“You guys f**kin’ knew it was us, right?” gravelled a sweat-soaked Dave Grohl, midway through Foo Fighters’ not-so-secret set on the Pyramid Stage.
Billed only as The Churnups on the line up, punters were quick to pick up on the abundant clues planted ahead of this weekend; from Grohl pointedly referring to the idea of “churning up” emotions of grief and healing in an emotional statement, to the eagles hidden in the festival’s poster by Radiohead collaborator Stanley Donwood. The eagle, of course, has become a memorial symbol of sorts for the band’s late drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died last year, and famously had an eagle tattoo as a nod to his surname.
