Watch Foo Fighters play album version of ‘Breakout’ for first time since 2002

Foo Fighters have played the album version of ‘Breakout’ for the first time since 2002 – check out the moment below.

At the gig, which took place on October 10 at the Glion Arena in Kobe, Japan, the band played the album version of the track from their third album release, ‘There Is Nothing Left To Lose.’ The track is the second on the album and was released as the fourth single from the release.

Frontman Dave Grohl introduced the track saying “let’s do something we haven’t done in a long, long time”, before surprising fans with the opening bars from the song.

Foo Fighters are currently playing gigs in Indonesia, Japan, Singapore and Mexico this month and into November.

Check out the moment, along with the full set list, here:

Foo Fighters Played 

‘Enough Space’
‘All My Life’
‘Rope’
‘The Pretender’
‘Times Like These’
‘La Dee Da’
‘These Days’
‘Walk’
‘My Hero’
‘Learn to Fly’
‘This Is a Call’
‘No Son of Mine’
‘The Sky Is a Neighborhood’
‘Shame Shame’
‘Big Me’
‘Monkey Wrench’
‘Aurora’
‘Breakout’ (album version)
‘Best of You’
‘Exhausted’
‘Everlong’

Earlier this month (October 3), Foo Fighters released a new live album capturing their recent run of intimate club shows.  The six-track record, titled ‘Are Playing Where??? Vol. I’, arrived exclusively on Bandcamp.

It features songs recorded at Dave Grohl and co’s first live gigs together in over a year – which took place last month in San Luis Obispo, Santa Ana, Washington D.C. and New Haven.

According to a press release, ‘Are Playing Where???’ boasts “absolutely ripping live tracks recorded in front of dozens, possibly hundreds of lucky fans at the band’s recent surprise club gigs”.

The tracklist for ‘Vol. I’ consists of ‘Alone + Easy Target’, ‘Exhausted’, ‘Wattershed’ and ‘Weenie Beenie’ – all of which appear on the Foos’ self-titled debut album (1995), along with a live rendition of a bonus track from that era, ‘Winnebago’. There is also a version of 2011’s ‘White Limo’ from the group’s seventh album ‘Wasting Light’.

Fans can stream the album for free via Bandcamp or purchase a digital copy on a “pay what you want” basis. “Any proceeds from this EP will go to local charities in those cities,” Foo Fighters wrote in the description.

“Hope you check out more music while you are here. Long live rock!!!”

The band’s 11th and latest album, ‘But Here We Are’, arrived in 2023. It marked their first material since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins the previous year, and saw them enlist Josh Freese as a touring sticksman.

Over the summer, the Foos celebrated their 30th anniversary by releasing a new track called ‘Today’s Song’. Earlier this year, Freese announced that he had quit Foo Fighters after they “decided to go in a different direction with their drummer”. The group have since hired Ilan Rubin – essentially swapping Nine Inch Nails for their ex-touring drummer Freese.

Following his first gigs with the band, Rubin spoke out about how it felt to join the line-up. “After keeping my head down for a couple wild months and throwing myself into the material, that first show was such an incredible release of energy,” he said.