Foo Fighters & Wildhearts

[Andy]

Download however,a main stage,mid-afternoon slot is feasible,especially with the strong rumours of AC/DC playing....

AC/DC... Really? Mmm interesting. Yeah WH could play there. After all they supported AC/DC back in '96.

[blackdeathcrew]

Fair point, but with gates open at 12noon I reckon there's space for 3 or 4 bands (GnR had a few when they played Wembley in the 90s. I seem to remember Skid Row and Nine Inch Nails, and was there another?)

Faith No More supported GNR at wembley in '92. I think NIN was in '91 and I cant recall for certain which of those gigs Skid Row were at, but think it was '91

[Damian]

Fair point, but with gates open at 12noon I reckon there's space for 3 or 4 bands (GnR had a few when they played Wembley in the 90s. I seem to remember Skid Row and Nine Inch Nails, and was there another?)

Faith No More supported GNR at wembley in '92. I think NIN was in '91 and I cant recall for certain which of those gigs Skid Row were at, but think it was '91

It was Faith No More and Soundgarden in 1992. Two support bands that were so much better than the headliners as to be embarrassing...

[blackdeathcrew]

The 'foos' have announced another date at wembley on fri 6th june too now. I WAS thinking about getting a ticket until I looked at the robbing bastards known as ticketmasters website. The ticket itself wasn't mega bucks for a big gig - £42.50 (thats in the seated area though ) HOWEVER..... Ticketmaster then want to charge £4.25 'service charge' and a further £4.95 for postage!!!!!!!! Thats adding nearly another £10 on the price of the ticket for them to basically print the ticket on a bit of paper and stick it in a 5 pence envelope and post it recorded delivery, which costs less than a quid to do. Makes me feckin mad that these robbin bastards get away with these charges, so on principal I won't be going now for certain .... End of rant lol

[gimme]

Ginger lemmy and dave shared a pizza at a darkness gig in america

[Ean]

Ginger lemmy and dave shared a pizza at a darkness gig in america.

Ah, see, I knew it. And it's mentioned in Ginger's Tour Diary :-

18th April 2004 - Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theatre

The next day, day two of the LA shows, arrives, and no-one is really in the mood to end the tour in this awful place, if last night was anything to go by.

The following incidents, that make up the final day of the US tour, could not be stranger if one was inventing them. You just could not make this shit up...

Firstly, I spend the day writing journal stuff, taking a long bath in the huge, overpriced room I am staying in and generally taking my time before venturing out into the plastic Hell that is Hollywood.

It is by pure co-incidence that I then run into The Darkness, as they head out for soundcheck. I'm off to buy my kids some toys and am heading for Willie's hotel room, across the road, as I excitedly tell Ed that Lemmy has accepted to play with us tonight and he will be arriving at soundcheck at 6:00pm. I try to get hold of Nikki Sixx, who originally agreed to play with us, but he isn't available anywhere. Ah well, maybe the dream won't be 'fully' realised, but Lemmy getting onstage is quite enough of a boon for any opening act.

Fucking LEMMY, man!

I run to Willie's room to grab some cash to spend in Toy's 'R Us (an occurrence that will have to eventually wait until tomorrow, when I find out just how fucking useless LA Taxi services are, spending over an hour and a half waiting for a cab and nearly causing us to miss our flight... useless lazy fucking cunts). At Willie's room I see him answer yet another phone call and presume that it is yet another guestlist request. As I am heading out of the hotel I am called back and told that Lemmy has recently said something derogatory about the Darkness in the press and so The Darkness have barred Lemmy from entering the venue at any point today.

The shopping spree put on hold, it is my duty to get hold of Lemmy to tell him the bad news. It is Sunday however and we cannot get in touch with Motorhead's management, so I will have to go to the venue, wait for him to arrive and let him know in person that he cannot enter the building. On the way to the Henry Fonda Theatre, I pick up the biggest bottle of Jack Daniels I have ever seen, as means of appeasing Lemmy, once I let him know that he has wasted his day coming to the show.

On arriving at the venue I see that our bus has been spray painted during the night, by a band that claim to claim to hate us. Considering no-one knows who we are over here, I deduct that they have mistaken our maroon Gay Machine for The Darkness's bus and have even written their name on the side, in a message that reads "____ _______ hate you"

(we will not reveal the name, so as not to be incriminated when we find this band and repay them for their kindness).

Painting the name of your band on a bus, as form of protest, must place you as the most stupid band in LA, which is REALLY saying something.

Meanwhile, at the venue, I wait and wait and wait and Lemmy doesn't show up. I later find out that his tour manager has already been told the news, and has relayed it to him, but not to me, or indeed the security of the venue, who have photocopied print-outs of Lemmy's face, to make sure that he doesn't get into the building.

Lemmy's driver has also been kept out of the loop and appears at 9:00pm to take him home, detonating a new security alert that Lemmy is in the building and could be out to cause trouble. I try to explain that Lemmy is a splendid bloke and definitely not a troublemaker, so I spend the remainder of the evening trying to track down surely the most recognisable face in the world of Rock, only to find that, obviously, he is not here.

Only in the world of The Wildhearts do uniquely fucked up things happen as regularly as they do. This, however, is a new level in irony, even for us.

The guys that originally agreed to get up onstage with us tonight disappear from the face of the Earth, while the outside chance, the king of LA, the guy that would have made the moment legendary has agreed to appear. And has been barred from entering the venue.

The show is a belter and the crowd are brilliant. Yesterday was obviously an industry attended show, hence the feeling that someone had died. The Darkness have a fantastic show, as Justin has the entire crowd in stitches with a swearing game that could have been lifted from an adult version of Sesame Street.

After the gig I get to hang out with Dave Grohl and I tell him the story of the day's earlier drama. He seems like a great guy and cannot believe that Lemmy has been barred from an LA show.

CJ informs me that Dave has telephoned Lemmy and requested that he come to the Rainbow Bar and Grill - Lemmy's favourite LA haunt, where The Darkness will be having a post-tour drink.

Lemmy duly arrives, looking every inch the dapper Rock Star and like a true gentleman talks to Justin, assuring him that the journalist had misquoted him and the entire thing had been taken out of context by an anti Darkness scribe.

Sitting at a table, with Justin, Dave Grohl and Lemmy really does make one pinch oneself in disbelief. Especially when one of your heroes is explaining away a problem to a friend who is currently saving your life and your career, at the behest of the world's greatest living drummer, who you informed in the first place.

Shit!

As the party gradually settles down and Rock n Roll people flood the street of Sunset Boulevard, Lemmy shakes my hand and assures me that there are no hard feelings between Motorhead and The Darkness and Dave Grohl gives me a big hug for helping him patch up a repairable rip in the delicate fabric of this most volatile of businesses.

It is the perfect end to what has been a perfect tour and as perfect an introduction to America as we could have ever wished for.

[Dark Lord of Barnet]

I think Ginger and Dave met in LA a few years ago - something to do with Lemmy rings bells.

Don't know how you'd go about persuading whoever about the bill mind. Good luck though.

Well its wishful thinking on my part Ean. I'd have no idea how to get WH on that bill. I really hope someone can get the ball rolling though. Failing that, how about a slot on the bill with Iron Maiden at Twickenham next year July 5th.

I agree the Wildhearts would fit in well and would be liked by Foo's fans, but there isn't a snowball's chance in hell of the band getting onto either of those bills. It's the promoters who decide the bills - even the headline bands rarely have anything to do with it. One thing you can be certain of - both those shows will be 'buy-ons' for the support slots. We are talking large sums of money to get on those bills, and only a band signed to a major record label with a big promo budget will be in with a chance. That's how all these shit but signed bands get on those bills with headliners who they are so unsuited to. Money talks...

[markE]

unfortunately i think that is 100% correct. it will probably end up being some shite like james blunt or whoever they want to plug that week.

[beerofthedark]

The 'foos' have announced another date at wembley on fri 6th june too now. I WAS thinking about getting a ticket until I looked at the robbing bastards known as ticketmasters website. The ticket itself wasn't mega bucks for a big gig - £42.50 (thats in the seated area though ) HOWEVER..... Ticketmaster then want to charge £4.25 'service charge' and a further £4.95 for postage!!!!!!!! Thats adding nearly another £10 on the price of the ticket for them to basically print the ticket on a bit of paper and stick it in a 5 pence envelope and post it recorded delivery, which costs less than a quid to do. Makes me feckin mad that these robbin bastards get away with these charges, so on principal I won't be going now for certain .... End of rant lol

*Adopts fake Yorkshire accent* £4.25? You were lucky! When I were a lad (or Wednesday to be precise) we were charged £5.50 service charge PER TICKET on a £50 ticket for Iron Maiden. £4.95 on top for posting to the other side of London.
And our father would slice us in two wit' breadknife and dance on our graves, etc, etc.