Not even Foo Fighters are immune...

I feared the worst when i saw the title, so this is much better than i feared.
If he's friends with chappelle them he knows all about the controversy and made the choice with eyes wide open. So less likely to cave.

TRA stands for trans rights activist. Chappelle is unpopular (to say the least) with them because of his Netflix stand up. It was covered alit in the media.

Don't cave dave.

Can someone please tell me who that guy is and what is the controversy? I googled and found he is a comedian. What is TRA?

Its an invitation to use google and not rely on others to do the research.

‘Don’t cave, Dave’ needs to go on a t-shirt and be our secret handshake.

Well this is great publicity for the concert.

Hopefully a lot of MNetters will be going.

I think that they are allowed to invite their friends to the tribute concert that they have organised. Where does the cancellation by association stop? How many degrees of separation do you need to be considered pure?

Chappelle has performed with them before, and is friends with Dave Grohl as they realised when they met as adults that they had both lived in Washington DC and subsequently bonded.

I think he is some guy with white privilege who works in radio

what?

whats the tennis ball for?

There must be a reason for his inclusion that gives it context, because it would always be railroaded by this issue and they must have weighed up it would be worth it.

Someone on Twitter said the Foo's media team were hiding responses from TRAs which is encouraging, but don't know how true that is. Hopefully this won't cloud what is supposed to be a tribute to a loved one - not a battle in a culture war. They won't be able to avoid questions on this now whether they want to or not.

I hope they stand their ground. Dave Grohl is probably among the leagues of the uncancellable, thankfully.

I think he is some guy with white privilege who works in radio

🎾

Oh and he's African American so there's a lot of comparison to the movement of his people to the movement of that community and how fast they made it happen etc.. You'd have to watch though to really see what he's saying.

We've seen him once before live on stage and I'd do it every opportunity I got going forward.

He basically says things like gender is a fact and other things that are true but the alphabet people don't want to hear. He says it better than that and funny at times.

He also said that he agrees with the me too movement but not how they went about it. Like wearing the same thing doesn't make a statement not turning up makes a statement. Things that make sense, but are controversial...

His last special detailed his trans friend, another comedian, who stuck up for him after the community went after him and committed suicide days after she was jumped on for defending him. He doesn't know what was going on with her but he assumes the way she was attacked for defending him had something to do with it... He makes good points and he's funny to boot but most of what he says makes sense and is very cleverly delivered. Worth watching his specials.

me too

I haven't a clue who Dave Chapelle is or what the controversy is - save me googling and still not having a clue can someone clue me up!

As if a few people on Twitter saying they won't go to the concert is going to make a difference to how quickly it sells out.

Agree. One thing both Dave's have in common is being a "master of their craft". The loudest fools who don't go won't be missed. Not like it won't be a sell out regardless..... Leaves more space for real fans to get tickets!

And this thread has now been picked up on Twitter

Oh good something else for the eternally offended to be offended about....

I don't get the Dave Chapelle hate. It seems to be the in thing these days. He is blunt about his points and he ties his points up very well... and he's a COMEDIAN. It's what they do but this is 2022 where everyone is looking to be offended. We will go because we love Foo Fighters and especially because Dave Chapelle will be there. I hope Foo Fighters don't cave in to the online crap.

I actually hadn't seen any of the complaints about this.. Guess it's not surprising. Some of what Dave says is just truth and truth can hurt. His last Netflix special was the best he's done and explained his points very clearly but as he says "THEY don't LISTEN".....

It will sell within minutes. I doubt the twitter moaning has even registered with the foos

As if a few people on Twitter saying they won't go to the concert is going to make a difference to how quickly it sells out.

This thread is being shared on twitter by our monitors 👋

Alas they struggle with humour, so appear to have taken your comment seriously

Most of the noise on twitter is from the same old faces.

I hope they don't cave in. Grunge was a movement where women felt like powerful equals, were not leeringly sexualised, men like Kurt Cobain could wear eyeliner and a dress without being compartmentalised or looking like they were doing 'womanface'. The backlash here was Britpop and new laddism, girls all 'hello boys' in little bits of lycra, Blur's Country House video with its Benny Hill shit.

AlisonDonut that really made me laugh
Bet he is as well

That would be my take too, let's hope we're right.

Please don't cave Dave.

Dave Grohl is bound to be a mumsnetter. I'm sure of it.