The Foos here in Manchester<\/a> was at the rather vaster setting of Emirates Old Trafford, with 50,000 of us craning our necks beneath hooded macs to see Dave and co blow the drizzly June clouds away with a night of raucous anthems.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1_DBR_MEN_270226Foojpeg.jpg\")
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The Foo Fighters were in blistering form at The Ritz(Image: MEN)<\/p>\n
In the intimate setting of the Ritz, there was most definitely no craning required. However far back you were in the mosh pit, it was still like being at the most wonderfully wild “audience with” you could possibly have dreamt of – seeing the whites of the band’s eyes, and the intensity of their performance.<\/p>\n
It was like a cauldron of rock, albeit with the occasional spray of water – either from Dave’s dripping mane of hair or the whirling pint pots hurled across the crowds.<\/p>\n
And isn’t he just the most perfect rock frontman at the heart of it all? Yelling out some instruction or other usually followed by “Motherf***ers”, in the most endearing way it would have to be said.<\/p>\n
It’s almost Tiggerish the way he booms out the likes of: “Do you love rock ‘n’ roll music? You got to sing it!” before adding: “Guess what? Guess what? Me too Motherf***ers!”<\/p>\n
By the time the band kicks into Monkey Wrench towards the finale, the audience is in total frenzy mode, crowd surfers being swept to the front like flotsam at this stage.<\/p>\n
There are so many brilliant moments in this show that you feel like you don’t want it to end, even when we’re two and a half hours in, and the music is getting so loud it’s near pounding your heart out of your chest.<\/p>\n
This band may have been making music now for 30 years, but the setting and the energy made you feel like you were watching them just starting out.<\/p>\n
The main show ends with the huge swell of Best of You, the band departing briefly before their inevitable return to stage for the encore. Exhausted leads into Everlong for the final crescendo, the reverb left to echo around the Ritz’s historic walls as the band takes their final bow.<\/p>\n
Fans wander out onto Whitworth Street bleary eyed and with ringing ears just after 1.30am, feeling a little bit like “what just hit me”. But it was worth every moment for the rock ‘n’ roll masterclass from a band sounding at the absolute peak of their powers.<\/p>\n
Setlist – Foo Fighters at The Ritz February 27, 2026<\/p>\n
This is a Call<\/p>\n
All My Life<\/p>\n
Times Like These<\/p>\n
The Pretender<\/p>\n
La Dee Da<\/p>\n
Stacked Actors<\/p>\n
These Days<\/p>\n
Walk<\/p>\n
My Hero<\/p>\n
Learn to Fly<\/p>\n
Your Favorite Toy<\/p>\n
No Son of a Mine<\/p>\n
(Ace of Spades)<\/p>\n
Run<\/p>\n
Aurora<\/p>\n
White Limo<\/p>\n
Of All People<\/p>\n
Monkey Wrench<\/p>\n
Hey, Johnny Park!<\/p>\n
Best of You<\/p>\n
ENCORE<\/strong><\/p>\nExhausted<\/p>\n
Everlong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans are more used to seeing them in stadium shows these days, so for the lucky 1500 cramming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[69971,748,1936,393,4884,2465,8086,696,25182,25181,180744,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-795134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-brit-awards","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-co-op-live","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-manchester-city-centre","15":"tag-manchester-music","16":"tag-noel-gallagher","17":"tag-oasis","18":"tag-the-ritz","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116149302607326211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795134","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=795134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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