Axl Rose from Guns N’ Roses at the Glastonbury Festival
Photo: Getty Images, Harry Durrant. All rights reserved.
Saturday night, June 24th, at the Glastonbury Festival was all about rock ‘n’ roll. The American hard rock band Guns N’ Roses ended the second day of the music event and brought a special guest onto the stage for the finale: Foo Fighters singer and ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl performed with Axl Rose and co . Together they performed the Guns classic “Paradise City”.
Watch the performance here:
Before the band struck up the rock hit, Rose addressed the crowd, saying, “We’d like to invite Dave Grohl onto the stage. Because you can never have enough guitarists. Shit, there’s just no such thing!”
Of course, Dave Grohl didn’t let the invitation slip. It’s the second time Grohl and Guns N’ Roses have played Paradise City together. They first performed the song in September 2022 at a performance by the Californians in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
In the concert summer of 2023, Grohl will once again be the jack of all trades. Just the day before he played a surprise gig at Glastonbury with his band Foo Fighters, albeit under the name The Churn Ups. Grohl guested on drums at a performance by British-American rock band The Pretenders on Saturday. Also present as a guest: former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.
Guns N’ Roses are no less busy this summer. GNR are currently completing their big world tour, which started in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. Her performance at Glastonbury didn’t just cause enthusiasm. The British singer-songwriter and ex-Oasis head Noel Gallagher criticized the fact that an American band closed the evening as headliners at a British music festival. The finale of Glastonbury 2023 was given by Elton John on Sunday evening, who commemorated his pop colleague George Michael in a moving performance.
More Guns N’ Roses concert dates in Europe
- Jun 27: Bellahouston Park, Glasgow/ UK
- Jun 30: BST Hyde Park, London/ UK
- Jul 03: Deutsch Bank Park, Frankfurt am Main/ Germany
- Jul 05: BERNEXPO, Berlin/ Switzerland
- Jul 08: Circo Massimo, Rome/ Italy
- Jul 11: Megaland, Landgraaf/ Netherlands
- Jul 13: La Defense, Paris/ France
- Jul 16: Arena Națională, Bucharest/ Romania
- Jul 19: Puskás Arena, Budapest/ Hungary
- Jul 22: Olympic Stadium, Athens/ Greece