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Meet Foos at Lowlands. Plus get your UK tour tickets now!

10th August 2005

NME / GetLIVE.co.uk Lowlands competition

Ever wanted to flip a few burgers with Dave, Taylor, Nate and Chris somewhere cool 'n' rockin' in Holland? Now's your chance! Thanks to our dear friends at NME and getLIVE.co.uk, home of live music online, you can enter a saucy comp for you and a mate to go to the Lowlands festival in Holland and hang out with the Foos at a snazzy VIP BBQ backstage!

All you have to do to enter is go get the latest issue of NME magazine for the question and then go to the NME.com comps page to enter. Prize includes air and train fare and VIP camping passes. (Oh, and at least one free sausage!) Full terms and conditions can be found on the NME.com comps page. Simple innit. Good luck.

For more info on the Lowlands festival go here: getLIVE Lowlands site

Tour Dates

Hot on the heels of their triumphant headline appearances at T-in-the-Park and Oxygen, the Foo Fighters have announced details of their end of year UK tour. Guests on all dates - 11th December onwards are The Futureheads and Eagles of Death Metal. Tickets for all shows go on sale at 9.00am on Friday 12th August from the venue box offices as listed. But YOU as fans get the chance to buy them earlier in this special pre sale:

Saturday 10th December: (Already sold out) Cardiff Millennium Stadium

Sunday 11th December: Birmingham NEC

Monday 12th December Glasgow SECC

Wednesday 14th December: Manchester MEN Arena

Saturday 17th December: London Earls Court

Video to 'D.O.A.' coming soon!

The latest Foos video had most of the band turning green and nauseous.

"All video treatments kind of look the same - especially when you read like 20 of them in one sitting - they're all roughly the same," Chris Shiflett said. "So we went for one that was, like, the anti-treatment."

D.O.A features a gravity-defying concept pitched to them by Mike Palmieri, the young mastermind behind the Bravery's chock-full-o'-dominoes "An Honest Mistake" video.

The Foos are strapped inside a room that rotates clockwise and counter-clockwise, with a stationary camera capturing the action. As D.O.A progresses, the room begins a 360-degree rotation while the Foos perform the song. The idea, Palmieri said, is to create the illusion that during the course of the song, the room completes one full rotation.

Gut wrenching though it was, the Foos stuck with it! They were forced to endure take after take in the rotating room, which frontman Dave Grohl affectionately dubbed "The Barf Ball." Rough stuff. In the very words of Chris Shiflett "...damn that sh*t was gnarly!"