{"id":284925,"date":"2025-11-15T15:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/284925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:14:12","slug":"watch-foo-fighters-perform-new-single-asking-for-a-friend-live-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/284925\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Foo Fighters perform new single &#8216;Asking for a Friend&#8217; live for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/foo-fighters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foo Fighters<\/a> performed their latest single \u2018Asking For A Friend\u2019 live for the first time \u2013 check out pro-shot footage below.<\/p>\n<p>The song was shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/dave-grohl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Grohl<\/a> and co. last month, and arrived alongside details of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/foo-fighters-reminded-of-why-we-love-and-are-forever-devoted-to-doing-this-on-new-single-asking-for-a-friend-as-they-share-new-music-and-announce-north-american-stadium-tour-buy-tickets-3901702\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North American stadium tour with Queens Of The Stone Age<\/a> set for summer 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Before then, the band had dropped hits that they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/foo-fighters-share-frenetic-teaser-for-new-music-about-to-take-flight-3899681\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cabout to take flight\u201d into a new era<\/a> and planning to share the long-awaited follow-up to the single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/foo-fighters-mark-30th-anniversary-new-single-todays-song-dave-grohl-thanks-past-members-3875499\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Today\u2019s Song\u2019<\/a>, which arrived over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they have given the track its live debut while in Monterrey, Mexico. Taking to the stage at the Estadio Banorte on Tuesday night (November 12), the band broke out the single towards the end of their 22-song setlist, launching into it after playing their 1997 song \u2018Hey, Johnny Park!\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-shot footage was shared to YouTube after the gig, and it shows the band delivering a powerful rendition of the song beneath soft red and pink lighting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The band are set to perform in Mexico City tonight (Friday November 14) at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez racetrack, and will be heading over to the UK and Europe next summer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/foo-fighters-announce-2026-take-cover-european-stadium-tour-uk-dates-liverpool-anfield-tickets-3906935\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live shows in Stockholm, Paris, Liverpool and more<\/a>. They will also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/mad-cool-announce-huge-2026-line-up-for-10th-anniversary-with-pulp-foo-fighters-florence-the-machine-nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-and-more-3906964\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">headline the 10th anniversary edition of Madrid\u2019s Mad Cool<\/a> festival alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/pulp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pulp<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/florence-and-the-machine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florence &amp; The Machine<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Grohl and his bandmates will kick off the aforementioned US headline shows with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/queens-of-the-stone-age\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queens Of The Stone Age<\/a>. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net\/c\/2862475\/431519\/7559?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.co.uk%2Ffoo-fighters-tickets%2Fartist%2F776005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here for UK tickets<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/2862475\/264167\/4272?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Ffoo-fighters-tickets%2Fartist%2F776005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here for international tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These will be some of their first shows since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/foo-fighters-have-reportedly-found-their-new-drummer-3881831\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they enlisted Ilan Rubin as drummer<\/a>. Before he joined, the sticksman was previously a part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nine-inch-nails\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nine Inch Nails<\/a>\u2019 line-up, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/foo-fighters-confirm-josh-freese-as-new-touring-drummer-3446145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Freese was the first drummer to join Foo Fighters <\/a>since the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/foo-fighters-drummer-taylor-hawkins-has-died-3190788\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/josh-freese-says-hes-shocked-and-disappointed-as-foo-fighters-boot-him-from-the-band-3863046\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freese announced that he was no longer in the line-up for Foo Fighters<\/a> earlier this year, saying that the other members \u201cdecided to go in a different direction with their drummer\u201d.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-nine-inch-nails-kick-off-north-american-tour-josh-freese-back-3883692\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He went on to replace Rubin in Nine Inch Nails<\/a> \u2013 having toured with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/trent-reznor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trent Reznor<\/a> and co. in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters performed their latest single \u2018Asking For A Friend\u2019 live for the first time \u2013 check out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,1352],"class_list":{"0":"post-284925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-rock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}