OHMYGOSSIP — Barbara Dickson will embark on her farewell tour next year.
The veteran Scottish singer/songwriter – whose career has spanned five decades – has announced plans for a string of final shows for February 2024 as she looks to say goodbye to her loyal fans.
In a statement accompanied by an image shot by Brian Aris, Dickson said: “I played my first headline tour with full band in 1977. Now, for 2024, I’ve decided to make this one my last.
“A memorable occasion and a suitable celebration is required. Come and help us make this tour the most special of all.”
The farewell tour will kick off on February 11 with shows at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre, the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow and Eden Court in Inverness before moving south of the border.
On February 24, she will play her final show at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
Barbara’s solo career saw her make waves across the 1970s and 1980s with hits like ‘Another Suitcase in Another Hall’, ‘Answer Me’ and ‘The Caravan Song’.
She would go onto become the biggest selling Scottish female album artist of all time, with over 15 million records sold.
Her stage roles in ‘Blood Brothers’ and ‘Spend Spend Spend’ both earned her Olivier Awards, while in 2002 she received an OBE from Queen Elizabeth for services to music and drama.
As well as her award-winning theatre roles, Barbara also appeared in ‘John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert’, and she appeared on the small screen as Anita Braithwaite in ‘Band of Gold’.
In March and April last year, the influential 75-year-old singer and her band toured across the UK in support of her album ‘Time Is Going Faster’, while she also starred in BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Road and the Miles to Dundee’.

Barbara Dickson farewell tour dates:

11 February – Edinburgh Festival Theatre
12 February – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
13 February – Inverness Eden Court
16 February – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
17 February – Gateshead Sage
18 February – Halifax Victoria Theatre
20 February – Birmingham Town Hall
21 February – Milton Keynes The Stables
22 February – London Cadogan Hall
24 February – Manchester Bridgewater Hall

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OHMYGOSSIP — Noel Gallagher has encouraged Liam Gallagher to give him a call about an Oasis reunion.
The 55-year-old music star has suggested that he’s open to reuniting the band – but Noel believes his younger brother is too much of a “coward” to pick up the phone and talk to him.
Noel told talkSPORT: “I put [a reunion] out there … I mean, he should call me.
“He’s forever going on about it, you’d have thought by now he’d have some kind of plan. And if he’s got a plan he should he should speak to me. He won’t speak to me because he’s a coward.
“But he should get some of his people, his agent, to call my people and say, ‘look, this is what we’re thinking’ and then we’ll have a conversation about it. Until then, he’s a little bit disingenuous.”
Noel is willing to discuss a potential reunion with his brother. But he also argued that unless Liam is serious about getting the band back together, he simply should stop discussing the idea.
Noel said: “I’m open to a phone call. Other than that, stop playing with the kids, it’s not fair on the fans.”
Oasis split in 2009 and the Gallagher brothers have subsequently traded insults in public.
Liam, 50, previously took to Twitter to discuss the possibility of an Oasis reunion.
The chart-topping star – who has also enjoyed success as a solo artist – wrote on the micro-blogging platform: “Here’s how I see it the little fella aka potato has done a lot of damage to Oasis as a band / brand he’s got a lot of making up to do not just to me but to you the fans the people that put us where we are tday as you were LG x (sic)”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Billie Eilish is performing at a global climate event in Paris.
Next month, Billie will join the likes of Lenny Kravitz, H.E.R. and Jon Batiste at a free, ticketed event ‘Power Our Planet: Live In Paris’ from Global Citizen with the goal of pushing world leaders and the private sector to commit to confronting the climate crisis.
Lenny said in a statement: “The next generation are inheriting a planet that’s being devastated by climate change.
“We have the power to change things with our voices and our actions. Join me on June 22, from wherever you are, and act today to save tomorrow.”
Billie’s brother FINNEAS has also been announced as a special guest along with Ben Harper and Mosimann for the event on June 22.
Under the patronage of France’s president Emmanuel Macron, the event will “rally global leaders attending the New Financial Pact Summit”.
The Power Our PLanet campaign is co-haired by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, and they are calling for a “seismic shift” in how the world’s financial systems “work to give the world’s poor and developing nations access to the financing they urgently need to quicken their transition to clean energy, strengthen their resilience against natural disasters, and address their most urgent
needs”.
This includes urging governments, banks and major corporations to keep promises they have already made, while also freeing up funding and making “up to $1 trillion in financing available” to countries in need, as well as puishing them to transition to clean energy.
Macron commented: “We need a world with more solidarity. Crises are multiplying and the number of those who place their hope in
peace and multilateralism will only grow if we, as a global community, demonstrate that we are there to help the most vulnerable.
“Because inequality and poverty are the grounds of today’s and tomorrow’s wars. Because there will be no climate transition worldwide if we don’t fight for more justice and equity.
“Halfway to the sustainable development objectives, we need a new financial pact between all countries, so that the world of tomorrow is more united.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jake Shears would “love” Scissor Sisters to get back together again one day.
The 44-year-old singer – who fronted the ‘Take Your Mama’ group from 2001 until 2012 – hopes they will reunite on stage in the future, with their most recent release being ‘Swerlk’ on a charity record with MNDR in 2017.
Asked about the idea of a reunion, he told the Metro newspaper’s 60 Seconds column: “Oh God, I hope so.
“It would be a blast. Scissors is something so important to me. I think it would be really special, and I would love to.”
Now focusing on his own solo career with new album ‘Last Man Dancing’ set to be released on June 2, Jake – whose upcoming UK tour runs from May 30 to June 23 – admitted things are “lonelier” without the band around him.
He added: “I miss the group camaraderie. It’s harder to carry a show on my own.
“I get the last word on stuff now, and I like that. But it’s also a little lonelier when you’re not in a group.”
The ‘I Don’t Feel Like Dancin” singer is excited for the release of the follow-up to his 2018 self titled solo debut, and he revealed the new album is “more fizzy and a lot of fun”.
He explained: “I look back at the first solo record and it was the most personal thing I ever made, writing myself out of whatever funk I was in.
“This record is definitely more frothy, more fizzy and a lot of fun. It definitely made me happy writing these songs and gave me a kick when I needed it.”
That upbeat nature came from a period as he pushed on into a more positive mindset.
He said: “The song ‘I Used To Be In Love’ came to me in the produce aisle, when I was shopping for avocados.
“I was in a relationship that was probably toward the tail end of it, and that lyric came into my head. ‘Last Man Dancing’ has a story going back to me loving the post-parties, loving to be there until the end.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Robbie Williams has written a new song about the nasty comments he reads about himself.
The ‘Let Me Entertain You’ hitmaker is currently working on his 15th album and he admitted one track in particular focuses on the mental health impact of cruel comments made by strangers online.
As quoted by the Daily Star newspaper’s Wired column, he said: “I have a song called ‘Comments Section’.
“I don’t read the comments anymore. It took me a while to wean off them, but I’m out.
“Occasionally I get stung. I just get reminded every now and again that it’s a place that I shouldn’t go and visit.”
The 49-year-old singer can still remember things people wrote about him earlier in his career, and he struggled to see his own lack of self confidence mirrored in other people’s words.
He explained: “I was just sinking lower and lower and lower, so I read these things about me that confirmed to me that I’m an awful person.
“Somebody that feels as though they’re an awful person anyway – it was there in black and white”.
He even turned to the comments sections of two famous friends with the logic that “if they’re hated then it’s just people being awful”.
He added: “Second comment in, ‘I hate these two, almost as much as I hate that fat t*** Robbie Williams.’
“I couldn’t get away from my comments in somebody else’s comments section.”
Meanwhile, Robbie admitted he is “ultra-competitive” and hopes for his own self esteem that his new album can top the charts to “stave of” his lack of confidence.
On what a number one would mean, he said: “‘Thank God I don’t have to hate myself today. Thank God that they’ve not deserted me, left me, because without them who am I?’ ”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Erling Haaland thinks he can get Oasis back together.
The Manchester City ace – who smashed the record for Premier League goals in a season as he helped the club win another title during his first campaign in England – is now setting his sights on another monumental task as he suggested he could convince sibling rivals Liam and Noel Gallagher to reunite.
Asked if he could convince the two City superfans to reform the Britpop group, he told Viaplay: “Maybe they need a Norwegian peacemaker to get them together.”
Last month, the 23-year-old striker posed in his underwear alongside Noel in the City dressing room, and Liam is keen to get Haaland on stage with him.
On the topic of joining the brothers as a third singer, he quipped: “That’s a good question. Yeah of course I can be, doens’t mean I will be, but of course I can be.”
The ‘Wonderwall’ hitmakers split in the summer of 2009, following a backstage bust-up between the frontman and guitarist.
Liam, 50, has been calling for an Oasis reunion for years but Noel has repeatedly shot the idea down.
However, the 55-year-old musician recently raised the hopes of fans when he urged his younger sibling to “get his people to call my people”.
Speaking in a radio interview in France on France Inter, he said: “There’s something in the papers back in England today.
“[Liam] should get his people to call my people; they know who they are, they know where we are. Stop talking on the f****** internet, and let’s see what you’ve got to say.”
The reporter then asked if that’s all it would take to reunite Oasis, to which he replied: “You would think, right? You would think. He’s got my number, he’s got my manager’s number, call us. But you know what? He won’t call.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Janelle Monae took inspiration from her own vivid memories on ‘Lipstick Lover’.
The 37-year-old singer and actress – whose new album ‘The Age of Pleasure’ is set to drop on June 9 – admitted she has a “spreadsheet” full of experiences at a party, and they influenced her latest single.
She told Rolling Stone magazine: “I have a whole spreadsheet with 50 to almost 100 experiences that I had at this party. I’ve been a Lipstick Lover.
“I wear red lipsticks at the parties. I’ve had moments where if me and a girl or an energy want to engage, you’re going to see lipstick.”
Janelle – who came out as pansexual in 2018 – admitted she isn’t always the one leaving a lipstick mark.
She added: “I remember how it felt when I got kissed on my neck with red lipstick. I remember how I went to bed feeling. It was a deep rouge. It wasn’t matte. I remember the way the person looked. And I was like, ‘That’s a f****** song.’ ”
When it comes to the album as a whole, she reflected on the way the collection looks to represent her community.
She explained: “It was inspired by all of my friends, my community of folks who are from South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, the Caribbean, Atlanta, L.A., Chicago.
“Seeing all of us together in our Blackness, in the love that we had in our eyes for each other. People from the continent fuck around with trap from Atlanta. You know what I’m saying? I love how the diaspora — we talk to each other.”
After previously being inspired by the future, she’s now keen to focus on “being present”, with her music reflecting that.
She said: “I want things to feel so true to my life. I used to consider myself a futurist. I know what that means, to obsess about the next thing. A present tourist is what I’m calling myself right now. I’m actively focusing on being present.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kae Tempest and Jordan Stephens have joined the line-up forThe Last Word Festival.
The ‘These Are The Days’ creator and the Rizzle Kicks star are among the names taking place in the celebration of spoken word alongside the likes of Dizraeli, Emmeline, Facesoul, Kayo Chingonyi and Sophie Thakur at The Roundhouse in London from 1-18 June.
The 37-year-old spoken word poet will join Brixton-based music group Speakers Corner Quartet when they take to the main stage on June 2 to treat audiences to their first album, ‘Further Out Than The Edge’, at the iconic Camden venue on June 2 with a bill that includes Sampha, Tirzah, Coby Sey, Joe Armon-Jones, Confucius MC, James Massiah, Tawiag, Lafawndah, Trustfall, Lil Silva and John Glacie.
This event – dubbed ‘Speakers Corners and Friends’ – comes the day after the grand final of the Roundhouse Poetry slams that will include a judging panel of Gal-dem founder and ‘Rosewater’ author Liv Little before a whole roster of musical events.
The ‘Mama Do the Hump’ hitmaker, 31, will join in with the festival fun with his night, ‘Jordan Stephens x Lyrix Organix – Desert Island Dubplates’ on Saturday, 17 June, at the Studio Theatre.
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased on the Roundhouse’s website here https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/series/the-last-word-festival/

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OHMYGOSSIP — Noel Gallagher found his brother Liam Gallagher’s unpredictable moods “really f****** stressful”.
The siblings’ group Oasis split in 2009 amid tension between the pair and the ‘Holy Mountain’ hitmaker has admitted he couldn’t bear the singer’s “unnecessary” constant complaints.
He said: “You never knew what mood Liam was going to turn up in and I found the whole thing really f****** stressful.
“My overriding feeling was this is just so f****** unnecessary. This is the dream that we’ve all lived for, and you’re still moaning about some shit that went on 18 hours ago. It’s just nonsense.”
Noel blamed Liam’s behaviour on “insecurity” and feeling he had no control within the band.
He added “Singers are the kings of blaming s*** on everybody else. “I was writing the songs, so I was directing it. I knew what I was doing.
“I often wondered what it would feel like if I was in a band and I had no control over the direction of it because the guy who wrote all the songs was so f****** good. There would be no point in getting involved. So no wonder he went off the rails.”
However, Noel thinks his sibling should have been more appreciative because he doesn’t think the ‘Live Forever’ hitmakers would have been successful if he had never joined the band.
He added: “But you can balance that by saying, well, Oasis wouldn’t be f****** anything if they hadn’t asked me to join them.”
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OHMYGOSSIP — Lewis Capaldi is prepared to quit music for the sake of his mental health.
The 26-year-old musician admitted his fame has taken a toll on him mentally and he would be prepared to walk away to look after himself.
Speaking to Rebecca Judd on Apple Music, he said: “I think on this album in particular I talk a bit more about my mental health, which has taken a beating over the last little while.
“I’m managing it better now but I think in 2020 I was kind of glad when we got put in lockdown because I had done my first arena tour in the UK, and we had just done an Australia and Asia tour before that.
“I was in a bad way where I was just having panic attacks every single day on stage and I was just shy.
“I still haven’t quite got there, but it’s interesting that this thing that you love to do and you’ve always wanted to do becomes something that causes you such distress, but such is the modern world.
“”If I did another album and my head was scrambled and I felt horrible, right now I’m at a point where I can balance my mental health and how I feel in general.
“Not even just mental health, but the trade-off is worth it.
“I’ll take a few panic attacks and my Tourettes and stuff for what’s happening, but if it gets to the point where things get worse mentally and I stop kind of looking after myself in that regard, I think that would be a point where I’d be like, ‘I’m just not going to do this anymore’.”
And Lewis admitted he would be heartbroken if he could no longer perform live for his fans.
He said: “The main reason I got into music was to play live and if I’m struggling to do that ever, I think that’s where I’m in trouble, because otherwise that’s the payoff, that’s the point of doing it.
“At that point, if it felt like it was becoming something that I was not into or was causing me stress or I hated (it), then that’s when I would probably pack it in.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Blur experienced “moments of utter joy” while recording their new album.
Singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, drummer Dave Rowntree and bassist Alex James have reunited for their ninth studio album, ‘The Ballad Of Darren’, which will be released in July, and Alex revealed recording was an emotional experience.
Speaking to The Sun’s Bizarre column, he said: “There were moments of utter joy.”
Referring to the song ‘St Charles’ Square’, he added: “This was the moment when I felt, ‘Oh my God, we’ve pulled it back’.
“I had a little moment. I did most of the bass lying down on a comfortable sofa and it made me stand up, jump up and down. I lost it. It was wonderful.”
The band have also reunited for a series of warm-up gigs before two huge nights at Wembley in July and they are all excited to get back on stage together.
Alex said: “We have stripped it right back to basics. It’s just the four of us.”
Damon added: “That is how we wanted to play live too.
“We imagine Wembley as us at our purest and most uncomplicated.
“The original intention, not the one you get carried away with once you become a big band.
“How we play [at the warm-up gig in Colchester] is how we will play at Wembley but, hopefully, we presume it will be better there
“But the intention, the reason we are doing it, is the same whether it is here or there.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Thirty Seconds To Mars wanted to try things they’ve never done before on their new album.
Jared Leto has reflected on what’s to come from new record ‘It’s The End Of The World But It’s A Beautiful Day’ – their first studio collection in five years – and how he and his brother Shannon Leto have approached the LP.
He told the ‘Smallzy’s Surgery’ podcast: “Art is that kind of experience, it’s very subjective.
“But we wanted to start from the beginning, we wanted to do things that we haven’t done before and I feel like we’ve really accomplished them.
“This album is a new beginning, it feels like a new band.”
The 51-year-old musician and actor described the genesis of the album as coming from the COVID-19 pandemic, with he and his brother actually benefitting from what was a tough period for people around the world.
He explained: “This album was born into COVID, which was such a horrendous time for so many people around the world, but there was a flipside for my brother and I, as well.
“We were in one place, maybe for the first time in our lives.
“As kids, we moved around a lot, we kind of had a vagabond life, and then we were on tour for better part of 25 years so it was actually a blessing for us to be in one place.
“We started to work on the album in earnest really early on in COVID. The title came from that.”
The band recently announced the album news alongside the video for the lead single ‘Stuck’.
Jared – who directed the promo – said in a statement: “Thanks to my incredibly creative mother, my brother and I were instilled with a love for art and photography from a very young age.
“The video for STUCK, our first new song in five years, is a love letter to some of my favorite photographers.
“Artists who made a very deep impact on me like Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, Herb Ritts and more.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — The Sex Pistols are set to release a new 7” replica single of their iconic debut hit ‘Anarchy in the UK’.
Singer John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, 67, guitarist Steve Jones, also 67, drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock, both 66, kicked off their punk careers with the 1976 anthem, and it is getting a release on coloured vinyl for the first time.
An announcement on the Sex Pistols’ website announced it would be out 9 June, adding: “7” replica of UK single but in coloured vinyl officially for the first time. Red vinyl No. limited edition of 4576 copies.”
The site said the record, being released via the UMR label, would also feature a B-side of ‘I Wanna be Me’.
Earlier this month, the band’s former bassist Glen played an updated version of ‘God Save The Queen’ at London’s 100 Club to coincide with King Charles’ coronation.
The show took place at London’s 100 Club to support the release of his new album ‘Consequences Coming’, and he said about the gig on social media: “I wonder what kind of warrant I’ll get?! Come on down to the 100 Club this Saturday and find out.”
Glen added before the gig he would not be changing the lyrics to Sex Pistols’ iconic protest anthem ‘God Save The Queen’ because it was proving tricky to make new lines rhyme.
He said the song would feature for “one night only” and sang the opening line: “We’re gonna save the king, It ain’t just old thing”.
The Sex Pistols last year also reissued ‘God Save the Queen’ to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, before her death aged 96 in September at her beloved Balmoral estate in Scotland.Glen quit the Pistols shortly after the group launched and in 1977 was replaced by bassist Sid Vicious, who died aged 21 in 29179, 
The band reunited in 1996 for two years, and again between 2002 and 2003, before going their separates after another year’s reunion between 2007 and 2008.
To this day, the rockers have been embroiled in legal wrangles, with John recently taking his ex- bandmates to court over the use of the group’s music in Danny Boyles’ miniseries on the band titled ‘Pistol’.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Noel Gallagher thinks his younger self would have “knifed him in the b*******” over his decision to collaborate with Damon Albarn.
The 55-year-old rocker teamed up with his old chart rival when the Blur frontman asked him to sing backing vocals on his other group Gorillaz’ ‘We Got the Power’ in 2017, and he thinks at his worst, his teenage self would have been decidedly unimpressed.
He told Big Issue magazine:” What would my younger self think of me working with Damon Albarn?
“It would depend entirely on what side of the bed I got out of on that day.
“If you caught me on a good day I’d be like, yeah, I could see that happening.
“On a bad day, I’d f****** knife myself in the b*******.”
The former Oasis songwriter added he’d love to go back in time to when he met David Bowie because he has “no recollections whatsoever” of what happened.
He said: “I went to see David Bowie and Morrissey at Wembley Arena in the 90s. I was high and p*****.
“Then, before Bowie came on, somebody came up to me and said, would you like to come and meet David?
“I was taken to see David Bowie in his dressing room. And I have no recollection of it whatsoever.
“I remember walking in and he was putting on make-up in a mirror and that’s it.
He’s up there with John Lennon for me and I have no idea what we said when I met him.
“If I could go back I would appreciate it so much more. I’d tell him what he meant to me growing up and how much he means to me now, and I’d tell him, ‘I’m gonna rip you off to f*** when you’re dead you know.”
Noel would also love to relive his 50th birthday party because it marked the end of an “amazing” decade.
He said: “It was amazing. It was a three-day affair, so obviously my recollections are a bit hazy on it.
“But I’d love to relive that weekend.
“My 40s were the best decade of my life, they were incredible, amazing.
“But every day since I’ve turned 50 has been a f****** ballache. Literally every f****** day for the last five years has been a pain in the b*******.
“But my 50th birthday party was one of the most insane parties ever.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lewis Capaldi bruised his privates in a gruelling Peloton session.
The ‘Bruises’ singer, 26, said he “co-took” one of the bicycle classes and didn’t realise it would be so hard, with the saddle of his bike leaving him with sore “goods”.
He told fans at an intimate gig on Friday (19.05.23) at Pryzm, London: “Yesterday I did a thing with Peloton. It’s this big bike and they take these classes in London so I went along and did a quick class and it was f****** hard.
“I was sweating a lot. Also, this is a bit of TMI (too much information), but the saddle of the bike has really caused me, even now when I’m sitting down, like my goods are sore – I have a bruised gooch.”
Lewis – who continues to struggle with the increasingly severe tics from his Tourette’s syndrome – also compared releasing his new album ‘Broken by Desire to be Heavenly Sent’ to taking a “big s***”.
He added about the release, four years after his 2019 debut record ‘Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent’: “It feels like it’s a relief. I feel like I’ve been constipated for months and now I’ve (done) a big s**t.”
Lewis, who recently said his relationship with Scottish actress Ellie MacDowell, 23, was going “really well”, added at the gig before he played new track ‘The Pretender’: “This sums up my feelings about imposter syndrome. It’s nice to have songs about love when you’re in a relationship but they’re really about me and the real s*** I’ve experienced.”
He added: “There was a time I didn’t know if I was going to be able to do this. My mental health was really s***, my physical health was also suffering. Now? it’s like we f****** did it buddy.”
Despite his upbeat attitude and attempts to get fit, Lewis admitted he still has a pessimistic outlook, adding: “You know, we’re all going to die someday, that weighs on my mind.
“We’re all just hunkering towards our inevitable demise, I guess that plays on my mind from time to time.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Foo Fighters unveiled their new drummer, Josh Freese, at their ‘Foo Fighters: Preparing Music For Concerts’ livestream on Sunday (21.05.23).
The 50-year-old session drummer will perform with Dave Grohl and co in the place of late drummer Taylor Hawkins – who tragically died last year aged 50 – on their upcoming tour.
Josh is known for playing for the likes of Guns N’ Roses, Nine Inch Nails and Paramore.
He was among several drummers to pay tribute to Taylor at a pair of tribute concerts in Los Angeles and London.
The ‘Learn to Fly’ rockers’ tour kicks off on May 24 in New Hampshire.
The confirmation comes after Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron and The Darkness’ Rufus Taylor were rumoured to be taking the position.
Taylor was found dead in his hotel room in Colombia, in March 2022, hours before the band was due to play a festival in Bogotá.
The Foos have dedicated their upcoming album to Taylor, and Dave’s late mother Virginia Hanlon Grohl.
The ‘Walk’ rockers will release ‘But Here We Are’ on June 2, and they’ve shared that the record is in honour of their beloved bandmate, and the frontman’s parent, who passed away the same year.
Sharing the minimalist white cassette and album cover for the LP, which is designed by Morning Breath INC, the Grammy winning-group tweeted the album dedication: “For Virginia and Taylor.”
The follow-up to 2021’s ‘Medicine at Midnight’ is described as: “A brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything Foo Fighters endured over the last year.”
In a letter to fans, the ‘Best of You’ hitmakers vowed to be “a different band going forward” following the devastating loss of Taylor.
They wrote: “As we say goodbye to the most difficult and tragic year that our band has ever known, we are reminded of how thankful we are for the people that we love and cherish most, and for the loved ones who are no longer with us.
“Foo Fighters were formed 27 years ago to represent the healing power of music and a continuation of life. And for the past 27 years our fans have built a worldwide community, a devoted support system that has helped us all get through the darkest of times together. A place to share our joy and our pain, our hopes and fears, and to join in a chorus of life together through music. Without Taylor, we never would have become the band that we were — and without Taylor, we know that we’re going to be a different band going forward.
“We also know that you, the fans, meant as much to Taylor as he meant to you and we know that when we see you again — and we will soon — he’ll be there in spirit with all of us every night.”

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