Foo Fighters have dropped all forthcoming show dates following the demise of the band’s drummer, Taylor Hawkins.
The rockers had been planned to play at the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday as well as spring dates at the Beale Street Music Festival; the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival; Columbia, Maryland; Raleigh, North Carolina; Daytona Beach, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; the Boston Calling Music Festival; and summer dates in Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and the UK.
“It is with extraordinary misery that Foo Fighters affirm the retraction of all forthcoming event dates considering the stunning loss of our sibling,” the band said in an explanation Tuesday.
Hawkins kicked the bucket Friday during a South American visit with the musical gang. He was 50.
“We’re upset for and share in the mistake that we will not be seeing each other according to plan,” the band’s assertion read. “All things being equal, how about we invest in some opportunity to lament, to recuperate, to pull our friends and family close, and to see the value in all the music and recollections we’ve made together.”
Hawkins was Alanis Morissette’s visiting drummer when he joined Foo Fighters in 1997. He played on the band’s greatest collections including “Individually” and “In Your Honor,” and on hit singles like “Best of You.”
In lead vocalist David Grohl’s 2021 book “The Storyteller,” he referred to Hawkins his as “sibling from another mother, my dearest companion, a person for whom I would take a projectile.”
