Only a few weeks after Dave Grohl stood on a stage in St. Louis and wondered whether his band would ever share a bill with AC/DC again, unusual circumstances have handed him an immediate answer. What was originally intended as a one-off favor has turned into a second stadium appearance alongside the Australian hard rock veterans, courtesy of an autumn storm on the East Coast.
Foo Fighters have stepped in to open for AC/DC at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Friday, October 2. The concert forms part of AC/DC's Power Up tour and replaces a September 25 date that had to be postponed when severe weather hit the region. Promoters have confirmed that tickets purchased for the original September 25 date will be honored on October 2, while any remaining inventory has been released for general sale.
The band broke the news on September 29 across their official Instagram feed with a brief nod to their hosts, writing, "Let there be rock. See you October 2nd with @acdc!!!" The phrasing echoed the title of AC/DC's 1980 concert film, Let There Be Rock, a release Grohl has long pointed to as a crucial moment in his early life. Seeing that film at age eleven permanently altered how he thought about performing for a crowd. Ahead of the St. Louis concert earlier in the month, Grohl called sharing a stage with the group literally a dream come true, adding that he had spent his entire career trying to match the sheer fury the band brought to their concerts every evening.
That first joint appearance on September 8 was also an eleventh-hour arrangement. When scheduled support act The Pretty Reckless found themselves unable to play the St. Louis date, Foo Fighters offered to take their place, treating the detour as a rare bucket list opportunity rather than the start of a joint trek. During that performance, the band played a ten-song set drawn entirely from their biggest singles, including All My Life, The Pretender, Times Like These, My Hero, Monkey Wrench, and Best Of You.
Before finishing that set with Everlong, Grohl openly enjoyed the novelty of the situation. He told the St. Louis crowd that his band never truly says goodbye because they always manage to come back, musing aloud that an extended joint tour with AC/DC would be tremendous even if he doubted they would ever open for them again. He then laughed that he was eager to finish his own set simply so he could watch AC/DC play from the wings.
The New Jersey booking slots into an already demanding schedule for Foo Fighters. They have spent recent months on their Take Cover tour across North America, joined by Queens Of The Stone Age, in support of their twelfth album, Your Favorite Toy, which arrived in April. That run arrived on the heels of a European tour in June that featured two headline nights at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool. Taking on an unexpected support slot at an NFL stadium gives Grohl and his bandmates another chance to revisit their formative influences before their own calendar resumes.
