Foo Fighters announce UK tour and ask Royal Blood to support

Dave Grohl talks to Gigwise about upcoming UK dates

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Wednesday 12th November 2014 by Andrew Trendell | Photos by Splash

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Foo Fighters have announced details of 2015 UK dates - and revealed that they've asked Royal Blood and Iggy Pop to support them. Full dates and ticket details are below.

Ahead of tonight's huge UK show announcement, Gigwise sat down with frontman Dave Grohl to talk about the Glastonbury rumours, what to expect from their massive summer gigs and asking a certain Brighton, chart-topping two-piece to support them.

When quizzed about Glasto and Emily Eavis wanting them to play, Grohl replied: "She hasn't called me yet. The Foo Fighters haven't been there since 1998, and that's a fun festival."

And then, on to what to expect from their two nights at Wembley Stadium...

"At this point, we have a lot of songs," said Grohl. "We have a lot of die-hard fans and we have a lot of new fans - so we like to try and appease everyone. When you play a gig like that, I'm not going to turn my back to the audience and play some kind of challenging B-side shit. I'm going to try and turn around and get 60,000 people to sing along to the chorus like Freddie Mercury at Live Aid. That's to me, a fucking stadium show.

"We've got into this bad habit of playing until they tell us to stop. We even bypass the encore - it's like 'don't even walk off stage because you're going to waste fucking three minutes'."

When asked if his liking of Royal Blood had pushed him to ask them to support, Grohl replied: "Yes. Absolutely. It's funny. That's something we got really exciting about when doing those smaller gigs.

"We came back, I don't know why but I was on Youtube and I saw this little side-bar thing that said 'Royal Blood at Glastonbury' and it was fucking great! I was so happy to see people with fucking instruments going bananas, and then I found out that they've got the No.1 record, I was like 'oh, there's hope!'."

Foo Fighters will play:
25 May – Sunderland, UK – Sunderland Stadium of Light
27 May – Manchester, UK – Emirates Old Trafford
19 June – London, UK – Wembley Stadium*
20 June – London, UK – Wembley Stadium*
23 June – Edinburgh, UK – BT Murrayfield Stadium**

* With Iggy Pop & Royal Blood
** With Royal Blood

Tickets on sale now. For tickets and more information, visit here.