Foo Fighters #16

Last night we went to the IZOD Center in New Jersey to see Foooooooooooooooooooooo Fighters!!!!!

It was our second time seeing them this year (!) and my 16th time seeing them play live, and it was just as good as the other 15 times!

The IZOD Center was packed (I don't think it was quite sold out though, I still don't understand how the Foos can sell out 2 nights at Wembley and then not sell out a 18,000 seat arena in New Jersey) - they'd even opened up the seats behind the stage, so they were almost playing in the round... not quite though.

They said at the beginning of the gig that they were going to be playing for a loooooong time, and they weren't joking - they played for 2 hours 45 minutes! With a 7 song encore!!!

They played loads of amazing songs, including this cover of Pink Floyd's In The Flesh...

The sounded absolutely amazing, with their old songs sounding just a good as their newer stuff.

At one point Kris Novoselic (the bass player in Nirvana) came on to play accordion on One Of These Days, and Dave mentioned the anniversary of Nevermind being released, so it was a pretty big thing to have the two of them on stage together again... although Kris looks more like an accountant than a rock star these days.

It's always a bit funny being at a big rock gig and being so high up, sitting down (although we stood up for a lot of it), but somehow they made it feel like we were right down at the front jumping up and down, the energy and the atmosphere was great.

Here's a little video for Tom - I always think of this as being 'our song' when we see Foos together and I always think of us jumping up and down at the festivals together to this one. Abi and I were jumping up and down and singing along for the three of us...

It was, as ever, an absolutely amazing gig - I can't wait to see them again... I won't have to wait long either, I've got tickets to see them at Madison Square Garden in November!!!!