The Libertines’ Gary Powell remembers being bare in entrance of Dave Grohl
The Libertines drummer Gary Powell has recalled the “awkward” 2006 incident the place he ended up fully bare in entrance of Dave Grohl on a ferry.
Powell remembered being “escorted backstage” after a couple of too many drinks following his band Soiled Fairly Issues‘ set on the Isle of Wight Competition, the place Foo Fighters have been headlining.
“There was a clumsy second at Isle of Wight in 2006,” Powell recalled in a chunk on The Independent. “Administration have been going to observe the Foo Fighters – earlier than that we’d been onstage as Soiled Fairly Issues. Our reserving agent additionally taken care of the Foos, and he launched me to Dave Grohl and we had a bit of chat.
“I believe that spurred me on for the day, as a result of Dave is superior. In a while, although, I began ingesting. I didn’t cease ingesting. Foo Fighters got here on however by that time I used to be gone.”
He added: “I used to be wasted to the purpose they needed to escort me to the backstage space – Bobby Gillespie was there with Primal Scream, and for no matter purpose, we determined to run round trashing folks’s dressing rooms. Safety helped carry me out, however in my thoughts, they thought it was actually humorous. They took me again to the bus and locked me in till we have been on the ferry and I managed to get off once more.
“However by that point, I used to be bare. Everybody else was strolling round [upstairs], and I made a decision I wanted to go for a wee. So I stood behind the truck – the wind was blowing in every single place – and who will get off his bus however… Dave Grohl. He checked out me and went, ‘That’s a superb look, man.’ Dave Grohl noticed me bare!’”
Grohl’s Foo Fighters performed the most important area gig in america for the reason that pandemic hit in New York final night time (June 20).
The band took to the stage at Madison Sq. Backyard in entrance of over 15,000 followers in what was one of many first main occasions to happen since New York lifted most of its COVID-related restrictions final week.