This weekend noticed Foo Fighters full two bought out exhibits at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool, the place the band have been joined on stage by two very particular friends.
The US rock titans’ solely scheduled UK exhibits of 2026 (with the band teasing extra to come back subsequent yr) kicked off on Thursday June 25. Within the latter a part of the present, frontman Dave Grohl picked out (who was assumed to be) a fan from the viewers, holding an indication that challenged the band to let him play a track if he may full a Rubik’s dice.
He took to the stage and the viewers was led to consider he had carried out so, earlier than the plucky younger man sat behind the package to blast via ‘Rope’ with the band. After the track, he revealed his title was Max earlier than Grohl replied: “I do know your title is Max as a result of it’s your 18th birthday and also you’re my daughters boyfriend”. The sold-out crowd then proceeded to sing him ‘Glad Birthday’.
Reviewing the present, NME wrote: “He smashes it [on the drums], then the phantasm is shattered once we study it’s truly the boyfriend of Grohl’s daughter Harper, and immediately is his 18th birthday. After an admirably on the market encore of the psych-y meandering of ‘The Instructor’ and early deep minimize ‘Exhausted’, the staple closing banger ‘Everlong’ and the purple fireworks lighting up the sky make everybody in Liverpool really feel prefer it’s their big day.”
@geebann0 Dave grohl takes fan onstage in Liverpool!! #foofighters jokeeees its max
Then on the next Saturday present, a eager fan dressed as a large pack of Mentos in tribute to the band’s Footos branding of their traditional video for early single ‘Huge Me’. Upon recognizing him, Grohl then invited him up on stage to sing with the band from the B-stage.
“When shit like this occurs, which means that is the evening of our lives, so thanks,” Grohl advised the group after.
“The photographer noticed me and began posting about it on Instagram, then the Foo Fighters reposted the photograph and when the time got here for ‘Huge Me’, I feel the entire crowd of individuals made some noise so they might see me,” the fan, a 31-year-old named Marc, advised the Liverpool Echo.
Foo Fighters bringing a fan on stage (who was dressed up as a the Mentos wrapping) in Liverpool @foofighters
Finest second of the evening!!! pic.twitter.com/MmSX2ftVu2
— Maca☀️ (@Macainconcerts) June 28, 2026
Ayer, FOO FIGHTERS hizo subir al escenario al mejor disfraz, #MentosGuy (Marc Bautista) e interpretaron “Huge Me”. pic.twitter.com/kOUim7fpHF
— µzq (@AcostaMzk) June 29, 2026
Marc, a Spanish fan who additionally performs in Foos tribute band Idiot Fakers, added: “It was superior. That is my dream. That is my fucking dream. In my head I used to be repeating ‘maintain calm, maintain calm’. I didn’t need to make a idiot of myself whereas dwelling out my dream. I’m nonetheless processing it.”
“I didn’t need to make a idiot of myself whereas dwelling out my dream. I’m nonetheless processing it.”
In NME‘s conclusion of the opening Anfield present, the assessment ended: “All of it feels a bit too acquainted to the standard Foos fare, however Radiohead they don’t seem to be. That is what they do. Grohl asks why oh why the band are solely enjoying these two Liverpool gigs of their dwelling away from dwelling of the UK this yr, however assures us that that is merely “a cocktail occasion earlier than the massive dinner” – with discuss of some huge plans in Blighty for 2027. For now, “that is simply the primary date”, so pucker up for Saturday and occasion on.”
Whereas in Liverpool, the band additionally took in a efficiency of ‘Instances Like These’ from native main college kids who took to the stage at Anfield earlier than one of many exhibits.
The band’s 2026 European tour continues with stops in Berlin, Vienna, Mad Cool competition, and Nos Alive earlier than a run of North American exhibits.