Foo Fighters

Monday night I went and saw the Foo Fighters play!

We had general admission tickets right up the front ('we' were myself and David plus some of his friends (Beth and Luke - who happens to work with one of the frisbee boys, Marco))

We got there early and manged to get a spot just 4 people from the front and just to the right of centre stage.

The first support act was pretty crazy - the bass player dislocated his knee during the third song! We saw him fall to the ground and then throw off his bass. Thought he was just screwing around but then a roadie came out and helped him to the side where he slumped beside a speaker. He then asked for his bass and kept playing, and singing!!! He was clearly in a lot of pain but kept on going. After they stopped playing he was helped into a wheelchair and was taken to hospital! He recieved thunderous applause for his efforts (which compensated for the quality of their music or lack thereof)

Kaiser Cheifs were the next support band who were quite good and energetic and have that "I predict a riot" song.

Anyway, finally Foo Fighters came on (after the drummer had teased us by throwing his drumstick above a screen which hid the band while they set up)

I couldn't belive that it was actually Dave Grohl right there in front of me!!!

The show was awesome. Very loud, very powerful and intense.

The crowd was a bit pushy at the start and I just slipped back a few meters to get more comfortable.

Best songs were "Everlong"; which started soft with just Dave on guitar and then went nuts, "Stacked Actors"; which went for 10 minutes including a middle section where Dave ran through the crowd to the back and had a play off with the guitarist over Heartbreaker by zepplin, and "Monkey Wrench" which was the last song, during which I started jumping up and down and somehow drifted further and further to the front and middle of the crowd and ended up just in front of Dave with what felt like hundreds of sweaty bodies pressed up against me. After the show I managed to snare one of several of Dave's guitar picks which were thrown into the crowd which I ended up giving to Dave. It took two showers to feel like I had removed all the other peoples sweat from my body. Uhhhhh.

I pushed the car out of the carpark just for fun (people let us in out of sympathy) and then went home after a delighful and eventful evening.