Foo Fighters will celebrate their 25th anniversary with a North American tour on which the band will hit some of the same cities it visited during its first trek, back in 1995.
The 2020 Van Tour will launch on April 12th in Phoenix and wind down on May 20th in Hamilton, Ontario — with more shows to potentially be added, possibly at small venues like the ones the band played in 1995.
In a press release, the band teased, “Aside from many of those clubs on that 1995 trek having since ceased to exist, squeezing a 2020 FF show into the few that are still around would just be too insane . . . or would it? Stay tuned for the answer to that question.”
Drummer Taylor Hawkins told us a while back why smaller shows are sometimes better than arena gigs: “There's such a different feeling you get when you play something like that, as opposed to playing the sort of, you know, the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in front of, you know, 15,000 people. I mean, that's a big, giant thing, you know, and that's a big, over-the-top show. But when they're right there in your face, you can't get that in front of 20,000 people.”
Along with the Foos' show itself, each stop on the tour will feature a preview of Dave Grohl’s new documentary, What Drives Us. The film finds Grohl exploring what compels musicians to leave behind everything and spend several months touring the country in a tiny van.
Tickets for the 2020 Van Tour go on sale Friday (February 21st) at 10:00 a.m. local time. The dates are (subject to change):
April 12 — Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Arena
April 14 — Albuquerque, NM – Santa Ana Star Center
April 16 — Oklahoma City, OK – Chesapeake Energy Arena
April 18 — Wichita, KS – Interbank Arena
April 20 — Knoxville, TN – Thompson-Boling Arena
May 10 — Green Bay, WI – Resch Center
May 12 — Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena
May 14 — Cincinnati, OH – Heritage Bank Center
May 18 — Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage Arena
May 20 — Hamilton, ON – FirstOntario Centre