Arcade Fire to replace Foo Fighters at Osheaga after Taylor Hawkins death

Arcade Hearth will exchange Foo Fighters as a headliner at Osheaga this summer time.

The music competition says the Montreal-based band are a becoming addition to their fifteenth anniversary lineup, noting the “hometown heroes” placed on a memorable Osheaga set in 2010.

Foo Fighters cancelled all of their concert dates final month, together with their July 29 present at Osheaga, following the loss of life of drummer Taylor Hawkins.

Hawkins died throughout a South American tour with the rock band. He was 50.

Arcade Hearth will now headline the primary day of the outside competition, which runs till July 31 at Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau.

Different headliners embrace rapper A$AP Rocky on the second night time and singer Dua Lipa on the ultimate night time.

“When the Foo Fighters sadly needed to cancel, it was extraordinarily essential to us that we e-book a band which means one thing particular to our native music followers in addition to an artist that will enchantment to an enormous fan base internationally,” Osheaga founder Nick Farkas stated Thursday in a launch.

“Our ideas stay with our associates within the prolonged Foo Fighters household on this tremendously troublesome time.”