Foo Fighters at Glastonbury 2017 review - rockers cruise to middle of the road
(The Guardian Culture News)

Dave Grohl´s neo-grunge rockers play their early hits with ferocity, but you can´t escape the blandness of the ballads that followTime was when Foo Fighters would play a festival tent and have fans scaling the poles in order to get to glimpse them. From the ashes of Nirvana rose a neo-grunge band whose joyous melodies and ebullient punk energy charted a new course through alt.rock: anthemic but with a low-slung grittiness. Decades on, as Saturday´s Pyramid stage headliners, there isn´t that same sense of urgency, only the odd hint of what - apart from their legacy - once made them so special. The night begins with a nod to what might have been two years ago, when the Foos were slated to headline Friday night at Glastonbury 2015. Days before, tousle-haired frontman Dave Grohl broke his leg on stage in Sweden, bumping up Florence + the Machine to the top of the bill. Florence played a Foos song, Times Like These, in her barnstorming set, so Grohl pays generous tribute by playing it back to her. And then the band come crashing in. Continue reading...