Foo Fighters’ intimate ‘Live At St James’ Church’ show in Dublin, which they played last month, will be streamed worldwide on Easter Monday.
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The band kicked off their recent run of small UK and Ireland shows in the Irish capital on February 22 before heading to London and Manchester, and they showcased tracks from their upcoming album ‘Your Favorite Toy’ as well as a range of classic Foos hits.
“It’s gonna get loud…,” they announced in an Instagram post. “Last month Foos took over St. James’ Church in Dingle, IRE for Other Voices with a set that includes new cuts from Your Favorite Toy.
The special will air at 9:30pm BST, 4:30pm EST and 1:30 PST on Easter Monday (April 6) on RTÉ 2, with viewers worldwide being able to stream on the RTÉ Player.
At the St. James’ Church show, the band began with ‘A320’ – playing it live for the first time since 2000 – before working their way through hits including ‘Times Like These’, ‘The Pretender’ and ‘My Hero’. Latest single ‘Your Favorite Toy’ was played too, as well as fellow new track ‘Of All People’. They finished with ‘Everlong’.
Foo Fighters played:
‘A320’
‘All My Life’
‘Times Like These’
‘Of All People’
‘The Pretender’
‘Your Favorite Toy’
‘Learn To Fly’
‘No Son Of Mine’
‘My Hero’
‘Aurora’
‘Best of You’
‘Everlong’
The band followed up this set the following day with another Dublin show, this time at The Academy, and played a longer set. Shows at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire and Manchester’s O2 Ritz on February 25 and 27, respectively. A run of European stadium shows will follow this summer – including two dates at Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium – and you can find any remaining tickets here.
The Foos announced ‘Your Favorite Toy’ a month ago, on February 19, sharing that it would arrive on April 24.
Frontman Dave Grohl then spoke to Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1 about what fans could expect, saying it was stacked with “noisy, loud bangers” that feel like they’re from “the old days”.
Speaking days later to BBC Radio 6 Music’s Huw Stephens, Grohl was reminded that The Beatles came to an end after their 12th album, ‘Let It Be’, and went on to explain that he isn’t sure about when Foos will release their final record.
“Every record has been our last record. So, I kind of feel like at this point you just kind of—you make a record and you go, ‘OK, well, let’s do it again and let’s see what happens.’”
The rock titans’ most recent LP was ‘But Here We Are’, which was released on June 2, 2023. It was the first Foo Fighters album since the death of longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins the previous year, with Grohl recording and performing the entirety of the album’s drum tracks in his place. The album was dedicated to both Hawkins and Grohl’s mother Virginia, who also died in 2022.
NME gave it a glowing five-star review, writing: “‘But Here We Are’ is a beautiful, noisy celebration of brotherhood and a stark, painful exploration of loss. It is messy, gut-wrenching, ambitious and gorgeous, as the remaining members of Foo Fighters push themselves to their limits and beyond. Through it all, ‘But Here We Are’ is an undeniable reminder of the healing, unifying power of music.”
