Foo Fighters took to the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in the present day (June 23) lastly confirming that they had been behind thriller band The Churnups.
The band had been one in every of a number of acts rumoured to be performing beneath the moniker The Churnups on the opening Friday of Glasto 2023.
Foos frontman Dave Grohl was noticed backstage earlier in the present day, with eagled-eyed followers noticing Arctic Monkeys stage gear within the background which appeared to verify that the image was new.
The band opened with ‘All My Life’, with Grohl telling the gang: “All proper motherfuckers, let’s dance!”
“We solely have one hour, so we’re going to attempt slot in as many songs as we will,” he added.
Grohl additionally performed a snippet of Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’, earlier than launching into Black Sabbath‘s iconic ‘Paranoid’ riff.
The band then performed a livid rendition of ‘The Pretender’, sharing: “Final time we performed right here was 2017, I don’t know what number of of you had been there however we sang that shit loud again then.”
“You guys fuckin’ knew it was us this entire time, you knew it was us, proper?” Grohl joked concerning the much-talked about thriller slot, earlier than performing ‘My Hero’. “We’re not good at secrets and techniques.”
No introduction, simply straight into ‘All My Life’
#TheChurnups #Glastonbury2023 pic.twitter.com/rDIYUkypp5— Foo Fighters Archive (@FooArchive) June 23, 2023
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— BBC Studios (@bbcstudios) June 23, 2023
The Foos carried out on the Pyramid Stage forward of Royal Blood (8:15 pm-9:15pm BST) and headliners Arctic Monkeys (10:15pm-11:45pm BST).
2023 additionally marks 25 years since Foo Fighters first carried out at Glasto – on the identical day and in the identical slot that The Churnups had been billed.
Final 12 months, Grohl made a particular visitor look throughout Paul McCartney’s headline present on the Pyramid Stage together with Bruce Springsteen.
In a 5 star evaluation of recent album ‘However Right here We Are’, NME stated the Foos’ eleventh album was “a suitably pensive toast to rock’s restorative powers” which noticed them “work via their grief” after the dying of bandmate Taylor Hawkins.
Try all the most recent from Glastonbury 2023 on the NME liveblog right here, and see extra information, evaluations, images, interviews and extra right here.
