On Twitter over the weekend, the Foo Fighters announced their intention to play a crowdsourced show in Richmond, Virginia, a city the band hasn’t played since 1998. The origins of the show date back to March, when a Foo Fighters fan named Andrew Goldin began a Crowdtilt Open campaign to sell tickets to a show that the band hadn’t yet agreed to, in the hopes that the band would eventually agree to it.
“Rather than waiting, and waiting and waiting for our favorite band to come to us, we’re making it happen,” Goldin said in his campaign’s mission statement. “We’re selling tix to a Foo Fighters concert that the band doesn’t have scheduled yet in the hopes that they’ll come to our great city and play a show. Then if the band comes we all rock out. If they don’t come, everyone gets their money back. Every cent. So buy your tix, spread the word, and let’s make some rock-n-roll history.”
On Friday, Foo Fighters took to their Twitter account and agreed to play the show, and earlier today, Sept. 3, the band suggested a date and a venue: Sept. 17 at The National Theater in Richmond. You can check out those tweets right here:
well, well, well...@foofighters_rva @rvadonuts @browns_vdubs @Crowdtilt See ya soon...let's have a good time.#RVA pic.twitter.com/D4e873tXJG
— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) June 14, 2014
.@foofighters_rva @Tilt How’s Sept. 17th @TheNationalRVA sound? Let’s do it. If you pledged, check your email for details! — Foo Fighters (@foofighters) September 3, 2014
You can check out the campaign video right here:
