Foo Fighters plays surprise concert with new drummer

Foo Fighters 2025

Foo Fighters played their first 2025 concert, which was a surprise show announced only one day before, which happened last September 13 in a 900-capacity venue in San Luis Obispo, California. Besides being their first live performance in one year, it also marked the debut of Ilan Rubin, their new drummer.

Dave Grohl announced him at the show, saying: “Everybody else has said it. I finally get the opportunity to say, ladies and gentleman, will you please welcome, the most badass motherfucker, Ilan Rubin, is playing in the Foo Fighters. It’s official”.

Rubin was a member of Nine Inch Nails and curiously, Foo Fighters’ previous drummer Josh Freese, replaced him in NIN right after being fired.

Foo Fighters surprise concert videos and setlist

  1. All My Life
  2. Rope
  3. Have It All (first time since 2015)
  4. Times Like These
  5. Wattershed
  6. Stacked Actors
  7. La Dee Da
  8. These Days
  9. The Pretender
  10. Walk
  11. My Hero
  12. Learn to Fly
  13. Rescued
  14. Aurora
  15. This Is a Call
  16. No Son of Mine (with Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” interpolation)
  17. Shame Shame
  18. White Limo
  19. Winnebago (Late! cover) (first time since 2014)
  20. Best of You
  21. Alone + Easy Target (first time since 2018)
  22. Low
  23. Monkey Wrench
  24. Exhausted (first time since 2014)
  25. Everlong

The band’s most recent album is “But Here We Are”, released in 2023. One of the reasons why the Foo Fighters were inactive were due to Dave Grohl’s personal issues. He revealed last year he would become a father again but from an out of marriage relationship.

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