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The show must go on: Foo Fighters get canned mid-performance but continue playing anyway

American rock legends Foo Fighters delivered a rather unusual performance at the 2017 BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival on Sunday night.

Painstakingly, the festival had implemented a strict curfew of 10pm, so strict that they would go as far to cutting off a band mid performance.

A shitty noise curfew is exactly what happened halfway through Foo Fighters closing song Everlong as the clock struck 10pm. 

Playing an enormous 20-song setlist with the usual crowd-pleasing favourites, including a cover of Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust and 867-5309, the performance finished with an unpredictable surprise. 

With a lineup jam-packed full of epic, classic rock favourites and every great band in-between, one would naturally assume BottleRock Napa Valley would be rocking well past midnight and into the sunrise. Right? Wrong. 

Acting like they weren’t phased by the incident, the band continued the performance, playing and singing to the crowd who, without pause, joined in. 

The curfew was implemented after local residents began complaining about the festival noise in 2013, with The Cure suffering the same plug-pulling fate in 2014.

To fans of Crowded House, Neil Finn and gigs at the Opera House, this may seem all too familiar.

Via Consequence of Sound.