{"id":31959,"date":"2021-06-07T04:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T11:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=31959"},"modified":"2021-06-07T05:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T12:00:50","slug":"foo-fighters-announce-26th-anniversary-tour-dates-for-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/foo-fighters-announce-26th-anniversary-tour-dates-for-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters Announce 26th Anniversary Tour Dates for 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Foo Fighters - Chasing Birds (Official Video)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1qYI-RtmYNI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/foo-fighters-tickets\">Foo Fighters<\/a> were originally set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their formation as a band with a 2020 tour, but like the rest of live music, the shows were put on hold during the pandemic. Now, the band has finally unveiled their rescheduled 25th (now 26th) anniversary tour lineup, adding to their previously announced 2021 sets at Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Bottlerock, and Boston Calling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The six-show run will kick off July 28th in Cincinnati, Ohio, followed by shows in Milwaukee, St. Louis, Bonner Springs, Oklahoma City, and Albuquerque. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/radkey-tickets\">Radkey<\/a> will play as openers for all six dates. The band is also expected to announce more shows within the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foo Fighters released their latest album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Medicine at Midnight<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in February 2021, after it, too, was delayed a year due to Covid-19. Last month, the band was announced as one of the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame\u2019s 2021 inductees, alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/the-go-gos-tickets\">the Go-Go\u2019s,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/jay-z-tickets\">Jay-Z<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/carole-king-tickets\">Carole King<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/todd-rundgren-tickets\">Todd Rundgren<\/a>, and Tina Turner. The induction ceremony will be held at Cleveland, Ohio\u2019s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on October 30th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grohl said that his initial reaction to hearing the news of Foos\u2019 induction was one of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201csurprise and, of course, very appreciative\u201d.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI just recently realized it\u2019s been half my life since I\u2019ve been in this band,\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> he said. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI feel, in a way, that I\u2019ve almost neglected how much we\u2019ve done in the past 25 years. I think because I\u2019m always working in a forward motion, I don\u2019t spend too much time sitting down and looking back at what we\u2019ve done or reflecting on our past achievements. I just kind of look forward to the next thing. So today has been a bit more reflective than before.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grohl added that he was \u201cmostly happy for [his bandmates] Pat [Smear], Nate [Mendel], Chris [Shiflett], Taylor [Hawkins] and Rami [Jaffee]\u201d, saying: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI don\u2019t think any of us ever imagined that this would happen.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>For more Foo Fighters ticketing info, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/foo-fighters-tickets\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Foo Fighters 26th Anniversary Tour Dates<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Show date and time: July 28, 2021 \u2013 August 9, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Show location: The Andrew J Brady ICON Music Center, Cincinnati, OH @ \u2013 Isleta Amphitheater, Albuquerque, NM<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foo Fighters were originally set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their formation as a band with a 2020 tour, but like the rest of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31962,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31959\/revisions\/31962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}