At the height of an unprecedented June heatwave, breaking into as much as a brisk stroll is likely to have you pouring sweat. Last night in Liverpool, Dave Grohl seemed unperturbed. He did not so much take the stage as run at it at full pelt.
He led his band out in front of their first UK stadium crowd since 2024 by tearing into “All My Life”, which is Foo Fighters at their best – a furious garage rock anthem that sounds as if it has found its way into vast arenas like this by accident. This is their first headline show in Liverpool since 1997; they are the latest major American act, over the course of three successive summers, to play at Anfield, joining the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey. (This might look like a fond nod to the city’s musical heritage but probably has more to do with Manchester’s Etihad Stadium having been under renovation during the same period.)
Pyrotechnics light up Anfield – these songs are built for stadiums (Photo: Andi K Taylor)Grohl himself, meanwhile, is on a one-man redemption mission. His widely accepted status as the nicest man in rock was cast asunder in September of 2024, when it emerged that an extramarital affair had produced a child, his fourth. He started out last night like somebody determined to have us forget about the cloud of scandal that’s been hovering over him, and which has led to Foo Fighters withdrawing from live tours for the past couple of years. The opening hour of this epic show seemed like an intense attempt to make up for lost time, comprising a slew of the kind of towering anthems that justify the band’s longstanding affinity with stadiums of this size. “The Pretender”, and its roaring chorus, soared, as did “Times Like These”, along with the handsome, ruminative likes of “My Hero” and “These Days”.
The opening hour was flawless, with classics like “Learn to Fly” and “Walk” tailor-made for stadium roaralongs. The problem was that said hour was only the first of three. Back in February, Foo Fighters played a handful of club shows in the UK to mark the release of their 12th studio album, Your Favorite Toy. That record was a genuine return to the kind of punk-inflected fury that reared its head on their early albums. A shame, then, that last night it was almost entirely forgotten in favour of a progression of mid-set indulgences, including a lengthy and ultimately tedious medley in which each individual member played a track from a different band they used to be in.
That was fine in the case of bassist Nate Mendel – who played an impressively searing take on “Seven”, by emo legends Sunny Day Real Estate – but felt somewhat less vital when they ran through The Wallflowers’ “One Headlight” in honour of keyboardist Rami Jaffee. This long jam session came immediately after the band had decamped, new drummer Ilan Rubin and all, to the B-stage to play an assortment of lighter tracks from their self-titled 1995 debut. You wonder whether Rubin, who was drumming with industrial titans Nine Inch Nails this time last year, was really being utilised to his fullest.
A triumphant first hour gave way to a mostly tedious middle section (Photo: Andi K Taylor)Those covers capped the second act of this marathon show, and when normal service was finally resumed, the group roared through heaps more hits, including extended versions of “Monkey Wrench” and “Best of You” and a gorgeous, standout take on “Aurora”, a dreamy, anthemic paean to Grohl’s youth that was late drummer Taylor Hawkins’ favourite song by the band and is, as such, now a staple of Foos setlists.
There was also a bizarre interlude in which a teenager was plucked from the crowd apparently at random to play the instrument of his choice with the group – but only if he could first solve a Rubik’s Cube in front of the 40,000-strong crowd. Only after he took his seat behind the drum kit was it revealed that he was the boyfriend of Grohl’s second daughter, Harper, and that it was his birthday. You can understand the frontman’s urge to mend fences with his family, but perhaps his public humbling might also have served as a prompt to consider what his audience really want. On tonight’s evidence, less could be more, with two hours of greatness sandwiching another of pure self-indulgence.
Foo Fighters play a second night at Anfield on Saturday 27 June, then touring Europe and US
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