PHOTOGRAPHY: SHANNON WILK
METALTALK • OCTOBER 2021
FOO FIGHTERS
Foo Fighters hit the road this summer for their 26th-anniversary tour, postponed from the previous summer’s 25th anniversary. Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater. 17 September 2021 One of the additional dates added to the rescheduled tour was 17 September at Bridgeport, CT’s Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater.
This is the Foo Fighters 26th-anniversary tour, and the set really took fans on an experience through the years of the band, including several tunes from the band’s latest studio release, Medicine At Midnight, all the way back to their first album. As the band played My Hero, you
could feel the emotion in the air as the crowd sang every word back at the band. It seems Foo Fighters are just as passionate about the music as the fans are passionate about the music and the band. Later in the set, these six guys played two incredible covers - You Should Be Dancing by Bee Gees and Somebody To Love by Queen. The energy exchange between the band and the crowd is one of many reasons fans were reminded why they love live music.
The band has had a busy year thus far, with a new studio album released in February and a disco cover album released in July for Record Store Day.
Dave Grohl himself dubbed their performance a “raw, real rock ‘n’ roll show”, and I couldn’t describe it more accurately than that.
Thousands of fans poured into the venue for this sold-out show at one of the smallest venues Foo Fighters have played in a long time.
• Shannon Wilk
It was around 9:15 PM. The crowd erupted into deafening cheers and screams as Foo Fighters took the stage. The show started slowly with Times Like These but picked up quickly with a couple of the band’s classics - The Pretender and Learn To Fly.
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