Foo Fighters have introduced numerous performances for 2023, the band’s first exhibits after promising to proceed on as a band after the heartbreaking dying of drummer Taylor Hawkins final yr.
At the tip of 2022, the band launched a press release confirming their want to maneuver ahead as a gaggle. “Without Taylor, we never would have become the band that we were—and without Taylor, we know that we’re going to be a different band going forward,” they wrote. “We also know that you, the fans, meant as much to Taylor as he meant to you. And we know that when we see you again —and we will soon — he’ll be there in spirit with all of us every night.”
Foo Fighters have been confirmed as headliners on the Boston Calling Music Festival on May 26, the Sonic Temple Art and Music Festival on May 28 and the Bonnaroo Music and Art Festival on June 18. They have but to announce who can be taking part in drums in Hawkins’ place.
The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts from 2022 benefitted charities in each the UK and the US chosen by the Hawkins household.
Born in Fort Worth, TX in 1972, Hawkins relocated to Southern California as a baby, the place he grew up idolizing such drummers as Queen’s Roger Taylor, Phil Collins, Neil Peart of Rush, and Budgie, of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Prior to becoming a member of the Foo Fighters, Hawkins performed drums for Sass Jordan and joined Alanis Morissette on her Jagged Little Pill tour. He joined the Foo Fighters in 1997, first showing on their 1999 album, There Is Nothing to Lose.
Over the subsequent twenty years, he would document a complete of eight studio albums with the band, together with 2011’s Wasting Light, 2017’s Concrete and Gold, and, most just lately, 2021’s Medicine at Midnight. He additionally appeared along with his bandmates of their comedy-horror movie, Studio 666, which premiered in February.
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