{"id":312387,"date":"2026-02-23T03:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/312387\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:45:08","slug":"foo-fighters-play-secret-gig-in-dingle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/312387\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters play secret gig in Dingle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foo Fighters have played a secret gig in Dingle to mark the 25th year anniversary of the founding of the Other Voices festival.<\/p>\n<p>The concert was held in St James&#8217; Church &#8211; the venue synonymous with Other Voices.<\/p>\n<p>The gig was filmed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/podcasts\/new-moves\/new-moves-other-voices-468525\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Other Voices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/music\/2026\/02\/22\/foo-fighters-in-dingle-grohl-and-company-bring-a-surreally-euphoric-set-to-kerry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Times<\/a> has described the concert performed by one of the world&#8217;s biggest bands in a venue that can only seat around 80 as &#8216;euphoric&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>One person who attended the concert, Aiden O&#8217;Connor, said on social media &#8216;that it&#8217;s not everyday that Dave Grohl asks you mid gig, &#8216;Where did you see Nirvana?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A social media post from <a href=\"http:\/\/&lt;iframe%20src=%22https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FKerryAirport%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02BfQwzsihMXKNvS51aasEAUkZvcDdH5X7gZKsbTPGJopoeYfu5AR7yqaJp8RjhwX4l&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500%22%20width=%22500%22%20height=%22737%22%20style=%22border:none;overflow:hidden%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20allowfullscreen=%22true%22%20allow=%22autoplay;%20clipboard-write;%20encrypted-media;%20picture-in-picture;%20web-share%22&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kerry Airport<\/a> said they were &#8216;absolutely delighted to welcome Dave Grohl and the rest of the Foo Fighters this weekend&#8217;, describing them as down-to-earth, unassuming and as showing genuine appreciation for the warm Kerry welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Foo Fighters announced today they would play a concert at The Academy Dublin tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets went on sale at midday and sold out quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters have played a secret gig in Dingle to mark the 25th year anniversary of the founding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,146252,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-312387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-foo-fighters-dingle","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}