Watch Taylor Hawkins’ son Shane join Foo Fighters on stage at London Stadium show

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Foo Fighters played the first of two sold-out shows at London Stadium last night (Thursday June 20) – once again inviting the son of late drummer Taylor Hawkins on stage to perform.

Check out footage, photos, the setlist and more below.Introducing the mammoth set with a warning of, “I’m gonna kick your fucking ass tonight”, Dave Grohl led the rock giants through a three-hour career-spanning performance, loaded with tributes to their relationship to UK and the capital.As well as dedicating Taylor Hawkins’ favourite Foos song ‘Aurora’ to his family who were all present, they once again had his son Shane drum with them – as they did at their huge Wembley Stadium performance in 2022.

Promising fans “something special,” Grohl invited Shane to play the drums on a spirited rendition of ‘I’ll Stick Around’ from the band’s self-titled 1995 debut album. “Thank you for waiting three hours to come play drums with us,” the frontman then told the 17-year-old.Shane performed with the band numerous times since his father passed away two years ago.A post shared by NME (@nmemagazine)The evening also saw Grohl ask for one fan to be removed for drunken behaviour, perform a partial acoustic cover of Led Zeppelin‘s ‘Stairway To Heaven’, play “the first love song he ever wrote” ‘Big Me’ for the first time on this tour, and once again bring his “favourite singer in the world” on stage with his daughter Violet joining him for a duet on ‘Show Me How’.They also delivered their now standard mash-up of Beastie Boys‘ ‘Sabotage’, The Ramones‘ ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ and ‘Whip It’ by Devo along with Nine Inch Nails‘ ‘March of the Pigs’ – the latter two in honour of the bands that new drummer Josh Freese has played with..