Foo Fighters played a blistering set at the London Stadium FREE now and never miss the top Royal stories again. SUBSCRIBE Invalid email Sign up fornow and never miss the top Royal stories again. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. “Apparently I can’t scream anymore,” Dave Grohl smirks to a sold-out London Stadium. The Foo Fighters frontman has been the subject of apparent concern from fans this week over the state of his iconic vocals. Grohl, now aged 49, is visibly amused – and it is easy to see why. Idolised by many as a living rock ’n’ roll legend, he is busy turning this 80,000-capacity venue into his very own playground for the night – putting headlines about his voice very much to rest. And thank goodness for that, because with nine albums under their belts and a love of breaking venue curfews, a Foo Fighters set is never a short one. “Are you f****** ready?” he howls before thundering into opener All My Life as he hurtles up and down the runaway intersecting the ecstatic crowd. Learn to Fly and The Pretender are up next, turning the crowd into a mosh pit before we get into the anthemic Sky Is a Neighbourhood, the first song of the night from their latest release Concrete and Gold, complete with a three-part harmony from their backing singers. Rope and Sunday Rain follow, with drummer Taylor Hawkins taking lead vocals with ease as his drum set literally rises upwards from the stage. Dave Grohl laughed off reports about his vocals<doc-sep>“I had to text him back and was like, ‘No dude, that’s not what we meant,” Grohl told The Sun. “What we were trying to say was it was uncomfortable to sit in a car and try to sing our own songs. If we were singing Queen songs or Led Zeppelin songs or Beatles songs, it would have been fine…but to sit there and sing your own songs…we felt weird about it.” It was all love on the couch, though, as Grohl and Corden re-lived their boyhood Beatles crushes following Sir Paul McCartney's epic 20-minute plus "Carpool Karaoke" segment and Grohl told a hilarious story about the time he tried to leave a McCartney house party early and Taylor Swift bailed him out. Worried about his early morning dad bus stop duties the following day, Grohl had planned his escape around 10:30, but after Sir Paul's impromptu jam session everyone looked to Dave to do his bit. "I can't play piano and I was a little out of sorts at that point and all the guitars are left handed," he recalled. "And right at that moment Taylor Swift stands up and she goes, 'I'll do a song!'... so she saved my ass." Watch the video below to find out which song she played. The Foos play the first of two sold out Concrete and Gold dates at London Stadium on Friday (June 22). Watch their late-night performance below.<doc-sep>James Corden's Carpool Karaoke segment on The Late Late Show has been popular enough with audiences to get its own spinoff series, but Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl hinted last year the skit may not be that popular with the guests. Grohl and the rest of the Foo Fighters described the experience as overly long and uncomfortable in an interview that made the whole thing sound far less fun than it looked on television. Grohl recently revealed Corden reached out to him not long after those comments circulated around the web, and said the host was not too happy:<doc-sep>Get email updates with the day's biggest stories Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Thousands of angry Foo Fighters fans were left stranded outside their Manchester gig for hours after their tickets were rejected at the gates. Furious fans, including one woman who is six months pregnant, were stuck outside in "a pen" until officials rectified the problem. One fan called Susie shared an image of a large crowd of concert goers standing outside the venue. She wrote: "When hundreds of us for standing at @foofighters gig in Manchester are penned away because our tickets haven't been sent through by @TicketmasterUK so angry and so sad. Been queuing for hours". (Image: @sparkly_alice/Twitter) (Image: @AtkinsonLj/Twitter) (Image: Daily Mirror) The doors opened at 4.30pm with supports acts The Cribs taking to the stage at 5.30pm and the Wolf Alice at half six. The Foo Fighters were due to start their set at 8pm and finish at 10.45pm and it's believed those left outside made it into the arena in time for the main show. Superfan Susie appealed to lead singer Dave Grohl to help them out, as did lots of other fans. She added: "Someone ask @DaveGrohl to come help us all stuck outside here at etihad and we can't get in. So damn upset. :'( foofighters TicketmasterUK hundreds of tickets aren't scanning. Help us!!!!!!!!!" Another fan, Georgia Jane Hulme wrote on Twitter: " Ticketmaster what a joke, hundreds of tickets not working for the foofighters - chaos. Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will auto-play soon 8 Cancel Play now (Image: Redferns) "Hundreds of people stranded outside the concert. Tickets rejected, no organisation basically telling everyone to wait until resolved. We've been trying the ticket since 4." A concert goer called Sophie wrote: "@TicketmasterUK 6 months pregnant and waiting in a pen with hundreds of foofighters fans because the tickets we bought from your site - no communication. Ridiculous. Let us in!" Others took to Twitter to say that thousands were left stranded outside the venue. Many arrived as soon as the gates opened in the hopes of getting a spot near the stage. Izzy Redfern said: "@TicketmasterUK we've been waiting for an hour and a half to get into @EtihadStadium to see @ foofighters and still no word when our tickets will be working. (Image: REX/Shutterstock) "It's 3000 of us, and we're going to miss the first band. What's the plan!?" Ashleigh Brougton arrived at the venue just after the gates opened but is still waiting outside. She wrote on Twitter: "@TicketmasterUK @Ticketmaster @foofighters bought foo fighters tickets off you for tonight, been here since half four and can’t even get in. What a joke. davegrohlhelpusout." The stranded fans were still in the car park as one of the support acts, The Cribs, took to the stage. Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will auto-play soon 8 Cancel Play now Many of those outside took to Twitter to say they had "no help or communication" from anyone for two hours. Some fans were allowed in at approximately 6.20pm. One fan, Nick Edge, wrote on Twitter: "@TicketmasterUK ticket declined by automated entry at Foo Fighters Etihad Mcr. "Asked to queue with large no.of people and told that @TicketmasterUK haven't passed on details so tickets aren't on the system. Missed support band and son worried he'll miss Foos. Not impressed." Another fan, Nikki Day said: "@TicketmasterUK Been stood outside the Etihad Stadium for over two hours as everyone who has bought tickets for Foo Fighters on ticketmaster aren’t getting in due to barcodes not scanning and tickets not recognised! Already missed one band and about to miss the second one!" A spokesperson for SJM said: “There was an initial problem with 2000 barcodes not scanning. "Unfortunately due to human error, a percentage of barcodes provided by Ticketmaster for tonight’s Foo Fighters concert at Etihad did not work. "This has been corrected and all fans are now able to get into the stadium. The problem is now resolved. Everyone is getting into the show and all gates have ran freely once the technical issue was resolved. "This was not a Foo Fighters error and we sincerely apologise for any delays experienced by fans this evening, and will be contacting them directly in due course.” The Mirror Online have contacted Ethiad Stadium for comment.<doc-sep>
After 24 years of nonstop recording and touring, the Foo Fighters can’t be blamed for losing a little of their spark. Fortunately for the aging band, the universe turned up the excitement at their June 16 concert in the Netherlands by providing a surprise light show. As Twitter footage revealed, a bright green meteor crashed through the sky just as drummer Taylor Hawkins was finishing a solo. The timing of the meteor and the drum solo is uncanny. In the video below, the green flash of light appears in time with the final beats, silencing the crowd for a split second, then the meteor’s tail disappears just as the cymbals crash and the guitars kick in. You might even think that Dave Grohl and co., who were performing at the Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf, had even timed it just so, but as it turns out there were no periodic meteor showers predicted for the area at the time. The bright green beauty, as captured by Twitter users, was just a freak fireball — a term for a meteor that’s brighter than Venus in the morning or evening sky. In addition to Dutch Foo Fighters fans, people in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and France saw the fireball as well, according to the International Meteor Organization, which compiled 197 sightings of the fireball. Its vivid green hue is the result of its chemical composition. As anyone who’s watched fireworks before, different elements display different colors when they vaporize. Strontium, for example, makes red, while copper compounds produce blue. According to the America Meteor Society, green meteors get their hue from a high nickel content, though here on Earth we make green fireworks using barium chloride. In the photo captured by German photographer Uwe Reichert, this fireball appeared to be nickel-rich indeed. The show-ending green flash might have been exactly the statement the band needed — especially amid recent concerns that Dave Grohl might have permanently damaged his voice.