Dave Grohl confirms Australian appearance for new doco

Dave Grohl has announced he will visit Australia to promote his new documentary Sound City.

The Daily Telegraph reports Grohl will travel to Australia in March, around the same time the documentary’s soundtrack, Sound City – Reel To Reel, is released.

“One way or another I’ll be there,” Grohl told the newspaper.

There’s also speculation Grohl might bring his all-star band, The Sound City Players, to Australia to coincide with the release of the movie. Having recently performed at the Sundance Film Festival, the supergroup consists of members of Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Rage Against the Machine, along with Rick Springfield, Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty and Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, amongst others. Grohl neither confirms nor denies the possibility of a visit from the supergroup in the Daily Telegraph article, so let’s just cross our fingers and toes in the meantime and hope it comes true.

Sound City marks Dave Grohl’s debut as a documentary maker. The film is touted to provide an insight into the history of the Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California - a studio where Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, Metallica, Slipknot, Nine Inch Nails and many others have recorded.

“I knew I didn’t want it to be a retrospective documentary, the history of the studio,” Grohl told LoudWire.

“[The story] has an emotion quality to it and it had some relevance… ‘Sound City’ has been home to so many influential albums, but also to so many beautiful stories about people and their relationships. It’s such a deeper story than a ‘Behind the Music’ that would talk about ‘Damn the Torpedoes’.”

Sound City screens in Australian cinemas this Thursday, January 31.

While we wait for the premiere, check out the trailer below.