Watch Foo Fighters perform new single ‘Asking for a Friend’ live for the first time

Foo Fighters performed their latest single ‘Asking For A Friend’ live for the first time – check out pro-shot footage below.

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The song was shared by Dave Grohl and co. last month, and arrived alongside details of a North American stadium tour with Queens Of The Stone Age set for summer 2026.

Before then, the band had dropped hits that they were “about to take flight” into a new era and planning to share the long-awaited follow-up to the single ‘Today’s Song’, which arrived over the summer.

Now, they have given the track its live debut while in Monterrey, Mexico. Taking to the stage at the Estadio Banorte on Tuesday night (November 12), the band broke out the single towards the end of their 22-song setlist, launching into it after playing their 1997 song ‘Hey, Johnny Park!’.

Pro-shot footage was shared to YouTube after the gig, and it shows the band delivering a powerful rendition of the song beneath soft red and pink lighting.

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The band are set to perform in Mexico City tonight (Friday November 14) at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez racetrack, and will be heading over to the UK and Europe next summer for live shows in Stockholm, Paris, Liverpool and more. They will also headline the 10th anniversary edition of Madrid’s Mad Cool festival alongside Pulp, Florence & The Machine, and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

In August, Grohl and his bandmates will kick off the aforementioned US headline shows with Queens Of The Stone Age. Visit here for UK tickets, and here for international tickets.

These will be some of their first shows since they enlisted Ilan Rubin as drummer. Before he joined, the sticksman was previously a part of Nine Inch Nails’ line-up, and Josh Freese was the first drummer to join Foo Fighters since the the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in 2022.

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Freese announced that he was no longer in the line-up for Foo Fighters earlier this year, saying that the other members “decided to go in a different direction with their drummer”.  He went on to replace Rubin in Nine Inch Nails – having toured with Trent Reznor and co. in the past.

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