Sonic Highways World Tour

Sonic Highways World Tour

World tour by Foo Fighters
Promotional poster for the tour
Associated album	Sonic Highways
Start date	December 10, 2014 (2014-12-10)
End date	November 13, 2015 (2015-11-13)
Legs	10
No. of shows	43 in North America 18 in Europe 8 in Oceania 7 in South America 2 in South Africa 2 in Asia 80 in total
Foo Fighters concert chronology

Sonic Highways World Tour was a concert tour by American rock band Foo Fighters, in support of their eighth studio album Sonic Highways. It began on December 10, 2014, in Cape Town, South Africa and continued through South America, Oceania, North America, Europe and Asia. The tour abruptly ended after the November 2015 Paris attacks which included the slaughter of fans and crew at a concert by fellow U.S. rock band Eagles of Death Metal. The band were playing in Bologna on the night of the attacks and had been due in Paris after leaving Italy.

Background

The tour marked Foo Fighters' first concerts ever in South Africa, Colombia and South Korea. On most concerts there was a B-stage, where first acoustic songs were played before the band launched into cover versions. One exception was Slane Castle in Ireland, where rainy conditions prevented the usage of said stage.

During the concert in Gothenburg, Sweden on June 12, 2015, the lead vocalist of the band, Dave Grohl, fell off the stage early in the set and fractured his leg, but the rest of the band decided to continue performing while Dave was attended to backstage by on-site medical staff, with the drummer Taylor Hawkins doing double-duty as lead vocalist. He returned to the stage just fifteen minutes later to finish the set in a chair and kept playing until the end of the concert. However, the remainder dates of the European leg was cancelled due to Dave's leg fracture. This cost the band as much as $10 million in lost fees and travel expenses not offset by box office revenue.

Many artists joined the band on stage during the tour, including Perry Farrell, Stevie Nicks, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith, Rage Against the Machine's Brad Wilk, members from Zac Brown Band, Bad Brains, HAIM, Jewel, among others. After the cancellation of their Glastonbury's headlining concert, Dave said that he intended to ask Paul McCartney and Kanye West to join the band during the performance.

Opening acts

• 311 – South Africa
• Ash – Ireland
• BLK JKS – South Africa
• Comunidade Nin Jitsu – Brazil (only Porto Alegre)
• The Delta Riggs – Oceania
• Diamante Eléctrico – Colombia
• Dropkick Murphys – North America (Boston July 19, 2015)
• Eruca Sativa – Argentina
• Gary Clark Jr. – North America (selected dates)
• Ghost – Europe (only Norway and Sweden)
• God Damn – England (only Manchester)
• Hawk Eyes – Europe (only Hamburg)
• Hozier – Ireland
• Honeyblood – Scotland (only Edinburgh)
• Iggy Pop – England (only Milton Keynes)

• Kaiser Chiefs – South Africa, South America (except Colombia), England (only Sunderland), Ireland
• Los Mox! – Chile
• Mighty Mighty Bosstones – North America (Boston July 18, 2015)
• Mission of Burma – North America (Boston July 18, 2015)
• Naked Raygun – North America (selected dates)
• Raimundos – Brazil (except Porto Alegre)
• Rise Against – Oceania
• Royal Blood – North America (selected dates), Scotland (Edinburgh and Milton Keynes)
• The Strypes – England (only Sunderland), Ireland
• Teenage Fanclub – England (only Manchester)
• Trombone Shorty – Europe (selected dates)

Songs performed

Complete

Foo Fighters

• "Alone + Easy Target"
• "Big Me"
• "For All The Cows"
• "Exhausted"
• "I'll Stick Around"
• "This Is a Call"
• "Wattershed"
• "Weenie Beenie"

The Colour and the Shape

• "Enough Space"
• "Everlong"
• "Hey, Johnny Park!"
• "Monkey Wrench"
• "My Hero"
• "New Way Home"
• "Up in Arms"
• "Wind Up"

There Is Nothing Left to Lose

• "Aurora"
• "Breakout"
• "Generator"
• "Learn to Fly"

One by One

• "All My Life"
• "Have It All"
• "Low"
• "Times Like These"

In Your Honor

• "Best of You"
• "Cold Day in the Sun"
• "DOA"

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

• "But, Honestly"
• "Long Road to Ruin"
• "The Pretender"

Greatest Hits

• "Wheels"

Wasting Light

• "Arlandria"
• "Dear Rosemary"
• "Rope"
• "These Days"
• "Walk"
• "White Limo"

Sonic Highways

• "Congregation"
• "The Feast and the Famine"
• "I Am River"
• "In the Clear"
• "Outside"
• "Something from Nothing"
• "Subterranean"
• "What Did I Do? / God As My Witness"

Other (non-album songs)

• "Skin and Bones"

Covers

• "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" (Van Halen)
• "Breakdown" (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
• "Bad Moon Rising" (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
• "Been Caught Stealing" (Jane's Addiction)
• "Cinnamon Girl" (Neil Young)
• "Detroit Rock City" (KISS)
• "Gold Dust Woman" (Fleetwood Mac)
• "Had a Dad" (Jane's Addiction)
• "How Low Can a Punk Get" (Bad Brains)
• "In The Flesh?" (Pink Floyd)
• "Jailbreak" (Thin Lizzy)
• "Let There Be Rock" (AC/DC)
• "Miss You" (The Rolling Stones)
• "Molly's Lips" (The Vaselines)
• "Next to You" (The Police)
• "The Regulator" (Bad Brains)
• "School's Out" (Alice Cooper)
• "Seven Nation Army" (The White Stripes)
• "Stay with Me (The Faces)
• "Stiff Competition" (Cheap Trick)
• "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (Stevie Nicks)
• "Summer of '69" (Bryan Adams)
• "Tie Your Mother Down" (Queen)
• "Tom Sawyer" (Rush)
• "Under Pressure" (Queen and David Bowie)
• "Whole Lotta Love" (Led Zeppelin)
• "Young Man Blues" (Mose Allison)

Non-complete (played during jams, intros and band introductions)

Might be incomplete.

Covers

• "2112" (Rush)
• "Another One Bites the Dust" (Queen)
• "Blackbird" (The Beatles)
• "Blitzkrieg Bop" (Ramones)
• "Carry On Wayward Son" (Kansas)
• "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" (LCD Soundsystem)
• "Diary of a Madman" (Ozzy Osbourne)
• "Double Vision" (Foreigner)
• "Eruption" (Van Halen)
• "Everybody Wants Some!!" (Van Halen)
• "Frankenstein (The Edgar Winter Group)
• "Fly by Night" (Rush)
• "Footloose" (Kenny Loggins)
• "Green Onions" (Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
• "God Save the Queen" (Sex Pistols)
• "Happy Birthday" (Stevie Wonder)
• "Heart of the Sunrise" (Yes)
• "I'm the One" (Van Halen)
• "In a Big Country" (Big Country)
• "I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges)

• "Let's Go" (The Cars)
• "Limelight" (Rush)
• "Low Rider" (War)
• "Mountain Song" (Jane's Addiction)
• "MTV Theme Song"
• "No Fun" (The Stooges)
• "One Vision" (Queen)
• "Owner of a Lonely Heart" (Yes)
• "Panama" (Van Halen)
• "Radio Ga Ga" (Queen)
• "Roundabout" (Yes)
• "Search and Destroy" (The Stooges)
• "Smoke on the Water" (Deep Purple)
• "The Spirit of Radio" (Rush)
• "Stairway to Heaven" (Led Zeppelin)
• "Unchained" (Van Halen)
• "War Pigs" (Black Sabbath)
• "Wrathchild" (Iron Maiden)
• "You Really Got Me" (The Kinks)
• "Ziggy Stardust" (David Bowie)

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, attendance, and gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Revenue
Africa
December 10, 2014	Cape Town	South Africa	Cape Town Stadium	26,392 / 36,367	$1,517,770
December 13, 2014	Johannesburg		FNB Stadium	46,585 / 59,873	$2,641,690
South America
January 15, 2015	Santiago	Chile	Pista Atletica Estadio Nacional	20,939 / 24,918	$1,280,750
January 18, 2015	La Plata	Argentina	Estadio Ciudad de La Plata	32,241 / 37,888	$2,388,040
January 21, 2015	Porto Alegre	Brazil	Estacionamento FIERGS	31,471 / 31,471	$2,868,020
January 23, 2015	São Paulo		Estádio do Morumbi	66,958 / 66,958	$5,210,300
January 25, 2015	Rio de Janeiro		Maracanã Stadium	47,992 / 55,265	$3,604,000
January 28, 2015	Belo Horizonte		Esplanada do Mineirão	17,014 / 24,000	$1,268,100
January 31, 2015	Bogotá	Colombia	Estadio El Campín	36,883 / 41,683	$3,165,344
Oceania
February 18, 2015	Christchurch	New Zealand	AMI Stadium	27,000	—
February 21, 2015	Auckland		Mount Smart Stadium	35,000	—
February 24, 2015	Brisbane	Australia	Suncorp Stadium	39,448 / 40,000	$4,015,380
February 26, 2015	Sydney		ANZ Stadium	51,131 / 55,000	$4,960,000
February 28, 2015	Melbourne		Docklands Stadium	56,981 / 56,981	$5,479,510
March 2, 2015	Hobart		Derwent Entertainment Centre	6,505 / 6,505	$659,878
March 4, 2015	Adelaide		Hindmarsh Stadium	21,605 / 23,000	$2,269,560
March 8, 2015	Perth		Nib Stadium	31,101 / 31,262	$3,174,630
North America
May 15, 2015	Gulf Shores	United States	The Hangout	40,000	—
Europe
May 24, 2015	Norwich	England	Earlham Park	50,000
May 25, 2015	Sunderland		Stadium of Light	40,000
May 27, 2015	Manchester		Old Trafford Cricket Ground	50,000
May 30, 2015	Slane	Ireland	Slane Castle	59,858 / 60,000	$4,908,548
June 3, 2015	Hamburg	Germany	Barclaycard Arena	11,429 / 11,429	$738,172
June 5, 2015	Nuremberg		Zeppelinfeld	75,000 / 75,000	$12,862,772
June 7, 2015	Mendig		Flugplatz Mendig	90,000 / 90,000	—
June 10, 2015	Oslo	Norway	Telenor Arena	22,000	—
June 12, 2015	Gothenburg	Sweden	Ullevi	52,000	—
North America
July 4, 2015	Washington, D.C.	United States	RFK Memorial Stadium	48,000	—
July 6, 2015	Camden		Susquehanna Bank Center	—	—
July 8, 2015	Toronto	Canada	Molson Canadian Amphitheatre	—	—
July 9, 2015
July 11, 2015	Quebec		Plains of Abraham	—	—
July 13, 2015	Camden	United States	Susquehanna Bank Center	—	—
July 15, 2015	New York City		Citi Field	67,525 / 82,392	$4,611,456
July 16, 2015
July 18, 2015	Boston		Fenway Park	68,205 / 68,205	$4,242,491
July 19, 2015
Asia
July 24, 2015	Niigata	Japan	Naeba Ski Resort	—	—
July 25, 2015	Ansan	South Korea	Daebu Sea Breeze Theme Park	—	—
North America
August 12, 2015	Edmonton	Canada	Rexall Place	—	—
August 13, 2015	Calgary		Scotiabank Saddledome	—	—
August 14, 2015	Walla Walla	United States	Whitman College Athletic Fields	—	—
August 16, 2015	Greenwood Village		Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre	—	—
August 17, 2015
August 19, 2015	Maryland Heights		Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre	—	—
August 21, 2015	Kansas City		Sprint Center	—	—
August 22, 2015	Saint Paul		Xcel Energy Center	13,744 / 13,744	$911,920
August 24, 2015	Clarkston		DTE Energy Music Theatre	—	—
August 25, 2015	Burgettstown		First Niagara Pavilion	—	—
August 27, 2015	Noblesville		Klipsch Music Center	—	—
August 29, 2015	Chicago		Wrigley Field	40,788 / 40,788	$2,501,510
Europe
September 5, 2015	Milton Keynes	England	National Bowl	—	—
September 6, 2015
September 8, 2015	Edinburgh	Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium	—	—
North America
September 11, 2015	Vancouver	Canada	Rogers Arena	—	—
September 12, 2015	George	United States	The Gorge	—	—
September 14, 2015	Portland		Moda Center	—	—
September 16, 2015	Mountain View		Shoreline Amphitheatre	—	—
September 18, 2015	Anaheim		Honda Center	—	—
September 19, 2015
September 21, 2015	Inglewood		The Forum	26,443 / 26,443	$1,553,685
September 22, 2015
September 24, 2015	Chula Vista		Sleep Train Amphitheatre	—	—
September 25, 2015	Phoenix		Ak-Chin Pavilion	—	—
September 27, 2015	Albuquerque		Isleta Amphitheater	—	—
September 29, 2015	Oklahoma City		Chesapeake Energy Arena	—	—
September 30, 2015	Wichita		Intrust Bank Arena	—	—
October 2, 2015	Austin		Zilker Park	—	—
October 4, 2015	Atlanta		Centennial Olympic Park	—	—
October 5, 2015	Nashville		Bridgestone Arena	—	—
October 7, 2015	Memphis		FedExForum	—	—
October 9, 2015	Austin		Zilker Park	—	—
October 17, 2015	Anaheim		Honda Center	—	—
October 18, 2015	Castaic		Castaic Lake	—	—
Europe
November 3, 2015	Cesena	Italy	Carisport	—	—
November 5, 2015	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Ziggo Dome	—	—
November 6, 2015	Cologne	Germany	Lanxess Arena	—	—
November 8, 2015	Berlin		Mercedes-Benz Arena	13,811 / 13,811	$880,562
November 9, 2015	Kraków	Poland	Tauron Arena Kraków	—	—
November 11, 2015	Vienna	Austria	Wiener Stadthalle	15,800 / 15,800	—
November 13, 2015	Bologna	Italy	Unipol Arena	—	—
Total				774,319/ 832,386	$68,860,141

Cancelled shows

List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country and venue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Reason
June 14, 2015	Landgraaf	Netherlands	Megaland Park	Dave Grohl's injury, following his falling off the stage at the concert in Sweden (June 12, 2015)
June 16, 2015	St. Gallen	Switzerland	AFG Arena
June 19, 2015	London	England	Wembley Stadium
June 20, 2015
June 23, 2015	Edinburgh	Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium
June 25, 2015	Werchter	Belgium	Werchterpark
June 26, 2015	Pilton	England	Worthy Farm
November 14, 2015	Turin	Italy	Palaolimpico	November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks
November 16, 2015	Paris	France	Bercy Arena
November 17, 2015	Lyon		Halle Tony Garnier
November 19, 2015	Barcelona	Spain	Palau Sant Jordi

Personnel

Foo Fighters

• Dave Grohl – lead vocals, backing vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, drums
• Pat Smear – rhythm guitar
• Nate Mendel – bass
• Taylor Hawkins – drums, backing vocals, lead vocals
• Chris Shiflett – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Rami Jaffee – keyboards, mellotron, accordion