Foo Fighters launched their North American “Take Cover” summer tour at Rogers Stadium in Toronto on Tuesday evening, August 4th, with support from Queens of the Stone Age and Mannequin Pussy.
Dave Grohl and company treated fans to a 26-song set filled with their biggest hits, including opening number “All My Life,” as well as “The Pretender,” “Times Like These,” “My Hero,” “Monkey Wrench,” and main-set closer “Best of You.”
Other highlights were “No Son of Mine” with a snippet of Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades,” plus “Under You” dedicated to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins’ son Shane on his 20th birthday, and “Aurora” in tribute to Taylor, who passed away in 2022. The night ended with an encore of ‘The Teacher,” dedicated to Grohl’s late mom Virginia, and “Everlong,” complete with fireworks.
Overall, 1999’s There Is Nothing Left to Lose got the most love with four songs, while The Colour and the Shape (1997), Wasting Light (2011), and Concrete and Gold (2017) were well represented with three songs each.
Oddly, the Foos’ played only one song (“Caught in the Echo”) from their most recent album, 2026’s Your Favorite Toy.
Meanwhile, Queens of the Stone Age delivered an 11-song performance spread out among five of their albums. The set ended with three consecutive songs from their 2002 breakout album Songs for the Deaf: “Go With the Flow,” “No One Knows,” and “A Song for the Dead.”
Philadelphia indie-punkers Mannequin Pussy got the evening started with a five-song set, all from their 2024 album I Got Heaven.
See photos and video from the Toronto concert, as well as the setlists for Foo Fighters and QOTSA, below. Tickets to the remaining shows are available here, with 20% off your first purchase of $200 or more using the code CONSEQUENCE20.
Foo Fighters Setlist:
All My Life
The Pretender
Times Like These
Rope
Stacked Actors
My Hero (>)
Learn to Fly
These Days
Walk
This Is a Call
No Son of Mine (with Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” snippet)
B-Stage:
Wheels (Acoustic)
Marigold (Late!/Nirvana cover)
Big Me
Under You (dedicated to Shane Hawkins on his birthday)
La Dee Da
Run
Invincible / Seven / One Headlight / Manimal / Tap Dancing in a Minefield
Monkey Wrench (with drum solo)
Breakout
The Sky Is a Neighborhood
Aurora (dedicated to Taylor Hawkins)
Caught in the Echo
Best of You
Encore:
The Teacher (dedicated to Virginia Grohl)
Everlong (with fireworks)
Queens of the Stone Age Setlist:
Misfit Love
In My Head
My God Is the Sun
I Sat by the Ocean
If I Had a Tail
Emotion Sickness
Make It Wit Chu (w/ snippet of The Rolling Stones’ “Miss You”)
Little Sister
Go With the Flow
No One Knows
A Song for the Dead
