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Weezer talk about touring with Foo Fighters
Rivers Cuomo dishes details on the phone call he received from Dave Grohl!
Weezer will be making their third ever trip to Australia next year as part of Foo Fighters’ epic stadium tour.
Talking about joining their fellow American rockers on the road, frontman Rivers Cuomo has spoken about putting their unspoken rivalry aside to do the dates.
In a new NME interview, Rivers explains, “We’re friends and rivals. Friendly bitter rivals.
“I don’t think they think of us as rivals because they’re 10 times bigger than us, but that’s how I feel because we came up at the same time and they put their pedal to the metal, became gigantic, and now we’re opening for them on their stadium tour.”
Adding, “It’s all good, because they’re obviously amazing and we love the music.”
Dishing details on how the tour came together, Rivers also recalled the moment he received a phone call from Foos frontman Dave Grohl, “We were about to sign off on our own New Zealand and Australia tour. And they gave us a call and were like ‘Do you wanna come with us?’ We were like ‘Damn, stadiums? Where do I sign? Let’s do this’.”
Foo Fighters and Weezer are old time tour buddies, having embarked on a ‘Foozer’ tour in 2005 where they covered each other’s songs and pulled off some impressive onstage pranks.
Foo Fighters bring their Concrete and Gold tour to Australia in January 2018, with huge shows including nib Stadium in Perth and Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium.
As well as Weezer, a local support act will join Foo Fighters at each date across Australia – Aussie punks Clowns will open in Melbourne and fellow noise-makers Cosmic Kahuna open in Perth.
Tickets for Foo Fighters Australian stadium tour are on sale now.
Please note, Ticketmaster Australia is ticketing for the Melbourne and Perth dates only.
