Foo Fighters to take indefinite hiatus
Acourding to Consequence Of Sound Foo Fighters are going on an indefinite hiatus, drummer Taylor Hawkins has confirmed in a new interview.
Yesterday New York Post’s Page Six reported news of the band’s impending “break.” The story noted that frontman Dave Grohl would be pursuing a solo project, “and [Hawkins] is pissed about it.” A representative for Foo Fighters called the story “utterly ridiculous,” but nevertheless, the band felt compelled to make a major announcement on Wednesday night.
Artisan News preempted Foo Fighters’ announcement by publishing an interview with Hawkins from January 16th. When asked about the band’s future, Hawkins broke the news of their hiatus — or, as the band jokingly calls it, an “ihateus.”
“We’re on ihateus right now, we’re on an indefinite ihateus,” Hawkins explained. He added that the decision “was not because we don’t love each other, or don’t want to make music together … We did so much in the last five or six years — we as a band could go into the studio tomorrow and have just as much fun as we ever had, but I think the world needs a break from us for a little while.”
Watch Hawkins’ interview below. His comments about Foo Fighters begin at the 5:10 mark.
This is not the first time Foo Fighters have gone on hiatus. In September 2008, the band announced a break from touring, and remained off the road for three years. The period of downtime seemed to pay dividends, as Foo Fighters returned in 2011 with perhaps their greatest album to date in Wasting Light. They’ve remained active ever since; in addition to touring the globe several times over, they released another album, 2014’s Sonic Highways, which was spurred on by an HBO docuseries of the same name. Last year, the band celebrated its 20th anniversary by embarking on another world tour, during which Grohl fell off a stage in Gothenburg, Sweden and broke his leg. The band ended up finishing the tour, and to cap off the year, they released a surprise EP called Saint Cecilia.
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