28th October – Dave chats on the phone to Zane Lowe.
3rd November – Foo Fighters perfom on Later w/ Jools Holland.
4th November – Dave joins Chris Moyles on the Breakfast Show.
7th November – Dermot O’Leary talks to Dave about the Greatest Hits.
Click on the relevant links above for each show’s exact broadcast time & once broadast all shows will be available for 7 days on the BBC iPlayer.
The appearance is yet to be officially announced but charitybuzz.com are offering the chance to bid on 2 tickets to meet the band at the recording of VH1 Storytellers in LA in October.
Later with Jools Holland returns for a 10 week run on September 15th and Foo Fighters will be returning to the programme (exact date tbc) to promote their November 2nd ‘Greatest Hits’ CD.
Six-time GRAMMY winners the Foo Fighters, 14-time GRAMMY winner B.B. King, five-time GRAMMY winner John Mayer, and 50th GRAMMY nominee Taylor Swift are the first performers announced for “The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music’s Biggest Night®.” The one-hour special — which also will celebrate the grand opening of the GRAMMY Museum at L.A. LIVE — takes place live on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE, and will be broadcast in HDTV and 5.1 Surround Sound on the CBS Television Network from 9 – 10 p.m. ET/PT. Additional performers and presenters will be announced shortly. Tickets to the live event will be available for sale to the public beginning Oct. 27, and proceeds will benefit the GRAMMY Museum.”The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music’s Biggest Night” will announce nominations in at least six categories, feature performances by past GRAMMY winners and nominees, and will set the stage for the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 8, 2009. The special also marks the first time nominations for the annual GRAMMY Awards will be announced live on primetime television. Following the one-hour live telecast, guests will experience a one-hour exclusive concert by one of the evening’s performers in celebration of the grand opening of the GRAMMY Museum. Tickets to “The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music’s Biggest Night” will go on sale to the public on Mon., Oct. 27, at all Ticketmaster outlets, via phone at 213.480.3232, or online at www.ticketmaster.com.
From today’s Independent on Sunday. (September 14th)
…Michael Eavis is taking Glasto back to its indie roots for 2009. A West Country mole tells me the Foo Fighters were spotted emerging from Eavis’s Zummerzet farmhouse recently, and I gather they have been signed to headline the Friday night…
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/matthew-bell-the-iiosi-diary-929670.html
For those that couldn’t be at the mammoth Wembley shows (or perhaps got stiffed and ended up with seats behind the stage), Vue cinemas across the UK will be broadcasting the concert in HD and surround sound on Tuesday June 24th.
Check out the list of participating Vue cinemas here.
(2nd June) CITY OF MANCHESTER STADIUM:
The gates will open from 4.00pm.
The Futureheads will take to the stage at 5.45pm.
Manic Street Preachers will be on at 6.55pm.
Foo Fighters will be on stage at approximately 8.15pm and are due to finish their set around 10.45pm.
more info
(6th/7th June) WEMBLEY STADIUM:
The gates will open from 4.00pm.
Against Me (6th) & Futureheads (7th) will play at 5.30pm.
Supergrass will be on at 6.25pm.
Foo Fighters will be on stage at approximately 7.45pm and are due to finish their set around 10.15pm.
more info
VH1 has just confirmed that critically acclaimed, multi-platinum rock bands Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters along with the Grammy Award-winning rock band The Flaming Lips will perform at the network’s third annual “VH1 Rock Honors” celebration honoring legendary rock band The Who.
This year’s event will deliver a night of high-voltage tribute performances by the three bands all leading up to the spectacular grand finale performance by The Who as they rock the stage. Additional performers, presenters and special guests will be announced as they are confirmed. As a result of The Who’s revolutionary and era-defining influence on rock music, this will be the first “VH1 Rock Honors” that salutes just one band.
Taping in Los Angeles at the Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA on July 12, “VH1 Rock Honors: The Who” will premiere on Thursday, July 17 at 9pm* on VH1, VH1 Classic and MHD. VH1.com will also offer select performances from the show leading up to and following the on-air premiere at Rock.VH1.com. The Who’s monumental legacy will be celebrated with a 2-hour tribute that will salute the music and the lasting impact of this groundbreaking band. The influence of The Who will be felt through spoken tributes, filmed packages and performances by some of today’s premiere rock acts as well as the legends themselves.
For more info see: http://www.vh1.com/shows/events/rock_honors/_2008/
Fans warned to watch small stages for suprise gigs 
Last year, after Foo Fighters played their biggest ever gig in Hyde Park, Dave Grohl warned us he’d be disappearing for a while.
“I know! That’s usually what happens. At the end of the tour we’re all pretty tired, but after the rock portion of the touring we went out and played a bunch of acoustic shows in smaller theaters and that really inspired us to keep playing and writing.”
Another summer of festivals.
“I know man. I feel like we’re the fucking house band in Britain. I’ll tell you we have some tricks up our sleeves for these festivals. I don’t want to give away any suprises and I know we’re playing the big stages, but you might want to keep an eye on the side stages too.”
New album, new songs.
“At this point we’re talking about the album coming out in September. But we were asked toplay these gigs, and it was around the time of release, almost like the ‘One By One’ period. That album came out soon after we played the festivals, and it’s tricky when you go to play a festival before an album comes out. You haven’t really introduced your new material to an audience. One the ‘One By One’ tour I remember there was this big concern and debate about it. I don’t think ‘All My Life’ had even dropped as a single. but I thought, ‘Man, this song is so fucking badass we have to come out and blow the doors right off the gate with it’. We did, and it was stellar, so we’re in the same boat this time. We’re going to be playing shows just before an album comes out and that’s why we’d like to make the gigs a lot more special than just us up on a big stage again. It’s going to be fucking fun!”
Recording the new album.
“While we were doing those acoustic tours I just went through this prolific phase where I started writing and demoing songs, so that by December last year Taylor Hawkins and I had recorded about 40 songs. A lot of them were complete songs. I have a daughter now who is a year old, and around the same time I was looking for a school for her – in Los Angeles you have to start looking for good schools really early because it’s crowded – and I realised that time flies. If I didn’t get another album out of my system before she gets into school then I’m going to be away from home a lot without her. So I figured that we have the record, we have the songs, we might as well go in and do it.
I’m not good at time off. There’s nothing I’d rather do than play. We were really supercharged from the big shows we did for the rock set and even more inspired by the acoustic shows, so it just drove me right back into the studio. Now we only have two weeks left, we’ve almost finished the record.
The album is coming along great, Gil did ‘The Colour And The Shape’ for us, so we have a great relationship with him. When we get together great things happen. I think there’s a power and intensity on this album that we haven’t tapped into before. It sounds like a Foo Fighters record but pretty badass – i’d imagine the new songs turning those festivals into riots – it’s gonna be good.”
Here’s where you can catch the band this summer. With more dates to be confirmed.
June 23rd - Los Angeles, CA – Dodger Stadium (supporting The Police)
July 7th - London, UK - Live Earth
August 18th - Chelmsford, UK – Hylands Park, V Festival
August 19th - Staffordshire, UK – Weston Park, V Festival
August 21st – Edinburgh, Scotland – Meadowbank Stadium
August 22nd - Dublin, Ireland – Marlay Park