Rumours that Foo Fighters would be playing a secret set at Reading Festival over the weekend not only turned out to be untrue, but also led to chaos at one of the smaller tents.
With the whispers spreading like wildfire, it was somewhat bad luck that a little-known punk band called The FF’ers had a 5pm slot at the BBC Introducing Stage. Naturally, over 3,000 hyped-up Foos fans descended on what they thought was the surprise appearance, only to be bitterly disappointed. Sadly for The FF’ers, this meant being pegged with mud, bottles and shoes by a whole lot of pissed-off bogans. In the resulting kerfuffle, the band fled the stage to make way for the next act Underground Railroad. Same response. Only after an announcement was made that the Foo Fighters would not be appearing did the projectiles stop flying.
Hmm, what is it with the Foos and fake secret gigs with unideal endings?
DekarTyphon
said on the 26th Aug, 2008