“Here we go, motherfuckers”, scream Dave Grohl, the leader of Foo Fighters, marking what would happen in the almost three hours of rock’n’roll that would follow in the reopening of Madison Square Garden. It was Sunday the 20th at night, after playing Times Like These.
Grohl paused when he finished the topic, looked around, shook his head in amazement, and said that about “Here we go, motherfuckers.”
The event marked a return to full-capacity indoor concerts in New York. The concert could only be attended by people who were 100% vaccinated, either with the two doses of Pfizer or Modern, or with the single application of Johnson & Johnson.
“After 15 months without live music, it really felt surreal to be screaming together with 18,000 people in a crowded place.”. says Jonathan Cohen in Variety, one of the privileged attendees of the recital.
ALL VACCINATED
Entry required proof of Covid-19 vaccine. There were reports of lax protocol from some concert goers, although Cohen did not witness any. On a similar note, there were a small number of anti-vaccine protesters outside Madison.
But after waiting over beers, the whole show seemed both familiar and totally strange. “Fortunately, one could not have asked for better stadium rock than the Foos, who, with their stadium-sized songs and sound, are well prepared to rise to this special occasion and offered frequent thrills and surprises. throughout his 24-song set, ”says the Variety chronicler.
Together, Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp and Foo Fighters are making New York history by welcoming vaccinated fans to this iconic venue for the first 100% capacity stadium concert since March 2020. This important moment will mark the first concert at this stadium in more than 460 days and the first event with 100% vaccinated attendees, in a new resounding endorsement of the return of live music ”, said the production in charge of the show in a statement.
The band led by Dave Grohl anticipated, thus, the cycle of concerts that Bruce Springsteen will do from next Saturday, June 26 in New York, which had been presented as the concert that would mark the return to activities in closed spaces after restrictions against coronavirus.
“Madison Square Garden is ready. We’ve been waiting for this moment for 15 months and we’re excited to finally welcome a crowd full of fully vaccinated and roaring Foo Fighters fans. ” said James Dolan, CEO and CEO of MSG Entertainment.
“We have been waiting for this day for more than a year”, Dave Grohl said. “And they are going to feel very strongly our excitement for having returned. New York, get ready for a long night of screaming together for 26 years of Foos. “
SONGS LIST
Times Like These, The Pretender, Learn To Fly, No Son of Mine, The Sky Is a Neighborhood, Shame Shame, Rope, Run, My Hero, These Days, Medicine At Midnight, Walk, Somebody To Love (cover de Queen, cantado por Taylor Hawkins), Monkey Wrench, Arlandria, Breakout, Creep (cover de Radiohead, cantado por Dave Chappelle), All My Life, Aurora, This Is a Call, Best of Your, Making a Fire, You Should Be Dancing y Everlong.
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