Rumours of a Foo Fighters clandestine gig yesterday (August 24) at the Reading Festival resulted in thousands of fans causation chaos in front of the BBC Introducing Stage.
A British punk band named The FF'ers were billed to be playing on the stage at 5pm (BST), causing rumours to spread round the web site that the band appoint was a pseudonym for Dave Grohl's band.
By the time 5pm came around 3,000 fans had gathered about the small stage. When The FF'ers came on they were bottled by the wild fans, world Health Organization were expecting to go through the aforesaid US rockers play a secret express. The FF'ers had to abandon their set due to the chaos.
Despite the rumours of the secret show beingness scuppered by The FF'ers' brief show, most of the fans remained by the stagecoach. The next band on, Underground Railroad, received a similar handling to The FF'ers, with fans hurling mud, bottles and place at them.
The Parisian threesome responded by playing 'NYC' in frenetic fashion, then began hurling the missiles back into the crowd. They were pulled off by security soon afterwards.
After announcers had calmed the situation by explaining that Foo Fighters were not going to play, Underground Railroad realised their localize to round 500 fans who had remained to watch them.
"That was a scary and punky moment for us!" drummer/singer Raf Mura told NME.COM afterwards his band�s performance.
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Thursday, 4 September 2008
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