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Paul Brannigan

Six times huge bands have secretly performed under fake names

Musician Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters performs on VH1 Storytellers on October 28, 2009 in Culver City, California

The Foo Fighters' appearance at this year's Glastonbury Festival – under the mysterious pseudonym The Churnups – was perhaps the worst kept secret in the history of secret shows. 

It's not the first time Foo Fighters have deployed musical subterfuge and played under a different name – in 2014 they performed a series of intimate shows billed simply as The Holy Shits. They're also not the only major band who've tried it, either – from Green Day to Metallica, it's become something of a rite of passage for huge artists to go cloak and dagger and sneak onto a stage in front of a mere couple of hundred people.

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