Loose Articles on being asked by Foo Fighters to play

Natalie Wardle of Loose Articles talks about the moment they found out Foo Fighters had asked the band to support them at Emirates Old Trafford

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00:00how do you find out about something like that? Like is it a sort of, is it a casual email or is it

00:06a lot of sort of PRs sort of chatting to each other and sort of marketing people coming together

00:12and things like that? So we first found out it was, oh it was years ago now because it was

00:21unfortunately when before Taylor passed away so we was actually booked on the first shows of it.

00:27Okay so it was, yeah so this is the second lot where they had to cancel and then they've done

00:34that so they asked us again. So the first time we'd had no booking agent, we didn't have,

00:41we had a very very very small label, like tiny label and I think that was about it.

00:49Never played anything that big at all and probably had about, I think we might have

00:56just had about five songs on Spotify, like really old EP and then maybe a single or two.

01:03We just got this email to, we had a different manager back then and just a really casual

01:10email from SGM who are promoters in Manchester just saying like, oh a loose article's free on

01:17this date, there's been a request from the Foo Fighters if they could support them and that's it.

01:24We thought we, we thought they were taking a piss, like anyone would from an email.

01:30What? I was just like, I was just at work in a group chat and then the group chat came up

01:36of this person who was our manager just saying like, oh my god this is the email that's been

01:42sent and we just thought it was a, we didn't believe it at the start. We were like, what?

01:47And we were just like, no, like what? And then you don't think about the scale, they didn't say what

01:53venue it was at or anything. We were like, how big is this gig? And yeah, it's 50,000 people.

01:59The gig was stupidly massive, but at the time, we was tiny. Like we weren't, the biggest shows

02:08we were playing might have been at like, say, yes what's a 250 capacity, capacity venue,

02:15but we were supporting bands there. We weren't even playing headlines that big then or anything.

02:20So even now it feels so massive. But yeah, and then unfortunately, Taylor passed away and we

02:26were just like that, you know, poor Dave, poor Foo Fighters and things like that because

02:32it's just hard, it was heartbreaking. Then we just got all about it and then had the email again

02:39be like, oh yeah, they still want you to play, by the way. And we're like, what? Because we just

02:44were like, oh that didn't happen, that's fine. But then we were just like, oh my god, they're still,

02:49they were like, you know, Foo Fighters are like men of the word.

02:52The Bucky to play a show, you're definitely going to be playing that show.