Foo Fighters Agree To Unscheduled Fan-Funded Concert

As further evidence of their status as the world's coolest rock band, Dave Grohl and his compatriots of the legendary Foo Fighters have agreed to play an unscheduled concert in a city they have not performed in for 16 years.

Feeling a little left out of the Foos' relentless touring plans since, oh, the late '90s, dedicated fans living in Richmond, Virginia, took to crowdfunding platform Crowdhoster in April by staging their own concert with a little help from the Waynestock playbook - sell tickets, fund gig, hope band will show up.

Offering full refunds if the Foo Fighters don't show, the campaign states: "It's simple. The Foo Fighters haven't played Richmond, Virginia since May 17, 1998. That's more than 15 years ago and that's way too long. So we're taking it upon ourselves to bring 'em back!"

And, lo and behold, in the words of Jim Morrison's ghost, "if you book them, they will come". Word of the movement finally reached the Foo Fighters' ears, and -- pretty legendarily, it must be said -- they took to Twitter this weekend to let campaign organiser Andrew Goldin and his coalition of the willing know that they had received the message, and were down for whatever the Virginians could put up.

Obviously all the details will now have to be hashed out, but if there's a band you've been aching to see for almost 20 years, maybe you could learn a thing or two from the plucky folks over in Richmond, have your own vision quest with the dead singer of The Doors and a mostly naked Native American, and be staging that concert in no time.

Foo Fighters' eighth studio album will be released in November.