled when Jazz Fest pulled the plug on their fall festival.