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# Foo Fighters, Wembley Arena, review
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## Dave Grohl and his band lacked the bad guy edge, but the fans were
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adoring. Rating: * * *
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![Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters have gone No1 in the album charts replacing
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Adele][1]
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Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters have gone No1 in the album charts replacing
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Adele
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By [Tim Burrows][2] 10:28AM GMT 28 Feb 2011
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[Comments][3]
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Wall of amps? Check! Three guitarists? Check! Topless, longhaired drummer
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named Taylor? Check! That Foo Fighters are one of the biggest rock bands
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around is not in doubt. Dave Grohl was recent recipient of the Godlike Genius
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trophy at the NME Awards (the magazine put on this gig) and despite its loose
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definition of genius -- past winners include Ozzy Osbourne, Ian Brown and
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Shaun Ryder -- he came on stage for his first gig in two years visibly pumped
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up in obligatory black.
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The souvenir magazine hammered home Grohl's reputation as rock's "nice guy".
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It must be a strange role to fit into, in a tradition where idols such as
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Osbourne thrived on the notion that they were, well, bad.
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One particularly bad boy was Kurt Cobain, singer in Nirvana, the band in which
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Grohl rose to fame. While comparisons between the two bands subsided some time
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ago with the release of Foo Fighters' 1997 smash _The Colour and the Shape_,
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you can't help thinking, while watching Grohl shake his straggly, sweaty hair
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in front of his face, that here is Cobain's alter ego: brown haired, smilier,
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without the testing lyrics -- the Cobain that learnt to stop worrying and
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embraced the industry.
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Not that a perceived lack of edge seemed to bother the thousands that turned
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up: full of glee (and some, lager), roaring lyrics to favourites such as
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_Times Like These_ and _Monkey Wrench_, jumping around and increasing the
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arena's humidity. The grand old shed seems to suit big rock concerts better
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than the more modern O2, and the place rattled and throbbed to the volume. But
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Foo Fighters' appeal is summed up by their signature tune, _Everlong_, a song
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that displays a sensitivity and textural depth that could not quite make the
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transition to this former Olympic swimming pool. Songs such as the new single,
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_White Limo_, from the forthcoming album _Wasting Light_, cut through in terms
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of noise, but lost some of their nuances.
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"There goes my hero - he's ordinary!" the crowd bellowed at Grohl during _My
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Hero_, adoring fans declaring their admiration for a man who is, seemingly, so
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much like them. That's the beauty of this particular illusion. When he told
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the crowd that he had recorded the new album in his garage, it drew a cheer,
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but you imagined his idea of a garage involved luxuriously upholstered
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furniture and a full mixing desk, not spare car parts and old tins of paint.
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## Related Articles
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* [Dave Grohl interview][4]
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18 Apr 2011
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* [Radiohead: King of Limbs - track by track review][5]
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18 Feb 2011
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* [Roger Taylor remembers rehearsing with Queen in 1975][6]
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26 Feb 2011
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* [Liam Gallagher: 'adored by millions'][7]
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23 Feb 2011
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* [Radiohead's wet weekend music][8]
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25 Feb 2011
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* [Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Cloptre, CD review][9]
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25 Feb 2011
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Wembley-Arena-review.html
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## [Rock and Pop Music][19]
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* ### [Culture »][20]
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* ### [Tim Burrows »][21]
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* ### [Music »][22]
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* ### [Live music reviews »][23]
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late wife Linda][32] ][33]
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