There is an inherent spectacle and scale to a Foo Fighters show. Stadium-sized riffs, wild animations on towering screens, maybe even some fireworks. Dave Grohl getting his cardio in and ending up drenched in sweat as he bounds across the massive stage, guitar slung over shoulder, to the cheers of tens of thousands of fans.
But, at their heart, the Foo Fighters are still just scrappy garage-rockers, a crew led by a teenage punk who grew up to be in the biggest band in the world – and then founded one of the biggest bands of the 21st century. Grohl is still that DIY kid at heart, just one who happened to write several of the most enduring alt-rock anthems of all time.
That side of Foo Fighters was on display Thursday night at a packed Irving Plaza, the 1,200-capacity Manhattan venue where Grohl and company popped up for a “secret” (read: announced with just a day’s notice) show celebrating their twelfth studio album, Your Favorite Toy, which arrived April 24. The lucky few who got in lined up for an in-person onsale at 10 a.m. day of show, and if the cavalcade of 30 years of assorted tour merch was any indication, the audience was composed of true Foos diehards, even if a surprising contingent responded when Grohl, during the show, asked who was attending their first Foo Fighters show.
Stripped of all its grandiose accoutrements – a backdrop with the spartan “FF” logo was the extent of the show’s production – the band proved that the true spectacle of a Foo Fighters concert is the band’s mind-bogglingly deep catalog (“There’s like 170 of these f–kin’ songs,” Grohl quipped when a fan asked him to play an old one he admitted they didn’t know) and their passion and synchronicity as performers.
It’s reassuring consistinency and longevity for a band that has lived through triumph (a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, reopening Madison Square Garden after its COVID closure) and turmoil (drummer Taylor Hawkins’ sudden death, Grohl’s much-publicized infidelity) this decade. For two-and-a-half hours and 25 songs at Irving Plaza, Foo Fighters reaffirmed its spot as a canonical American band – not that that’s something anyone who has turned the radio dial to an alt-rock station in the last 30 years doubts.
Read on for the best moments from the band’s Manhattan underplay.
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