Foo Fighters set to play Manchester show and 2015 UK tour?

Reports suggest huge shows for May 2015

Wednesday 12th November 2014 by Andrew Trendell | Photos by WENN

Reports suggest that Foo Fighters may soon be about to announce a show at Manchester's LCCC - with other UK dates believed to follow. (UPDATE - TOUR NOW ANNOUNCED - SEE FULL DATES AND TICKET DETAILS BELOW)

- UPDATE: Foo Fighters have announced a UK tour - read the full and announcement and Dave Grohl's interview with Gigwise here

According to eFestivals, a ticket agent has revealed that the Foos will be performing a huge stadium gig at Manchester's Lancashire County County Cricket Club on Wednesday 27 May, with further UK dates set to be announced soon.

Said tweet and links have now been removed, but it is claimed that tickets to the show would go on sale at 10am on Friday 21 November. We wait with baited breath. For the latest Foo Fighters tour and ticket information, visit here.

The band are also among the acts rumoured to be headlining Glastonbury 2015, alongside, Muse, Fleetwood Mac, Depeche Mode and Queen + Adam Lambert.

Meanwhile, this week saw Foo Fighters release their new album, Sonic Highways. Read our track by track review of the album here, and interview with the band here.

UPDATE - THE TOUR HAS NOW BEEN ANNOUNCED. See full dates and our interview with Dave Grohl below

Ahead of tonight's huge UK show announcement, Gigwise sat down with frontman Dave Grohl to talk about the Glastonbury rumours, what to expect from their massive summer gigs and asking a certain Brighton, chart-topping two-piece to support them.

When quizzed about Glasto and Emily Eavis wanting them to play, Grohl replied: "She hasn't called me yet. The Foo Fighters haven't been there since 1998, and that's a fun festival."

And then, on to what to expect from their two nights at Wembley Stadium...

"At this point, we have a lot of songs," said Grohl. "We have a lot of die-hard fans and we have a lot of new fans - so we like to try and appease everyone. When you play a gig like that, I'm not going to turn my back to the audience and play some kind of challenging B-side shit. I'm going to try and turn around and get 60,000 people to try sing along to the chorus like Freddie Mercury at Live Aid. That's to me, a fucking stadium show.

"We've got into this bad habit of playing until they tell us to stop. We even bypass the encore - it's like 'don't even walk off stage because you're going to waste fucking three minutes'."

When asked if his liking of Royal Blood had pushed him to ask them to support, Grohl replied: "Yes. Absolutely. It's funny. That's something we got really exciting about when doing those smaller gigs.

"We come back, I don't know why but I was on Youtube and I saw this little side-bar thing that said 'Royal Blood at Glastonbury' and it was fucking great! I was so happy to see people with fucking instruments going bananas, and then I found out that they've got the No.1 record, I was like 'oh, there's hope!'."

Foo Fighters will play:
25 May – Sunderland, UK – Sunderland Stadium of Light
27 May – Manchester, UK – Emirates Old Trafford
19 June – London, UK – Wembley Stadium
20 June – London, UK – Wembley Stadium
23 June – Edinburgh, UK – BT Murrayfield Stadium

There will be a pre-sale from 9am on Wednesday 19 November, before tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday 21 November. For tickets and more information, visit here.