Foo Fighters have “cancelled” plans for a 2025 tour
According to what was declared by Hellfest founder and organizer Ben Barbaud, Foo Fighters have “cancelled” any plans for a tour that would have seen the band engaged in 2025.
After the announcement by the French festival of Muse, Linkin Park, KoRn and Scorpions as headliners of the next edition, Barbaud gave an interview to Le Parisien to comment on the choice of artists on the bill. When asked why he made the move to include Muse in the lineup, after previously stating that Matt Bellamy’s band would never play the heavy metal-focused festival, the Hellfest founder and organizer said: “I they were served on a silver platter. A month ago, I was offered to program them with a handful of other European festivals.” He added:
“Foo Fighters canceled their summer tour and Muse were called in as reinforcements. I accepted because I was missing a headliner for Friday and because the Hellfest audience is always more open. With age, I too have matured, I am less sectarian.”
Regarding his decision to include bands and artists of different styles and genres on the bill, Barbaud commented: “I created this festival for the love of punk, hardcore and at the beginning for the purists. But today, I prefer to shock them rather than call always the same artists. We could have invited Iron Maiden and Slipknot again, but they were already at the festival two years ago…”.
Foo Fighters headlined Hellfest for the 2024 edition together with Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold and Machine Head, following the series of stadium dates in the United Kingdom (here is our story of one of the concerts at the London Stadium). Last summer’s tour brought Grohl’s band back to Europe for a series of shows after only two lives at Rock am Ring (here’s our story) and the twin Rock im Park in Germany last year for the release of the album “But here we are” (here is our review).
The concerts at the German festivals marked the return of the “Best of you” lineup to the Old Continent after about four years. If we do not consider the 2022 tributes to Taylor Hawkins in Wembley (here is our story from London) and Los Angeles, the group had been missing from the United Kingdom since 2019, before the arrival of the pandemic and the death of the drummer on the 25th March 2022.
Foo Fighters’ decision to cancel plans for a 2025 tour comes after Dave Grohl’s announcement last September in which he told the public that he had become the father of a little girl “born out of wedlock.” Following the birth of the baby, the group canceled their headline appearance at the Soundside Music Festival and currently have no live dates on their calendar.
