The band held up signs that read “Keep It Clean” and “You got Rick Roll’d (again)” as fans quickly crowded around them.
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The Foo Fighters and the WBC have gone at it in the past, according to Billboard.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and his bandmates rolled through a group of protesters outside the Sprint Center on the back of a pickup while blasting Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up“. Rickrolling is an internet meme tricking people into watching Astley’s 1980s music video.
The lads were in Kansas on Friday for a concert date – the home of the horrendous and offensive Westboro Baptist Church, who regularly spout homophobic, racist and hateful bile to anyone who’ll listen – even at funerals.
It’s not the first time the Foos have clashed with Westboro.
In 2011, before playing the same Kansas City venue, the Foo Fighters performed the song Keep It Clean on a float, singing lyrics including: “Think I’m in the mood for some hot-man muffins”. They gatecrashed a Westboro protest in 2011. “But what I’d like to say is, God bless America, y’all!”
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We all know that Dave Grohl is the soundest person in the world but if you need another reason to be a believer then this is it.
