VFest 2008: Foo Fighters Cap Day One Fun
Day one of The Virgin Music Festival is coming to a close, with Dave Grohl (pictured right) and his band Foo Fighters tearing it up on stage.
Right now he's introducing his band, egging on the audience to push for his percussionist to do a triangle solo. Grohl's banter is getting increasingly vulgar as he readies the crowd for "his ass-shredding triangle solo."
He's taking swigs of a cold beer and belching into the microphone with full force. Charming. But the crowd doesn't seem to mind. It's all rock 'n' roll!
The crowd-surfing is being kept to a minimum and security's been pretty tight and incident-free.
The biggest cheers come during songs Times Like These and My Hero, the latter of which started slow and easy but finished with a screaming flourish, leaving the audience cheering for more, which is followed by Monkey Wrench.
Grohl's onstage banter is becoming more inaudible as he gets more loose and wasted on stage. All par for the course, I guess.
"You guys ready to go home or what?" he taunted the crowd. "Cause we've got a fuckin' curfew, you know?" Then, as the stage lights start strobing, they launch into the more recent The Pretender, leaving the crowd cheering for more....
"You guys are all full of shit. I hope you get voted off the island and go home," he cajoles.
Then he gives the crowd one last song, The Best of You. And I mean really given 'er.
The crowd, tired and exhausted from a long set and longer day, slowly filter across the island to begin lining up for a ferry back to reality. At least until tomorrow.
Stay tuned for more exclusive blogTO VFest coverage from day one, as well as live reports tomorrow from the islands.
Photos by Roger Cullman.
Comments (11)
So any comment on whether the amount of coverage of this festival is correlated to the advertising of the sponsor's product on this site? This isn't the only music festival of the year but it seems to get more coverage than all the others combined on this site.
There's no correlation whatsoever between our editorial coverage and paid advertising on the site. They always have and always will remain independent of one another.
It's a big festival, catering to diverse tastes, and we aiming to cover it from many angles. The reason why you've seen a few posts about Vfest today alone is because the organizers have provided accredited media with a fantastic on-site media filing room, complete with online access.
Cheers,
Jerrold Litwinenko
Editor, blogTO
Great photos but the write-up sounds like it was written by my Dad -- and I'm 30!
Maybe Roger should down a couple of cold ones before he sends off a missive from today's show. Loosen up that writing guy!
@Achiever: I take it your dad isn't a huge Foo Fighters fan then? Or are you implying that you need to get really drunk to appreciate their live show?
The writing is so not hip or appropriate for the subject matter. Pretentious? Yes.
"Grohl's banter is getting increasingly vulgar" um...
"belching into the microphone with full force. Charming. But the crowd doesn't seem to mind" Really the crowd doesn't mind an F bomb here or there? Uncouth fuckers that crowd is...
"he gets more loose and wasted on stage. All par for the course, I guess." - yeah that one and a half beers he had must have had him blitzed. how did he even hold on to his guitar let alone pick away like a pro...
"given'er" - what the heck kind of attempt at slang is that...
given'er. Priceless.
Gotta agree with Achiever here, and I'm not even a huge Foo fan - at least I wasn't until last night. I see a ton of shows large and small, and it is extremely rare for an a-list rocker like Grohl to show so much interest in the crowd having an awesome time. This post makes the guy sound like a bit of a pig, but I found him extremely affable. Just you wait - the Gallaghers won't care one iota whether or not you enjoy their performance. Here's betting they're sneering and disdainful...
Don't worry I know of "give'r."
It was the context of your use.
The fact you thought my comment meant ignorance of the term means you don't get it.
No worries.
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