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[DID NOT ATTEND: May 2, 2026] Foo Fighters

In February of this year, Mitski announced a surprise intimate show at Starland Ballroom.  We went and it was terrific.  Now, two months later, the Foo Fighters did the same thing!

But this time, the tickets were for sale old schoool–at the venue, and that just wasn’t possible for me.  Correct, I didn’t want it bad enough.  People got there at 5AM.  The only thing worse than waiting for hours on line would be waiting for hours online and finding out the last ticket was just sold.

Foo Fighters announced this past Wednesday that the enormously popular rock band would perform two intimate club shows in the New York City area. On Thursday the band would perform at the 1200-capacity Irving Plaza in New York City. On Saturday, the band would perform at the 2500-capacity Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey.

The club shows were two rare opportunities to see Foo Fighters up close. The last time Foo Fighters played New York City was in 2024, before 42,000 fans at Citi Field. That open-air stadium performance was abruptly abbreviated due to a torrential downpour and lightning. The band last performed in New Jersey in 2023, headlining the final day of the Sea.Hear.Now festival on the beach in Asbury Park, before an audience of 35,000 fans.

Old school style, the tickets announced on Wednesday afternoon would go on sale at the two clubs’ box offices the following morning. Early arrivals would receive a wristband that guaranteed the later purchase of tickets. Fans wearing wristbands would be allowed to purchase two tickets for $30 apiece. The fans turned out at both locations and, once the box offices opened on Thursday at 10 a.m., the electronic tickets sold out within an hour.

But DannyPaps94 was there and recorded the whole thing.