Foo Fighters Showcase New Album At London Wembley Arena Gig

Foo Fighters previewed songs from their forthcoming new album at a one-off gig in London tonight (February 25).

The band thrilled a sold out crowd at NME's Big Gig at Wembley Arena, which also featured sets from No Age, Band Of Horses and Cee Lo Green.

Playing their first official gig in two years, Foo Fighters played a number of songs from new album, 'Wasted Light'.

"You guys realise this is like out first f*cking show in two years," singer Dave Grohl said. "It's nice to say we're back.

"You guys know we've got a new record coming out in a month and a half? There's some songs we'd like to play you off it."

The band then launched into new single 'Rope'. Other new songs included ‘White Limo’ and 'These Days'.

Elsewhere, Foo Fighters' 18-song set relied heavily on hits from their extensive back catalogue.

'Monkey Wrench', 'Generator', 'All My Life' and 'Pretender' all attracted huge crowd sing-alongs.

The band were relentless throughout, but Grohl did pause at one point to thank the London audience for "always being so f*cking good to use".

Foo Fighters concluded their set with a raucous four-song encore that culminated in ‘Best Of You’.

Foo Fighters set list:

1. Bridge Burning
2. All My Life
3. Times Like These
4. White Limo
5. Learn To Fly
6. My Hero
7. Rope
8. Generator
9. Pretender
10. Up In Arms
11. Long Road To Ruin
12. Cold Day In The Sun
13. Stacked Actors
14. These Days
15. Breakout
16. Monkey Wrench
17. Hey Johnny Park!
18. Everlong
19. Young Man Blues
20. Skin And Bones
21. This Is A Call
22. Best Of You

Before the band took to the stage, Cee Lo Green performed a short set, which included songs by Gnarls Barkley as well as his recent hit single, '**** You'.

The gig also featured a performances from Band Of Horses, who played songs from recent album ‘Infinite Arms’, and No Age.

(by Jason Gregory)

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