{"id":34861,"date":"2025-11-02T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/34861\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:10:09","slug":"foo-fighters-announce-bakersfield-pop-up-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/34861\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters announce Bakersfield pop-up concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tThe band will play the Nile Theater on November 3rd<\/p>\n<p>The Foo Fighters continue their series of pop-up shows with their Bakersfield debut. The band will perform \u201cunlike anything you have ever seen before\u201d at The Nile Theater on Monday, November 3rd, the group shares.<\/p>\n<p>They teased the announcement with a picture of guitarist Pat Smear playing Buck Owens\u2019 signature red, white, and blue guitar on stage with the caption, \u201cI came here looking for something I couldn\u2019t find anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ticket sales will be available in person only and will begin at noon PT today (Sun, Nov 2nd) at The Fox Theater, 1700 20th Street, Bakersfield, CA 93301. (The show on 11\/3 will be at The Nile Theater, 1721 19th St., Bakersfield, CA 93301.)<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $30 all-in. No cash. No contactless or digital cards. Physical credit and debut cards only will be accepted. There is a two-ticket limit with the cardholder being one of the attendees. Tickets are will call only and must be picked up on Monday (Nov 3rd) after 3 pm with a valid photo ID. Full party must be present to enter the venue.<\/p>\n<p>The show is the latest surprise show following <a href=\"https:\/\/themusicuniverse.com\/foo-fighters-announce-pop-up-theater-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, CA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/themusicuniverse.com\/foo-fighters-to-play-orange-county-california-pop-up-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Observatory in Santa Ana, CA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/themusicuniverse.com\/foo-fighters-announce-surprise-dc-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Black Cat in Washington, DC<\/a>, and others over the past few months. They followed with a\u00a0live EP, <a href=\"https:\/\/themusicuniverse.com\/foo-fighters-surprise-release-live-ep\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Are Playing Where??? Vol. 1<\/a>, that captures the raw energy of their recent intimate, last-minute club shows across the United States. Available exclusively on the artist-centric platform Bandcamp, all proceeds from the six-track EP will be donated to local charities combating food insecurity in the cities where the performances were recorded.<\/p>\n<p>The group has confirmed\u00a0their <a href=\"https:\/\/themusicuniverse.com\/foo-fighters-share-new-single-announce-2026-stadium-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first stadium tour<\/a> since the massive 2023-2024 Everything or Nothing at All run that sold out football and baseball fields. Kicking off August 4, 2026, at Rogers Stadium in Toronto, the new tour will see Foo Fighters bringing the maximum volume euphoria of the band\u2019s recent surprise US club gigs and overseas outdoor and arena spectaculars to 12 North American cities, concluding (for now) September 26th at Las Vegas\u2019 Allegiant Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Foo Fighters also released their new song, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4ozfDgD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Asking for a Friend<\/a>.\u201d Featuring a decidedly darker melodic approach than the smash hit \u201cToday\u2019s Song,\u201d \u201cAsking for a Friend\u201d ratchets up the energy and intensity of its predecessor in favor of hypnotic opening verses that build and explode into impassioned refrains of \u201cWhat is real? I\u2019m asking for a friend\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The band will play the Nile Theater on November 3rd The Foo Fighters continue their series of pop-up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,24905],"class_list":{"0":"post-34861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news","11":"tag-foo-fighters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}