Foo Fighters announce 2022 UK stadium shows

As well as currently tearing it up around America – where they also found time to troll the Westboro Baptist Church as their disco-tastic Dee Gees alter-egos outside a show in Kansas – Foo Fighters have announced a run of four stadium shows in England for next summer.

They’ll be hitting Manchester, Birmingham and London in June and July 2022, and they’ll be bringing Hot Milk, St. Vincent, Loose Articles and Courtney Barnett with them at various dates.

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“We can’t fucking wait to get back to the UK!” says Dave Grohl. “It’s been far too long. Get ready to make up for lost time with some long-ass nights of rock'n'roll.”

Dave recently revealed to blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus how the band choose what to play on tour, admitting that, "It's just hard to write a setlist."

"When we were rehearsing, we had these dry erase boards and charts and like, 'Here's these songs, these are the singles, and these are the deep cuts, and these are the new ones, and these are the covers.'" he told Mark on his After School Radio podcast. "It was hard to put it all together. You want to represent every era of the band, because there's more than a few, but you want to make a setlist that's like a rollercoaster, goes up and down. And it's hard.

"I know that we have to play Everlong, that's it. Everything else is like, 'Whatever.'"

Catch Foo Fighters live at the following UK dates next year:

June 2022

25 Manchester Emirates Old Trafford (w/ St. Vincent and Loose Articles)
27 Birmingham Villa Park (w/ Courtney Barnett and Hot Milk)
30 London Stadium (w/ St. Vincent and Shame)

July 2022

2 London Stadium (w/ Courtney Barnett and Hot Milk)

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