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The Foo Fighters have announced their first Aussie and New Zealand tour since 2018 and the tragic death of the band's beloved drummer, Taylor Hawkins.
The rockers will be travelling Down Under in November and December 2023, before heading to Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in January 2024.
The band will kick off their Aussie stadium shows in Perth on November 29, before travelling to Adelaide to play on December 2, Melbourne December 4, Sydney December 9 and Brisbane December 12.
It comes after the release of the band's album But Here We Are, in which frontman Dave Grohl sings about his grief over losing his best friend Hawkins.
Hawkins died suddenly in his hotel room last year at the age of 50, just hours before Foo Fighters were due to perform at a festival in Colombia.
The Foo Fighters have announced their first Aussie and New Zealand tour since 2018 and the tragic death of the band's beloved drummer, Taylor Hawkins . Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins pictured March 20, 2022 in Santiago, Chile
Tickets for all shows will go on sale on Thursday 15 June, while the American Express Pre-sale begins Friday 9 June.
It comes after the band took time out to remember their late drummer during their show at the Boston Calling Music Festival last week,
Not only did they honor him with a performance of Cold Day In The Sun, which is a song Hawkins sang before his tragic death in March 2022, but they also brought up his 17-year-old son, Shane, to play drums on a Foo Fighters classic.
After being introduced, the crowd went wild, especially when the large monitors showed the teenager behind the drums getting prepared to rock.
In an unscripted moment, frontman Dave Grohl walked towards Shane, they shared a few words, then he flashed a big smile and began to laugh, and made his way to the microphone at center stage.
With his guitar strapped over his shoulder, ready to break out into the next song on the setlist, Grohl, 54, confessed: 'He just told me, hey, say something, I've got to fix the snare [drum].'
After the band and the crowd laughed out loud, the Times Like These star proceeded to show off his flare for comedy, in order to stall for time, by dropping some of
