Foo Fighters Perform Australia’s First International Show In Geelong Since The Pandemic Began

Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shiflett and Rami Jaffee are not dead. Also Dave Grohl has not gone solo. It appears the recent Foo Fighters movie ‘Studio 666’ was fake news. The Foo Fighters were very much alive in Geelong, Australia tonight, and for the record, lets date stamp that as 4 March 2022.

What an event! Live music in Australia has suffered so much since Covid with the state of Victoria facing some of the longest lockdowns in the word in the pandemic. It is time to reclaim live music.

It’s Times Like These we learn to Love again #foofighters ♥️🙏🏻😂 pic.twitter.com/SNjMxofv5T

— 💧Jane Barnes (@jane13barnes) March 4, 2022

How appropriate that Foo Fighters declared international touring in Australia back open with Melbourne’s grunge influencers The Meanies and pub/punk rock Melbourne band Amyl and the Sniffers opening this show. (And how cool was it for a Victorian government funded event to put on a band called Amyl & The Sniffers and Premier Dan Andrews putting it in his own tweet and then removing the tweet because hey … he said Amyl & The Sniffers).

Foo Fighters in Geelong, Australia 4 March 2022 – photo by Bron Robinson

This was a special night because Victoria had suffered more lockdowns and lockouts for live music than any other state in Australia. Live entertainment has an economic value far greater than a tennis event, far greater than a petrol head event, far greater than a football season and far greater than that cruel horse race this state worships every November.

GOOD TO BE BACK!!! 🇦🇺👆 #FF2022 pic.twitter.com/1JHgn5Bhaj

— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) March 4, 2022

To see music fans gather in Geelong tonight emphasized the economic value of the music industry which this state government somewhat understands but this federal government has no idea. In an election year, consider the ones who supported the arts. (Hint: It was not Scovo).

So here we are at a major live music event for Australia with one of the last of the world’s great rock bands on the 20th Century. It is actually disgraceful that Australian governments ignored the live music industry during the pandemic yet as soon as its convenient use it to promote a path to normality.

Foo Fighters in Geelong, Australia 4 March 2022 – photo by Bron Robinson

TONIGHT!!! 🇦🇺

🖌 Art by John Harris / https://t.co/DECURS5B6n pic.twitter.com/ZrPmmtnHjE

— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) March 4, 2022

Foo Fighters Setlist, Geelong, 4 March 2022 as it began

Times Like These (from album One By One, 2002)
The Pretender (from album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, 2007)
Learn To Fly (from album There Is Nothing Left To Lose, 1999)
No Son Of Mine (from album Medicine At Midnight, 2021)
The Sky Is A Neighbourhood (from album Concrete and Gold, 2017)
Rope (from album Wasting Light, 2011)
Breakout (from album There Is Nothing Left To Lose, 1999)
Shame Shame (from album Medicine At Midnight, 2021)
My Hero (from The Colour and the Shape, 1995)
These Days (from album Wasting Light, 2011)
Medicine At Midnight (from Medicine At Midnight, 2021)
Walk (from album Wasting Light, 2011)
You Should Be Dancing (Bee Gees cover)
Somebody To Love (Queen cover)
All My Life (from album One By One, 2002)
This Is A Call (from Foo Fighters, 1995)
Big Me (from Foo Fighters, 1995)
Best Of You (from In Your Honor, 2005)
Monkey Wrench (from The Colour and the Shape, 1995)
Everlong (from The Colour and the Shape, 1995)

Foo Fighters will be back in Australia in November and December.

FOO FIGHTERS
With special guests

GENERAL PUBLIC ON SALE
Begins: Thursday 10 March (times staggered, see below)

ALL SHOWS LICENSED ALL AGES

Wednesday 30 November
HBF Park | Perth, WA
With special guests The Chats + Teenage Joans

Sunday 4 December
AAMI Park | Melbourne, VIC | An ALWAYS LIVE Event
With special guests Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers + Hot Milk

Saturday 10 December
Suncorp Stadium | Brisbane, QLD
With special guests The Chats + Hot Milk

Monday 12 December
Accor Stadium | Sydney, NSW
With special guests The Chats + Hot Milk

Thursday 15 December
Sky Stadium | Wellington, NZ
With special guests Amyl and The Sniffers + Dick Move

Saturday 17 December
Western Springs Stadium | Auckland, NZ
With special guests Amyl and The Sniffers + Dick Move

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