{"id":204760,"date":"2025-06-22T09:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/204760\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:20:09","slug":"watch-dave-grohl-join-kim-deal-for-pixies-gigantic-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/204760\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Dave Grohl join Kim Deal for Pixies&#8217; &#8216;Gigantic&#8217; in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/dave-grohl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Grohl<\/a> joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/kim-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim Deal<\/a> for a rendition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/pixies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixies<\/a>\u2018 \u2018Gigantic\u2019 in London \u2013 watch footage of the moment below.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/kim-deal-nobody-loves-you-more-review-3814895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim Deal \u2013 \u2018Nobody Loves You More\u2019 review: a neat reminder of her permanent class<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/foo-fighters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foo Fighters<\/a> frontman joined Deal at London\u2019s Roundhouse on Friday night (June 20), walking onstage towards the end of a set that saw the \u2018Are You Mine\u2019 artist sing several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-breeders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breeders<\/a> classics as well as covers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-beatles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Beatles<\/a> and Ed\u2019s Redeeming Qualities.<\/p>\n<p>After welcoming Grohl to the stage, he joked: \u201cI\u2019ll sing whatever you ask me to sing. I\u2019ll do whatever you ask me to do,\u201d and promised to \u201chang out\u201d with the musician after the show.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that Grohl has played the track with Deal. Back in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-the-breeders-perform-pixies-gigantic-with-dave-grohl-3348807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the two performed the song on stage at the 2022 Vets Aid charity <\/a>concert, and\u00a0also took on the 1988 track when the Breeders opened for the Foo Fighters on their headlining tour, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-dave-grohl-join-the-breeders-on-stage-to-cover-pixies-gigantic-3519919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">singing it together once again at a 2023 Austin City Limits late-night show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kim Deal at London\u2019s Roundhouse played:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Nobody Loves You More\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Coast\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Crystal Breath\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Are You Mine?\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Disobedience\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Wish I Was\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Big Ben Beat\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Bats in the Afternoon Sky\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Summerland\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Come Running\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018A Good Time Pushed\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Beautiful Moon\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Invisible Man\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Safari\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Happiness Is a Warm Gun\u2019 (Beatles cover)<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Biker Gone\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Off You\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018No Aloha\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Drivin\u2019 on 9\u2019 (Ed\u2019s Redeeming Qualities cover)<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Gigantic\u2019 (Pixies cover with Dave Grohl)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Encore:<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Do You Love Me Now?\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2018Cannonball\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grohl \u2013 who recently appeared on a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/ed-sheeran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Sheeran<\/a> track titled \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/ed-sheeran-releases-new-track-drive-with-contributions-from-dave-grohl-and-john-mayer-3871578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drive<\/a>\u2018 for the F1 soundtrack \u2013 was also in London earlier in the week. In an Instagram post shared by Amanda Palmer, he\u2019s seen backstage at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/yeah-yeah-yeahs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yeah Yeah Yeahs<\/a> show at the Royal Albert Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Grohl has been stepping back into the spotlight in recent months, and in May, it was announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/foo-fighters-to-play-first-show-of-2025-at-the-singapore-f1-grand-prix-3862398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Foo Fighters will play their first show of 2025 at the Singapore F1 Grand Prix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The comeback gig in October will also mark the band\u2019s first appearance together since Grohl courted controversy in September when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/dave-grohl-shares-that-hes-become-a-father-outside-of-my-marriage-3792457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed that he had fathered a daughter outside of his marriage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DLD6V2sRVtY\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Following the news, Foo Fighters subsequently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/foo-fighters-pull-out-of-soundside-music-festival-with-jack-white-replacing-the-band-3797478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancelled their scheduled headline slot at the Soundside Music Festival<\/a>. In December, Hellfest founder and director Ben Barbaud\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/foo-fighters-cancelled-planned-2025-tour-claims-hellfest-founder-3821087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed that the band had scrapped a summer 2025 tour, suggesting that Foo Fighters were primed to headline the French festival<\/a>\u00a0but were instead replaced by Muse.<\/p>\n<p>As for Deal, her debut solo album \u2018Nobody Loves You More\u2019 scored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/kim-deal-nobody-loves-you-more-review-3814895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a four-star review<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0NME last year, with Rishi Shah writing: \u201cWhen Deal first penned \u2018Are You Mine\u2019 in 2010, she could hardly have predicted it would appear on a solo record 14 years later. That microcosm is the exact beauty of \u2018Nobody Loves You More\u2019, which combines her strengths with her evergreen knack of embracing the moment into a collection that exudes maturity and class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the large cast of collaborators has few notable surface-level moments, this is an album that celebrates Deal\u2019s individual brilliance \u2013 with a little help from the friends she\u2019s made along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Grohl joined Kim Deal for a rendition of Pixies\u2018 \u2018Gigantic\u2019 in London \u2013 watch footage of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,453,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-204760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-rock","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114726281092746840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}